Lost and Found

Detective

Rose's POV

After that weird incident at the grocery store I asked Esme if she would stay the night with me, because something about that guy didn't sit right with me. Darren even insisted he come over and checking on things if he got any weird feelings, which I agreed to. I was sitting on my porch waiting for her to show up when that weird car pulled up again.

What the hell?

Almost immediately after finishing my thought I noticed Darren already on his way down the sidewalk and almost to the car. He met the car on its passenger side and tapped on the window. Nothing. Like they were ignoring him. This didn't sit right with me and I pulled out my phone.

"What time are you getting here again?" One quick text to Esme, just to see where she was, that away if anything went south we would have someone to call the cops.

"If you're asking that because of that spooky, weird car out front I'm almost there" Great. Almost here. Close enough to see the car.

"Do you think we should call the cops, I mean they're kinda ignoring Darren and freaking me out" This was all to weird, so many weird occurrences in the last few hours. It was off-putting.

"Hey" Esme waved her hand in front of my face bringing me back to reality as she started up my strip of sidewalk to the porch.

"Do you think this is weird?" I asked. She looked over to Darren who was still tapping on a closed window and back to me.

"I mean just a little"

Just a little?

We both looked back to Darren to see he had switched sides and was now drivers side tapping on the window and even attempting a few handle pulls. Still nothing.

"Call the cops" Darren moved away from the vehicle slowly and toward my porch as Esme pulled out her phone. I could only see her mouth moving, my head was throwing scenarios so fast it was hard for me to keep up. I felt a pair of hands softly land on my shoulders as they pushed me toward the front door and into the house. When I finally caught up I sat with my back against the couch and realized Darren had pulled both Esme and I inside and had a pocket knife in hand, still closed but definitely ready if needed.

"What do you think they want?" I asked.

"No idea, but if anything happens and they come through this door then you're both going into the bathroom" He's so protective and sometimes it's annoying because if these people came thought that door I wasn't gonna let him fight them alone. This was my house and I needed to protect it until dad came home.

"Cops are on their way, they said to stay indoors and stay down. They even gave me a code word to let the lead detective working on your dad's case inside" Esme told us looking to me for that last part.

"What's the word?" Darren asked.

"Red"

The color of our mailbox? How original, but I guess it would've been harder to guess than anything else. We all sat on the ground and waited, Darren made me and Esme sit about 10 paces behind him and he sat right up against the door, that away if someone did peek through the blinds they would hopefully only see us and not him. Even though they seen him walk in here but, ok. The three of us waited for what felt like forever but finally I seen red and blue flashing through the window.

"Look" I pointed up at the lights and noticed Esme relax her shoulders a bit.

"Finally, it's been like fifteen minutes" Darren chimed in.

"Well she lives about thirty minutes away from the station so actually they're early" Esme defends

"Wait...do they have their sirens on? You guys seem like you didn't hear them coming."

"Nah, no sirens" Weird, they probably didn't want the car to know they were coming. We all sat and waited when Darren suddenly stood and cracked the door open and looked through the crack, he backed away opening it all the way and I seen the detective.

"You guys alright?" He asked.

"Yeah, we're all fine maybe shaken up but physically we're good" I answered.

He just stood in the doorway almost as tall as Darren and ran his fingers through his black hair. His blue eyes looked tired, like he's been working non-stop which brought me a little bit of comfort. Wait, did he know about the letter?

"Detective." I paused.

"Are you aware I recieved a letter from my dad?" His eyes widened but they definitely gave me my answer. I reached into my back pocket and grabbed the envelope containing both the change from the shopping trip and the letter, I pulled out the change and handed him the envelope.

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A/N
How do you think the detective is gonna react? Do you think something is going on behind the scenes? Maybe the car has something to do with it? Are the people in the vehicle gonna get arrested? Sorry for the late update!