This is my first submission and also my first ever attempt to write a story like this.
It was written in a single day, so it may have some mistypes despite my revision. I hope you all enjoy and feel free to send in your comments. They will be warmly appreciated.
This story is purely fictional. Any coincidence with living or deceased persons is pure coincidence.
copyright protected 2010
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It was around 2 a.m. of a weekday and I was driving back home. My head was still spinning from the day at the office and I needed a release. It hadn't been a bad day though. Things were actually marching pretty well but it had been intense and I was tired and eager to get back home. I was 30-year-old at the time and held a job as creative director for a major advertising agency. I was single then since the right one hadn't appeared yet and, living in a world such as mine, I was constantly showered with the kind of offers one does not refuse unless is mad or impotent. I wasn't bad looking either and, you know, as a creative director my income wasn't so bad also. All added up, I was happy enough with my bachelor life. Contrary to most of my colleagues and related work acquaintances, I kept my city life to the necessary that including job and, of course, some social and party life. However, being a surfer, I needed to get away from all that so I had bought a nice cottage near the beach almost an hour away from the center and that was where I was heading to.
It was a moonlit and warm summer night and I had winded down the car windows. The road was straight, fair and almost deserted at that hour so I was speeding away. Not like a maniac, but enough to enjoy the warm wind blowing in and some adrenaline from the speed. The blow of fresh air was actually making me feel really good as I thought of getting back to my peaceful den, already imagining the surf the day after since I had self-decreed a day off for the following day. With the full moon arriving tomorrow, the swell had been pounding the coast for the last three days already and I couldn't take it anymore.
Anticipating the surf rush, the Pixies were pounding high on the car stereo and I was happily singing along. However, the mood was to be interrupted by some annoying blue flashing lights. Yup, the cops! Cursing, I slowed down and pulled over. Music was off for the time being. The cops parked right behind flooding my car with their high beams. The intermittent blue of the patrol car's light-bar added to the uncomfortable light shower. I didn't turn my head back and just decided to follow the action through the mirrors. I could hear two voices, a man and a woman's. I could see that they were coming one both sides of the car. From the leg movement, I was sure the woman was on my right. As they walked towards my car I couldn't avoid but to think of an alien encounter. The dark and warm night, the steps on the gravel, the flashlights, the headlights, the shadows approaching in the mirrors and the absolute silence besides their steps and their car engine. I had killed mine's as I parked, "no need to get them nervous", I thought. "Say yes and I'm sorry, pay the ticket and go", that was my master plan for the forthcoming event. However, things not always come as easy and predictable. Especially with cops involved, I was forced to conclude later.
A deep voice of a man sounded over my window asking me if I knew why did they stop me. I had no time to answer, since more or less at the same time, the female cop peeked in through the right window probing the inside of the car and myself with a flashlight. "Do you transport anything that we should be concerned about?" she asked, in what I would consider a sexy voice under different circumstances, as she pointed the flashlight at my face. I frowned a bit, surprised by the sudden "attack" and replied that of course I didn't. The flashlight didn't allow me to see her face and I must confess that her tone and sudden intrusion left me a bit nervous.
"You are not nervous, are you?" she asked, keeping the light beam on my face. "Why should I be?" I retorted. She ignored me and went on probing the car with her torch so I could see her face for the first time. I already knew she was tall and slim and then I got the first glimpse of her facial features that vaguely reminded me of Julia Robert's face - an angular face with beautiful features but holding a hard expression. The main difference from the Hollywood hottie was that this cop's hair was blond, apparently long since she had it tied behind her head in a kind of a French roll. She kept on probing my car's interior as I was letting myself getting entranced with her beauty.