Miley's POV
Today was the day I'm getting my new job. I moved all the way from Los Angeles to New York City to rid of my past. New York would be good for me or all least I hope so.
Once I entered Police Department I felt at home. Well I did work in the LAPD before I left and ask to be transfer to New York. I had no idea if it was a good decision or not but it did feel right.
Before long I was in front of the Crime Scene Investigation Division on the top floor. I was immediately greeted by a man in his late 20s.
"Welcome Miley," he blurted, "to your new job. I'm Kevin and I'm the supervisor here." I followed him as he showed me around. Every room he showed me was empty, even the lounge until he took to the main working room.
They all welcome me with open arms and they were definitely strong. "Miley this is Lilly our DNA analyst, Oliver's our chief medical examiner, and Joe's our forensic scientist."
Joe was the first one to give me a hug. "Welcome to the CSI team Miley. I can tell you off the top that it is nothing like the TV show. It can make you vomit, faint, or even make you wonder why you ever got this job."
I laughed. I just might get used to this place. "Miley, Lilly's going to assist you until you get use to this place."
Well I did. This place is so much better than my old job. No one here is over 30 and yet they're the most successful division in the New York Police Department.
My happy thoughts were interrupted when Kevin called me into his office. "Miley's here your detective badge and ID the department just sent me."
"Thanks Kevin."
"So do you like the job so far; I hope Oliver and Joe didn't you so much trouble."
"Not yet they haven't." I joked, and we started laughing together.
"That's a good thing that you like them. By the way I need you to answer some questions for department regulations and fill them on this form."
"Ok." I started filling it out in no time. "What's my blood type for?"
"Oh that's in case someone's got badly hurt and we need a blood transfusion for that person."
It made enough sense. I handed him the form and he smiled at me. "You have the same blood type as Lucas and that's a good thing since you guys are both AB- ."
"Who's Lucas?" I was wondering if he was cute. Everyone here was extremely good looking for their age.
"Oh… he's Joe's brother. He's in New Jersey to do some investigation on a recent death. He'll be back in two or three days. I can assure you he's the most normal guy in this division."
We were having a nice conversation when the phone rang. My first case on my first day. "Time for chitchat is over. Call the others. Someone just reported a death at the Jamaica Bay Refuge."
Once we arrived at the crime scene there were a women and a teenage boy presumably her son. They were kneeling and crying beside a dead body.
Joe was already examining the corpse when more backup arrived to pick up the body and bring it back to the department. "Miley can you get the imprints of the footprints please?"
"Sure Joe." The footprints served as a great possibility for justice for this dad man. Once we were back at the department I continued to help Joe and Oliver.
It was a little creepy looking at a real examination but I did get used to it after a while.
I was checking the footprints when Lilly came in. "The police just took in the only person who lived in the Refuge. You guys find anything yet?"
"Has it been raining in the last two to four days?" I asked curiously.
"Yeah there was heavy rain and then a heat wave just in the last three days."
"Good. Did you guys get his shoe size?"
"He's a size 7 regular."
"That's a good thing because he's innocent for sure."
"Are you sure I mean he's pretty suspicious Miley. He kept saying he's the murderer."
"I'm one hundred percent sure it isn't him. Come on I think I can make him tell us everything."
We walked together to the elevator and went to the fifth floor where he was taken into custody. Once I look at his face, straight into his eyes I saw his innocence.
"I know you're innocent you just don't want to tell us who the real culprit is."
"What do you want with me?"
"Is your shoe size 7 rights?"
"Yeah so?"
"We got the footprints that were beside the body when the person who actually killed him left behind. There was heavy rain that day and then a heat wave so the footprints would have gotten smaller up to half an inch. Your shoe size is too small."
He was speechless. "Now you could tell me who the real murderer is or leave the man that died no justice."
I presume he gave up and listened to me. Lilly opened the file and started jotting down things as I finished speaking.
"It was two days ago, I was taking a hike like I usually do when I saw him chasing a woman and a teenage boy."
I thought for a second. Lilly took out a picture of mother and son we met at the crime scene. They were his wife and son.
"Yeah that's them." He continued with a blank expression on his pale face. "He wanted something from them. He chased them with a gun and he tripped and dropped the gun."
"His wife picked it up and it looked quick clear that she wanted to kill him. Her son tried to stop her and took it from her. She struggled with him for the gun and the trigger was pulled. The gun was in his hand. He immediately dropped it and I saw tears coming out of his eyes. She panicked and pulled him away."
He was crying. "I saw them and they saw me. When she noticed me, she and her son walked over to me. Before I knew it she was on her knees begging me not to say anything. I agreed."
"Thank you for your time Mr. Corrigan."
Lilly and I were about to leave until someone came in. "Sorry to interrupt you guys but Mrs. Wilson just confessed that she killed her husband."
"Stop her because she didn't kill him."
When Lilly and I stepped out and saw that her son already confessed. We talked to Detective Jesse Roy who was in charge of this case and most of the cases that my division handles.
"No problem. We'll task the judge to have some mercy on him."
