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A car sped through mist in a silence, its quiet engine barely humming as it pulled the rest of the car along on the long and seemingly never ending highway. The road was smooth, covered in quality asphalt and the tires almost didn't even make a sound as they rolled across it. Inside the car it was similarly quiet, the radio was on, but on the lowest setting and playing relaxing music. The driver had a fixed gaze on the road in front of him, his eyes scanned the darkness on both sides of the car every now and again. The steering wheel was in his grip and seemingly similarly fixed as his stare. The rest of the car was empty, but for the lone sports bag on the back seat. The bag was filled with about nine hundred thousand American dollars, a 9mm handgun and three full clips of ammunition. The driver contemplated his deeds of the day and how well he would get away with it. He was heading for the next nearest city, but with today's interconnectivity, he was somewhat afraid that the whole nation might already be aware of his crime. He had made sure there were no cameras anywhere in sight, it had been the deep, dark night and the silencer he had used, was still in his pocket. He kept it near him, to reassure himself of the smoothness at which it had all worked out.
A huge luminous sign in the distance brought his attention to how little he had eaten in the last few days. He could recall one time. He stopped his car near the end of the parking lot, so he could get back on the road with ease. Inside the diner, he pulled into a darker corner, where some of the lights flickered and the air smelled of the unalluring mixture of vomit and cleaning products. Walking back to his car, he pulled out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and a single cigarette from there. The pack went back into his pocket, but the lone cigarette he lit up. To do this, he stopped a step from his car. After he sat inside, he didn't do much for a while. The air conditioning was on, but the car seemed to fill up with smoke nevertheless. He let the windows down in the front seats and woke up as the first rays of sunlight met with his shut eyelids. The left side of his head hurt more than anything he had ever experienced. As he managed to open his eyes, he saw the place where his car had sped off from, the dark tire marks marking the spot where he had lost everything he had gained in his life.
"What happened to you, son?" asked a friendly deep voice, as a figure blocked the sunlight blinding his face. "I.. I don't know... My car.. it's gone, and..." his words got stuck in his throat as he realised he was talking to an officer of the law. He looked around and sure enough, there was a police cruiser parked in the lot, with some other officer talking to who he vaguely remembered to be a waitress from the diner. He hastily pushed himself up, leaning on the wall behind him and pulling away from the officer. The pain slashed his head in two and the image of the waitress talking to the policeman was imprinted in his mind. Her figure was the only thing he knew for the next few seconds and as he trashed about the officer next to him tried to lend a helping hand, alas he panicked even more. The policeman held him strong in place and with only his feet free, he pushed the wall next to them, tipping them both over. The officer took most of the blow and hit his head on the asphalt surface of the parking lot ground. His hands fell loose and the driver jumped up, bumped into the wall again and took off at the police cruiser. The other policeman was too involved in the conversation with the waitress, with whom he was currently discussed classical films to notice the man any second before he got hit in the face with his fist. The waitress jumped away, screaming and the officer fell down onto the cruiser, sliding off its hood shortly afterwards. The man leaped at the door of the car, pulled it open and stood stunned as a bullet tore through his lung.