I hear a car door and that wakes me up. I sit up and rub my eyes.
I had been asleep at a rest station somewhere outside of Anastasia, Florida. I see Soul sitting in the passengers seat, breathing heavily.
"What happened?" I ask concerned. Soul looks at me and smiles timidly.
"No matter what they ask I was here all night!" He says hurriedly.
I stare at him, befuddled. That sort of sounds like an alibi....
A sudden explosion makes me jump! I look around and see a car engulfed in flames on the interstate. It's on the opposite side from us. I glare furiously at Soul. We were supposed to keep our heads down...
"What did you do?!" I yell at him. I am fine with the killing but he didn't have to make such a mess. He reaches up and scratches his head.
"Well you see, you were asleep and I was bored and slightly sleep deprived so I went for a walk. I didn't want to be noticed over here so I went across the road to the other rest station. There were some really noisy people that just rubbed me the wrong way so when they got out of their car I maybe... sorta... did something to it..." He reluctantly admits. I close my eyes and massage the bridge of my nose. This is something I do when I am stressed out. There is another explosion. A fire truck finally gets to the scene and starts putting the fire out. There are cops everywhere. I start my car so that we can leave just as a cop pulls into our station. Dang it.
"Lay down and look like you are asleep." I instruct Soul. He does as I say. I turn my car off and recline my seat and fake sleep. Hopefully they didn't see me turn my Jeep on.
A few moments later I hear a knock on my window.
I roll over and acknowledge the presence of a police officer. I sit up and unzip my window. (My Jeep is a soft top so I can't exactly roll down the window...) I see the officer's eyes linger over Souls "sleeping" body for a moment and then flick back to me.
"Hi there. Did I just wake you boys up?" The officer says. I pretend to rub sleep out of my eyes, though I do still have some in them...
"Yes sir." I respond. I look around to notice the car on fire.
"What happened there?! Is everyone okay?!" I ask, faking shock. This seems to work. The officer takes my surprise as a sign of innocence.
"I don't know the details as of yet. Do you know if the man in the passengers seat was there all night?" He asks suspiciously. Soul was obviously awake now because of all the noise but he had stayed perfectly still. I shrug my shoulders to the officer and reach over and slap Soul upside the head. He sits up and glares at me.
"He wants to know where you were all night." I tell Soul who then stopped glaring at me.
"I was sleeping here." He says a little too fast. The officer slightly arches an eyebrow and looks around the Jeep. Souls shoes were still on which isn't something travelers do and he didn't exactly have bed head. Hopefully the officer wasn't close enough to smell the gasoline....
"Ah, sorry. He is a little shy but I can promise you that he was here all night." I offer to the officer with a knowing smile. He thinks for a moment and then looks a little startled... I wonder what he was thinking I meant?!
"Alright. Well, if you boys didn't see anything suspicious then I guess I will be on my way. Safe travels to you!" He says as he quickly walks away. I feel like I made things awkward though I don't know how... I look back over at Soul. He has his head in his hands and looks depressed....
What did I do? At least I make a convincing Alibi!
This was a real car and a real accident that I witnessed while on my research trip to Florida. |
This post is mostly fictional, I had nothing to do with that car accident...
This post also features a little fanservice per request :P
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