Our Little Game

Resentment

          It was my third day of work after Mr. Anderson's "sign-off" and "early retirement". I got my own office now, I keep a good number of decorations on my desk. Some souvenirs from the time I visit Rome, a copy of To Kill A Mockingbird, one of those replicas of Newton's cradle art of motion, a dagger placed on a stand, and finally three pictures, on one side there's one of me and Robin, and the second one being a sonogram of the baby. On the other side there's a picture of me, Robin, Eliana, and Francisco when we travelled to Europe after high school graduation. I went over to Italy for the first time when I was about fifteen, and when I told Eliana about it she wanted to plan another trip, this time with everyone else. I remembered how I decided to stay at the hotel one day because I was still tired. Knowing them of course I woke up only two hours after they left the hotel. It's was Eliana trying to speak over a huge crowd of people, "Um, Lloyd I got a question.", I admittedly stopped her there, "You're lost and you want me to come find you and pick you up?". She paused for a good minute and I heard her again, "Yeah we left Francisco to do the navigated, he said since he knows Spanish it'll practically be the same.". Francisco is always known for being the one in the group to do something stupid. Thinking irrationally is just his thing, and we just accept him for it. I found them by the Trevi Fountain, but since I didn't want to waste an opportunity there, I convinced them that we all do the tradition of throwing a quarter over our left shoulder. According to the tradition if you throw a coin over your left shoulder with your right hand than its guaranteed you'll come back to Rome. I think Eliana got cranky by the end of everyday cause it was too difficult and confusing getting a car over there so we had to walk to most places. Trust me when I say walking around Rome will probably be one of the most tiring things you could ever do with your life. Well we didn't walk everywhere, we did buy a metro card for the five days we spent over there. I had to go with them to most places even though they tried to give me the excuse, "We know Spanish we'll be okay" but I'll always say, "Your Central American and Caribbean Spanish isn't going to help you here, you ever heard of dialects.". I'm not exactly what a normal person in Rome or most of Italy would say fluent in Italian, but I do know my way around. Most people do recognize my American Accent or that it'll take a minute or two to make a sentence. Another thing is I was mostly taught Italian in school, not by my family, I did learn a handful of useful things but I mostly know what I do from my teachers. It's a good thing for us that most of the people in central Rome know English or they would of been on the other side of the country. Although it was fun introducing them to that culture, and it was exciting when I got introduced to it myself. It was fun while it lasted, I hope one day I'll bring the new baby to Rome with the rest of us. I wonder what language is he going to pick up, he might learn Italian or maybe Spanish. I might be the only person he knows that'll speak Italian, I'm not even sure if I'll have the time to teach, maybe I can gat him a teacher. It'll definitely help him through life, learning another language.
After looking through the suspect list for the Grey Killer I noticed something, I looked through all the names. They weren't in order but I said them out loud. I crossed out my killings and said all the copycat killer's targets by last name in order, "Adams, Allan, Attalaia, Riley, Tristen's last name was Bailey, I was the reason for his death but I didn't put the grey mark near the scene so he must of been next on their list anyways. Then Sean who's last name was was Fylan and his girlfriend whose last name was Turner, he then attacked Skylar and slashed her in her left arm, Skylar's last name is Grey, but she didn't put it into report. Although she said it was at least a couple of days before Robin got stabbed in her right arm. Robins last name on the class roster is Moreno, and she's right under Skylar." I think I've finally got a map of what this sneaky little rat is trying to do. If you don't count the significant others then you'll notice that the killer usually attacks in alphabetical order. If they attacked Robin last then that means, I'm next.
           I have to tell Lucious about this fast, he might not believe me though, especially since I don't have to much proof from what public files know. I should although have enough to convince him with what we already got. Last time I checked though he should be coming back in about half an hour. I called Robin to make sure she was safe.
          I spoke the moment I heard someone pick up the phone, "Hey Robin how has your day been?"
           "Hey Lloyd, my day has been amazing, I'm here with Eliana, she's showing me pictures of her parent's wedding." She sounds like she's very excited and happy.
           "Did you guys go over anything?"
          "Not much just talking about you and Frank and other girl stuff."
          "So you guys just ate, played video games, and reminisced through the day."
          "You know us so well.", she chuckled as we said goodbye to each other.
           As I hung the phone up Skylar walked into my office, "So how's the promotion?" I responded back, "Good, still not used to it though." She stood up straight, "How so?" I looked up responding, "Cause it doesn't really feel like I deserve it." We shrugged off the conversation and I asked, "So did you decide what you're going to do with that degree?" Her expression quickly changed to excitement, "Yeah I'm going to teach at the University, I'm their new first class Forensic teacher." I congratulated her on her new achievement, she then mentioned how she was at the restaurant during Susan incident, she told me how she was on the field and barely avoided the crowd. I got up and walked to the entrance of the building, and just as I got there Lucious was walking up to the door. I told him we needed to talk and explained the whole scenario and realization as he got to his desk and sat down.
         He looked up at me, "You're right they have been targeting people in this order, if you're right they're most likely coming for you or Robin." I responded, "He might come back for us later and go for who's next on the list, Gianna Newman." Lucious looked up at me, "I'm sorry to tell you this Lloyd but we just came back from a call, Gianna is already in the hospital, she was attacked earlier today and she's on life support, the doctors don't know if she'll make it or not.  She's on Anesthesia and other meds but she might pull through." I looked back and asked "Did they find anything on her when they pulled her in?" That was when Lucious turned away, "They found a gray rag next to her, so they know it was who we think it was." I started to walk away ending the conversation, "Try to get protection for Fredrick Nixon, he's the next possible target, and watch out for Gianna cause it's summer and we all know how New York gets in the summer." Lucious stopped me with a question, "How come the killer didn't go for you?" I stepped into the elevator and responded, "Cause you don't kill the player, remember what he said it's "our little game" and they're probably saving me for last." The elevator closed as I finished my statement and went up. If they are saving me for last, let them come get me, cause I'll be right here waiting for them.