I rushed into the police station heading straight to detective robles office, but when I arrived at the door, a police officer had stood outside stopping me from making an entrance.
"Please I need to speak to Detective Robles" I demanded in confusion
"his busy come some other day"
"but it's urgent" I exclaimed
"well his not around "
"why are you lying I can hear his voice from inside"
"ma'am I said his busy " he yelled out loud.
I felt so confused at that moment, it seemed detective Robles didn't want to hear from me anymore. But I refused to give up so easily, I sat on a bench outside his office as I waited for him.
twenty four minutes of waiting, Mr Robles got out of his office with a black mini bag on his arm. I rushed as fast as I could towards him.
"please I need to speak to you"
"oh my World. Ma'am why do you persist on frustrating me "
"no that's not my plan, please can you do me a favour"
"what do you want"
"may I watch the CCTV footage from the convenient store "
"why? "
"I just want to see the lady on the video, from the description you gave me, I want to watch the video, I might know the lady in it"
"okay, from the description I gave, can you point out one person that matches that description "
"please just let me watch the video first, I don't want to point fingers on anybody "
"okay, follow me"
He welcomed me into his office, I took a sit as I await his arrival, he had gone to get the flash drive where the footage had been stored.
Few minutes later he arrived with the flash on his hand, he took his sit as he placed the flash drive into the laptop.
He focused the laptop screen at me as he stared at me with all seriousness. I strained my eyes taking a closer view of the footage, I could see a lady in it, everything about her was like that of Brenda, the way she walked her posture and all that.
"so do you know the lady"
"she looks so much like my friend Brenda"
"so have you heard from Brenda"
"No, she's been out of town for months, she didn't even come for Christmas"
"when last did you two talk"
"well we've not spoke on phone for a while, just texts and they're always brief."
"where did she travel to"
"Oklahoma, her mom said she got a new job"
"so all of a sudden your boyfriend dies, your friend gets a new job at a new place and now she missed Christmas, she's obviously hiding"
"but I don't think she has any motive to kill him, they barely knew each other"
"you can never know what is in the mind of people, we're going to take this case to the FBI, we could make her wanted, but as for now I want you to call her right here"
"okay" I pulled out my phone from my purse I dialed Brenda's number, but she wasn't answering.
A minute later I receive a text from her.
At work please we'll chat later
I showed the text to detective Robles
"This is what she sent "
"oh I see. We'll have to trace the IP address so we could locate her, we don't have anytime to waste"
"okay" I said.
It was about six thirty when I walked into the house after a very long day, my mom was nowhere to be seen around the couch, that would always be her usual spot.
I sluggishly walked up the stairs as I head over to my mom's room.
I gently knocked on the door and opened it slightly.
"come in" my mom said
I walked into the room as I closed the door, my mom laid next to junior Joel as she watched him sleep.
"hey how was work, you've been gone for so long?" she said
"I didn't go to work today"
"oh!, why is that? "
"I went to the police station "
"oh okay, have they found anyone, are they new clues"
"well I watched the CCTV footage from the convenient store where the van was found, and the lady in the video..." I paused for a second putting on a frown.
"...she looked so much like Brenda"
"what?? " my mom yelled out in shock
"I don't want to believe that she's the one, but they're so alike "
"dear I know you wanna find Joel's killer, but don't jump into such conclusions, you don't want to loose your friend either"
"no I don't, but what if she did it"
"dear what motive would she have "
"I don't know, i'm just confused"
I kept wondering in my thoughts, I felt so confused for a moment my mom and I didn't say anything to each other.
"so what's the police planning "
"well they are planning on tracing her through her phone, you know that whole bunch of stuffs that the police does"
"yeah I understand " she said with a serious face.
"okay let me go clean up, how's my baby, I hope his been a good boy, hope he didn't stress you " I said with a huge grin
"no, he has been really calm"
"just like his father " I said with a huge smile.
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Close Enemy
Mystery / ThrillerAllie is twenty-five year old journalist, she lived a life of deceit without knowing her true identity, she only served as a bait to the one person she ever trusted which was her mother. All her life she always pleased her mother until she made one...
