#FridayFlash – Unexpected

Before I get on with my story for the day, I am participating in Script Frenzy again this year, and my username, just as with NaNoWriMo, is IntellectualBlather – go ahead and add me if you’re Frenzying too.  This year’s script is a satirical fantasy story, as told by a dwarf sidekick.  I’ll be turning tropes on their heads in this one.

I still feel rather uninformed about script writing, and it’s not something that comes naturally to me, so I appreciate the practice Script Frenzy gives me, even though I have yet to “win” it.

And now for today’s little drabble:

Unexpected:

I don’t know what happened. She had always been there, and I had always thought she would be there. But then she wasn’t.

I thought they were playing a prank on me, when they called. It was April 1st, and it was just the sort of thing the boys would do. Our boys. Our crazy, crazy boys. But there was something in Matt’s voice that told me he wasn’t joking.

Dammit. The last thing I said to her was to remember to pick up Marty at the airport on the way home.  Left her to hook up the trailer by herself. What kind of goodbye is that?

And then the police wanted to bring me in for questioning. Almost got arrested, but they couldn’t deny that I had an ironclad alibi. I was at work, in a government building, with plenty of video cameras to prove as much.

But authority types don’t like unexplainable things. There always has to be an explanation for everything.

But how do you explain to the cops that you have no idea how your girlfriend disappeared in the middle of a crowded city street leaving nothing but a crater and a very confused giraffe named Marty?

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