Lies - Zodiac

FOUR

Libra ↑

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Libra and Taurus sat next to each other awkwardly as they were driven to a dress shop, on Aquarius' order.

'I just want to know why.. but why is Aquarius doing all of this for you?' Libra spoke up, as they walked into the store.

Taurus looked at Libra. He was a fairly innocent boy with his curious blue eyes, but he had been pretty close to Cancer and she even suspected Libra had a bit of a crush on Cancer, so Taurus simply shrugged.

'I don't know, why don't you ask Aquarius yourself?' Taurus replied, with a touch of iciness, and Libra decided to stay quiet for the rest of time he'd have to spend with Taurus.

~~~

'Yeah, it was kind of strange. I don't know, but some dude Libra came in today, this time with Taurus. They said they weren't a couple, but their boss asked them to come in to get a nice dress for Taurus or something,' Aries was telling Leo.

'Libra.. that name rings a bell,' Leo thought, 'Libra libra libra.. wait.. I think he was Aquarius' representative.'

'Why would Aquarius buy Taurus a dress if she was only working for him?' Aries asked.

'Now that I think about it now, Taurus was Aquarius' accountant. This is really strange.' Leo thought to himself, 'I think I might tell Pisces so he can do a bit of investigating.'

'Do you know what else they've found out about Cancer's death?' Aries asked, 'they seem hopeless so far.'

'Nah, they'll get somewhere. Pisces is smart.' Leo said confidently.

~~~

'What would you like sir?' Gemini asked politely. She was working as a bartender because one of her employees had called in sick.

'Your juicy ass,' the man said leaning close. Too close.

'I was talking about a drink or something, not me,' she glared at him. Gemini didn't slap him, but she was close to losing her cool.

'Come on, I'll give you the time of your life,' he winked.

'How?' she laughed in his face, 'please get out of here before I get impatient.'

'I'll get you fired! Where's the owner?' his face turned red and he slammed his fist into the counter.

'Right here sir,' Gemini smirked.

As the man stormed out the bar, Scorpio sidled up to her, and slapped her ass.

'Not having a good day, eh?' Scorpio said, as he continued to get close to her.

'Not here,' growled Gemini.

'As much as I'd love to watch you two grope each other, I'd rather not chuck up my dinner,' Capricorn came sweeping in to the bar, and Gemini quickly pushed away Scorpio.

'About time you arrived anyway, it's the first time Scorpio actually got here before you,' Gemini scolded her.

She simply shrugged and started serving.

~~~

'Y'all, Leo just told me that at his girlfriend's clothing store, Taurus, Aquarius' accountant came in to get a dress fitted as a gift from her boss or something. This is potentially an important link because it might suggest that perhaps Aquarius was having an affair,' Pisces announced.

'Or he was simply being nice..' Sagittarius suggested.

'Um, who gives their accountant a dress as a gift?' Virgo said.

'Aquarius duh,' Sagittarius said, 'we can't immediately assume Aquarius is having an affair just because he was being nice to a female employee. But we have to see if this was normal behaviour of his.. by interrogating some of his current and former employees.'

There was silence.

'Don't you agree?' Sagittarius said.

'I mean yeah, but I feel like you just wanted an opportunity to interrogate someone.' Pisces said.

~~~

'What have I done?' Libra asked, confused.

'Shut up pretty boy,' Sagittarius snarled, before blushing, realising she'd just called him pretty.

Libra, Pisces and Virgo all looked at her weirdly.

'Nice one Saggi,' Virgo smirked.

'Okay anyways.. so as you work with Aquarius we'd like, um, four words which you'd use to describe him.'

Libra was about to say womaniser, before realising that would look kinda shìtty of him to say about his own employer.

'Well, generous, would be one, impulsive as well, courteous aaaand.. unpredictable.' Libra shrugged.

'Nice vocab,' Virgo said sarcastically.

'Enough with the sarcasm Virgo,' Pisces said through the speakers.

'Thank you,' Libra nodded his head.

'We didn't ask for your opinion did we?' Sagittarius said, waving around a knife.

'Technically you did when you asked me to use 4 words to describe Aquarius,' Libra said smugly, being a smartass.

'This is long to be a very long day,' sighed Virgo.

~~~

'So according to Libra, you used to work for Aquarius as a housemaid?'

Fùcking Libra, Capricorn thought why'd did he bring me up? I get uncomfortable very easily.

'Uh yes,' she nodded.

'So why did you stop working for Aquarius? Was he making any unwanted advances or anything like that..' Virgo said, failing to be inconspicuous.

Sagittarius elbowed him and Capricorn simply looked confused.

'Nah, I was just offered a better job so I took it,' she said.

'Can you please describe Aquarius. Was he nice? Quiet? Strict? Secretive?' Sagittarius asked her.

'Um, he was pretty quiet I guess, biased as heck because he paid Cancer way the FÚCK more than me, when she was only a housemaid and Aquarius was still with Gemini. I don't know, I just didn't really talk to many of my coworkers and stuff so I don't know him really well.' Capricorn shrugged.

'You worked for him when Cancer was working for him? How old were you?' Virgo quickly jotted down some notes.

'I started 5 years ago, when I was 18, and Cancer was like, 20, I think. I stopped working for him when I was 20, and that was also about the time Cancer started dating him. I think. This was quite some time ago so the timing might be a bit off.'

Sagittarius quickly did some maths in her head.

'Then Aquarius would've been about.. 23 when he supposedly started dating Cancer, but that's also when he divorced Gemini...' muttered Sagittarius, 'woah that's a bit weird.'

'Okay you can go, Capricorn, but we may call you back for more information.'

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