The Mystery of the Ophidians

Chapter 19

Rachel put aside all of her theories and problems when her teeth sunk into the soft bun of the burger. No matter where she went, burgers would always be amazing. When she finished her burger, fries, and her smoothie, she paid the bill and walked out the small inn. She was going to Betty in a while to book out of the hotel. Till then she was going to enjoy her time there. She had purchased a cheap yet effective laptop. It wasn't exactly brand new but it worked as well as a new one. It was the day after the huge realisation and it was almost evening. She got into the cab she booked and gave him the address. She looked at the time on her phone. It was almost evening and she needed to get on the flight. Her belongings were already packed into a suitcase. The cab was in front of the hotel in no time. She grabbed her suitcase from her room after muttering "Goodbye room and goodbye creepy snakes".  She couldn't explain everything to Betty now. "Do you have to leave so soon?" Betty asked. Rachel had told her that she was leaving the previous day. "Yeah, you know the thing about family right." Rachel said. She had lied to Betty saying her grandmother was sick. 

She hugged Betty goodbye. She already had Betty's phone number. She hauled her suitcase into the cab and she was off. The airport was actually only a half hour away from the hotel. Rachel ignored all of her body's signals telling her to relax and get some rest and instead began formulating more theories relating to Alfonso, Rob, Bob, 'boss', and most of all the  fact that someone was trying to kill her. At last, she let her body take over and her brian rest as she closed her eyes and drifted off to sleep. 

When she awoke the car was just halting infront of the airport. It was a small shabby airport but it would do. The ticket was extremely cheap usually but since she had been booking only a day in advance and due to all of this weird explanation given by the lady of the airport who Rachel had spoke with yesterday, the seat became the cost of an average airplane ticket. She walked in with her suitcase after paying the man. She stood in lines for reasons she still didn't understand and at last got onto her airplane. Now for the long painful ride. Thankfully she had downloaded a bunch of movies to keep herself entertained throughout the ride. She called Betty to inform her that she was on the flight and to apologise for leaving on such short notice. 

There was still time for the flight to take off. She got comfortable in her seat and pulled out her laptop. She had an idea and began hacking into Alfonso's mail again. She was pretty sure Alfonso was aware that she was leaving Maine. She tinkered around and realised that Alfonso was actually in his email right now. A pop up came: - You are logged in with two devices. Please log out and log in again. Rachel knew from experience that it would not appear to Alfonso if she logged out soon. Instead, she tinkered around until she was able to do an extremely cool trick she had learnt a long time back. Now, Alfonso was wherever he was and she was here monitoring and watching his every action. She leant back with a happy smirk as the mouse went around being controlled by Alfonso.

He opened a Hangouts tab. It was labelled "THE BOSS". This should be an interesting conversation, Rachel said to herself.

(Italics- Alfonso Bold- THE BOSS)

Did you kill the victim yet?

No, not yet. We've been trying the whole time.

What? You still haven't got it over with!!

Sorry boss but she keeps escaping. Everytime its that stupid animal control to her rescue. But not this time. Animal control is taking today as the day off so no one can come to her rescue.

She was pretty sure that THE BOSS didn't thoroughly read that message because his next message was-

How hard is it to kill a wrinkly old weak man??

You must be kidding! Rachel isn't a weak old man. She's a pesky active 27 year old!

WHO THE HELL IS RACHEL????

Rachel is the person you asked me to kill! 1st floor right side room! 

I asked you to kill the Greg! Second floor right side room! 

............., 

Wait, you were trying to kill an innocent person then??

I swear I didn't know! You said 1st floor right side!!

Can't you do anything right?? I said second floor you fool! I doubt why you're still in the business sometimes!! This is your last mission, I've had it with your mistakes!

I'll fix this i mean it!

You better. If by tonight you don't have Greg dead, you'll be the one with your head low and walking out of our business.

Fine.

I'm still your boss

Fine, boss

Alfonso switched off. Second floor right side room. That was the Trench coat man's room! She needed to save him before anything could happen. The airplane was about to take off. She put her laptop in her bag and slung her bag over her shoulder. She grabbed the suitcase which was thankfully light weight. She headed to the closest exit. She walked faster as it came into sight. She got off the airplane just as the air hostesses were entering.

"Ma'am, the flight is taking off in a few minutes." They said.

"I know." she said and pushed them aside as I made my way down the ramp connecting the airplane entrance to the airport. Just as she began adjusting her bag the airplane took off. She sighed. 

She needed to get to the hotel. But how? There weren't many cabs nearby. Just then she saw a particular person walking towards her quickly.

Betty?

Betty reached her panting. "I knew something was wrong." Betty said.

"How?" Rachel asked.

"You told me not so long ago that your grandmother died. How could she get sick?" Betty replied.

"I have another grandma." Rachel lied. She couldn't explain the whole situation now.

"Nope. Both your grandmothers died. You told me so." Betty said.

Rachel's eyes widened. She forgot that she told Betty everything. She had made up that lie in a hurry. 

"I know something's wrong so I won't pressurise you for details" betty said.

Rachel sighed in relief. She had no time to explain this story now.

"Yet. I want all details afterwards though." Betty said.

Rachel smiled.
"But right now, we have Alfonso and a bunch of criminals to catch" Betty said.

"How did you know?" Rachel asked.

Betty held up the slip of paper Rachel had wrote her theory on the previous day. She had left it in the hotel room.

They both got into the car and Betty drove them to the hotel in silence.

A/N- This was a long chapter. My fingers feel a bit sore but I'm still typing so you don't die of suspense. Thank me later. And for those who might not understand the hangouts conversation, the italics are typed by Alfonso and the bold is typed by his boss. Well, I have another chapter to write. Bye