Chapter 2 The First day
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It’s my first day and call me crazy for expecting this but I thought I will have a cool case by now, but nothing, I am sitting on my chair and warming it. All I am doing is paperwork. I hate paper work.
I wish dad was here, he would be my sergeant and assign me some awesome case and make my day memorable. I keep looking at the clock, starring at it, wondering when will time pass and I would go home. It’s seven now, the end of my first day without any good case, without doing any work.
But that’s okay, I mean, what if first day was not so great, I will get better case, first day is not all that matters. I walk outside the department to take a subway, as I walk past the people and zooming cars, I wonder, what would have happened if dad would have been alive, he would have given me an amazing case to work on and if that would not have been possible then he would have consoled me, motivated me, he would have taken mom and me for dinner in Rebecca, his car. Oh! How he adored that car, I laughs when I remember what excuses he made up and didn’t let me or anyone drive his car.
“Dad, please can I drive Rebecca just once”, I said
“No honey, you cannot, it’s absolutely off limits, drive the other car not Rebecca.”
“Why dad? what is so special?”, I argue.
“Do you know Rebecca was a brand-new model and no body has sat on her even once, when I bought her, she made and delivered in my house, no body had even had a test drive of her before and I found her, she became my wife. Now would you like it if I had affairs with other women?”, dad says while smirking.
“Absolutely not dad how could you say that?”
“Exactlyyy..letting someone else drive Rebecca, man or women, is like giving your wife to someone else, which I can’t do.”, he replies.
“But dad, if that is the case then and she is your wife, I would be her step daughter, won’t I?”
“Yes, you would and that is why you will sit on the back seat where the daughters and sons sit and at most beside me and never on the driving seat”
“ughh….fine nobody can ever sit on Rebecca, forget it.”
I snicker as I remember those days, then suddenly I stop and tears fill my eyes, as I remember that day,
“You know Luna who will get the car after I die?”, dad says suddenly
“I know that dad. No one. She will probably be melted and turned into a steel pot in which we will keep your ashes.”
“Now, that seems like a very nice idea, but No. Only a small part of Rebecca will be used and rest would be wasted.”
“God!! DAD, you are weird”
“After I die, there is a shop in the fifth alley it modifies the exterior of the cars, so when you get a man whom you love a lot, get the car modified and give it to him and don’t let anyone drive the car other than him. You asked me why I don’t let anyone drive that car, well it’s because it’s mine, it’s my love and I am loyal to her, I fell for her and your mother so hard, that I can never imagine being with someone else, so the man who will be loyal to the car, will always be loyal to you”
“Aw dad that is so sweet. But wouldn’t it be like giving your wife to your daughter’s husband it’s disgusting”
“Well, No, the day she will get modified, I would assume she died and gave birth to a new baby, who will have inner features like her mother and external feature of a new lady, like you have, your nature is so much like your mother’s but at the same time you are a whole new and different woman and so will be Rebecca’s daughter”
“Wow dad it’s amazing how you put so much thought on it”
My mom enter the rooms and says,
“Well, I think the one sitting on Rebecca next will be Harry then?”
“Harry? Who? Mom? Who is Harry? Why are you looking at dad, Dad why you are looking at Mom? Mom what are you hiding?”, I ask.
“Nothing dear, Mom is joking, he was the youngest guy I worked with probably 3-4 years older that you, but he was so far the best detective I had worked with”
“Yeah, and you know he saw your photo on your dad’s wallet and was mesmerized.”
“Oh common, why are you lying honey?”
“I am not lying, he was.” mom says while batting her eyelashes.
“But mom how come you have met him and not me?”
“You went for your Summer Internship”
“Was he handsome?”, I ask to tease my father.
“No less than a model”
“Shut up Luna, No boys around my baby”, dad says angrily to which I snicker.
“Dad I am not a baby”
“Yes, you are”
Car honks and I am pulled out of my thoughts. I start walking again, when car honks again,
I turn around and see,
“Hey Luna”
“Hey Albert”
“You were just standing on the sidewalk for the past ten minutes, are you okay?”
