Roxy The Eternal Writer

Chapter2: Encounter

The ceiling was pure white.
Only when I stared blankly at it, I could temporarily forget the tragedy which had occurred hours ago...
I did not become conscious until my phone started buzzing. Immediately I rolled off the bed to reach for the fifth call tonight.
"Hello?"
"Well, this is Captain Civil. Is this Miss Whitman?"
"Speaking." I replied, "Anything new?"
"Unfortunately, there's still no clues that shows where those two have gone." The voice sounded a bit exhausted, "However, Ms.Whitman, as long as you provide us with the criminal's appearance, I'm sure your friend will be saved."
"Alright... thank you." I sighed.
"And, I'm calling you because the parents of your friend have arrived, and the station was almost destroyed by their rampage. If you can come, maybe we can convince them to calm down."
"I see. I'll be there in ten minutes."
Click.
Hours had passed, but the police still couldn't find anything, not even an evidence; when they tried to find the camera, apparently, it was absolutely destroyed by that Oregano.
Nonetheless, the captain told me that this guy had already committed several sexual harassment, kidnapped some teenage girls and so on.
"What happened to those girls?" I attempted to ask.
"We are still looking for them." Was his reply.
Well, thinking about what might happen to Denise, to those missing girls filled me with a strange will to punch that jerk in his face.
Imaging how to give Oregano some lesson he deserved, I got dressed, and opened the door.

"Alas, I guess it is worth waiting."
The creature in front of the door grinned widely, "You are really a stubborn one to get, aren't ya?"
The reason I would prefer to call it "creature" instead of "man" was that it did not resemble mankind at all. First, its skin was too pale, almost as white as the vampire only could be seen in the movie; also, its height was surely making some midgets, like me, feeling a bit jealous. If it rose its head to face the ceiling, the monster could have lick on it without any difficulty.
Despite of this, its well-toned body, which looked muscular, was covered with black trench coat and boots; a fedora blocked me from seeing its face, but I could barely see a big mouth with sharp, shark's teeth inside.
"What?" At first sight, I started to wonder if today was Halloween or not. "I didn't buy you any candy, so please leave."
"Heh," It laughed, and took his fedora off.
I didn't make out how could that happen, but within a second he turned into someone, who was being tracked down by the police at that moment.
Oregano. In the disgusting height of the being.
He put the fedora back onto his head, and his appearance switched into the same monster. Now he had made it clear.
"How dare you." Despite I was impressed by his tricks, Denise was still the one I care about. "Where's Denise?"
"Well, well..." He made a sissy posture, pretending to be some girls gossiping about their class leader. "She isn't dead... yet." A twisted smile ripped opened his featureless face.
Clenching my fists, I tried to keep calm anyway. "What do you want in exchange of her freedom? Cash?..."
Wait.
I noticed something.
"Na, you only got fifty points." It shook its forefinger with a sarcastic disappointment. "Yes, I want something, from YOU, but I don't give those stupid papers a fuck."
"What?"
"I have a job. So I don't need to rob a bank or something. Does that make sense?"
"Then why the hell you pick my friend as your target?"
"Hey, it was an accident. My real motivation is to lure you. Am I supposed to explain..."
Furiously, I stepped forward, attempted to give it a punch. Somehow the creature reached out, grabbing my arm firmly, but the strength was not enough to hurt me.
"JERK."
"...Okay, it seems like little Smexy has fucked up everything, right?" It sighed. "Sorry, I'm so sorry. If you've changed your mind, use the cell phone on your desk. Oh, and I don't mind if you send it to the cops, they won't even dare to remove its battery."
At this period of time, my fury was replaced by confusion and curiosity.
However, when I opened my mouth to ask, with a breeze coming out of nowhere, the monster had already left.
I picked up the said phone, the screen was displaying a picture of Denise in a dark room, she seemed unconscious, being chained to the floor. What disgusted me the most was that she was only wearing underwear. After all, she was still alive.
I left the cell phone on the table, and started to Google the name he said.
Was it... Smexy? I assumed that Oregano was a fake one, due to the fact that he was a criminal.
However, I couldn't find something useful, instead I learned that Smexy was a sex-related word.
What I could do was to list the information that was provided. But most of them were fairly easy to guess. No brainstorming needed.

Smexy (Oregano)
Roses: red blue
Dramatic
Kidnapping girls

Wants to lure me( I'm his real target)?
(Captured Denise as a trap? Threatening me?)
Cell phone: the police won't dare to touch.

Inspecting the piece of paper, I realized that the only way to gather more clues was to fool around with this dangerous person. It was risky, but imaging the cops (god, I was influenced by that jerk so quickly) burying themselves in solving those overwhelming, endless crimes, they were neither beneficial nor concerned about the issue.
Nevertheless, instead of giving the cell phone to them, he chose to leave it to me.
I had a bad prediction that this weirdo would't give a single fuck to those cops, either.
Still, I was not going to instantly take this practically. If I was caught as well, then there would not be any odd that Denise was rescued.
It felt so weird when playing it by ear, but decided to take this cautiously.