Criminals and Agents

CHAPTER NO.7 (Anna)

I was so shocked to see the blood. After a minute I realised that the door of the bakery was open. I hurriedly opened it and went inside. The whole place was so silent. No one was there except for me.

There was a trail of blood going upstairs. I followed that trail and found something on the floor. I took out my phone from the bag and opened the light.

I was so shocked so see a dead body lying there on the floor. I was so scared. I just stood there like a statue. I couldn't move myself. My heart was pounding so fast. I could hear my heartbeat. It was so fast.

I looked at the face of the dead body and came to know that it was a servant who was working in the bakery almost for ten years. He was such a nice person. He was so kind and polite to everyone. I hurriedly took out my phone from my pocket and called the police and the ambulance. They reached here in five minutes. The police started examining the body. The police officer came to me and asked, "Did you do this?"

I replied, "No of course not. I was the one who called you. I just came back from tuition to buy a pastry and saw blood on the door. I opened the door and saw a trail of blood and when I followed it, I found this dead body and at that time I quickly called you people. I didn't do anything. Nor have I watched what was happening here or who did this."

"Okay. You can go now. We will do the postmortem of the body."

I went back to my house and went to my room. My mind was not working properly after I saw that. It was so scary. I never saw anything like that. I sat in the corner of the wall with my legs touching my head and tears started falling from my eyes. I became so scared that's why I started crying.

'Who killed him? How can anyone do something like that? Why are people becoming cruel?'

Five minutes later my phone started ringing. I took out my phone and saw Dylan calling me. I took a tissue and cleaned up my eyes and nose. Then I received the call and he said, "Hi! What were you doing?"

I replied, "Nothing much. Just came back from tuition."

He asked, "Did something happened? Cause I feel like you were crying."

"What? No, nothing happened."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes I am sure."

"Okay then. But I still don't believe you cause from hearing your voice it really feels like you were crying. Anyways, I called because I want to talk to you and it's important."

"So?"

"So I want you to come to 'The Ledbury' and right now."

"Wow! What's so urgent that I have to come now."

"Yeah it is important. Please!"

"Okay okay. I am coming."

"Good. See you there then. Bye bye."

And he finished the call. I stood up from that place and washed my face and changed my clothes. I wore a yellow coloured blouse with black skirt till my knees and black sneakers. I brushed my hair and left them open. I did light make-up because dark make-up didn't looked good on me. I took a cute and fluffy yellow bag. And then I was ready to go. I went and sat in my car and went to the restaurant.

When I reached the restaurant, I saw Dylan waiting for me there. I got out from the car and went to him and said, "You were waiting for me."

"Oh! you are here."

"Yes. I am here. Shall we go inside?"

"Oh yes! Why not? Ladies first."

I laughed a little that barely anyone could here and went inside. We sat opposite to eachother. Then a waiter came and asked, "What will you like to eat?"

Dylan looked at me and asked, "What do you think?"

I replied, "I can take anything though but I guess burger with fries and cold drink would be great."

"Okay."

Then he looked at the waiter and said, "Two burger with two plates of fries and two glasses of cold drink."

The waiter said, "Okay sir." Then the waiter went away.

Dylan asked, "So how are your days in the school going?"

I replied, "They are going great. What was the so important thing you wanted to discuss?"

"Yeah about that. Have you ever realised that something wierd is going on here?"

"Yes I have."

"Well my school teacher Professor Johnson is actually a detective just like me. And he has his own team. He wants me to join his team and he said that I shall take someone as my partner too. And I want you to be my partner. So will you be my partner?"

"What?!? Me as your partner?"

"Yes."

"I don't know."

"Come on. I don't have anyone else to ask. Please!"

"I can't say yes. I have to think about it though. We barely know eachother. And what are we going to do after we join this team?"

"We will be finding the person who is behind all these attacks and everything."

"Oh! Well, I also want to tell you something."

"What?"

"I was actually crying at the time you called me. You were right."

"Why were you crying?"

"When I was coming back from the tuition, I went to a bakery and saw a dead body there."

"What?"

"Yes and then I called the police. I was crying because I got scared after seeing that."

"And who exactly was killed?"

"He used to work at the bakery. He was working there for ten years."

"Oh! Who is the owner of that bakery?"

"My aunt is the owner. The one who just came back from France. When the first time they came here, they bought that bakery."

"What? I can assure you that the murder is related to your aunt."

"What? How could you say that? My aunt is an amazing women. And how can she even kill someone."

"I am just guessing. Does she know what happened at her bakery?"

"I don't know. I don't think so. But still she would never do that."

"That murder case is related to your aunt's family because what did they even do when they came to know about the murder?"

"What! My aunt's family is such a great family." I stood up from my chair and said, "I am leaving. I don't want to be your partner and I don't want to join that stupid team. Besides I am a student in a school. Solving these problems is not my job. These things are for the people like you who just go around and blame anyone they want."

I picked up my bag and ran out of the restaurant in anger.