The Mayor's Mansion

" He’s lying. " I deduced from my memory. In case you don’t know, it’s photographic. " Anyway I got some evidence but I don’t think it’s sufficient. "
" So, I came here just to hear this? " Haley asked impatiently.

" It’s important, its regarding Kasie’s death. " I reasoned. Haley gasped. She grabbed my shirt.
" Kasie who? " She hissed. Then, she got a worried look. " Kasie C-L-A-S-S. " I spelt it out to her so I had more time to live in case she was intending to kill me. She let go of my shirt. I almost fell.

" That’s not true. You blinked. " She shook her head.

" I had to blink, to clear the dust in my eyes. " I flickered my eyelids in her face. " You are Haley Aces, am I lying now? "
I pulled out a newspaper from Haley’s bike basket. She had a part-time job delivering them. I waved the front page in front of her. She snatched it. " Mayor’s Daughter Murdered. Pg 14. " I noted her. She vigorously push the pages, and her eyes scanned through the article.

She covered her face as she started weeping. I don’t get why they cover their faces when they cry when everyone know what’s happening. Besides, our neighbourhood is practically isolated. She’s nuts. I patted her on the back, that’s how she handles me when I rolled into a ball. She wailed. I should have known. Kasie was Haley’s best friend and they had been for 6 years. " She would know it sooner or later anyway. " I consoled myself.
She hugged me and continued to weep. Seriously, she’s staining my shirt. I looked at my watch; it was still quite early. I couldn’t just push her away so I just stayed still. After about half an hour later, my shirt completely drenched, Haley stopped crying and decided to bring the murderer to justice. And so we went to our nearby burger restaurant – BURGER BITES.
I pulled out the lettuce and sliced the bread into pieces. Then, I wrapped the sliced bun with the lettuce and gobbled it down. Normally, Haley would follow me although she’s not hyper, just a bit weird, but today she just sat there staring at her burger like a zombie. Then, I chomped down the meat and slurped down my coke. She was still in the same position. I burped in her face. She grabbed me by the shirt again and let me go. She sighed. Heavily. " I don’t know, but… but I had been with Kasie for 6 years. 6 years! I don’t know how to cope with this sudden catastrophe, Leo, I don’t. " She burst out. Tears trickled down her cheeks. I so do not want the 30 minutes thing again. I pulled her out of the chair, ran up the hill and down. Haley pushed my hands off hers. " What on earth are you think you are doing? " She panted heavily.
" Well, at least you’re not crying now. " I let out a thin whistle of air. " Now, we need to focus on finding the murderer, Kasie would rather we do that. " I looked up in the sky, sending an alien signal that says ‘ Right? ’ Haley smiled faintly.
" Let’s go. " She demanded and dragged me to the Mayor’s Mansion.
" Can we go and take a look at Kasie’ s room? " I asked and pretended to be remorseful.
" Sure. " Mrs Class managed to choke up. I realised that the Mayor was not in the living room with her, unlike last time when they both used to keep a lookout for Kasie. Probably sorting out financial problems, I deduced from what I read from the newspaper a few days ago – ‘ Sales Going Down Tremendously After A Drought That Hit UK’
I took a look at the room. It was my first time here as it isn’t appropriate for me to hang out with them, so I’m pretty sure this was my last time here. The room was huge, with a unique design, and probably cost a bomb. Haley was in a daze.
" I remembered the time when we first met, me and Kasie became instant friends but the mayor wouldn’t let her stay over at mine, so I had to at hers. This place – I had been seeing for 6 years, I know every nook and cranny here. I can even walk comfortably blindfolded. We really had a lot of fun. " Haley recounted depressingly as she strolled the room. I took out a notebook, in case I may forget anyway, so as Kasie’s best friend, Haley might give me some clues.
" I remembered the time when we kept best friend diaries and stuffs, we even had our very own memories safe box. It only opens if it scans either Kasie’s or mine thumbprint. Pretty high tech huh? " She chuckled as she continued. " So … do you have any other clues? " I asked, not wanting to miss out any special points.
Haley thought for awhile. Her eyes widened. " Yeah! I remembered when I was walking home from Kasie’s late at night, I saw a person in black climbing near the window. At first I thought its just a regular thief, and would be caught by security later on, I really didn’t expect this. It’s all my fault! " she realised and started feeling guilty. There’s really something wrong with that woman. " Any description of the person in black? " I interviewed Haley. " Well, I am quite sure he had lost one glove. It was white so it was pretty obvious. " she reported. That was an important clue. I can’t believe she only remembered it now! Horrible.
