The New York Detective That Complicated My Life

I walked down the street, the wind whipping my hair around my face. To slightly block the wind, I pull the collar up on my jacket so it some what guards my face. As I continue to make my way towards the park, I hear the sound of fastly approaching steps. Feeling that it's another attacker, I quicken my pace.

"Annabel hold up!" Detective Flack calls out. I stop dead in my tracks. Does this guy have an obsession with me, cause it's starting to piss me off. I snap around to glare at him.

"Why are you following me Detective?" I ask, gritting my teeth slightly.

"Look," He begins to push through many people coming from the opposite direction to get closer to me. "I saw you walking down the street and I thought since what happened with last night, you wouldn't want to be walking alone."

"Not that I don't appreciate the offer, but I think I'm good." I nod at him. All he does is shake is head and dig a card of his pocket. Seriously, what the hell is up with people giving me their cards. He sticks the card in my hand.

"That's my card, my cell's on back so if you need anything, just call me." I cock my head to the right slightly hopefully to convey that I don't understand this at all. He seems to miss that though.

"Nice seeing you." He smiles slightly before walking back down the street the way he came. I pull my eyes away from him to look at the card in my hand. I raise my hand up closer to my face so I can see the card.

Don Flack

New York city Detective

Desk number: 647-784-2245

I turn the card over to see that his cell number is of course written on the back of the card in black ink. Stuffing the card in my pocket, I continue my way to the park we had passed. Within 5 minutes or so, I come across a small park on the left side hand of the road. I walk into the park and begin strolling through.

Dead center of the park is a beautiful clear lake, which is rare in New York. The sun reflects perfectly off the surface of the pond. Taking out my phone, I begin to set up to take a picture with what I have. As I step back to get a better shot of the pond, I step backwards onto a rock, causing me to trip and fall backwards.

There, again I show myself being a freaking clutz. I look over at my arm and see a cut that blood is coming out of. That definitely looks sexy. As I assess my other body parts, I notice multiple bruises and cuts, but nothing is as bad as what I have on my arm. I get up and when I check the ground to see if I dropped anything, when I see a point sticking out of the soil that looks like... a nose? What the fuck?

Bending down, I uncover the dirt on the 'nose' and when all the dirt is off the object, I do see that it in fact is a nose. Holy shit. I keep digging where I see the nose sticking up and soon enough I find the cheek, bones, chin and lips. When I finally uncover, that's when it finally hits me; I found a dead body.

For some reason, I start to cry and my breathing gets more labored. Shit, what do I do?

I fish around for my phone and find it then dig the first card out of my pocket, which just happens to Flack's card. Shakily, I dial the number on my phone and press call, then put the phone to my ear. It rings for a few seconds before he answers.

"Detective Flack." He says somewhat professionally.

"Flack... it's Annabel." I say, trying to not cry while on the phone with him.

"Well, you just called me by my last name. I think that's a major victory in my books." He responds. I don't say anything back because I'm to busy sobbing slightly over the dead body I just found.

He I think picks up on my hesitation because he responds rather quickly. "Annabel, what's going on? Are you ok?" He starts asking.

"Flack I just... I found..." I try to tell him but my voice keeps cracking.

"Annabel, it's ok. Everything's going to be fine. Just tell me, what did you find?" He asks, desperation peeking through now.

"I just found a dead body in the park."

I know I left it at a weird spot but don't worry, cliff hanger will be solved soon enough :)