(un)Cuff me, Mister!

Role-Playing

Jasmine was escorted out of the plane, surrounded by the group of police officers. Her head bowed down, and her shoulder slumped. Her whole body trembled as she walked in heavy steps, following the officers that oozed out menacing auras.

Walking through the airport in that high-profile manner attracts judgemental eyes of all the people that were present at the airport.

Sounds of people murmured resounded at the sides of the path that the police officers took her.

Jasmine could hear the snippets of what they were saying. They judged her and labelled her as a criminal.

How could they?

'I'm not a criminal!'

'I'm innocent!'

Jasmine could only scream these in her head.

She wanted to put her head up and look them in the eyes and scream that she's innocent and they had wrongly accused her!

However, the police officers that surrounded her were too scary to look at. Their tight expression, tall stature and straight posture were intimidating to her, who was only five feet four inches.

'What's up with the police officers in Cratia? Why did they all look like models? They all look like they have an average height of 6 feet.'

The walk felt endless to Jasmine. She doesn't know where they were taking her. She was too stunned to speak anything when they came for her. She couldn't utter a word or ask where she would be taken to.

Although it felt humiliating to be escorted like this, however, the long walk made Jasmine's mind clear a little.

'Why should I be afraid? I did nothing wrong! They must have got the wrong person.'

While walking, her mind was having a monologue on their own, forming theories and assumptions.

It was then; she had a lightbulb moment.

'Wait! Don't tell me this is Joshua's surprise for me! Did he hire actors to pretend to be policemen to capture me? That could explain why they all look like models!'

Jasmine's face suddenly blushed, 'Oh Joshua. Are you planning role-playing?' Jasmine bit her inner cheek, preventing a squeal from escaping her mouth.

'Jasmine Paxton! You are under arrest! For stealing my heart!' Jasmine imagined Joshua said it to her before getting down on one knee.

A giggling sound came from Jasmine, making all the police officers stop their tracks and turned to look at her.

Her eyes bulged, and her hands went to her mouth to cover it.

She looked at them sheepishly and changed her expression into a serious one.

'Pretend that you fell for Joshua role-playing, Jasmine! Don't let him know you already caught his plan!'

They resumed walking through the airport until Jasmin was brought to a private room.

Jasmine was more relaxed than she was before. She leisurely sat on the seat that was given to her.

All the officers that escorted her left the room, leaving her alone in the room.

Jasmine looked at the clock that was hanging on the wall. The time showed that it was ten minutes to twelve in the afternoon.

A small smile formed on Jasmine's lips and her eyes turned gentle.

She accepted Joshua to be her boyfriend at 12pm on this date.