Goosebumps were rapidly taking over my body as I shivered in the cold pouring down rain. “One of these damn cabs has to stop.” I mumbled to myself while I tried to flag a cab. “Of all days…” I looked up the street only to see a cab pull over for a woman, a woman dry as dry could be standing beneath a huge umbrella. “Oh freak’n hell.” I groaned as she stepped into the cab and shut the door. “Figures.” I said shaking my head, the cab started to make its way down the street when it stopped in front of me. The window rolled down.
“Do you want to share a cab?” My mouth opened but no sound came out as I tried to see the woman in the cab, a truck behind the cab honked, waking me from my daze.
“Um sure.” I ran over to the cab as the door opened I jumped in. Still shaking from the cold that had taken over my body; I slammed the car door behind me.
“Where are you going?” She asked as the driver started to make his way down the avenue. I looked over and I thought my heart was going to stop or maybe it did stop, I couldn’t really tell you because the next few minutes were a haze. The woman who offered to share her cab with me was the woman I had been lusting after for years now. “Are you ok?” She leaned forward, placing her long slender fingers on my arm. “My God you’re freezing.” She began taking off her jacket. “Here take this; it should keep you a bit warm.” I was mesmerized by her eyes; they twinkled, even in the dark and gloomy light of this rainy afternoon her eyes sparkled.
“Thank you but I don’t want to get your jacket all wet.” I realized what a mess I must have looked like. I ran out of my apartment in a pair of tattered old jeans, white shirt and flip flops.
“You really might want to cover up.” She glanced down at my chest, which made me look down.
“Oh my God!” I forgot that I had nothing except a white shirt on and everything was visible beneath my now translucent white shirt.
“Not that I mind.” She replied, I looked up at her, a playful little smile crept across her lips, oh those lips, those gorgeous lips.
“Thank you.” I said as I took the coat from her and then covering myself. She raised her eyebrows and then sat back in the seat.
“You never did tell me where you were going.” She looked over at me.
“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you.”
“Try me.” I half laughed, half sighed.
“I don’t really know where I’m going, I was fired from my job today, my girlfriend left me for a MAN and so I just left my apartment and started walking, decided to take a cab somewhere and while I was waiting for the damn cab it started pouring down rain and here I am.”
“When it rains it pours.” I laughed.
“Yes and you just better pray you have MORE than just a white tee shirt on.” She started laughing.
“I’m Angie and you are?”
“Jess.”
“Well Jess it was a pleasure to meet you.” She offered me her hand, I was about to shake the hand of Angelina Jolie, this had to be a dream, we shook hands. I didn’t want to let go but trying not to play the part of the crazed obsessed fan I did let go. “You are freezing.”
“Yeah, well that rain was damn cold.” I said huddling beneath her jacket, which smelled of vanilla and some sort of flowery scent.
“My apartment is right around this corner.” She motioned ahead, my heart sank that the meeting with my dream goddess was about to end. “Maybe you should come up and get dried off.” I laughed.
“You’re kidding.” She looked at me and smiled.
“What’s so funny?” I was ready for the dream to end; any minute I would wake up, Julia next to me snoring, back to life as I knew it.
“Well…it’s just you don’t know me from Jack and you’re inviting me to your apartment?”
“Oh well I would have to argue, I think I could tell you from Jack but you seem harmless, is there anything I should know about you?”
“Just that bad luck seems to be following me today and well yesterday I tore all the tags off my mattress.” Angie began to laugh.