Perceive

Well Hello!!!...And Arrest me For I Have Sinned!

It was him, in the flesh, Adrian Cox, I mean come on I know about late bloomers but this one never failed to amaze me in the 15 minutes that I did speak to him for. This is the same boy who was dead scared of so much as going out if it was too rainy or sunny or dark or noisy or anything for that matter. I did hear about it when he joined the military and served as a surgeon, but for him to call it the quits on anything meant something had happened. Quitting surgery to become a detective, wow I had to have that conversation and quick.
He hadn't recognized me just yet and that's exactly how I wanted it for a little while.
The fact that Adri had grown up into this hunk didn't help me gather my wits though it did help gather something else somewhere else *wink wink*.
There were only two things that hadn't changed at all, his big gray eyes and signature curly cute hair.
Not that I had particularly changed, lost almost all of the extra pounds by converting them to muscles and of course got red velvet highlights. Other than that my face hadn't changed a bit.
When he finally did take a good look at me, all he could do was gawk. And that of course gave me enough time to gather my wits and take him for a spin, like I always did since we were kids.
"Hey Coxie, you don't get to gawk because Mother Nature remembered me before you!"
To which came back a quick and snappy "Huh well ok" which is also when I remembered that the boy barely speaks much less banter with anyone.
I was just preparing to ignore him and go back to hunting my phone down when I heard," Hey Cass, wait up, I got a couple of questions".
He was the only one who got away with calling me Cass and not Sandra for short.
Me being me, I wanted to be mean to him for leaving me high and dry for almost a decade but you know the other me wanted to be a model citizen and help the cops out which brought me back to my previous question," Adri , what the hell happened here? Why are those two.......humans....for lack of words, dead?"
"Cass, it isn't funny..you could've died". Funny how many times I have heard that come out of his piehole.
And I was about to do what I did best when that came out of his mouth, which was royally ignore him and find my phone already. Where in hell was it anyway?
When I completely switch my focus on to one thing, everything else seems to turn into a buzz, like humming mosquitoes or bees. In the middle of buzzing, came a voice, "Cass, Cass...." Which is when I realised Adri was trying to get a word in. Wow! I had the attention span of a sparrow.
I finally turned around and looked at him full in the face, and my bitch began screaming like a little Thai hooker. The screaming sounded a lot like," Oh holy mother of pasta, club him over and take him to your cave and then do things to him that are illegal in all the states of the United States".
Ignoring my bitch, as I had been doing anyway, since morning I said," Adri, you know me, no one can kill me, I'm a freaking vampire, remember!!"
To which came a prompt, " Shut it, Cass. I have questions for you, do you remember?"
"Okay, shoot!" I said.
The questioning went somewhat like this, " Cass, what happened here before you passed out? Why aren't you at home since it's raining so bad? How long have you known Dr.Shu and the lab tech? Did you know he's been repeatedly cheating on his wife? How does a guy like that get some anyway?"
I'm sure by now you guessed which were my questions.
I answered all that I knew, which was basically my entire morning.
I found myself telling him everything including the fact that I had been paranoid about something all morning.
I mean sure he left me high and dry a decade ago, but that didn't stop him from remembering the little things, like how much I didn't like being asked too many questions, or the fact that he was the only one who ever called me Cassie and got away with it. Now you may think as to why does she keep mentioning it, but honestly it's a big deal for me because as it might turn out, he's the only one who isn't scared of big scary me and cherry on the cake was that I was completely fine, infact happy with above stated fact.