sunshines log- Stranger

These city streets were normally empty, except for myself, but tonight was different.

Other footsteps echo in the distance, trailing behind me.

My mind immediately screamed ‘Danger!’ and I quickened my pace. So did the stranger.

I rounded the corner, onto another street then into an ally way before my stalker got onto that street.

I hid in the darkness and waited for them. I pulled my gun from its holster and waited.

Confused footsteps grew close, and when he was in my sight my foot lashed out and I kicked him in the back, sending him to the pavement.

No one sneaks up on me.

My revolver presses into his temple.

“What the F*** do you want old man?”  I yell, staring at him.

Not a threat, my brain concluded, but my body wouldn’t take the chance.

This face seemed familiar, yet I have never seen this man before.

Then I realized it. He looked like me… Or I looked like him. Same round eyes and tight face. I was told that I looked more like my mother, but had the features of my father. Though I know neither. Why did this man look like me?

Who was he?