The New York Detective That Complicated My Life
It takes awhile for Flack to respond, and in the mean time I'm trying to slow my breathing down slightly.
"I'm sorry Annabel but did you just say you found a dead body?" He asks. I don't know if he's asking out of doubt or shock but either way, it causes me to break down slightly.
"What, don't believe me Flack?" My voice almost goes out.
"No, I believe you. Now what park are you at?" He questions me rather quickly.
"Is right down the street from the Department, left hand side of road." I choke out as I wipe my eyes.
"All right, we'll be there shortly. Annabel stay there, I mean it." The last part of it sounded angry but I didn't want to ask questions about it. He hung up right after that. I close the phone and stuck it in my pocket. I try to stand up, but my knees currently have the consistency of jello so I go straight back down.
So as of now, I sitting next to the rock that cut my arm. I sit there for a good 5 minutes before I hear the slight skidding of car tires. I look up and sure enough, Flack came along with two other officers. Stella and Danny follow closely behind.
Flack spots me and walks over to me. When he gets to me, he ends up having to look down at me.
"Hey Annabel, where's the body?" He asks with his intense blue eyes locked onto mine. All I do is point to the face that I dug up. He looks in that direction and nods his head. He then turns his head towards me.
"You realise I'm going to have to get your story." I nod my head as I've finally began to calm down. When I lift my head slightly, Danny and Stella have finally made their way over.
"Wow Flack, she is not having much luck." All Flack does is elbow Danny in the ribs slightly. Stella shakes her head as she brings her kit over to the body.
"There's blood on this rock near the victim's body, could be their's or the killers."
"That's actually my blood." They all give me questioning looks.
"I tripped over the rock, and that's when I saw her nose sticking out of the ground slightly." I finally manage to get up, but the minute I do Flack starts asking questions.
"Woah, where do you think your going? We still need your story." He asks.
"Ok here it is. I went to take a picture of the lake, stepped back to get a better view when I tripped over that rock walking backwards, cutting my arm. That's when I looked over and saw what I thought was a nose sticking out of the ground. I dug until I saw the face, then I called you. How bout that for a story?" I respond, my Oklahoma accent getting thick.
Flack opens his mouth when Stella speaks up. "Hey Ms. Stevens can you come over here for a minute." I walk over to her where she waiting a few feet away from the body.
"I apologise for Detective Flack, he can be a little... forward sometimes. Ms. Stevens is it ok if I get a blood sample, just to make sure that blood on the rock is yours?"
"Yeah." Turning to side, I allow her to take a swab and pick up some blood dripping down my arm. She quickly collects it, and turns back to her kit.
"If you told Detective Flack your story, you can go home." Nodding my head, I being to turn around when Stella gets my attention again.
"Yeah?" I ask her.
"I'm sorry you had to go through this, no one should have to be the one to discover a dead body." She gives me a smile, which I find myself returning.
"Thanks, means a lot." I finally turn around and walk out of the park entrance. I look both ways down the street and see a local bus station so I head down to the bus station where one other person is. I sit next to them on the bench when my phone rings. I don't even bother looking at the caller ID when I answer it.
"Hello?" I ask, slightly annoyed that people can't leave me alone.
"It's Flack. Annabel, where'd you go?"
"Bus station down the street, why do you care?"
"I was just wondering." Then he hangs up rather suddenly. Well, that wasn't weird at all. I shake my head for what seems like the thousandth time today. I get pretty involved with the street across from me when the person at the bus stop with me who is an older woman speaks up.
"There's a young man coming over here, and he's look right at you." That get's my attention. I snap my head around to see Flack coming towards here. Ohh wonderful, I can't even escape to my home without him following me.
I launch up from the bench and prepare to run when he goes "Ohh you're not bolting on me this time." He motions for me to sit back down, and grudgingly I do so. He sits right next to me, and when I say right next to me, I mean RIGHT next to me. Literally, he leaves barely any breathing room. I'm sitting so close to him that my knee is pressed up against his thigh.
"May I ask why your here?" I lower my voice slightly so the lady next to me can't here the conversation. When I turn to look at her, she gets up off the bench and walks away. Thanks, now I'm alone with him.
"Well I'm not out pan handling that's for sure..." He isn't afraid to throw a smile in there.
"Where are you heading?"
"Wherever it is your going." I raise my eyebrows as I look at him.
"Look, after what happened with the other night and what happened today, I don't exactly think it's safe for you to be alone, so for the rest of the day. I'm keeping a close watch on you." He looks at me.
"I have to ask you this but why are you doing this? Has you've done this with anybody else in the situation?"
"No, I definitely haven't done this with any other person in your situation."
"Then why me? Why start now?" He starts looking at me that could make an ice-cube melt before his hand brushes my knee. What is going on?
"Well for starters..." He begins to speak but he's interrupted by his phone going off. He quickly unclips it from his belt.
"Yeah? Ok Stella, you want me to take her back home? Ok, I understand now. I'll see you later." He shuts his phone before clipping it back to his belt. Flack stands up from the bench an sticks out his hand slightly.
"What are you doing?" I question him.
"Stella wants me to drive you on home, said it's for safety reason and the fact that you should never ride a bus in new york." He continues to have his hand stuck out.
"I got this..." I stand up rather shaky, and end up tripping into Flack's chest. He grabs my upper arms to steady me. Ok, awkward...
Haha I finally had Flannabel happen (that's what I'm calling them til I can come up with a better name) First cliffhanger and hope you love (hate) it and the rest of the chapter :)