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Chapter 14: Detective Who

-Liz's POV-

“Morning sleepy head” I hear Maki say. I look and see Ana groggily walk and sit down, “I am so not going to any lessons today” she lays over the table. “Oh good, I found a website that has all the dinosaur vs robots” Harper tells her. “How about we all watch it all together?” I suggest. They nod and I place breakfast in front of Ana, who picks it up with her hands and realises it’s hot and drops it. At least she’s fully awake now. I look at Maki, she always wears an eye patch, even if her hair covers her face. She smiles at me. I haven’t really looked at Maki much since I realised it, and when she notices me staring at her, she just smiles. I place my breakfast on a plate and grab a fork.

“I heard there was a detective team launched here a while ago” I sit down “Are they on the case of the Principal?” Ana asks to which I nod. “I saw someone sneaking around after curfew. I think we should investigate too”, “They obviously need to be a staff member because they know about curfew but who could it be?” Harper says, “It could be Kowalski, she was worried when I said you two left, and Ana said that she gets guarded but the police sometimes. Which could mean that she was worried because she can’t keep an eye on you if you leave school grounds” I say. They all look at me, “You're a quick thinker”, “Especially in the morning” Ana yawns. “So how much do they know about quirk stealers?” Harper asks. “Not much, I remember Liam talking to Dad about it”, “I remember one of the officers talking to me about everything they knew about the guy. I also have a vague memory of what the Principal looked like” they tell us.

“Ok, tell me if I have anything wrong Maki-san. So, this has been an on-going case since like forever and they hardly know who the main suspects look like and they’re getting nowhere closer to solving this case”, “Basically it. That detective who saw me yesterday, probably knows I'm the kid from November and it would be stupid to not include at least me” she says. November, what do they mean by that? There have been many Novembers since the incident. “In the police world, they use November to refer to the incident because that’s the month it took place in. Some of the Roxford police force refer to me as one of the November twins. Me and Maki are one year apart but they call us twins no matter how many times I tell them that” she groans, “I’m tired, I'm gonna go back to bed”, “You literally got almost 10 hours of sleep and you want more” I tell her. She gets up anyway, “Shut up mum, if I wanna sleep, I'll sleep. Good night” she closes the bedroom door. Rude, “I’m not the only one who heard her call me mum, right?”, “She calls people mum when she’s really tired, she’s said it to her dad a few times and he responds with, I've never felt so feminine”, “Other than the trauma, your family’s fun” Harper tells her. “So, when are you gonna tell us about the eye?”. She freezes. Maki opens her mouth in an attempt to say something, anything, but she closes it in defeat.

-Maki’s POV-

I move away from the kitchen and sit on the sofa. I think back to yesterday. That person didn’t look like Kowalski but it is someone we know. They're taller than Kowalski but they’re not really tall. Who else is tall? Wait, it’s not a teacher, if it was, they would be working both jobs part time. It has to be someone who has access to all the students. Kowalski has that so maybe it’s more than one person. Wait, I'm not Liz, I don’t need to figure this out right now. How am I gonna tell them though? Ana’s gonna finally know what really happened. Should I also show them my eye? No, they might be grossed out. I'll ask before I even do that. I don’t want anyone puking because they’ll set off a chain reaction.

I look at Harper who found a whiteboard, “Where did you find that?”, “Storage closet, well, what I think was one. I’ll show you one-time” that’s pretty good quality but why’s it in the dorms? Oh, is it to be used for our investigation? “Where is this storage closet?” she motions for me to follow her. I get and walk down to the common area. There's hardly anyone here, they must be in the main building trying to learn or doing something productive. She walks over to some door and opens them and disappears downwards? I go over to the door and sees there are some stairs. I go down the stair and see tunnels. Was this some soviet base? She opens the first door on the left, “Here, this is where I got it. It was a pain to get it up the stairs though”, “You knows there’s a lift, right?”, “So that’s what the dinging noise is. I just assumed there wasn’t one because they wanted to prioritise space for students” she says. I look in and see some useful things. I also see a shopping trolley big enough to hold the stuff. I grab the shopping trolley and start placing stuff into it. I grabbed a big corkboard, string and I see Harper near a box labelled ‘Polaroid’. “Hey Harper, check that box to see if everything needed is in there”, she checks and nods. I grab the box and place it in the trolley. I see Harper placing her own stuff in here, I also place some stuff for myself too.