Our Little Game

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      We all threw our caps in the air as we walked out the large gymnasium. We were all graduates, well some of us were graduates again. I was about to go talk to some of my friends until Robin pulled me over to our families. Me and her father shook hands and the mother congratulated the both of us on our achievements. The family wanted to take a picture of both of us, just as the camera was about to snap one Robin kissed me on the cheek, making me get a shocked expression. Our fathers decided to continued to talk about the party. Our mothers walked over to us with big smiles on their faces, which kind of worried me. They both then smiled even bigger and asked us a serious question, "so what are you two planning next in your lives?" We didn't know how to explain that we want to get married and want a family and knowing them they would rejoice loudly if we told them, so we decided to act clueless. I looked to the side of the field and saw Mr. Lucious standing under a tree, he looked suspicious to me. We were all enjoying the last minutes we had at the graduation, Robin's father and mine were talking about occupations, my father is a civil engineer and even taught me a few lessons that he learned in college. Robin's father is a worker for a company that manufactures aircrafts and a couple of famous automobiles. We all walked to our cars in the parking lot, Robin and I had our own car so our parents went separate ways. We walked to our car and noticed how Jenny Riley and her fiancé Dean Attalaia were sitting in their car on their phones talking to each other. They must of sat there for over half an hour since I heard them saying they were leaving right after we walked out the hallway. We sat in our car trying to call our parents to know if we were meeting at the after party now or later. While Robin tried to call our parents I noticed Dean trying to restart his car, the engine wouldn't turn on.
          He angrily went out of the car yelling and hitting the roof, "You piece of junk, I literally bought you yesterday how are you acting up already?".
          Jenny looked annoyed she got out herself, "look at the engine maybe there's something wrong?"
          "Not hard to believe, that dealer did look a little shady to me, I told you he looked suspicious the moment I laid my eyes on him and his goatee, hey babe can you hold my jacket for me?"
            She held his jacket and walked right besides him as he was about to open the hood of the car. He opened the hood and suddenly boiling water sprayed from the engine, severely burning both of them. I walked out with Robin shocked from the sudden accident. Dean was blinded by the antifreeze and suddenly as he backed up from his car he was hit by a running automobile on the road. Jenny suddenly stopped moving shortly after Dean died, as this happened I looked to the side and saw Lucious running to the scene ready as always. He asked me what happened and I explained everything to him, when we look at the hood of the car we saw a string attached to the radiator cap which detached itself from the car. We then looked behind where we saw grey duct tape and a little grey piece of paper.
I found out the party was around eight so I decided to quickly analyze and do a autopsy on the bodies. While testing Jenny's I found out she swallowed enough antifreeze and boiling water that her entire body shut down from the trauma. I wondered why the copycat went after Dean and Jenny, but they couldn't have know that was their car, they said themselves it was fresh out the dealer. It was possible that the copycat killer is killing for fun and putting their kill list on mine, or maybe they have some inside information on the dealership. This would mean they have some connection with the dealership if they were going after Dean and Jenny on purpose. The only one who has any connections is Alex, but he wasn't in town until this morning. His parents didn't even know who Jenny and Dean was so how would he know who bought the car. Not just that but he also wasn't at the restaurant, or was he? I won't lie whoever this copycat killer is they are smart, to get away with all this takes a lot of thinking. While thinking to myself I looked in Dean's jacket pocket and found two marbles. Lucious then walked in with questions, just as I put my hand out of his pocket.
           "So what's the cause of death?"
           "Riley, internal injuries from severe burns and antifreeze poisoning, Attalaia, severe burns and physical trauma from vehicle impact."
           "Such a shame, he knew my nephew  and brother too."
           "How did he know your family come to think of it?"
           "He was my nephew's babysitter, from what I hear he was a jerk."
           "Lucious I think there's something off about these killings."
           "What do you mean Armati?"
           "The first couple of killings had the same cutting point which mean it must of been from the same blade, when I checked the corpses that were found in Walkman's restroom, they had a different puncture point and the cutting look like it had a different edge."
           "So you're saying there's a copycat killer, what if the cutting's different because they had to use a new knife, didn't they mention on the news and the investigation that the killer left a knife by the Hudson with the bodies?"
          "They did mention that but wouldn't you make sure you would have carried such a personalized item with you so no one could identify you?"
          "Yes I would, so you're saying the killer probably left it on purpose?"
          "That and if they did left it on purpose then they would have a copy or two of the knife for their personal use, which means they left the knife at the scene of the crime to leave a mark or insignia by their victims."
           "We can't let the press know about this copycat killer, if this leaks out then the media would be in a frenzy and the public would go mad."
            As I continued to talk to him about the copycat killer I noticed a burn mark on his wrist, "how did you get that burn mark Lucious?"
            He looked at me dumbfounded and stared me in the eye, "I accidentally burned myself on the stove when I was cooking the other day."
             "Other day? That looks new, like it happened only a couple of hours ago."
             "What can I say, my body heals very slowly, not everyone heals in the blink of an eye we're not magic are we?"
             I stared at him when he finished his sentence and looked back at the body, at that moment for all I know, there was two killers in the room.
             I decided to get a little drink before I went to the party. I walked in the bar with a game of archery with crossbows. I decided to play the game and showed everyone how good I was, I also found out this was the bar Dean used to drink at. I hit a bullseye right in front of everyone who jaws dropped from how good I was. When someone dropped their mug everyone heads' turned. I decided to drop the marbles I found in Dean's jacket from earlier and walked out paying my bill.
          As I walked out I saw this drunk guy picking up one of the crossbows. He looked a little tipsy as he waved it around, angering the bar-server. He yelled at him to not wave it around especially with an arrow set in it ready to shoot. He eventually agreed and put down the  crossbow, holding it normally. He then backed up to the game getting ready to shoot the target, but as he back up he made a big mistake. He accidentally stepped onto Dean's marbles, being tipsy already he fell down and busted his head on the floor. As he fell the crossbow was triggered and the arrow was shot. A man who was arguing at his ex-girlfriend stopped yelling and decided to walk away. As he walked away he turned around, and just as he turned around the arrow penetrated his eye going through his brain. His ex screamed in horror as he dropped to her feet. I walked out after witnessing everything and didn't even say a thing. They wouldn't be able to track the marble back to me anyways since the marble belonged to Dean this entire time.