Mystic

Chapter 2; The Picture

Jack

I feel kind of drowsy after sleeping at 2:00 a.m. and waking up at 5:00 in the morning. I looked at myself in the mirror and scanned my eyes, I hope my eyes aren't obvious enough to make my parents feel like I haven't slept for the night.

I wasn't really interested in school, but to gain some knowledge I was kind of forced with it. School is normal as usual, noisy students gathering and gossiping, some grade consious students who study although it is the first day of school. But, here I am lonely walking towards the room I am destined with. I just wish all the lesson would finish anon. Whilst the noisy students I just wore my earphones and played a song.

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After all those boring lessons I could finally stand up and relax myself, ready to go home. Pagka-uwi ko sa bahay nakita ko si dad na may kausap sa telepono. My dad is a private detective he always solve cases but sometimes he's too lazy to even accept a job offer that has higher prices unless it costs a million.

"Jack! Tara!" He suddenly grabbed my hand and called a taxi.
"And where are you bringing me?" I said annoyingly.
"Well, hahahaha! Gusto kong tularin mo ako!! Isang magaling at famous na detective. May case tayo. Let's go!!" He said.

I just sighed. Pagka stop ng taxi bumaba na kami ni dad. May mga police na naka-abang sa labas ng isang mansion. "Henry Frost, a private detective and he's my assistant" My dad said and showed his I.D. they then let us in.

The mansion was too big, their two big doors are wooden, but expectations never meets reality in this place; I was expecting a big chandelier and a beautiful staircase but what I saw is a dead body lying beside the staircase. I actually wanted to complain because I was called an 'assistant' but my gaze turned to a familiar student.

I think she's one of my schoolmates, parehas kasi ito sa uniform ng girls sa school namin. Now that I remember naka uniform pa pala ako, my dad suddenly grabed me when I just got home that's why I didn't even got changed.

I came near her but she was too serious with inspecting the place, she wasn't even scared to look at the corpse; she even smelled the corpse's mouth. But the question is.... how did she enter in here? Paano siya pinayagang mag imbestiga. "Ahhhhh! Kayo pala Henry! Jack! Sumama ka pala!" Tito Jim one of the police officers said. "Si Inspector?" Dad asked. "Andoon nag iinvestigate." Turo ni Tito kay Inspector Ruiz, you might be asking why I know them; well my father sometimes brought me in some of his cases to 'watch' but I was scared to even touch the corpse. Hindi sa duwag ako ayaw ko lang talagang humawak ng patay and I'm not interested in being a detective.

Lumapit naman kami kay Inspector Ruiz na nakikipag usap sa school mate ko.
"Oh andito na pala kayo. Ipapakilala ko sa inyo itong si J! Nasolve niya yung case last time kaya pinagbigyan ko siyang isolve ang case ngayon. J, sila nga pala si Private Detective Henry Frost at si Jack Frost." Pagpapakilala ni Inspector Ruiz.

We just exchanged glances. "Ang biktima pala ay si Jonathan Billies. Company owner siya kaya madami siyang kalaban. Mga 68 years old. Namatay siya mga 7:40 p.m. to 8:10p.m.. Binaril siya sa ulo niya kaya namatay siya kaagad. Natagpuan siya ng kaniyang body guard na si Mr. Santiago pagka-uwi niya dito sa mansion. Burglary ang nagyari dito dahil nawala lahat ng mga alahas niya sa kaniyang kwarto, pero pinipilit ni J na murder daw ito." Inspector Explained.

"I think na pinatay siya habang nag bru-brush. Naka hawak siya ng brush at amoy toothpaste ang bunganga niya. Pinatay siya habang nasa staircase pero sa kwarto naganap ang pagnanakaw. Iisa lang naman ang entrance at exit." J explained. I suddenly got interested in the case kaya lumapit ako sa corpse.