As Isabella hangs up the phone, Jaydee looks at her in awe.
"You're gonna do the case still?! But why?" Jaydee asks.
"Well, I have one reason and one reason only-"
"You love me don't you?"
"What- NO! I'm only doing it because whoever tried to shut me down, most likely is the same person behind this. So it's already giving me a good place to start."
"Oh, yeah I guess that makes sense too. So where are you gonna start investigating?"
"Here, I wanna go through the camera history of this place, and ask you questions about last night while it's still fresh in your head. And then I'll go to The Lefebvre Manor, do the same, and come up with possible suspects from there."
"O~ so is this gonna be like a 20 questions thing people do on dates?"
"No, I'm gonna ask you questions, you're gone answer them, and then I'll look at the house's camera videos to see if it all adds up. So let's begin, what were you and Ms. Lefebvre's plans for last night?"
"We went out to go celebrate her recent movie passing the test audience and premiere Friday night. Are you familiar with it?"
"I heard it's a romance, back to the questions. What time did you leave last night, and who was driving that night?"
"Around 10pm, and we got her private driver to get us to the "Five O'clock Bar" where we stayed until midnight."
"And what happened afterwords?"
"Well, Evony called her driver to pick her up, and she offered me a ride home. So I accepted, but on the way back, her driver works for a company and drives around multiple people, and it happened that someone else called to get a drive. Evony being the sweetie she is, didn't mind picking up this person along the way."
"Who was this person?"
"I don't know, they had to get in the front seat, and I never got a chance to get a look at them. I was sat behind them, but I only know that it's some guy who lives in the same area. He insisted that he could walk there from Evony's place, she told the driver to drop me back off at my place, and that's exactly what happened."
"Very well, did you happen to catch where this guy went after getting out from Ms. Lefebvre's?"
"I never had a chance, he walked around the back, and the car left as soon as they both closed their doors."
"Well, thank you for your time Mr. Morrison-"
"You can call me Jaydee, it's easier to come up with a nickname."
"And why would I need to do that?"
"...Has anyone ever told you how smart you are?"
"Happens all the time. You're nothing new, now if you don't mind," Isabella stands up and takes a laptop out from her bag, "do you happen to have a USB outlet anywhere in the house?"
"I believe there's one in the living area, or the basement. Now if you don't mind," Jaydee begins to walk towards the back patio,"I'm going to get my morning swim."
Isabella heads over to the living room, and instantly finds the USB drive outlet. She plugs her laptop in, and opens up the security feed from there, she reverses back to 8:59pm last night, where she does indeed see Jaydee leave in a car, after Evony comes out to great him. Isabella then skips ahead to 12:10am, and watches Jaydee leave the the car, but from the driver's side. Odd, maybe he switched sides after they left. After seeing that all, she clued up her bag and stuff, and pet the kitten on the way out.
The kitten follows Isabella out the back door, as she finds a pile of clothing next to the side of the pool, and then looks over at Jaydee, who's in the hot tub.
"Going so soon love? Why not come in and enjoy the water?" Jaydee requests.
"I'll pass, also, how often do you just get naked when swimming?" Isabella responds, crossing her arms.
"All the time! No one ever sees a thing, plus I'm all alone~ Are you sure you're gonna go?"
Before turning out to leave, Isabella checks the time, 7am. She sighs as she walks over the hot tub, lays her stuff aside, and rolls up her pant legs.
"Aha! I'm charming enough for you after all!" Jaydee exclaims.
"Yeah yeah," she takes off her trenchcoat as she dips her feet in the hot tub, "I have lot's if time to get stuff done today, so I thought why not?"
"And~? Did my charming accent and body have nothing to do with it at all?!"
"Absolutely not. Plus it's a hot tub, it's not everyday you get asked to go to ahot tub at a strangers house."
"We're not strangers, you know who I am and vice versa."
"Walking in on you coming out of the shower naked doesn't count as knowing a person."
"You know what I- nevermind. How long do you think you can stick around?"
"Depends, do you have snacks?"
"Of course. I got something nice right here if you'd-"
"I MEANT FOOD YOU IDIOT!"
