Eye Candy

Chapter 16

"So you meant to tell me Catherine that four teenagers I'm sure we're having the time of they're life just came up missing on their prom night?" I turn to her and shake my head. She nods at me and turns her head as well.

I sign and tell her "okay, is there any evidence in this case or no?"

"Yea there's a few video's. Some of them were doing drugs". She says admiring my work on the laptop.

"That has nothing to do with it, Catherine" Officer Tom tells her. He yells from across the room and starts walking towards Me and Catherine.

"Yes it does Tom". I tell him, agreeing with Catherine. I look at her and she's nodding her head in agreement. I turn back to him. "Don't you think them doing drugs has a big affect on where they might be?"

Tom looks at me and smiles.

"Them being high could have made them wonder off somewhere you know." I tell him smiling as well and shaking my head.

"Fine" he says throwing both of his arms up. "you've got a point. Now what are we looking at?" He points at my laptop as he walks up beside me to look at the screen as well.

"Okay, this here is the videos that were recorded the night they came up missing." I play the video and it's just a bunch of regular teenagers drinking, laughing and smoking in a limo. They all look so happy. There's two females and one male. A male is the one recording the video. The females are all dressed up in short blue dresses while the guy is dressed up in a clean looking black tuxedo and I assume the one recording is identical. One girl who has blonde hair and really dark freckles stands up and dance, very drunk so she stumbles. The girl beside her is a shade or two darker than her. She has long curly black hair. She stays seated, laughing, while she watches her friend dance. The guy next to her has dark brown hair. I can't really tell any of their eye color because it's too dark in there.

"Shay!" The cameraman yells to the girl with curly black hair.

"You hear that?" Catherine says.

"Yeah, he said shay. Hmm..." I say rubbing my chin, thinking. That name sounds really familiar.

"Hmm what?" Officer Tom asks.

"Shay Thomas!" I tell in excitement. "She goes to my sisters high school."

"Oh really? So that's one Person we don't have to look for."

We all turn back to the laptop screen and I press play again. As we watch and watch we notice the blonde haired chick is kind of weird. She doesn't talk much and she talks to herself quite a bit.

"What's up with her?" I ask out of nowhere.

"What?" Officer Tom asks.

"This girl" I point at the screen where she's at.

"What's wrong with her?" He asks.

"She's been talking to herself pretty much the whole time. What do you think that's about?" I look over to him and wait for an answer. My confidence in finding one was too high because he just shrugs. Again, we continue to watch the video.

"Are you okay Kimberly Barkley?" The cameraman asks. Boom! Kimberly Barkley. "Kyle look at this shit" he says.

"There we go" I tell Officer Tom and Catherine. "We now have all of their names and that's all we need".

"No wait!" Catherine shouts. "what about the camera man?" She asks pointing at the screen, concerned.

"Where did you get these videos?" I ask, ignoring her question.

"They were posted online by the cameraman, but was left untitled and no name". she replies.

"Okay, so take me to the site where they were posted." I tell her, moving aside for her to do so.

"Here". she tells me, giving back my place.

"Okay, so if these were posted anonymous I can always track the cell phone. See here" I click on the cell phone carrier and that leads me to the number.

"See! Now that we have the number we can track the number and get the location." I turn to look at Officer Tom and see him staring off at my thighs.

"Tom!" I yell.

"What? Huh?" He says almost stuttering.

"Did you get that Mr.Wonder?" I ask, smiling.

"Yeah, I heard everything Lindybug" I shrink my face and nod.

"So track this number and get me the location, pronto". He turns to Sargent Catherine as if she's supposed to say something.

"Go" she whispers. He immediately goes off to work.

"You think we'll find everything we need?" Catherine asks me.

"Of course" I tell her, smiling running her shoulder. "I kind of need to speak to you while we're alone anyways". I tell her.

"Okay, sure" she says. I pull her aside and lower my voice.

"Why am I not getting paid for this?" I ask her, quietly then look over to see if Tom is coming back. He isn't. Catherine turns her head sideways, disappointed.

"I told you" she whispers back. "You help us, we help you find your sister. Favor for a favor" she says, with a slight attitude then walks away. I'm a little mad, but she has a huge point. Fine.

"Ladies!" Officer Tom yells making his way back.

"I called him". he tells us.

"What? Why?" I ask him, very concerned. "That's very dangerous."
I explain.

"Lindy, I called to see if anyone would answer. and he did. His name is Ryan Smith. I asked him to come in for something very important"

"Did he agree?" I ask him.

"Yes. He will be in at 4:00 pm tomorrow".

"Well my wo..." I got interrupted by a big alarm on Sargent Catherine's phone. Her and Tom run over to see what it was. Catherine takes a glance at the computer then looks up at me.

"What's wrong?" I ask her, confused.

"Kimberly Barkley was found in a river dead yesterday night". I look at her silent without saying a word.

"Wow." Officer Tom says.

"So we now have to tell Ryan kid that his friend is dead?"

"Yea." Catherine says.

"Well, I guess I'll see you two tomorrow. Okay?"

"Alright kid, tomorrow" Tom says.

I wave them goodbye. Ugh, what a day.