Detective’s Night Adventure
In the evening, Nathan was telling a ghost story to the children at Little Abode for Children shelter. He was trying not to smile. This particular story brought him happiness. It even made his mother happy. He was in love with the story.
He continued, “K and M, two siblings saw a ghost in the library. They were scared. They somehow reached one of the emergency exits of the library building and left. Their exit turned on the library security alarm. They were in the library after its closure and, thus, broke the rules. Hence, they were trying to avoid the police. In the dark of the night, running through Library Park, they simply fall upon Detective D. Detective D was trying to figure out a murder in the park. As K and M told him about the ghost, next night he entered the library by using his police key. Searching all floors Detective D found a bedroll spread on the floor in the attic of the library. No motion sensors were working there. A table lamp was on, by the bedroll, illuminating a stack of books. He started watching the bedroll, book and the lamp stealthily from behind an old mahogany chest of drawers. Suddenly, in the sea of silence, he heard someone breathing on his neck. He was sure that it was not a ghost. Ghosts can’t breathe because they are dead people. When people die, they usually stop breathing.”
At this point, Natalie commented, “Gross.”
Others screamed, “What happened next?”
Nathan continued, “Detective D was swift. As he was turning back, the person behind him kicked on his knees from the back. Adjusting balance to prevent a fall, D turned around completely and received a blow on his nose, by a heavy book. Yet he smiled. For he found someone he was looking for some time. He had seen her photos. He heard a lot of good things about her. Until the blow on the nose he never realized that he fell in love with the missing person. So, he prayed on his knees, ‘Will you marry me?’ The missing person said ‘Yes.’ Then they lived happily ever after.”
Patrick commented, “You’re a terrible storyteller.”
Nathan did not notice Lisa was standing by the door. She came to stay with the children that night. She asked eerily, “Have you found Teressa?”
Nathan was not sure if he blushed. He had uttered a rehearsed answer to this question too many times. Hence, he confidently replied, “Not yet. The investigation is on.”
From Lisa’s countenance he gathered that Lisa was swallowing trails of questions and judgements, like, “Are you in love with the victim in one of your cases?”, “Is that a way to talk about a missing person?”, “This’ gross, man.”
Later in the evening, Dr. Goodman called Nathan and informed, “DNA is a match. The victim was Ms. Susan Crawford of Chicago.”
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