U, Me & She

Chapter 61- Caught in the Act

The ride down the highway was a quiet one as the car was consumed by the smell of chicken. Edward stares off at a distance while driving as Dana hears her stomach growling tremendously in the midst of the silence. She looks at him out of the corner of her eye as she slowly lifts the lid to the box that contained the 12 piece mixture of crispy wings, thighs and drumsticks. Her hunger grew so intense that she felt like shedding tears, but she knew that it would look rather peculiar to be eating after being involved with the gruesome scene that they possibly may have avoided witnessing. With her personal convictions, she really didn't care and grew cheerful moments later at the sight of Edward beginning to pull into the nearest gas station.

"Yes!" She says under her breath while clutching her fists as Edward looks her direction with an obvious look of disdain. He parks the car at the gas pump of the PitStop as he steps out of the vehicle slamming the car door behind himself. Dana flinches as she watches him walk around the vehicle to the gas pump retrieving the nozzle. "What the hell is wrong with you?" she says from inside of the vehicle as she looks at him via the side mirror. Awaiting for him to look away momentarily she finally seizes her moment as she slowly pulls a drumstick from the box and gnaws it to the bone quickly. Tossing the bone back into the box, she closes the lid and sits along the passenger side as if nothing had ever happened.

Edward hangs the nozzle up and proceeds to the inside of the store to make the payment as Dana reopens the box, then closes it by falling prey to her dying urge by pulling out the bag of remaining cocaine from her jacket, trickling a line along her hand before vastly snorting. She seals the bag and throws the bag back into her pocket as she pulls the visor down to check her nose ensuring all of the residue was discarded. "Mmm, baby I missed you so much." she says as she dances in her seat instantly feeling the effects of the powdered substance. Looking to her left, she sees Edward returning through the drivers side window as she quickly flips the visor up and inadvertently turns the volume of the radio higher upon noticing that "Drunk in Love" by Beyonce was playing on the radio.

She turns the volume higher as Edward stands outside of the vehicle taking an extended pause prior to opening the drivers side door. She sings along loudly as the door opens, Edward then plops to his seat, turns the radio completely off before slamming the car door shut behind himself. He puts the key in the ignition and starts the vehicle while feeling the presence of Dana's confused stare. "Stop fucking starring at me!" Edward says as he drives away from the gas station. Dana's confused look turns into that of shock upon hearing him speak to her in such a manner. She remains silent and stays to herself while unlocking the screen to her phone to check her Facebook status. Before clicking the app, she remembers to navigate to her messages to delete her earlier conversation with Lorenzo. She turns her phone slightly sideways to enable Edward from seeing what she was doing as she notices Lorenzo's message from earlier that read "What that head do tho?" She giggles at a slight until she realizes that the message was no longer in bold and was reviewed previously. Her suspicion develops rapidly as she quickly deletes their entire conversation and locks her screen placing the phone in her lap.

Edward sighs as he taps his fingers along the steering wheel in an attempt to do his best to keep his composure. Dana notices as she tries to divert his attention by asking "Do you think the police caught her?" Edward provides a delayed response as he looks in her direction saying "I hope not. For your sake." Dana stares at him in shock as she realizes from that particular comment that Edward was indeed very serious. Not really knowing what to do, she panics and tries to work through her high to come up with ways to calm Edward down before he did anything irrational. She thinks to herself "Hmm. I know what to give him that should fix everything..."

She mentally prepares herself as she looks around to see who was nearby before leaning in his direction, then slipping her hand across his lap in search for his zipper. She considers it a plus that he didn't push her hand away as she continues by lowering his zipper and sliding her hand inside of the opening....