"Thank you."
When we were leaving I noticed Lilly glanced back and looked at me and chuckled. "He likes you Miley."
"What? Who?"
"Don't tell me you didn't notice the way he looked at you. I have never seen him look at anyone like that before. He probably likes the fact that you were nice to them."
"He does not like me Lilly."
When we entered the elevator a hand stuck in and stopped it from closing. Oh boy how do I tell him I'm not interested?
"Sorry… I just… I wanted to know if you would like to go to dinner with me."
"I'm sorry but I have some things I have to do at my new apartment." I quickly pressed the elevator button. I did not want to continue this chat any longer.
"Miley why did you reject them like that? I mean he's a great guy and great looking."
"What? I don't like him, and how awkward would it be to look at the guy you just rejected. Besides I actually need to do my apartment." My phone suddenly rang.
"Hello…What!" I couldn't believe it.
"Hey what happened Miley?"
"The apartment I just bought was on fire and almost the whole building collapse. I'm homeless before I even moved in. I have to go down to the owner's office to get my money back. Well at least it's double."
"How much did you pay?"
"I bought for half a million. I'm a millionaire and yet I'm homeless."
"You could move in with me. I mean it's pretty big and it's like 15 minutes from here."
"Thanks Lilly. You just made by day a whole look better."
Lilly ended up telling me about the craziest things that happened in the team. Kevin, Joe, and Oliver were sitting around talking about stuff or something. It was Joe who broke the silence.
"So what happened in the last 30 minutes ladies?"
Lilly answered him. "Well we found the killer, Jesse asked Miley out and she rejected him, Miley became a millionaire when her new apartment was burned down, and she's moving in with me."
They all mouthed "wow." The five of us went to Yerba Buena and sat at a booth for lunch. Kevin was the greatest boss ever when he offered to pay. I never knew a boss that was generous enough to pay a two hundred dollar bill.
"Come on Kevin, I want to pay the bill. It's my first day."
He pulled the bill away from in front of me. "No… It's my treat. You can let me pay the bill or we'll be stuck here trying to pay the bill until midnight."
"Fine."
"You're lucky Miley I had to pay a three hundred dollar bill on my first day," Oliver complained with his arms crossed.
"You're a man, and she's a lady. Now suck it up and move on, it's been two years," Lilly said in my defense.
I spent the rest of the day mostly working with Joe. There was moment when he pulled me into a deep hug. The words came out of his mouth was what made me surprised.
"You know I love you Miley. Your pretty, nice, attractive, blonde, beautiful blue eyes," eh stop after the beautiful blue eyes remark. I notice he was looking at straight at Lilly. I pulled him into the lounge before anyone could notice something was going on.
"You like Lilly don't you Joe?" I was being serious. They were great with each other.
"I don't like her."
"Joe do I look like I'm a blue eyed blonde to you Joe?" I was definitely being serious. "You like her just admit it."
"Fine I like Lilly but please don't tell her."
"What's going on in here?" We both turned around and notice Lilly was staring at us.
"Nothing." We both looked at each other. "I was just telling Joe what type of coffee I want from Starbucks."
Joe looked at me oddly. "Yeah… coffee… what type do you want Miley?"
"Get me a frappuccino with extra whipped cream."
"Yeah me too," Lilly added. Joe actually smiled when Lilly talked. I pulled him outside where Oliver and Kevin were talking about something.
Joe broke the silence. "Miley… coffee really?"
"What do you want to tell her that… I don't tell her that you have a crush on her. Just get the coffee and come back as fast as you can."
"Did I hear coffee?" Oliver interrupted us.
"Yeah Joe's going to Starbucks right now to getting frappuccinos right now."
"Get me one two."
"Me three," Kevin added.
"Miley you're not helping me at all."
"Here's thirty bucks, run down there and get the frappuccinos. We'll talk about the you know what later."
"I can't believe you turn me into a coffee boy in 10 minutes."
Joe and I chat until it was quitting time. I was sure everyone kept eyeing us when we were whispering and laughing.
Lilly was acting a little strange once I actually took time to notice the emotions on her face after I finished moving my stuff into her apartment.
I notice that she has a lot of picture of her and Joe together. "I notice that you and Joe were really close together Miley."
"Yeah… and I see that you and Joe are really close aren't you?"
"What," she laughed. "No… why would you think that?"
"Because I see you have like ten pictures of you and Joe together."
"They were group pictures."
"Then why are you two the only one in these frames and someone else's hand the only thing in these pictures with you. It looks like all the pictures were cut by scissors."
"Um.. nothing."
"You like Joe don't you?"
"I do not. I'm going to make dinner now."
"Hey Lilly you want to have dinner with me tomorrow at La Grenouille."
"Sure why not."
Once I made sure Lilly was asleep I phoned Joe. "Joe we're going to dinner tomorrow night to La Grenouille at 7."
"Make sure to dress nice. It's a fancy restaurant."
I had to get them together. They were pathetic at love.
Nick will be introduce in the next chapter. I'll be updating this soon since I've already thought of the next few chapters.