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Chapter 2: Confrontation

I stepped away to make a call, I just had to see if this Kristoph thing was true. The phone was ringing for what felt like an eternity. Finally I was greeted with a strong female voice on the other side.

"Hello? Apollo?"

"Yeah, hey Ema."

"APOLLO! How's it going, you guys just get back from the trip, how was it?"

"It was fine. Now I need to ask about something."

"Let me guess: you heard about Kristoph?"

"So it is true… Do you have any suspects yet?"

"We just found some prints, and we're analyzing them."

"Oh... say I'm wondering; how's Klavier doing?"

"I probably would have told you anyway. He asked to help with the investigation, but all he did was get on his knees and pray while we were in the cell."

"Well, thanks for telling me. I wanted to know if it was true."

"Anytime Polly!"

"ACK! Why did you call me that?" A sharp pain shot through my chest as she said that dreaded name.

"Well Trucy seems to call you that alot and I thought since we were friend's tha-"

"Please Ema, I don't want to be called that name anymore, and I think you should know why."

"Uhh... (GASP) OH MY GOD! I'm so sorry Apollo!"

"It's alright; I just hope that she got what she deserves."

"Actually Apollo, I really wanted to talk to you about her." I then felt my bracelet get tighter, but it was because of me. I was nervous in hearing anything about her.

"What is it?"

"It's kind of embarrassing to say this but…"

"JUST TELL ME ALREADY!"

"ALRIGHT ALREADY! She… managed to escape death row… twice."

"WHAAAAAAT?"

"Yeah. The thing that struck us as odd is that she came back after she escaped, and then escaped death row AGAIN!"

I wasn't listening, I was still stuck on Rhea. Rhea Wits, a serial killer who murdered several people just for the sake of getting attention. She was the real killer of Judge Chambers, our most faithful judge who was brutally killed after being suspected of a murder that never happened (pour guy). Rhea always called me "Polly", so every time someone says that … it reminds me of her. "Well, let's just get back on topic."

"Right, well, there's not really anything tha-" She just stopped all of a sudden. I heard faint whispering from the other end of the line. "SERIOUSLY?" That loud remark scared me.

"Apollo, we have a suspect now bu-"

"Really? Who?"

"Well… I'm not sure if you would want to hear this."

"That's for me to decide. Now what's their name?

"Well...Her legal name is..."

She told me the name and I grew wide-eye'd. "Thanks Ema, now I think there's a certain man that needs to know about this."

"Wait, APOLLO DON'T! HE WON'T BE ABLE TO TA-" I hung up before I got yelled at. I thought for a moment and knew it was the right thing to do.

I walked back there after that with a serious and troubled face. I looked back at Trucy, "We need to get to the detention center. There may be someone I have to defend…"

"But Pol-" I walked away because I didn't want to hear her finish that word. She got an angry face and furiously followed me. It took about 10 minutes to get to the detention center from the mall, by car. We didn't have a car so it took about 20 minutes to get there. Mr. Wright was closer to the detention center then we were so I called him, " Mr. Wright, meet us at the detention center in 20 minutes." He replied in lazy tone, "Aw, come on I'm just about to figure which samurai brother gets the noodle girl." I replied quickly, "Whoever the main character is, NOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT! It involves you, and Kristoph?" He was silent for a moment, but he answered sternly and quickly. " Okay, I'll be there."

We walked through the already suspenseful air and made our way to the visitor's room. We found Mr. Wright waiting impatiently for us to show up. "Apollo, fill me in." I walked over to him, "Yes sir." Trucy was standing next to the visitor's window when next to her showed up a very beautiful woman wearing a purple kimono like outfit. Her hair was black with two braids coming from the front to the back. Trucy was still in the dark about all of this, so she didn't even recognize the woman. Also vis versa, the woman didn't know Trucy. The woman asked Trucy, "Uh, excuse me..." Trucy turned around, "...do you know Feenie?" Trucy was confused, "Feenie? Oh you mean daddy!" The woman gasped and teared a little bit. Mr. Wright walked over to us very quickly and spoke to the woman with excitement, "IRIS!" The woman replied with a sweet, but upset tone, "Feenie, I'm so happy to see you...but..."

"What is it Iris?"

"I never heard that you had a daughter" Sister Iris said with a tear. Trucy jumped in.

"Adopted." She said calmly to Iris.

"Oh..." Said Iris looking relieved, but I could perceive her lipping: "that's good"

"No Rissy, I was just taking care of her for a while when her father disappeared."

I walked up to join in, "But then he found our mother and now she is Trucy's legal guardian."

Mr. Wright was giving me a slightly disappointed look, "Apollo! Why aren't you getting excited, today she gets out after 7 long years." There was pin-drop silence for about 5 seconds. I looked up at Iris, "I'm sorry Miss Iris...they don't know yet." Mr. Wright and Trucy got very confused faces. "I'll just tell you guys that...they found a suspect for Kristoph's murder." There was another dead silence for another 5 seconds. Then, Mr. Wright and Trucy about the same time became wide-eye'd. Mr. Wright looked over at Iris in disbelief, "Is this true?" She didn't reply with single word. Only a scared face that was begging for help. I walked up to the window next to the chair, "Mr. Wright is currently in a situation where he can't help you, so take this." Iris looked at it puzzled for a second, "A letter of recommendation?" I told her the truth about Mr. Wright, then she suddenly became very sad, "Okay...I'll let you defend me, but only if my Feenie confirms you too!" Mr. Wright just snickered and then said, "At this very moment, he's the only thing in this world that can help you now." She turned to me and gave me a very warm smile, "You remind me of Feenie when he defended me all those years ago." Somehow...this gave me confidence. Even though I just became the defense in this case, there are already so many problems in this case that just don't add up. The biggest problem with this case is the fact that everything happens precisely to the exact day and it just seems off, oh well...I'm just going to have to utilize the investigation that is conveniently happening two yards away. I just hope Ema will be as friendly as she was on the phone...