Sun On My Face, Wind in My Hair

Chapter Five

As Chris was crossing the road, Josie grabbed a shady looking homeless guy. “I’ll give you $1000 cash if you will hit that guy in the head and make it look like an accident,” she whispered to the man. Needing money, the man held his hand out for the cash and nodded in agreement.

The man followed Chris, going up to him and asking for money. Chris apologized, telling him that he did not have any cash. There was a parade going on, and the streets were packed with people.

Seeing an alley, Chris looked down it, and it seemed safe because it was a short throughway. The man followed Chris until he found him in the secluded area.

The homeless man saw an air conditioner hanging loosely out of a window. Just as Chris walked under the AC, the man hit it with a stick, knocking it over, hitting Chris in the head and crashing to the ground as he collapsed.

The man saw people coming, hearing the crash as the unit hit the asphalt. The man bent down, pretending to find him, calling out for help.

Someone called 911 and in a brief time, EMS were on the scene. Unobserved, the villain left the area.

Chris had suffered a serious head injury and was bleeding and unconscious. Once he was secured to a backboard with a cervical collar, it was decided he would be taken to a local hospital.

Josie watched the scene, asking if she could ride with him, claiming to be his wife. The ambulance crew allowed her to ride along and even reported to the ER staff that his wife was with him. She picked up his phone and dropped it in a trash can as she went in through the Emergency Room entrance.

The doctor came in and spoke to Josie, thinking she was Christopher’s wife.

“He is still unconscious. The MRI showed some swelling in his brain and a small bleed. We won’t know how he is doing cognitively until he arouses. There is a possibility that he could have amnesia based on the injury to the frontal lobe,” he explained.

Josie nodded, putting on her most devastated expression. Inside, she was hopeful that he did have amnesia. That would be perfect for her.

Josie called off sick for the rest of the week so she could sit by Chris’s side. She wanted to be the first one he seen when he woke up.

Josie looked through the pictures in Chris’s wallet of Penny and his children, frowning. She hoped his memory never came back and she could convince him that they were married.

She began taking notes what needed to be done to convince him, because it would have to be convincing. She didn’t use his real name. She had given them her last name and told them he had no insurance because she didn’t want any loose ends that would make it easy for him to be found as she set up their new life in San Diego.