"... right sorry. It was worth a shot. But yes, in the basement there's a full closet of snacks."
"Good, I can manage until dinner."
"But I thought you were like, married to your job at this point?"
"People say a lot of things about me, though they always fail to mention that I like snacks. It's always nice you know? Plus, I rather see what fancy stuff you got. Change it up a bit I suppose."
"I like the way you talk. And also thank you for not looking down too much..."
"Why, are you nervous? I thought you were used to this whole flirting thing? It's basically you're whole reputation. Which I guess is why the press quickly accused you, either that or they wanted something spicy besides your half naked pictures all over the web."
"You looked at them~?!"
"They're like the only pictures of you of course I have! It's like you just want a million people to fall for you or something!"
"It works though, doesn't it?"
"For you, yes it sure does."
"Good. Now how about we go get a snack!"
"Yes please!"
And just like that without warning, Jaydee straight up just stands up and stretches right in front of Isabella. She looks mostly shocked as he realizes what he just done.
"Oh my God! I'm so~ sorry!" he quickly runs out and goes to get his clothes on and to get dried off.
And now with him not able to see her face, a redness covers her whole face. She quickly removes her feet as she uses a towel nearby to dry them off, and gather her stuff back together.
"I-it's perfectly fine~ No worries there sir!"
"Aha... Yeah."
Isabella quickly follows Jaydee into the house afterwords, as they head into the basement, where there's a huge closet of snacks. Along with a huge flatscreen TV and multiple gaming consoles, there's a nice big comfy couch.
"Oh. My. God. I LOVE IT!" Isabella exclaims, quickly jumping over the back of the couch, and lands on the cushions.
"Comfy right? Big improvement since high school right?" Jaydee asks, leaning over her from behind the couch.
"Uh, DUH! Back then, it was like some vintage shit. But this, it doesn't live up to the memoires from that couch. The amount of times we watched movies back then was astonishing!"
"So now we're aloud to talk about back then-?"
"Just then friendly stuff, nothing about us though."
"Fair point. So," Jaydee flings himself over the back of the couch and sits right next to Isabella, "What do you wanna do first? Play some games, watch a quick movie maybe? Perhaps take a trip back down memory lane?"
"As if, you're in deep enough shit as it is. We wouldn't want anything else making it worse for you now. Would we?"
"Fair point. I guess Video Games it is then! Would you rather shiny white or shiny gold controller?"
"I'll take the black one, brings me back to your couch ten years ago. Just, without your family waking up all the time to interrupt us. I swear we kept them up all night for the most part."
"True, they always did complain the morning after. Always blamed it on me, even though it was always your idea to come over in the middle of the night when you weren't working on a case."
"I like using my free time wisely. Plus, your place always had better snacks."
As the game boots up, the lights dim, and they get right into playing.
Around 12pm, Isabella finally decides to leave to continue her work.
"Anyways, thanks for having me over. It really has been years hasn't it?" Jaydee says, scratching the back of his neck.
"It was nothing, I just happened to have extra time in my day to chill. Though I'll most likely be working all day for the next week. It was great catching up with you though! Maybe we could hang out again when this is all over?" Isabella asks, standing just outside the door frame.
"I'm free as of now, considering that no one's gonna ask me to work for them until my name's cleared... But, no awkward feelings after whaf happened right?"
"Y-yeah," Isabella sticks her arms out for a hug, "How about a best friend hug? It's been a while since I've had one."
"Of course," Jaydee gives her a quick hug, as thw kitten begins to climb up his pants to get into his arms, "Oh hello there Fluffy! Did you want to say goodbye to Isabella too?"
Fluffy meows as Isabella nuzzles her nose.
"Please, for you. Call me Izzy."
Isabella gives Jaydee a final smirk as she heads out to her car, leaving him speachless and flustered, as a spark ignites in his eyes.
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The Morrison Scandal
Tajemnica / ThrillerA scandal begun to stir the press of Hollywood. British Star Jaydee Morrison has been accused of sleeping with Famous Director, Evony Lefebvre, and her husband doesn't believe they're innocent. So Jaydee does the only choice he has to prove the...
