Phoenix

01.

Sitting on the driving seat, Michael smiled towards Debby starting the ignition. Seeing Debby returning the smile, he placed a small kiss on her lips and pressed the gear releasing the hand brake. Slowly overtaking the other cars, their Toyota car left the parking lot.
None of them knew that they have been being watched from the black Chevy van parked a few yards away.

Two men were inside the van. The driver was huge in body beside his shorter partner.
Seeing the Toyota left, the latter one took the walkie-talky from his lap and pressed the button, "the target is on move. Everyone get ready. Team one, block the road. Team Two, get ready. The target and we will cross you within ten minutes. Block the road then. Make sure no traffic is there at that time."

"This is team two," someone said from the opposite side, "we already started to divert the traffic. No cars are here in this road."

"Why started already?" the shorter man almost growled in the walkie-talkie, "what if someone suspects something?"

"Don't worry. The road is silent at normal times even. Till now, four cars came. But none of them suspected a thing seeing our dresses."

"It is ok then. Stand by. We are coming," the shorter man looked at the driver, "let's go."

The driver nodded and started the car. He slowly crossed the parking lot and getting on the main road, he increased the speed. Michael drives like crazy. If they want to catch up to the Toyota, they'll have to speed up too.

"Be careful. Always keep fifty yards gap between the cars. Don't get too close."

After a few minutes, the blue Toyota of Michael and Debby came into sight. It was standing illuminating the indicator on the town exit to go to the highway, waiting for the traffic light to turn green.
Keeping the distance, the black Chevy also halted.

After a few seconds, the light turned green and Michael brought the car to the highway, looking at the rearview mirror, he saw only one black van. Nothing else.
Getting the clear road, he sped up his Toyota. He wanted to go home early today.
This highway leads up to Cotswold mountain ridge a few miles ahead. In Winstone's mountain valley, Michael and Debby built their first home.

Though people don't like such a backdated place to live in while the city is so near, both of them had a different perspective on life.
None of them liked the cosmopolitan lifestyle and after spending the whole day with machines, nature is something they want to return to.
The only problem was, it took them hours on the way every day. So Michael always tries to cover up the time by speeding up the car.

The road is empty most of the time, so Michael doesn't have to worry about accidents or stuff.

Seeing the indicator in the speedometer exceeding eighty, Debby scolded him a little, "slow down. Why in such a hurry?"

Michael smiled a little mischievously, "Still have so much work, remember?"

"Oh yeah?" Debby smiled sarcastically.

The smile increased on Michael's lips, "of course! Making dinner, cleaning the house, playing with the princess, and making love to you..."

Debby pinched Him hard and rolled eyes, "as if you do all the work!"

Michael caressed the hand that had just been attacked, "no, of course not! You do it too. You are great in everything. Especially..." he grinned provocatively to Debby only to get pinched once again.

"Hey!" Michael smiled, "Don't you know? Never disturb the driver while driving. Don't blame me if any accident happened!"

"Michael?" suddenly Debby smiled.