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May 26, 2004 - 4:00

The sun had not risen yet but here I am looking into my reflection under the fluorescent lighting as if I was getting ready for high school picture day. Thank god I don't have to go to school anymore... yet, I work 2 jobs. I can blame the way I spend my money on my wardrobe and on other stuff. I mean, Loom has the best clothes that just suit me.

I look into the reflection of my mirror to apply some (f/c) lipstick until I hear a loud knocking at the front door of my apartment. Loud enough to disturb my sleep - if my work schedule would let me. I turn my head to face the mirror to see that I accidentally applied lipstick outside my lip lining. I inch my finger close to my lip to wipe off that mistake before I heard a voice outside announce "Police!"

My fingertip smudges the corner of my lip. I sighed before I quickly walked out of my bathroom to my dark room despite the fact that my ankle hurt from tripping on something, along with feeling nothing on my heel. Then out the room is the dark hall and now the living room where the noise had come from. I approached the door and looked into the peephole to see a tall, big uniformed guy with short spiky looking hair. I leaned my back against the door and asked "Who are you looking for?"

"Dolores Meiko."

I froze before I skeptically opened the door and bored my gaze at the tall man in front of me.

"Right here, detective..."

He pulls out his ID. "Mogi."

'Kanichi Mogi...' it read.

"What time is it?"

He looked at his watch and answered "4:02 am."

"This better be good and not be another lame drug possession accusation, so talk."

The man seemed caught off guard as I snapped at him for disturbing me at an inconvenient time, let alone at 4 am when I SHOULD have been sleeping. He clears his throat before telling me "Well, you're under suspicion of keeping a collection of armed weapons."

"Do you even have a warrant?" I asked, raising a brow at the man.

"Yes, I do." He says as he approaches my door. I stood all the way behind it in case he's going to attempt anything. He pulls out a paper and hands it to me. I carefully examined it and opened the door all the way to stand in my doorway.

"Mind explaining why I'm under suspicion in the first place?"

"A witness had called to inform us you carried a gun with you behind the counter of a local Loom store."

"A witness call?"

"A gun had been found at a counter you were working at when we searched it and footage caught you near it before you left. Hence, it's right here in this bag of evidence."

I sighed as I felt so close to yelling.

'It's fake... shouldn't they have figured that out at this point?' I thought.

"I already have a warrant signed by the court and press, you're going to have to allow me to search your place."

I stepped to the side as he walked in my house to search. As soon as he was out of sight, I rested my hand on my hip and leaned my weight to my left heel before I fell on my bottom. Earlier, I remembered I felt nothing holding my heel up. So I held up my leg so that I could look at the bottom of my high heel and realized it was missing its heel.

'I could go back inside but the detective is searching my apartment for some other false display gun I planned to give to Misa since an incident with a stalker of hers a while back.' I thought. 'eh, take your time so that I can get a lawyer or something.'