Trouble

Chapter 2

December

Day 2

The next morning, Mai and I made it to the office about fifteen minutes early, which is weird for us. We're usually almost always late. "You two are early." Lin commented when we stepped inside. I shrugged as Mai went straight for the mini kitchenette to start some tea.

"Well, I think we had some trouble getting to sleep after the night we had last night." I said a bit exhaustedly. "Mai, could you make me an iced coffee instead?"

"Sure," She said putting one of the tea cups back.

"What happened?" Naru asked sternly. I sighed.

"Well, I meant to tell you both this yesterday, but it completely slipped my mind until Mai and I started walking home. The last time I had one of those incidents, I saw a shadow of a spirit. I don't know any other way to explain it. Another incident happened last night. Mai and I were just around the corner from the apartment complex and a driver lost control of their car and nearly hit us. I saw the shadow of the same spirit from before."

"This is serious, why didn't you say anything about it after the first incident that you experienced?" Naru asked scowling at me.

"I'm sorry, but like I told Mai, the incident was pushed out of my mind as soon as I walked into work. The incidents don't happen as often since I've moved back into Japan, but they have escalated. I don't know what to do about it. I haven't expressed more concern about it because stuff like that has happened to me since I was little. Of course, I'm more worried now that it's escalated to this point." Naru sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.

"Right now, we'll worry about the case, but we are going to talk about this." I nodded.

"I know. I'm sorry for keeping it from you."

"It's fine. Just, don't do it again."

"Okay," Lin was quiet this whole time. I wonder what he's thinking right now. He's probably upset that I withheld important information from him and Naru.

"Here you go, Aki." Mai said handing me my iced coffee. I smiled.

"Thanks Mai, you're the best."

"Aw, you're making me blush." I stuck my tongue out at here.

"Hey, where's mine?" Monk asked as he, Ayako, and John walked in.

"You have to get it yourself." I told him, grinning. "Mai is mine!" He gasped.

"Never!"

"Guys, stop fighting over Mai. Everyone knows she's mine." Yasu said walking in.

"Yasu!" Mai said scowling at him. He chuckled.

"I didn't know you were coming Yasu." I said after taking a sip of my iced coffee, as Mai got Monk some iced coffee.

"Naru called me last night. He wanted me to help Lin-san with the background check on Kazuo-san. Also, he wanted me to look into the school history; like when it was built and stuff."

"To check for things like ground subsidence?" Mai asked curiously.

"Yes, and I wanted to know if there had been a history of things like this going on or if it just started recently." Naru answered. It seems he got over the whole withholding information thing for now.