Supernatural Case Files

3 Dollar Ticket

2.1.3
New Friend
(Final)

"I am Ichigo Zakura, or else you could remember me as Zakura Ichigo. I wait for my bus till 3 regularly"

"I am accompanying you today, for  a police officer myself I am awfully curious about the bus that comes this late and at this stop."

Spoke Umber naturally and immediately following her instincts as she approached the girl in her steady and strong pace to have a seat next to her on the almost dissolved wooden bench.

"My friend and my mentor, Dr. Quinton Monrey and Dr. Indra Mahej also working at the station's forensic science department, are you familiar with them?" Asked the girl feeling shy as her face turned blushing red while she looked down at her lap.

"Indeed, and that makes us somewhat of a relative," spoke Umber, trying to make the girl at ease while she was high alert with her gaze sweeping the entire roadway.

"Madam, with my experience as an intern under madame Quinton and my friendship with her, I mean Indra and Bushra. I feel fortunate to have in a company such diverse. Under Quinton, I got a chance to learn, and grow, and a doorway of opportunities later and with Indra a companionship I longed for. I for sure miss the three of them.

Nice to see you miss, and when I always walk down and wait here at this spot. This is the first time we get to interact, why is this for ma'am?  Is this your first day of dispatch here?" questioned Zakura as her voice was forced low with her each further discussion.

"Yes, you are right, my first time here."

"Ma'am this place is so secluded from the main society, I wonder which station you all are boarded onto and for as far I know this land is just a stretch for a natural dump." continued Zakura.

"It's for a case-related purpose. A death case, not further away from here, and that's why I can't keep my guards low for you till my eyes ensure your safe return home." Spoke Umber suppressing herself as her guts immediately sensed danger approaching when her senses detected a faint gusting sound in the air and when she dragged her gaze further apart. The extreme corner of her gaze made her envision a bus approaching as promised by Zakura. Perhaps the bus on the road was what made her lift the guards so swiftly.

Examining the situation of the bus approaching, immediately while she withdrew herself from the conversation, Umber withheld her pistol aimed high at the front mirror of the bus as it approached ahead.

"Hand yourself in Mister, you got a lot to explain. Why is your vehicle all darkened let's talk back at the station shall we?" spoke Umber as she aimed accurately from the side against a moving vehicle.

When Umber got a chance of what the bus looked like from the inside, she couldn't stand for herself, the dilemma she was surrounded by, the bus looked badly vandalized, modified but on it's usual, the driver could be prosecuted for conviction but his calm nature disproved it all.

"Mister, would you mind going through the process of showing your driver's license and the vehicle-owning documentary?"

While being presented with everything she asked for. While scanning through the documents, she proceeded.

"Sir, for not maintaining your vehicle in a proper condition. I am pressing ahead with a penalty for you and my backup has got your driving speed on the check as well. Don't try to over-smart us, we are no fools we walk in pairs wherever we go and this information of today is enough for your long sentence behind the bars, and don't even try to over-smart us, for we walk a step ahead of you.

I have recorded the girl's parents' digits on me. I will have a new record maintained starting from this day onwards." spoke Umber with her gaze stern on his unhindered look for the threat that made Umber withdraw her gunpoint a little lower.

"Zakura Ichigo, is her name." spoke the driver so casually that made Umber to raise her brow suspiciously.

"Mam, he is safe and trustworthy and by now my parents might get worried if I leave for home a little late." spoke the girl hesitantly but her words were rashly spoken as if she hurried her statement.

Umber felt knots tying around her imagination to how compressing the aura was to her.

"I am here with my experience ma'am, and people do put their trust in me. So can you, as how she does." He spoke with such confidence that made Umber's perception come true.

She knew if she could have been in the right company, she could have proceeded further ahead, and even with the strike-out number plate and all the roughness of the vehicle, Umber could almost construct for herself a scenario that she couldn't represent. For her, this man was not somewhat normal, but his manipulated behavior and the darkened night in his favor made her stay cautiously aside.

While Umber was on her guard, before her blurred vision she could view the man coming out for her gun grip but a loud and sudden gunshot from afar took the situation completely by shock

The driver quickly had a run-down inside his vehicle and the girl was already in it and they took off almost immediately.

Engaged in a conversation for quite a long the driver had interpreted, Umber standing here alone with only her guts on her gun before the place solely for the sake of this girl, and her words were she indirectly hinted the presence of the backup confirmed his doubt to reality, before the fear of being further discovered the driver's intentions deteriorated. So was Umber's confidence, the moment she held her gun lower for him.

But after suddenly hearing a loud bang from afar things turned back on the track and Umber exhaled out of relief and ease.

"Umber, you okay?
The moment I saw your spot empty I was all messed out of my head, walking everywhere and over here I couldn't believe how in my tired state I pressed on my gun trigger and scared away a few birds apart." spoke Tyler still yawning in sleep as his narrowed eyes displayed his still tiredness.

Tears slipped through her eyes as she gazed deeply into the boy she loved and who also unknowingly stood up before her confidence. The man she cherished for his silly nature was also the man who she could still be proud to share her conversation with.

With her verge of a breakdown and all tears, Umber realized how tighter her grip was on him when she was out alone facing her worse. Just exactly they both were so ignorant of how they indirectly shined a light on each other's darkness and how also they stood by themselves when weakened.

Umber hugged Tyler the tightest she could ever hug anyone, breaking apart into a memorable kiss, the shy but introverted girl, confessed her feelings in a way with almost teary eyes and a voice deeper down from her heart valves.

"I love you too with the whole of my heart and every single drop of blood that remained in my heart.

We shall never abandon ourselves."

Umber words shook Tyler too emotionally even tho he was completely taken off-guard for a while but after her love confession, the emotions weighing down his heart only left him teary and being hugged in the arms from the girl he looked upon for love.

Indirectly she just thanked him for his idiocy to that previous happening.

Happily smiling like a couple, by sides. Both the love birds flocked off to the very old cottage, the seemingly old home cum the scene related to crime.
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