It was getting pretty late, so we headed home after that. It was a busy day, but I still cracked my brains when I went home. I just had to solve this. I don’t know why though. I lay like a starfish on my comforter. It always helped me think better.
Okay, the first hope was to find the missing glove of the culprit which I don’t expect to - as being a scheming murderer { Let’s just name this guy SM}, SM would not leave a glove in the room for us to find , to check for fingerprints and identify him. And even if the security are coming, taking an extra gloves would only take a few seconds, which does not lets SM get caught. So the only reason SM did not take the gloves because he couldn’t as Kasie had hid it before she passed away. But if we find the gloves easily, it might not be SM’s as SM wanted to frame someone. Moreover, SM could had deliberately let Haley spot SM and be a witness about the missing glove so as to, like I had said, frame someone else.
The point is, we need to find the gloves first and figure the rest out later.
The door slammed open. It was grandma. Does anyone in this family respect privacy? " Watcha thinkin’, about how I die? " She poked me with her walking stick. I knew she was joking.
" No. I was thinking about Kasie’s death. "
" You mean the gal you always find? I guess the good die young and I’m yearning to be good. "
" No. That’s Haley, and you don’t expect her to be dead for a 50 more years. She’s healthier than rabbits. Kasie’s her best friend. "
" Oh, you mean the Mayor’s daughter, Kasie? Sad for the Mayor – first, he ran into financial problems and now, his daughters dead. But I bet your dad wouldn’t mind at all if he was the Mayor. So until you get that girl to be your permanent friend, I’m watching you. " She coughed ferociously, then walked out of my bedroom. She always wanted Haley to become my ‘ permanent friend and her explanation was " If I had a few friends in life, I would have done things right, like bringing your dad up. Now look at him – he’s NOT right. "
I did what I liked to do this morning again – flopping onto the blanket from the bed but this time, Dad didn’t came in, slamming the door again. It was pretty weird, because he was always super cranky in the morning, thanks to Mr Forn’s beast which always wakes him up before the alarm rang and not only that, he had work later on in the afternoon which makes him feel really frustrated because of his bossy boss. I went downstairs, he was actually whistling. Grandma and me were pretty freaked out, and did not say anything until he was off to work.
" Wow. Did he strike lottery? "
" I don’t think so. Maybe it’s because Mr Forn’s dog died. " I suggested, recalling yesterday’s happening.
" So, must someone or something must die before he’s glad? Imagine him after my death! "
" Stop it grandma. You’re not going to die. So stop fooling me. "
Grandma did a shrug and hobbled to her bedroom. Me too. Just then, the phone shrilled. I whipped it up. " Hello. Leo Crimson here. " Like a person at the counter. It was Haley and she wanted me to carry on the investigation. I hesitated. Of course I wanted to, but… " I swear I won’t cry. " That convinced me.
We went to the mansion again, we really needed to find the glove. Sarge was there too. I told Sarge about the glove. He instructed his team to be on a lookout for it. Haley dreamily went to her and Kasie’s secret safe. She unlocked the safe and her eyes opened as wide as my mouth. " The glove… it’s here! " She yelled. Sarge went to put it in a plastic bag. He kind of looked casual, like he had expected this to happen. " I’ll check it for fingerprints and then we can determine who the murderer is. Okay team, let’s wrap this up. " He decided. I looked at Sarge. He really looked like the Mayor when I came to think of it. They might be clones actually. Maybe twin aliens who came to conquer the world. Maybe I can be the alien translater and not be disintergrated by their sizzling guns and ..." Let’s go, Leo. " Haley shook me. I snapped out of it and nodded.

I have a feeling that this case wasn’t as easy to solve as it seems.

OK. I think story is pretty short like about, 5 chapters only. Still working on the next chapter though. I bet you people already guessed the murderer but AHA, its not. I know it. But I think in next chapter pretty obvious. So there you go. Don't stop visiting my friendly, nice and super AWESOME blog! So long, people.

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