Bloodshot

Chapter Four

When I awoke the next morning, the sky was gray. I yawned ecstatically, smacked my lips, stretched and rolled on the bed. I rolled over to the right and found myself staring at the Alsatian. It stood over me like a watchdog and growled at me murderously.
- I think it wanna finish yesterday's business, right now! -
It looked at me sinisterly and showed off it's teeth, then the door creaked open and Detective Caine walked in with a small tray containing two medium-sized coffee pewters steaming with the hot brown liquid.
" Morning kid" He greeted and placed the tray on the side table before sitting on his bedside.
" Morning sir" I greeted and sat up, he picked up a coffee pewter and sipped a little, then added a cube of sugar and little milk. He sipped again and nodded in satisfaction.
" How was your night, dude?" He passed me a pewter and I threw two cubes into the steaming liquid and poured some milk.
- Perhaps much better than calling me a kid-
"Uhmmm...."
" Don't tell me it was fine" He interrupted before I could say a god-damned thing " Mares were supposed to scare people silently not making one yell out like someone being haunted"
" Sorry, if I had disturbed your night rest ,sir" I apologized, feeling more clumsy.
Yep!
I had a nightmare.
Dad, Mom and my sister were forcing me to be a SWAT and the only thing I could do was yelling out " Yes, I would be a SWAT" umpteen times.
- Didn't know it was gonna happen in reality -
" So is it a yes now?" Detective Caine asked sipping from the pewter.
" Yes... Total yes!" I replied without a second thought.
" Good kid" He nodded and gave me a big grin. "Do finish your coffee quickly, give yourself a bath and let's go for a dog walk"
" Ok sir" I nodded and faked a smile.
- I got practically pissed off whenever he calls me a kid-
Pissed off... I say....
I sipped from the pewter.
The coffee was too acidic for my taste, much enough to wear the enamel off my teeth, but I drank it anyways.
I gave myself a warm bath and slathered cosmetics on my body and made for the outfit I wore the previous day but Detective Caine rebuked it.
" You definitely don't wanna repeat that today, right?" He asked rhetorically.
" I gat no changeovers, man" I replied with an harrowing expression.
Detective Caine shrugged and walked up to his wardrobe, he pulled out a T-shirt, blue denim knickers, a pair of black socks and black tennis shoes. I out them in without hesitation and jeez!
It looked nice and casual.
Actually
" Wow!... It fits perfectly" I said with appreciation.
" Yeah, it belongs to my son. Guess you're age mates"
" Where's he? And.. your wife? I anticipated
" Divorced! They are in Chicago "
" Aw! Sorry... That's disheartening "
" Yeah , let's move kid"
We moved out and Detective Caine put the Alsatian on a leash. We dog walked for half an hour and to be frank with you. It's boring and harrowing. We got back to the beach house and I sat in the screened in porch, exhausted already.
" Unleash the dog. I wanna go and prepare breakfast and get myself a warm bath". He handed me a bottle of beer.
"Hey... That's suicide!"
"Attitude.."
"This dog's rabid"
" Her name's Sophie... Good luck" He strutted in
" Heck!, it's I and this asshole again" I muttered and gazed at the Alsatian, it was struggling to get itself unleashed.
" Sophie!" I yelled and she looked at me, growling.
"Hey! Don't be the aggressive bitch I once knew... Get over here" I coerced and hell! It didn't work, it barked and growled at me with absolute aggression and struggled with the leash.
" C'mon, get over here. Let me help you " I showed my hands up and feigned a cute face. She whined and got closer, looking at my face and my hands with optimum alert. Then, it succumbed, pushing it's snout towards me. I patted her head and unleashed her, while she jumped on me, licking my face.
- Think she's approved our friendship... -
She cavorted around and I uncorked my beer bottle and slurped on it, she whined and barked trying to get my attention. I looked in her direction and she pushed a drinker towards me.
"Urrrgh! Bad dog" I poured her some beer and she leapt around excitingly, then she lapped the beer without much ado.
Not much longer, breakfast was ready. We had bacon, eggs and toast, then took it down with pineapple smoothie. We moved into the car afterwards and ripped into the metropolis. We went shopping and purchased a lot of things; underwear, hoods, knicker shorts, trousers and sneakers, we also purchased foodstuffs and few dental care tools.
We went to the Metropolitan police department and signed myself in for the training session. We went to watch a football match, then we headed home afterwards.

" Lest I forget, this is what we retrieved from your father". He brandished a necklace made of silver beads and had the Cross at the end . It was my father's, I collected it and stared at it for a while, then put it and smirked murderously

The sun retired and darkness crept in.....