Vampire Sister

Chapter 21

"Kyra! Kyra! Wake up!! You have to report 30 minutes prior to school." That got me up. Today, we were gonna investigate a real crime scene!! I freshened up and went down for breakfast. I was bewildered when I didn't find dad downstairs.

"Where's dad?" I asked.

"Oh he's at the office making sure everything's okay with the crime scene and other things."

"Oh okay." I said and started dumping cereal into my mouth. I was thinking about yesterday and remembered that I had Tristan's purse.

"Uh and I um.. have Tristan's purse. He, uh, lost it on the way to the donors'. I crossed paths with him while going there. So, will I be able to give it to him today?"

"Hmm I think so. Okay, now. Quickly finish eating. You're coming with me."

"'What? I can go with the school. I'll be earlier than anyone else if I go with you."

"That's fine. I'm just saving a trip to the school." she said. I grunted and continued eating. I thought I could travel with my friends. Ugh. I actually considered mom being overprotective, but not this much. I finished eating and entered mom's car. The crime scene was a little far from my school but we reached there in about 20 minutes. I was surprised to see the class already assembling in front of the victim's house. I spotted Carla and ran to the spot beside her.

"I have a bad feeling that my mom's gonna spoil my fun today." I said.

"Good luck with that, because today, I'm Detective Thompson." she said, posing somewhat a detective look. I let out a humourless laugh and said, "Detective Thompson, meet myself, Detective Samuel. I'm gonna be the star player of the day."

"You wish. I've seen Lucifer. And I'm unbelievably good at detective work."

"Just so you know, I saw Lucifer too and I'm way better than you." This felt good. She smirked and opened her mouth to say something but was interrupted by my mom.

"Hello everyone! I think this is your first live crime scene. I'm Chloe Samuel, a detective at TANO. Today, you are lucky to have a famous forensic scientist as your mentor. Meet Ella Jones." Everyone except me and Carla applauded. Her name was just like Ella Lopez, the main forensic scientist in Lucifer!!! Lucifer is a series on Netflix and I finished it just a few weeks ago!!

"She's just like Ella." Carla said with her eyes wide open.

"Yeah.." I said and Ella Jones spoke up.

"Hey everybody. I'm Ella Jones. I'm your mentor today. The victim's name is Bob Russel. He's some fruit seller or dealer since whatever fruit he sells is quite rare. It comes from a far away island. He has no family, friends or even neighbours. We have taken no action. It's your choice I'm all ears to. Gloves and shoe covers on. Do not touch anything without gloves. Search the whole room for fingerprints or the murder weapon. Try and find out the cause of death. Take a tool kit from here. Good luck!! You may enter the room." She was not too much like Ms.Lopez but a great forensic scientist. Everybody was piling inside the room but I waited outside for Tristan to appear. There he was!!

"Hey, Tristan!!"

"Hey, what's up?" he asked when he saw me.

"Um, I found your purse right? Here you go." I handed him the purse.

"No way!! I thought you were joking! Where was it?"

"Right at the place where you crossed the street after you saw me."

"Thank you so much. I went through hell yesterday. Mom is still mad at me."

"No prob.." I stopped because I saw Tristan's dad approaching us.

"Is that your dad?" I asked.

"What? No, it can't be." he said as he turned around. "Shit." he mumbled after he saw him.

"I should get started. You know, find fingerprints." I said and escaped into the room. I heard faint arguments between them. Boy, their relationship is very much strained.

Soon Tristan entered the room and his dad too.

"Everything okay?" I asked.

"Yeah it's nothing." he said but I could tell he was stressed. But I didn't want to disturb him more. So I went to a bookshelf which was quite far from where the victim was lying. I didn't even take a proper look at the Bob guy since he was swarmed around by students.

"What are you doing here? You should be near the body, examining it!" mom exclaimed.

"Mom, I know what I'm doing, okay? I'll go there after it's free of students."

"Come on. When I was your age, I never left the body alone. I would examine it for hours."

"That was you, this is me!" I said. She scoffed and walked away. Tristan appeared beside me.

"What did a cop want with you?" he asked. I forgot to introduce him to my mom.

"Oh she's my mom."

"Right!! Okay.. I'm going to introduce myself to her." he said and walked in the direction she went. I was right. Mom is ruining my fun. I selected a random glass pencil stand and started brushing it with the powder they gave. To my utter surprise, I found a fingerprint!!