My Killer Girlfriend

Chapter 5

   I sat in my overnight cell less than happy.  I stared out of the bars and just reflected on the past twenty-four hours.  I was in that cell for six hours all by myself and i didn't get a wink of sleep.  I just thought about what I could do.  I didn't know why I hadn't already reported Lexi.  She could be killing someone right now, and that would be on my conscience.  I just couldn't bring myself to condemn the girl I love to death.

   But what if she was going to kill me, could I do it to save myself?  Probably not.  I didn't care what she had done, she didn't deserve that.  I wondered why she had told me, why she hadn't killed me after she did.  That's when I remembered what she said right before I stormed out. "Luke...I love you.  I would never hurt you.  I can't help it, that's the only reason I do it, I can't stop, but I can try, for you."  She seemed sincere, she seemed like the girl I met in the park when she said that...not like a vicious killer.

    Why would she say that?  If she has killed for this long why risk everything for me?  Maybe she meant it.   I spent another two hours in that jail cell and I made up my mind.  I must have been crazy, no, completely insane!  Most people would have no problem killing a killer themselves and wouldn't even consider living with one. 

   But she was my girl, and I was going to have her back, no matter what.  As crazy as it was, even if it was the death of me, even if I had to spend the rest of my life in prison...I was going to stay with my killer girlfriend.  That's when I heard a familiar voice, and heard the door to the jail room open.  It was her. 
 
   She was walking towards me with the same cop that put me in there in the first place.  "Thanks Jim, I really appreciate you letting him off the hook for me.  I promise it won't happen again, I'll keep my eye on my little run away from now on."  She gave him a wink and they both laughed.  The cop unlocked my cell and let me out.  Lexi immediately lunged at me and gave me the biggest hug.

    She buried her head in my chest and mumbled "I missed you!"  Without taking her face from my shirt.  I stood there, not moving, just looking at her, dazed and nervous, before I sighed and gently hugged her head deeper into my chest.  I felt happier than I had been in a long time, just standing there in the police station, with my girlfriends arms wrapped around me.

    I smiled and looked across at the officer.  "Look officer, I think we got off on the wrong foot.  Thanks a lot."  I smiled at him. "You're just lucky little Lexianne has such a liking for you, otherwise I'd keep you in there for a few more days just to teach you some manners punk."  He shoots me a look of distaste and closes the cell door.  Screw city cops.

  After a few more seconds Lexi let's go of me and I see that che had been crying softly, I give her a reassuring look and grab her hand.  We begin to walk towards the exit and she turns to wave at the cop. "See ya Jim!  Thanks so much!  For everything!"  We walk out the door and  get in her car.  "So, uh, you know Jim too huh?" I say somewhat nervously.  "Oh Jim?  He's basically my uncle, he is a really nice guy."

"Uh huh... somehow I doubt that."

"Oh, you are just upset he through you in that cell for the night."

"Uh, yeah, a little."

"He is a softie once you get to know him."

"Mhmm, well I hope to never have to get to know him anymore than already I do." I shudder.