Trust The Traitor

◇24.BRADY'S TRUTH◇

As soon as we reached the parlour Zayn asked for a chocolate scoop and sat on a chair enjoying its reasoning that a crowd of three can make the ice cream lady suspicious.

"Was there someone named Aspen, who visited your shop three days before at night?" I asked being descriptive.

"I am old now, I don't even remember what I had for breakfast in the morning, and you want me to remember a boy from three days back." Said the Lady and proceeded to work.

I glanced at Brady and he shrugged in reply.

"Can we have the footage of that camera?" Asked Brady.

"Who are you to ask for it?" She said coughing a little.

"It's for our project ma'am. Please understand. We want to showcase how much people enjoy the icecreams here. We are having a survey on the best icecreams in this town." I said making up some reason so that the lady gets convinced.

Brady glanced at me as if I was explaining to the lady about the earth being flat.

"Do you think I am stupid? You just came here asking for a boy and now you've got a project? If you want to have ice cream, get that and leave." She said in her cranky voice.

"I thought you said you were forgetful. So I assumed that you must have forgotten about us asking for a boy." I said in an inaudible voice.

I hope Brady doesn't think about me as his dumb friend.

I watched at the board with has every ice cream flavour present on it.
I controlled myself from ordering one and we left the place.

"What do we do now?" Asked Zayn having his third ice cream on the way.

I didn't reply, knowing whatever we were gonna do was going to be vain.

"We need to get that footage from the detective's office." Said Brady and took a left turn towards the detective's office.

"Stop the car," I shouted and immediately he halted.

"Are you gonna ask Lockwood? Or are you gonna steal it? Do you even know why we are doing this?" I asked being fed up with this mess.

"We will ask him first and if he denies we will have to do something illegal." Said Brady keeping his eye contact which meant he was being serious.

But I felt stupid of him doing this.

"Why are we doing this Brady? Mr Lockwood will solve the case okay? We don't need to roam here and there to find out. We will soon know what happened that night." I said out of frustration.

We must trust the concerned authorities even if they are working slow. We have no right to interfere in their work.

"Lockwood is just focusing on our statements Rose! He hasn't yet collected all the evidence. And Statements are not always true. This way he is never gonna find who created this mess." Said Brady calmly explaining the situation to me.

Meanwhile, Zayn just kept looking at our faces during the conversation.

"Honestly Brady everything will work well if you cooperate with the cops," I said rolling my eyes.

"What do you mean?" Asked Brady with a stone face.

"What I mean is, tell him the truth, tell us the truth why did you take me outside that night? What were you gonna tell me?" I asked my voice raising a bit.

Zayn was shocked by my confidence.

Brady's eyes saddened.

"This is not the time for that Rose. And that is not related to anything at all. Right now, I need to find out who did this." He said and started the engine but didn't accelerate the car. So we were not moving.