Staring at Sunflowers
He paced excitedly in front of the door before barging in and yelling “I am in!”
“What!” His mother screamed before she hugged him, “ You are a cop now!” She ruffled his hair proudly.
“That's my boy !” said his dad ”Followin’ my footsteps. Your old man is proud of you, my son.”
“Yeah, I got sent to Hawaii, on Maui. Sergeant Curtis said I would get the case of the sunflower field. I think Sergeant Curtis hinted it was a murder. I leave in two days.”
“First assignment and this far ahead. When I was startin’ as a young’n, my first assignment was to vacuum the cop cars until I could get my own. Once as a young’n you used to drive that little cop car off onto the street and you was pretendin’ to catch the neighbors in crime. You loved when old Mrs. Carol used to get mail. You'd scream ‘,I got you red handed stealing.’ It was good those olden days but now you is a real police officer now.”
Tears started to form in his eyes at the thought of the exciting life ahead.
*~*~*~* 1 week later *~*~*~*
He entered the mess hall slowly slightly disappointed because this was nothing he’d thought it be. Life wasn't great but apparently, there was a rumor that the sunflower vandal had struck again. Boredom crept into his brain as he thought about another mindless day filling out pointless paperwork about people on the highway who drove at 50 miles per hour. Yay. He wanted to ask the sergeant if he could cover the case of the sunflower field alone.He walked over to Sergeant Jacob, his boss, and exhaled.
“Hey, Sergeant Jacob, I was wondering if I -I could, um oh gosh, uh, work th- on the case of the sunflower field, by myself” He stammered.
His great big bellowing laughed echoed in the empty mess hall.
“Of course! Just head over there at 7 am sharp and watch the fields for any people trying to come in. I would bring some coffee because you'll be out there 24/7. Try to sleep in 5 hours increments to make sure no trespassers can sneak in.”
“One last question Sergeant Jacob, what is the murder mystery case all about?”
“Murder Mystery! Wow, I haven't had a laugh like that in a while.” He says gasping for air after his laughter had subsided.”I don't know where you got the idea of a murder mystery. That’s ridiculous! Some people were stealing sunflowers and drawing smiley faces on them.”
“Stealing sunflowers”
“Yep”
“I am going to be outside 24/7 to watch people to make sure they don't steal sunflowers.”
“Yep”
“Oh man”
“Yep”
Tomorrow at 7 am, he arrived at the sunflower field. He parked his car and pushed the door open mindlessly until something caught his eye.A group of teenagers was standing in the field taking selfies for their Instagram. He shooed them off the property but then spent the rest of the day sitting in his car on his phone searching up some entertainment. Finally, at sunset, his eyes drooping in boredom he made his way into the sunflower field. He then took a selfie of him kissing a sunflower with a smiley face on it facing the sunset. Once he posted it, he relaxed in his cop car to wonder why they needed a policeman to watch sunflowers. He didn't think a lot of interesting things happened on this lonely desolate island so the sunflowers must have seemed like quite the bang and trend.
He sighed in his disappointment and dreaded telling his father. The only thing good about this island are the beaches and waterfalls. He fell asleep dreaming about chasing criminals in the alleyways of New York, as a real cop, something that would happen later in his future he hoped.
