Chapter1: Summer
"I absolutely love the last day of school!" Yuka yawned in delight, " Study halls all day, perfect time to think about the new swim suit I'm going to buy!" She ended her sentence with a wicked smile, that only she could pull off.
"Honestly I agree for once with you, I mean us hitting the beach, together, this is going to be the best summer yet!" Eri said smiling her own lopsided grin. "And Kagome is getting her drivers license soon too so we will have a ride instead of the bus right? Kagome, are you listening to me?" Eri kindly knocked the book out of Kagome's hand. It closed with a snap.
"Hey! I lost my page, it's going to take forever to find it again!" Kagome frowned, slipping her reading glasses off her face and placing them on the desk in front of her.
"Well you were the one reading on the last day of school! Really, who does that?" Yuka asked taking the book from Kagome's desk. "Natsuo Kirino ,whose that?"
"A very good author who writes murder mysteries" Kagome said, detached.
"Of course Kagome's reading a mystery book, she's Japan's own Nancy Drew" Eri chided, "She can never turn down a good mystery"
"Exactly," Kagome laughed, stuffing her book into her bag and joining fully into her friend's conversation, "Remember I always find you guys stuff when you think ' someone stole it' so be grateful!"
"Speaking of lost stuff where is Ayumi, I haven't seen her all day and we have all the same classes" Yuka scratched her chin, "I swear she got off the bus this morning "
"Really now?" Kagome got that twinkle in her eye that she got when she was planning something.
"Yeah, I mean Ayumi is like the 'voice of reason' I doubt she would skip class" Eri added.
Kagome grabbed her 'detective notebook'. She had it since she was in 5th grade and her love of solving mysteries began. It was a leather bound diary type book with pages sticking in and out of it. It was old but it was her pride and joy. Any suspicious activity she noticed, any mystery she stumbled across was noted inside, solved inside, everything was inside that notebook for her. "Tell me what you know" She said steely eyed.
"Now our little detective is on the case!" Yuka chuckled, "Relax Kagome! I'm sure that Ayumi just got called to the office or something."
"Yeah, I guess your right….nothing to solve here, case closed." Kagome closed her notebook with a snap stuffing it into her bag. She told herself her friends were right. No mystery was developing at all. Her friend was just got called to the office or something and had to stay there. The bell rang, the normal dull sound that signaled the end of classes.
Kagome grabbed her bag waved goodbye to her friends and promised to save their seats at lunch. With a final look into their direction, she walked out of the room and to her Literature class.
On her way to class she had to walk past the office. The only difference this time was outside stood two NPA officers with a crying Ayumi in between two officers.
"What's going on here?" Kagome asked one of the officers, using her ' I'm not a child' voice.
"Shouldn't you be getting to class young lady?" Was his answer, however Kagome was put of that easily
"I want to know what's going on with my friend"
"Its okay Kagome" Ayumi said, her voice quivering with tears, " I just have a family emergency. They are taking me to my parents"
"Well if you say its alright then okay, call me when you can" Kagome said, giving a glare to the officers as they led her away.
Kagome knew something wasn't right. This was just the beginning.
She was starting to regret summer.