U, Me & She

Chapter 48 - Quick Getaway

   Lorenzo awoke seeing the lights from the many police vehicles illuminate through the bedroom window.  He immediately looks to his left to see that Nurse Williams’ body is no longer beside him, then glances to the right to see that Jamie has disappeared as well.  The speckles of blood were still evident further informing him that this was not a figment of his imagination as he immediately rose to his feet, rummaged through Dana’s closet and threw on one of her jogging outfits.

   Upon dressing, he pauses as he hears Jamie’s voice through the thin walls of the apartment “Excuse me sir.  My friend has had a little much to drink last night.  I’m going to take her home now.” as another voice responds with “Oh, I totally understand ma’am.  It happens.”  He becomes slightly nervous as he hears the strangers footsteps draw closer.

  He rushes to the bedroom window and struggles to open it as it appears to be painted shut.  Upon breaking the paint seal, he pulls the glass up to notice that the jump from the window wasn’t as far as he expected.   He sticks out his left foot, and then scoots in a seated position along the outside of the window pulling his right leg out as both of his feet dangled.

  “One….two…..three, GO!” he says as he pushes himself away and falls to the dirt filled yard, catching his balance by holding his arms out against the ground.  He pauses momentarily just to be sure that he wasn’t seen before standing on his two feet, dusting himself off and beginning his transit to his vehicle.

  He makes his way to the back of the building along the opposite side where the police weren’t gathered making his way toward his vehicle.  He pauses, and then peaks around the corner, before taking a deep breath proceeding in a nonchalant manner.  Upon entering his vehicle, he glances through his rear view mirror to see Dana stepping out of a 2012 Maybach Landaulet.  “The hell?”  he says as he wonders what a Maybach was doing in this neighborhood, furthermore, what was Dana doing hopping out of it.

  He shakes his head as he places the key into the ignition and starts his old 99’ Chevy Monte Carlo.  He glances through the rearview mirror once more as his eyes come into contact with hers while she converses with one of the arriving officers.  He notices a slight smile develop upon her face as he puts the vehicle into drive and makes his way to the main road.

  Upon his stop before making the turn to get onto the main road, he turns on his left blinker and awaits several oncoming vehicles to pass before he can proceed.  He grows impatient as he notices a vehicle behind his with their left blinker on as well.   He taps his fingers along the steering wheel to the beat of the music that played on the radio when he suddenly takes a closer look at the person driving the vehicle behind him.  “Fuck!” He says as he sees Jamie glaring at him.  He looks over at the oncoming traffic anxiously awaiting for them to pass as he shouts “C’mon!.....Shit!”  He glances through the rearview once again as he sees Jamie moving her lips as if she were telling him something.  He grew confused as he looked in the rearview closer to try to comprehend as he finally translated the movement of her lips to read “I love you.”  Lorenzo immediately pushes on the gas pedal, cutting off the next oncoming vehicle.

<honk!>

  As Lorenzo proceeds down the road, he glances back and is relieved to see that Jamie made a right turn instead of a left.

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  Jamie makes a right turn along the main road from leaving the driveway of Dana’s apartment complex.  She hears Nurse Williams’ body tumbling amongst the trunk as she increases the volume of the radio to drown out the sound.    With “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” by Michael Jackson blaring through the speakers, she sings along as nearby pedestrians stare at her in amusement and break out in song and dance as well  (It’s my story and I can put that if I want. Don’t judge me:)) .  With Lorenzo’s vehicle travelling in the opposite direction and eventually reaching a distance out of her sight, she feels comfort in knowing that he isn’t in the company of Dana.  Just the thought of Dana causes multiple feelings within Jamie that makes her just want to grab her pistol and use an innocent bystander’s body as target practice.  She digresses and tries to remain calm and think about other things that will keep her in high spirits like:

❶  Long walks on the beach

❷  Cotton Candy

❸  Chris Bosh

❹  Duck Hunting

❺  Rainbows

❻  Elmer’s Glue

❼  Unicorns

❽  Frank Ocean

❾  Krispy Kreme Donuts

❿   Lifetime Channel

Etc…..

  Suddenly, she stops at the red light and notices that she was passing through a rough neighborhood.  The streets were filled with trash and there were several people roaming the streets for no apparent reason.  An elderly man that was crossing the street, paused in front of her vehicle momentarily, then after his glimpse of her face smiled as if he were about to make his way to her driver side window.  “No the fuck he isn’t.” she thinks to herself as his actions proved “yes the fuck he is”.     “Aye shawty!  Aye! Roll down ya wida babygul!” the man says as she reaches over and slides her hand into her purse that layed in the passenger seat, in search for her weapon.  Upon coming to grips with the handle, she smiles as she rolls the window down partially saying  “Wussup baby?  You want some of this shit right chea?”  The man’s eyes grow wider as he rubs his hands together saying “Hell yeah! Aw, hell yeah!”  She rolls the window down a bit further and says “You sure big daddy?  You look like you’re working with something I can’t handle.”  He looks around, leans closer to the vehicle and says “Baby, I’ll make it to where you can manage.  If not, I know you’ll never forget my name.”

  Jamie smiles as she says “I see you big daddy.  And what mite your name be?”  The man swipes his thumb across his nose, looks around, leans within two inches from the driver’s side window exposing his personal breathtaking introduction to the personal life of a hobo, and blesses her nostrils with the intricate conglomerate of  aged breath and partially translatable speaking by saying “Ma, I go by the name of Cornbread.  And mite I ask whatcho name iz?”  Jamie smiles containing her laughter as she says “I don’t like to say my name out loud unless you make me.  I’m going to have to ask you to lean in closer.”  she says waving her finger to beaconing him closer.  He shuffles a bit as he looks around and leans in closer to the window saying “Baby gul, I’ll make you say yo name, my name, hell errrbody goddamn name.  Roll down that wida fuh meh.  I want to hear ya name loud and clear wit’ yo sexy ass.”  Jamie whispers through the window “Bang.”

  The man doesn’t comprehend as he leans closer saying “Baby gul’, I’m not sure I got that.  Can you say that one mo’ gain?”  Jamie sighs and begins to grow irritated as she rolls the window down further beaconing for him to lean in closer.  He does so as she says “I said, Bang…”  With a confused look upon his face, he looks at her as she nonchalantly moves the barrel flush against the bottom of his chin.  “I still didn’t get that…” he says before she squeezes the trigger letting off one shot that ended it all for poor ol’ Cornbread. 

<bang>

  Cronbread’s state of being while under the influence, reminded Jamie too much of Dana’s usual drug induced state as her anger elevated to extreme levels once again.  The feeling she had, before her “Coming to Jesus” moment has returned as she forgets completely about those pure thoughts and sees nothing but red.  She debates on whether or not to bust a U turn…..