Hate You, Love You. | Jenlisa

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"We got him."

I stop in my tracks on our way to the student's parking lot and turn to him. "You got who exactly?"

"Ball cap guy."

I blink twice and ask. "Wait, red call cap guy?"

"That's the one."

Holy shit!

"How? When? Where? What?" I question in rapid succession. He chuckles and motions for me to continue walking so we'd put space between us and the school full of nosy teenagers. You never know who may be listening in and like I always say 'walls talk and they speak volumes.'

"I got a text from Detective just now." He shows me the texts on his phone and I nod. "That's impressive."

"I told you we'd find him."

"Yeah, yeah." I smile lightly. If red ball cap guy has been caught then that means that we're one step closer to knowing the truth. He knows what happened at Lakedale. He knows who has been messing with me since last year. He knows who wants my head on a silver platter.

But the problem is, would he talk?

Like Hyejun said, he may be working for someone else, doing someone's dirty laundry because I've never met him before so I don't know what would warrant him to do all that to me.

"Detective requests your attendance in the station by the way," he points out. "It has been a while so you might as well see him."

It has been months since I last conversed with the Detective and Officer Bohyun. It seems like such a long time since I was interrogated, but it's not. I guess the other events in my life made it feel like a lifetime ago.

"Am I in trouble?"

"Doubt it. He probably wants to discuss the new arrest with you and you may probably be asked to identify him. I may be asked to do the same since I watched the surveillance footage."

Identify a criminal. That's not scary at all.

"There's nothing to be afraid of," he reassures.

"Identifying a criminal isn't scary?" I question sarcastically.

"Glad you see it my way," he responds cheekily.

That flew over his head.

"As long as it doesn't take long, I'm good. I have to pick Ella up in an hour." It's 3:30pm right now and she has band practice till 4:30 so I have to be at Nevermore at least two minutes before then.

"Sure."

I open the passenger door to the Corolla and dump my tote bag in it. I also loosen my tie because it's choking me and dump it along with the bag. Sticking my head out, I see Lisa standing in front of Hyejun and I sigh.

When did she get here?

"Hey," I say, loud enough for it to get their attention. I stick my whole body out of the car and slam the door. I haven't seen Lisa ever since she asked me to be her girlfriend. I don't know a lot about this dating thing, but I'm pretty sure you don't ghost immediately after you ask someone to be your girlfriend, especially if it's someone you claim to care about.

I sent her texts, but I don't know if she read them. She never responded and I wouldn't lie, it stung a bit, but I decided to give her the benefit of the doubt in my mind. Maybe something happened or she didn't see the messages.

"Hey," Lisa gives me a small smile as they both turn to me. "I need to talk to you."

"Actually, we're headed somewhere," Hyejun answers for me. "It's important."