Murderer in me

Part 1

Its Friday, a day to go out with friends and forget about everything and have fun, but that's not my case. As I sit in front of the computer at the 23rd hour of the day, watching anime on my bed with Dots beside me. At exactly three hours later, Dots starts to wag his tail and rushes out of my room. I chase after him making sure he doesn't bark so none of my roommates woke up after a long night of drinking. I go down the stairs quickly and quietly and at the end of them I see Dots and Skittles sitting in front of the door wagging their tails, sweeping the floor. Whiskers is coming down the stairs with me. As I get closer to the door, there's a dark shadow outside. I grab the bat that belongs to one of my roommates, she who plays baseball; and continue my way to stand right in front of the door. "What is this person doing here at these hours of the morning?" I thought to myself as I struggled to grab the doorknob and open the door. Both Dot and Skittles started jumping and barking. In a hurry, I end up opening the door abruptly as I try to shut the dogs; the silhouette of the person became clearer on the floor. I quickly take the dogs and put them each in their belonging room, quietly closing the door hoping that they would stay quiet. I run back downstairs grabbing the bat and ready to smack the guy; when I see him sitting in front of the doorstep petting Whiskers, who was sitting on his lap.

"You seemed busy with the dogs, so I stayed out here. Hope it didn't bother you" he said as he was standing back up with Whiskers in one arm. His voice was soothing, low and deep; his accent was external, the type you hear in England commoners. "Mind if I come in now?" he asks after noticing how I was just staring at him. I rush my thoughts to the back of my head and step aside letting him in. "You must be the new roommate then; you'll be sharing rooms with me. Please be quiet since the others are sleeping. Why are you here at this hour though?" I blurted it all out at once as he came inside with a suitcase on his free hand and a bag over his shoulder. As he came inside, I looked at the outside to see all the lights on the street off, except the one in front of out house. It was pointing directly to the street, where a duffle bag was just laying there. I look at the guy who just came inside and ask, my voice shaking a little "Is that yours?". He looked at me from the corner of his eyes and with a little more of a serious tone he said "No". Out of nowhere, rain starts to pour down, I shake a little and look back outside where the duffle bag get was now getting wet. Something was coming out of it, looked like water; red water. The new roommate covered my eyes and closed the door; I couldn't see anything, but I heard and felt everything. My heart was beating out of my chest and my ears were all red, his breath was a melody right next to my ear and his words were a song "Where's the bathroom?".

I'm back at my bed on my side of the room. The house really is full now; four bedrooms, all except the master have two beds, the master has four. All occupied. This is good after all. What's not good, its him. I look over at the big dude sleeping on the bed on the other side of the room. Earlier at the door I was able to caught a glimpse of his clothes, they were dirty and stained. I didn't ask any questions but it did make me more cautious of him. I forgot about everything and hid under my blanket with Dots then tried to close my eyes to get at least a little bit of rest since it was already the crack of dawn, but I felt shivers down my spine knowing that a possible murderer is rooming with me and ended up not sleeping anything. I popped my head out of the blanket and looked over at the clock, "Five in the morning already? I'll be late for work again, I also have to report this to my boss"; and with the thoughts of work, I doze off.

I woke up disturbed by the sound of the vacuum. I peek my head out of the sheets and look at Pua who is vacuuming my room. She looks at me and smiles "You sure gave the new housemate a warm welcome huh Ryan?". I try sitting on the edge of the bed but I feel something heavy holding me around my waist. I take the top and pull it down completely, revealing that the guy was holding me in his sleep. I let out a scream as I fell off the bed making him wake up as well. Pua looks at him then looks at me and leaves the room, leaving the vacuum behind. I stand quickly and look at him then go out running to the bathroom, panting, feeling my heart beat out of my chest.
Joah peeks his head out of the shower curtain "dude- get out". I ignore him completely and sigh, I prepare my toothbrush and start washing my teeth. "Aren't you even the slightest bit surprised that he's up at this hour?" I hear someone else's voice, a girl. I open the curtain completely to find Joah with Nathan and Monique inside. I close the curtain and finish washing my teeth "What time is it that you sound so surprised?" I wash my face with water to wake up from what I was hoping was a dream. "Nine Thirty, Dolly is making pancakes for breakfast. Don't forget to go to work today", that was Nathan talking, he's always been a worrywart, especially towards me and Sai since we're the youngest. I nod and leave the bathroom crossing my fingers that it was all a dream. As I go back to my room, he is not there and his stuff were already organized. A relieved sigh leaves my chest as I go into the clean and organized room and towards my desk. I sit on my chair and open my computer, the first thing I see is a message from my boss. "Need you in the office for reunion at noon. Don't miss it", I read in my head. I sigh again, closing the computer and going towards the closet. His clothes were already organized on his side of the closet, he doesn't have much color clothes so it sort of clashes into my clothes, although you can see the difference by size. I get suited up and go back into the bathroom, its not the first time that my habit of not knocking has gotten me into trouble. I look at the three of them and close the door as soon as I yell "Next time lock it!" and walk down the stairs and into the kitchen "Good morning Dolly" I kiss her cheek and head to the fridge. "Morning Sunray. Heard you slept snuggled up in Mathews arms" I close the fridge once I found what I was looking for and look at her "Who's Mathew?"

The big, muscular guy that was at the door at two in the morning, then in his bed at four and suddenly out of the room by nine thirty, is sitting right in front of me shirtless, eating Dolly's pancakes. "Good Morning Ryan" he says lifting his cup of coffee, I almost choke as I look at him up and down, he sure was handsome looking and his tattoos just made him look hot. Dolly pated my back and gave me a bowl "Here's breakfast. I see you were called to the office", I look at Dolly grabbing the bowl and nodding. Rui comes back from the backyard with the animal's food plate and puts them in the dishwasher. "Let me do your hair quickly then" Rui sits me down then stands behind and starts to braid it. For work my hair has to be pushed back, but its so thin that gel doesn't really work. Once she finishes, I say goodbye and rush to work.

The reunion starts with my boss talking how the past culprit was caught red handed by the surveillance camera of the bank he tried to rob last night. So, one of the other agents took care of him. "Agent Blue" the boss calls my secret name; given by my coworkers for my hair "this is your new suspect. He is known for mass murder, bribery and illegal sells. The man is quick on his feet and very tentative to everything. I suggest you keep a really low profile with him. We don't want him in jail, we want him dead" the boss finishes. We lock eyes and I nod as he hands me the folder with the required information of my case. I open my eyes in disbelief as I see a picture of the suspect, then the name. I raise my hand "Sir, may I have permission to ask a question?" the boss looks at me "permission granted". "It says here he's from England, why would we need to investigate him here?" I look up from the papers to my boss as he turns and puts his hands behind him "He's hiding. That's why we need to catch him". I nod and look back the paper to read Mathew Burly right besides the picture of my new roommate.