It wasn’t hard to spot a watch car, the glaring blue and white made it stand out, and if that wasn’t enough of a give, certainly the man leaning against the side was a dead giveaway something was up. In his uniform, the Commander was an exclamation point amongst the casually dressed bystanders. His glasses sat perched on his nose, tipping down just slightly when he gave his phone a quick glance.
Just in time as the spotty mid noon crowd of students in front of the exit doubled. People poured out and Valentine pushed himself off his car when he spotted Lottie’s petite figure, he caught up with the girl just as she was saying her goodbyes with her classmates.
“Miss Berdini, a moment of your time if I may.” His words, polite as they might have been, were nothing if a cool reminder.
Lottie was not having a good day. Apparently she hadn’t charged her phone properly overnight and it had died on her as she made her way to class that morning. She’d forgotten to read a paper for her first class of the morning and as she came out of her second class her head was buzzing and she was desperate for coffee, sugar or alcohol and didn’t care in which order.
Preferring to blend in with the crowd on occasions like this she kept pace with the little group in front and turned quickly when she heard her name. Pursing her lips she stepped aside towards the commander, his uniform causing him to stick out like a sore thumb in among the students. “I’m afraid I have very important things to do Commander but it was sweet of you to drop by.”
Lottie's wild adventure 