A Television Drama

This short story starts off with a middle age lady that is married by the name of Carolee. Started as a usual sunny day, Carolee was minding her own business, doing her chores of washing the dishes. When she looks at her window to see a whole scene of people and police officers. A flying bird passing her window was what caught Carolee's attention. Carolee looked around the whole scene from her window, she was very curious on what was going on and could not believe that she would be missing out on this if it wasn't for the bird passing by. She saw police blocks everywhere, people standing on her property and all around. She could see even more police officers coming down her street. There were loud voices around, telling people to clear the streets. However, she couldn't get the greatest few of the whole situation, she had many scenarios going on in her head; thinking if someone killed someone else, was there a shooting? All these scenarios seemed to be going through her head. She wanted to get a better view of everything before making any judgements. She walked into her husband Pete's study room and looked out that window. Now she even sees more police and ambulance, a whole line of security. She seems to be very bored looking out this view, she glances around once more. All of a sudden, Carolee notices a young man sitting in quite an awkward position with his hand pressing against his shoulder. Then his head slightly raises up and there were blood stains on his shirt and pants. Right away, Carolee's instinct is the young man must be hurt. Carolee had no idea what to do, to let the police know, let others know that there is a man injured in front of her own lawn. She thought about helping the young man, but did not want to be seen by others. Then the man just got up and made his way across her lawn. A quick second passed and Carolee sees the man drop to the ground, she didn't seem to hear the gun shot but saw him drop. Then she heard the voice of a cop saying, suspect apprehended. Carolee immediately rushed to turn on her radio. It was said that the man had robbed a bank, ran a car into a tree and shot a police officer. Reporters came around, but Carolee didn't bother saying anything about her seeing the man, she just went back to the kitchen. She questioned herself if she should tell her husband about the sight she had seen. She told part of the story but left quite a bit of it untold. Her husband was quite afraid on this whole situation. While watching the news, Carolee wondered if her story would have actually been different if she said something or if the news is actually telling the truth. I believe the theme of this story is never trust everything you see. Trust your own instincts. Do not trust others, but yourself.