Highland Tangle

VALERY/GLENN/LANCE

VALERY

With me being 20, I attend college still. My work with Mr. Connors is a part time thing but once I'm out of college I want to be full time working with him. I love this job, it's the best job in the world and I'm going for degrees in Journalism and Criminal Justice. I had decided to go for those degrees even before I met Mr. Connors, but when I looked for a job in this kind of field I was sure I made the right choice. I was meant to become a private investigator and to be under the wing of Mr. Connors is a real honor.

After class, my boyfriend whose name is Korey Rasp, and I meet up in the parking lot. "Hey Beautiful!" He says to me with a sweet grin on his face. I smile and reply back, "Hey sweetie." He kisses me and I kiss him back, and I smile at him. "You want a ride to Mr. Condors?" I roll my eyes and shake my head, "Like I've told you multiple times, It's Connors! And No, I can drive myself." I turn away from him and try to walk away but he grips my shoulder, not hard but firmly, and spins me around to face him.

"Hey! You know I don't like that tone! Now apologize and then you can be on your way." I can't with Korey. For the most part, Korey is sweet but he can also be an asshole. In my assessment of how he is with me, he's never hit me, and he isn't verbally abusive but he does at times almost reach that point. Right now, what you just saw was more of him being firm but borderline on the abusive side. Trust me if he started being abusive, I would leave him immediately.

I walk just walk to my car and get in. I drive off to Mr. Connors' Office, and of course, Utah has some bad traffic today. It doesn't always but when it does you can be hear for hours sometimes. Well this gives me sometime to reflect but I always reflect on basically everything. It's my job since I work with Mr. Connors. Once traffic lightens, I make my way to the office. I park my car next to Mr. Connors' and walk inside then hang my coat on the rack's hook and also hang my bag's straps on my chair like I do at school.

I sit down at my desk and log into the computer and start by checking emails to see if Mr. Connors got any. As well as, other assistant tasks like scheduling appointments, taking any calls that come in, filing documents, and so on. Mr. Connors' calls me in and so I enter curious what I am needed for. "What is it, Mr. Connors? What can I do to help you?" He tells me as he paces, "Shh, shh." He continues to pace, this is standard when he's in deep ponder.

GLENN

I pace around my office as I call Valery in but when she asks me what she can do to help I shush her, not in a rude way but she knows this is normal of me when I'm like this. "I've been thinking on Lance's Case where his brother is missing but it seems kinda odd to me?" I sit in my seat and put my hand to my chin and ponder more. "What's odd about it?" Valery asks me and I smile, "Glad you asked, So The brother got mad at him and then just stormed out and he hasn't heard from him in nearly a mouth or so, Valery, Do you have any siblings?" She nods and then tilts her head curiously.

"If you and your sibling got in a disagreement, and a serious one at that, would either of you storm out and then leave town?" I look over at her, "that's not normal behavior to do so, so either Mr. Green is telling the truth or he's lying." She says and I get up then go to what she wrote when I talk to Lance Green. Rereading the words exchanged between him and I.

"If this is a ruse of some sort, why? Why bring in a Private Investigator, If this is all staged or blow out of portion?" She looks at me and stays, "Maybe either as a diversion or a test." I think on those works, A Diversion or A Test. Is Lance Green testing me or is he distracting me? I need to know which so time isn't wasted. I leave and grab my coat. "Valery, The game is afoot." We leave getting in my car and going to Lance, he needs to answer for what's truly going on.