No Trespassing
Sophie
I knew I could
do one of two things: either dig myself a deeper hole, or shut up. On this particular cool October evening, I
found myself in the back seat of a cop car.
It was definitely not my finest hour.
After
the cops had me sitting in the car for over 45 minutes, handcuffed no less, I
decided I couldn’t keep quiet. I needed
to ask Officer Anderson what was taking so long. Awkwardly I stuck my head out the window. The crisp air made my nose tingle. “Officer Anderson, do I get to go home soon?” The swirling red and blue lights lit up the
area as he came up beside the car. I
twitched my nose to try to relieve the itch.
“We’re
still checking things out. You’ll need
to hold tight.”
“What’s
taking so long? Why are we still here?”
“So
that’s how you’re going to play it? Act
like you don’t know.”
“Um,
I really don’t know. My boyfriend and I
did trespass through the gate of the air field.” I glanced back at the police car behind me
where they were holding Kyle. “I know we
shouldn’t have, but we wanted to watch the planes take off and have some time
alone.”
“How
long were you here before we showed up?”
“I
think around an hour or so.”
“That’s
what Kyle said too.” Officer Anderson
looked at the officer behind him with an expression I could not place and said,
“The time frame fits.” The other officer
nodded in agreement.
Officer
Anderson began to make me really scared.
I was getting the feeling there was more going on here. Those emotions were amplified as Anderson
bent his head down to my window, looked me straight in the eye and with
a frustrated hiss, “So you’re telling me you guys were here for an hour and
never saw the body that was lying 500 yards away from you, over in the grass.”
I
looked over to where Officer Anderson was pointing. It was only then I noticed the other officers
all standing around something. I
couldn’t tell what it was for sure. The
shape of the object did look like the size of a person lying horizontal. My mouth dropped open and my eyes began to
water as I said, “I didn’t see anything!
We didn’t see anything! Honest!”
The
blare of the ambulance siren screamed as it approached. Paramedics ran over to the person in the
grass to assess the situation, Officer Anderson joined them. After a couple minutes I could see one of
them shake their head, no. This was not
good. It dawned on me. The cops thought we had something to do with
why this person was lying in the field, seemingly unable to move. Officer Anderson was heading back to the
car. He informed me, “They’re dead. Now you’re going to tell me again why you
were here and what you were doing.”
