Thinking it through
I was watching the sun sink into the azure depths as I thought about my life. My name is Stephanie Plum, bounty-hunter with a pitiful life. I broke up with my on-off cop boyfriend, Joe Morelli last week permanently and have yet to feel sad about it. It was long time coming. I finally admitted to myself that I am in love with my best friend/ mentor/ boss/ex-lover Ricardo Carlos Manoso. The sad part is that he probably doesn't return the sentiment.
The sky was now a rich, royal purple and the stars were peeking out. Whilst my love life was suffering my bank balance was not. The past month had been extremely busy from helping Ranger with a high-bond distraction job to capturing (accidentally) a high bond skip myself. I know – I get lucky. Then, last week I captured five medium bond low-life criminals. So needless to say I was sitting on a nice nest of 3 million dollars. Yeah, I know.
Now that I thought about my life – like actually thought about myself and no one else, I hadn't achieved anything in my life. I've always wanted to travel, fly but never had the time or the money. I want a house, an actual home instead of living hand-to-mouth, worse than a college student, I want people that actually care about me surrounding me. Now that I had a plan, all I had to do was apply the changes. Shit, that's the hard part.
It was starting to get cold, so I decided to go back to my hotel room and crash for the night; I'll deal with the rest of the world later.
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The next morning came too quickly and my mini gateway had come to an end. Back to reality. I guess I need to tell Ranger that I love him. Damn. Shit. Okay you can do this Steph, you can be brave. Right and the Pope is gay. Okay not gonna happen. Maybe I can give hints. Like a treasure hunt or something. Yeah right, badass mercenary on a treasure hunt. Now that's funny.
I finally got out of bed and looked at the time, huh only seven, in the morning. I might as well get dressed. After my whole shower and dress ritual, I headed downstairs for breakfast. I found a nice coffee place and well I'm not about to list out my eating habits. All you need to know is that it was GOOD. I mean like almost better than sex kinda good. Almost.
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The drive back to Trenton was quite scenic; I mean look at all those billboards, beautiful. I think I almost had a zone. Like Zen calm. Almost. Before I knew it I was in front of a building - the Rangeman building. Yeah, wonder how I got here. Should I go up? Um maybe no one will notice if I just casually turn my car around and ya know, go home.
My cell phone ringing brought me out of my internal debate. I looked at the caller. I'll give you one guess. Yeah you got it. Ranger.
"Yo" Original, I know
"Babe, are you going to come up or just sit there" Ohmigosh, he can speak more than one word at a time.
"Uh" Eloquent, that's me.
"Babe" Okay I get it.
"Fine, I'll come up" and then I hung up before he could. Mature is my middle name.
Hey, this is my first fanfic and well I'll only continue writing if I get enough reviews. I'm only fifteen so please don't expect sex or bad language. Please review, good or bad. Any suggestions are welcome.