The Vampire & The Witch(Trials of sucess)

Part 27

I was startled by Josh when he put his hand on my thigh and squeezed it. I looked up and saw that he was looking at me.

    "What?"

    "Are you okay?"He asked.

    "Yea. Why are you looking at me like that?"

    "Because you look beautiful babe."

    "Yea right. You probably wouldn't say that if the flight attendant was here."

    "Paris you're being ridiculous."

    "Am I?"

Josh pulled over to the side of the road and turned towards me.

    "Yes you are. I'm not worried about anyone but you. Paris Marie Johnson I love you."

    "You can't be using my government name like that. People are looking for me."

     "I love you too Josh." He said mocking my voice.

     "I love you too Josh." I leaned over and kissed him.

For a moment I forgot that we were on the side of the road until I saw fire trucks rushing past us.

    "I wonder what happened?"I murmured.

Josh pulled into the street and continued driving. The fire trucks were still in sight, heading the same way we were. Some kids were probably playing with matches and didn't know how to get rid of it. I smiled at the thought because it reminded me of when Lilly and I used to do the same thing, it was terrible. My butt was sore for a whole month and Lilly wasn't allowed to come in my room either. I sure did learn my lesson. When I came back to reality I realized that we had stopped moving again and Josh was staring at something.

      "What are you loo.....,"I opened the door and my heart was being crushed. I started running but someone was holding me back. "That's my house!" I kept screaming, I was fighting to get pass the police officers. "Let me go! That's my house!"

      "Ma'am, I'm detective Elliott, I'm going to need you to answer some questions for me."

      "I...I just want to know what happened to my house." I said holding back tears.

      "Ma'am your house had a gas leak and it caught fire."

      "There would have to be a source of fire in the house right? In order for it to burn?"

     "Well miss I'm getting there, Did you have anyone else living in your house?"

I looked at him with a confused face, what is he trying to say.

    "No I live in the house by myself, it's just me and my dog."

   "We found a dead body in your house, we're sending it to the lab to find out the identity of it."

   "I was in California and I took my spare key with me, so I don't understand."

   "It could've just been a burglar ma'am."

   "Well detective Elliott, if you had did your job none of this would have happened."

    "Miss..."

    "No don't miss me I have alarms in my house that would've alerted the police, but apparently they're to busy eating donuts," I looked at him up and down," to do anything, this was my only memory of my grandfather and now it's gone, so thanks for doing your job."

    "Paris stop." Josh said while turning me around. "I'm sorry detective Elliott, she's just upset."

He didn't say a word but he was holding his stomach with both of his hands, still in shock.