“Yeah, yeah I am fine just…thoughts”
I smile weakly.
“Hop on I will drop you home”
“Uh no thank you I will take a subway”
“But”
“I will take the subway, thank you”
“Fine then let me drop you near the subway”
“Okay, thank you”
I sit inside his car and I know what I am going to hear next, I heard about your father I am so sorry , how are you doing, how is your mom, call me if you need anything
“Hey, I heard about your father I am sorry”
“Yeah, well what’s written is written can’t control anyone’s death”
“Yeahhh, how are you doing, how is your mom doing”
“We are fine, still coping and processing”
“Call me anytime, if you need anything”
“Yeah, no we are doing just fine. The subway is here”
“Yeah, okay”
I get out, close the door,
“Thank you for the lift”
“Pleasure is all mine”
I walk inside the subway station, sit on a bench and wait for my train. I start looking in my phone when I hear a muffled help, it’s like someone was going to yell but somebody covered their mouth. I walk towards the washroom area, I try to hear the noises and I hear some coming from the male toilets, I decide to barge in when a hand stops me,
“Ma’am excuse me that’s a male washroom”
I turn around and see a man,
“yes, I know but I am police, I show him my badge and heard some cry for help”
I barge inside and see those three teenagers, with drugs and they have a gun pointed at another man’s head who is crying.
“Leave the man, alone”
“Then let us escape”
“Okay, okay just leave the man”
I slowly back away as then come out of the dingy bathroom and then they leave the man and while pointing the gun still at him for a distance and run, the first though comes shoot them in the legs but they are teenagers.
I run and start chasing them and suddenly I turn to my side and see that man outside the bathroom is running with me..
“Hey Mr.its.a.male.washroom, why are you running?”
“Well, I am helping you catch them, if they split”
“I didn’t ask for your help”
“Weird way of saying thank you”, he retorts.
“Well, I will thank you, if you actually help me in anything, just running beside me won’t get you a thank u”
after thinking for a while he says,
“fair point”
“You are a good runner”, I compliment.
“Yeahh”
I run faster and grab a tin can out of a dustbin and throw at one man’s leg he falls and I catch up to him, then suddenly I see the male toilet man beside me is running faster than ever and without doing anything he starts to catch to the other two teenagers, when they see him approaching they start to split.
I pick up the tin can and a mobile phone which is obviously of the druggie that I caught just now and throw them to both their heads, they slow down a little and the toilet man catches up to him.
The toilet man comes to me smirking,
“So, how about a thank you now, huh?”
“Well, technically I helped you by slowing them down, so don’t I deserve a thank you too”
“Okay, fine thank you for slowing them down, so that I could hear a thank you from you”
“You are welcome toilet man”
I walk ahead and arrest them,
“Hey, where is my thank you”
I turn to look back at him,
“Uhh, didn’t feel like it really”
“Hey, now that’s cheating”
“Yeah? I don’t think so”
“Okay, whatever, I don’t need your ‘thank you’ anyway, just so you know my name is Hiram and not toilet man”, he yells
I choke on my laugh and turn around,
“As in Hiram Lodge, the killer business man of Riverdale, as in Veronica’s father?”
“I would prefer toilet man”, he yells and I laugh as I take the boys to the police station
“It’s Hiram Harrison, btw”, I show him a thumbs up as I walk with the three-teenager cuffed and take them to the station, in the police car.
When I reach back home, I look up at the sky,
“Thanks Dad, you gave me a case”
I smile and tears flow through my eyes.
As I walk inside the house, I hear my mom coughing, I rush inside the house,
“Mom, are you okay? Mom”
She walks out of the bathroom, with a towel,
“Yeah, I am fine, fine”, she says while waving her hand.
“Okay, do you need some water?”, I ask
“No, dear I am fine”
I walk inside the bathroom to wash my face, and when I walk outside, I see my mom lying on the ground and beside her is a towel and it’s covered in blood.
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