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“’This place is a small public
place that if something happens, at least one person would know’? Then it’s
obvious.”
“Yeah. Somebody is probably
lying.”
They were walking out of the
neatly done garden, and Jude nodded. It is very rare that two people from same
household get picked by a killer outside. Even in two days. If it’s like that,
the radar gets close to neighbors, relatives, or family members. But if all of
those people say, ‘I don’t know,’ a person with dark hearted with gentle mask
exists.
“First let’s look around house
to house. There must be a place where it’s unnatural.”
“Ah, it’s so hot…… Huh?”
Jude sighed with messing up
his not-so-short hair. He saw two children coming into the garden and stopped
walking. A girl with a brown braid hair and a little bigger boy holding her
hand. They were fidgeting walking toward Jude and Tim, and the boy hesitantly
opened his mouth.
“Um, who are you guys?”
“We are police. Are you guys
kids from this house?”
Tim asked with gentle smile
and bent his knee to match their view point, and the girl slowly nodded her
head. He looked about 11 years old, and the girl looked around three, four
years younger.
“I’m Luke, and she is my
sister Ann. Um, you guys came because of my grandpa and Jane, right? Did you
find them?”
“No, sorry. We just came
because of your mom’s report. We were about to start our investigation. Did
anything strange happened on the day when your grandpa and Jane disappeared?
Like something was different than usual or they went somewhere and didn’t come
back.”
The boy frowned and thought
hardly about it and shook his head.
“No. Sorry. I don’t know. I
went to school in the morning. And the end time is different from Jane’s. I don’t
know well.”
“…….Okay, I got it.”
“Jane and grandpa went to
heaven.”
Suddenly there was a child’s
inarticulate words, and everyone’s attention got on to the small girl. The girl
with the brown braided hair was holding tightly on her brother’s hand and
opened her mouth again at everyone’s surprised face and said it very clearly.
“Jane and grandpa went to a
good place. If the time has passed this much, then they already went to heaven.
That’s what the next door man told me. He told me they went to a good place.”
“Ann, stop it.”
Luke stopped her with shaking
his hand holding her hand, and Ann looked at Luke like it’s unfair. Her small
lips plumped.
“I’m serious! That’s why everyone
at Mrs. Sarkozy…..”
“I told you to stop it, Ann! I’m
gonna tell mom!”
The boy screamed, and Ann’s
cheek moved and blushed. Her brown eyes soon filled with tears. Tim quickly
tapped the girl’s head and lulled the girl saying, “Now now. It’s a good girl
if you don’t cry,” and said, “Take care of your mother,” to Luke. But Jude
cunningly was standing distant from them.
While his kind partner was
talking to the kids, he was looking at that scene and just shook his hand at
them and came out from Rice’s garden earlier than Tim. Behind him, Tim ran to
him saying, “Jude, hey, you bastard!” and slapped his back.
***
The neighbors that Tim and
Jude met after they got separated from Rice siblings, just like Marsha told
them, were very normal and kind people. Old people living quietly and peaceful
life. They really looked sad at what happened to Rice family, but no one
remembered what happened to them on that day.
“Those poor people. They never
did anything bad. Marsha took care of every single of family member, and they
all had good terms. Tsk tsk, pity them. Their heart must be burning right now.”
A next door widow, Mrs.
Rochester, did a sign of the cross and said, “You guys are working hard. It’s
really nothing but take these” and gave them cookies that she just baked. She
forced the cookies on them. They took that bag of cookies and went to Mr.
Melvin’s house. When they told him the story that children told them, he
panicked a little and shook his two hands.
“I admit that I took out words
little irresponsibly, but that’s to calm the little child down. And, and isn’t
it true that a missing person to come back home safely is rare?”
They told him still it was
very insensitive of him to take that out to a child and went to the next door
Mrs. Sarkozy’s house. Mrs. Sarkozy saw the cookie bag that Jude was holding and
smiled saying, “Oh my, it must be a work of Mrs. Rochester. She’s really good”
and gave them cup of tea.
“It wasn’t like they never had
an issue since they are such a big family, but still they were a happy family.
I don’t know what happened, but I hope they get over it well.”
They said bye to her who was
praying to the cross, and the two detective stopped their investigation for a
short time. It was after they heard the stories from all the people who are
related to Rice family. They sat in the car, and Jude stretched with little bit
bored face. A sunlight coming inside through the window was hot.
“They are all perfect.”
“…..Yeah. If it’s unnatural,
it’s unnatural, but if you look through a pair of color glasses, it doesn’t
have anything that looks weird….. But what’s wrong today? You didn’t even touch
the cookies.”
“Ahh. I ate something before
coming here without telling you.”
“……You bastard. Then I’m gonna
eat these by myself.”
“Sure. I will let you with my
kind heart, Mr. Timothy Maxwell.”
Tim laughed at him waving his
hand and hold one cookie. He put the cookie in his mouth and start chewing on
it, but his expression changed to weird. Jude looked at him strangely and asked
him.
“Why? Is it weird?”
“No…. um, it’s too sweet. It’s
good, but I’ll get sick of it soon. Should I give it to the station later?”
“It’s you who doesn’t like
sweet. Well, give it to them. I’ll kindly tell them why you are giving it to
them.”
“Damn you….. Let’s start get
going to the station and search their relatives and background of the
neighbors. And let’s contact that Liz person who had an argument with them. I
should eat something after we get there.”
He closed the cookie bag and
put it on the back seat and turned on the engine.
-About 10 minutes while Jude
was rhythmically shaking his head to an old pop, the car started to shake. It
wasn’t like the car went over some big rock on the road; it was like the driver
couldn’t hold the handle well. But there isn’t any obstacle on this road, why? –Jude
questioned and turned his head, and Jude ended up in shock.
“Tim? Tim! What’s wrong?”
The brown hair detective’s
face was full of sweat. A frowning face and pale lips, he looked very painful,
and Jude asked why, and he bit his lips.
“…….I don’t know….. My stomach….
It feels, like, throwing………”
“Your stomach hurts? Why so
suddenly…… Urgh! Tim, Tim, Tiiiiiiiiiim!”
Jude felt he had to give a bag
for him to throw up because Tim was posing to throw up. When he hastily was
looking for a bag, Tim let go of the handle and fainted. The car started to
shake dangerously and headed to the pavement, and Jude screamed his partner’s
name and barely was able to step on the brake.
Screech! With a nerve racking
sound, the car stopped with a small smoke. Right after the car stopped, Jude
urgently called Tim and checked his complexion. His shirt was drenched in
sweat, and his face was pale. The breathing sound changed to fast and light.
And the arm and leg that he was grabbing felt stiff, and that reminded him of
rigor mortis.
“Tim! What’s wrong suddenly,
Tim! Wake up!”
He didn’t have any response even
though he slapped his cheeks few times. He shook his body few times and soon
moved Tim to the back seat and sat on the driver’s seat. Where was the closest
emergency room? Usually Tim was the one who drove, so Jude didn’t even have to
look at the navigation. He searched on the navigation and pressed on the gas little
bit stronger than how Tim usual does.
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