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“Naked,” Reanna replied.
“I’m not naked; I got my hat.” Jerry held his cowboy hat high up in the air. “I even brought one for you too. But you got to get on first to get it.”
She climbed up on the back of the cow and he handed her a matching hat. Then she wrapped her arms around him, and they were on their way. As they headed to the movies, she saw the red and blue lights flashing behind them.
“This is the police. Pull your cow over,” they ordered over their microphone.
Reanna turned around and there were at least ten patrol cars following them. And worse than that, they were all from her police department.
Reaching up, she pulled her cowboy hat down, trying to cover her face. “I can’t let them see me. We have to make a run for it,” she said. She knew better than this. It was against the law to ride a cow on the highway.
Jerry looked over his shoulder at her and said, “Damn, I knew I should’ve taken the hog.”
“A hog? Why? They’re not any faster,” she explained.
“Because pigs can fly but cows can jump over the moon,” Jerry explained in a serious tone.
Reanna asked him, “Then why’d you take the cow?”
“Simple, Reanna. Because I love you to the moon and back. What better way to show you?”
I love you too Jerry.
It was so romantic, and they were the words she’d been longing to hear. But none of it made any sense. Something didn’t feel right. It couldn’t be real. Jerry would’ve rented a space shuttle or something to take her to the moon. Not a cow. That’s just ridiculous.
As she rolled over on the bed and her pillow slipped to the floor, she figured it out. It was just a dream.
She closed her eyes again and let it replay. I’m not ever telling anyone about this. As though the guys at the station didn’t have enough to tease her about, this would be something she’d never live down. There was only one thing about the dream that she didn’t want to forget. He told her he loved her. That was the only thing Reanna wished had been a reality.
Reanna punched the pillow, fluffing it up again. This wasn’t going to be a restful sleep if she was going to be haunted by wacky dreams like that. Why couldn’t it be a hot, erotic dream like normal people have? But there hadn’t been much normalcy in her life lately, so why expect any different just because her eyes were closed?
As she drifted back to sleep, she thought, I don’t think I’m going be able to drink milk for a month without laughing.
Jerry had plannedon working all day in Boston, but when he didn’t hear from Reanna in the morning, that changed everything. He knew he hadn’t done anything to piss her off this time, so that only left one thing: something was wrong.
As he pulled into her driveway, he saw her truck parked in its usual spot. He rang her phone again.
In what sounded like a very groggy voice she answered, “Hello Jerry. How’s your day?”
Grateful to hear your voice.
“I’m here,” he said.
“Tell me you’re not on a cow,” she muttered.
“Cow? What the hell are you talking about?” Jerry asked, now worried that she might be delirious with a fever or something.
“Jerry?”
“Were you expecting someone else?” he asked. Jealousy filled his gut.
“Sorry, I was sleeping and…I wasn’t sure I heard right,’ she said.
If he’d woken her out of a deep sleep, it explained why she sounded so out of it. “I’m afraid to ask why my name is associated with a cow.”
Reanna sighed. “Long story about a call I was on last night.”
There weren’t any cow-related issues in Boston, at least not to his knowledge. Another reason why I’m a city boy. “I thought you had the night off?” he said, still sitting in his car.
