Mystery Lovers’ Forum
It had been a fortnight since the night of the gala. Captain Brown has already announced, “We’ve found Ms. Teressa LeRoy, safe and healthy. She’ll be in the public eye as soon as she feels comfortable.”
Since the announcement, this was the first mystery lovers’ meetup of the Simmons Public Library, online, like all fora of the library after outbreak of COVID-19 and subsequent lockdown. The librarian Mrs. Atkins declared, “Tonight we’ll hear from a real detective and his person of interest.”
Young and old, men and women cried to cheer Teressa as she appeared on their respective screens along with Nathan. After the audience became silent, Nathan told, “Let’s hear from the horse’s mouth.”
Teressa protested, “Terrible use of adage. Do I look like a horse?”
After laughter and responses died down, she began, “At the gala Susan realized that some of Meatloaf members were keeping an eye on her. I caught her in the lady’s room. Susan was perspiring heavily, nervous. To save Susan’s life, I exchanged my dress with Susan at the gala end. Yet the gang nabbed Susan when she was approaching the roadside parking to her car through the dimly lit paths of Library Park, towards sixtieth street across seventh avenue. I'm following her from a distance. Seeing Susan’s fate, I decided not to go home that night and the following nights. Because I heard the gang members mumbling, ‘Now we have to hush up the lady who gave the teacher the dress.’ I had my bedroll at my library locker, for the nights I sleep at Little Abode for Children shelter. I borrowed a lamp from the library store and some books. Started living in the attic of the library.”
Keith and Melissa reacted, “We saw you!”
Teressa apologized, “Yes. You did. I’m sorry that I had to turn off the motion sensors that night. To keep the library dark … I needed to hide.”
Natalie asked, “Did you kick Detective Adams’? Did you hit him with some encyclopedia?”
Teressa blushed, then frowned, and replied, “Yah. I did. I thought that he was a gangster and would kill me. Why wouldn’t I? He’s unabashed by my attacks and he threw me to the bedroll and kept asking, ‘Who are you? Why are you hiding here?’ till I was turned face up and he recognized me. He apologized and showed his badge, bringing me to his home hiding in his car’s trunk.”
Someone asked, “Are you guys living happily ever after?”
Both Teressa and Nathan blushed. Then their eyes locked to each other. They forgot about their audience. They graduated to a long kiss.
Some exclaimed, “PDA. Ewe.”
Some adored, “Awe!”
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