Our Little Game

Realization

      I walked down the street right outside of Central Park about a mile from the party. All the families rented out a pretty big part of Central Park and most of the kids are celebrating their graduation there. While walking I crossed a bridge and across the distance was a couple who was standing on the bridge. I felt sorry for the couple, especially the guy. They were about to kiss until the boy slipped and fell in the water. I continued walking until I heard a faint voice screaming my name, I wondered who it was while constantly turning my head every  which way. Until I noticed a kind of small ruffled skirt, white dress in the distance. I called out to find out who it was immediately struck by curiosity.
I started to yell, "Skylar, is that you?"
"Who else could it be?"
"I don't know it is New York City after dark in the middle of no where in Central Park, so I'm guessing a murder."
"Ehh whatever always has to be right."
"You sound like everyone else I know."
We walked to the party together, half way there we continued our conversation. It started to get a little windy, you could see Skylar's brunette hair started to wave in the air.
"So how you and Robin been doing?"
"We've been doing real good, starting a new, exciting, mysterious, and long chapter in our lives and we're happy to live it out together."
"How about you and Francis?"
"We've been good he's just clingy at the wrong moments, like I'll want space and suddenly and wants to hug for thirty minutes, it's kind of annoying but, at least I'm learning to get used to it. Bigger question is what are you going to do with your degree in Forensics?"
      "I'm already second in command at the lab, so all I have to do now is wait for Mr. Anderson to retire, how about you?"
"I think I'm just going to to become a professor at the university since they only have one Forensics class and they need a another one for the growing number of students soon to be going there."
"For a new university Allen University is doing really good, aren't we the first graduating class?"
"Yeah and more people want to sign up, especially since they have a wide range of majors and dorms around campus, they might be at uptown manhattan, but a lot of people are willing to do the travel from outside the city."
"So how are you going to last with teaching kids, you're not the type to have the endurance for people not listening."
"I don't know I hope I have one of those students who makes your day better, helps you after the class with cleaning, and talks to you about their problems, those are usually the best students."
We continued our conversation until we got to the party.
"Hey Skylar, guess who's here waiting for you?" I pointed over towards the person standing pointing towards their wristwatch.
"Francis how long have you been waiting for me to come?"
Francis answered, "Only half an hour or so, not long."
Francis had blue eyes like Skylar, but blond hair and slightly darker skin that is barely noticed, he's also not that taller then her, Skylar's wearing two inch heels and she's already up to his ear.
Skylar then went up to Francis and kissed, she then smirked turned to me and nodded her head to the side. It took a while for me to noticed that she was actually signaling me. I looked towards the side to see Robin holding two drinks smiling. I walked up to her, we kissed and smiled at each other, we then started to talk.
         "So are we going to finish setting up for the party?" I asked.
         She responded, "Yeah we have to finish before seven-thirty, that's the time that everyone's going to be here."
         "Yeah what do we need to finish?"
         "Just putting up the streamers, decorating the tables, lighting the candle sticks, and setting up the DJ table."
         We walked towards the decoration supplies and decided to look through all them. While looking through I found fishing wire and I placed it in my pocket just in case, you know for future use. I had a flashback of what happened at the Ice Skating Rink, then nails, the gun, the corpse, everything. I asked who was the DJ of the party and Robin said their name was "Johnny Fourfield" I asked if he had any relations to Timothy Fourfield, she nodded her head yes. Doesn't it feel awkward when one of your victim's relatives come to an event with you? Not just that but also having to meet them knowing you caused grief in their life. Skylar came over to get some of the decorations, she was also helping with decorating. I asked her about the DJ who was playing music at the party.
"Don't you feel sorry for the DJ?" I asked her looking sympathetic.
"Yeah and after everything that happened to his cousin, didn't exactly expected him to make it tonight, he did lose his cousin last week."
"Don't you wonder why they gave us a week off of school before the graduation?"
"No, I enjoyed that week, how about you, how was your week?"
"It was good besides witnessing the Walkman Skate murder."
         "That's funny I saw it too, I didn't see you there where were you?"
         "Me and Robin were not that far from the window where Susan Carmichael got shot?"
          "I was coming out the bathroom when it all happened, I didn't even noticed that there was a body in the Women's bathroom."
          "Yeah I don't think Robin noticed anything too, she was with me when we witnessed Susan and Timothy's death."
          "She was, she didn't said anything about it to me, she usually tells me everything, well a lot of things at least."
          "That's Robin for you, she's always secretive in some way, even when you find out a lot about her there's always something she doesn't tell you."
          "She's one closed book I can tell you that much, hard to read her."
          "I know she's hard to read, I love that about her, I can easily read anyone, well anyone but her."
          "Yeah she's different in many ways."
          "Trust me, I know."
          We finished decorating and I decided to light the candles. They were long golden candle sticks with some kind of long sticks on top. They told me to put some gasoline in the top of the candle place, since they were open and kind of like a bowl. So I filled it with the gasoline and lit the candle, I continued this process for a while until I got by the candle near my chair. I went towards the bottom of the candle stick and tied some of the fishing wire to it, since it was almost clear no one saw me. I tied the other end towards my chair, just enough that it doesn't react towards when the chair goes in and out, but just enough that when it gets pushed to the side or when the string tightens. I got up and sat down in my chair looking by the path waiting for people to come. After waiting for a while I noticed a family coming, I particularly noticed this one man walking with them, that man was Lucious. I got up and to ask him a couple of questions, particularly what he was doing here.
       "Lucious, nice to see you what are you doing here?" I asked him trying to look as excited as possible.
       He answered my question, "My brother George is in your graduation class, he invited me to come celebrate it here, also I'm looking for Alexander Forest, his father owns the car dealer that Jenny and Dean bought their car from yesterday, we know he was out of town when they brought it but we still want to ask him some questions to be safe.
"He's not coming here for at least another twenty minutes Robin told me he texted her about five minutes ago saying he was going to take twenty-five to get here, so you might as well enjoy the party until he comes." After saying this Lucious face changed and started to have a worried expression.
"I guess so, can you tell me what he looks like so I don't get him confused with anyone else Armati?"
"Ok, he's beige skinned, short black hair, dark brown eyes, he's wearing a grey button up shirt, and blue jeans today, well that's what he told me earlier."
          "Thanks, keep an eye, in case I don't see him when he comes, just point me out and tell him I need to question him."
           I told him "ok" as he sat down, I also wondered if it was Alex, I guess we'll soon find out.