Shining Stars

Chapter Nineteen: Determined

News of (Y/n)'s death somehow made it to the media, for one key reason alone. Because the murder was at Ai's apartment. Their information was still off though, labeling him as a employee of Strawberry Productions, so no major outlet raised any suspicion on why he was there with two kids.

Aqua had his hand on his phone. His mother and sister were still asleep. He wasn't. He wasn't going to rest. He had to uncover the truth behind his father's death.

The stalker… Ryosuke, was it? Was still at large, he had yet to be caught by law enforcement. An impressive feat for the man, in Aqua's eyes. He had reason to know that man wasn't working alone… or all that smart for that matter…

He didn't seem to have any fail safes in case something went wrong, no backup weapon in case he was disarmed. His plan really completely on the element of surprise and the hope that his opponents were unarmed.

This man wasn't smart. He couldn't have done this alone no… he had help. Someone gave him all this information… But who? Aqua couldn't say for sure, though it was very likely it was someone working very close to Ai to get these personal details, most likely someone in the entertainment industry… but that could be so many people. He needed to start gather information and evidence before he even dared to make a claim. Perhaps the stalker could be a lead of sorts so he could use to track down the mastermind in his father's murder.

Well, he'd get it out of the stalker one way or another.

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Aqua may have thought his sister was asleep, but she wasn't. Also on a phone the toddler was not doing anything like Aqua. She was on Twitter. Her eyes darted from tweet to tweet for one purpose only. Than her eyes landed on a tweet she was looking for.

"That (Y/n) guy was found at Ai's Appartment right? I know he was an assistant but of a stalker killed him, he must have had some connection to Ai… He got what he deserved imo lol"

Ruby's anger rose as she began to furiously type a reply to the tweet.  Tears falling down on the screen.

"Just because someone's in love doesn't mean they should die, you Ugo! I bet you're jealous that he was able to land someone as perfect as Mama while you are sitting on your ass playing video games and dining nothing else!"

She shouted as she typed, though when she was about to hit send… a feeling of hopelessness overwhelmed her. Tears continued to fill the illuminated screen as she couldn't wrap her head around the fact her day was dead… Shutting off the phone, she curled up into a ball.

"It's all your fault y'know. You just had to beg for headpats from Mama… You marched Papa to his death…"

It seems she got one more thing from her mother as well…

"P-Papa… I'm sorry…"

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Ai lay restless in her bed. It was well past three in the morning, and the other two had long past warn their smaller bodies out and were passed out next to her in the bed.

Ai's eyes opened as she looked at the two small children beside her. The bed felt cold without (Y/n) in it. Her cracked star eyes looked around the dark room. 

Slowly moving her way out of bed, she went to the living room. She flicked on the light as she made her way to the kitchen and the refrigerator. She'd open it to see if they had stocked it with food she wanted for a midnight snack. Finding what she was looking for, she closed the refrigerator door and opened the little microwave that the hotel room came with.

As the food was being heated up, Ai learned on the table as she went back deep into thought. She had managed to pull off singing a song that should have ended her career  but most people seemed not to take the lyrics seriously. Which she was glad for.