(Okay, it's ABOUT time I updated "The Murder in the Ocean". I hope I get a lot more reviews for this story as well as my other ones. Thanks to BlackShiniChan, LazyTantei, Animefangirl2007, Mew Ichi, and Umi Sagara for reviewing. I hope you guys will review "A Chance of a Lifetime" -- my joint story with Umi Sagara. I'm only getting ONE review per chapter!! That's not even good. Come on, people, I want more reviews for that story -- I'm using the Japanese names for God's sakes!! Okay, I should cool down now and start off this chapter.)

Copyright 2007

(Jimmy's P.O.V.)

The lifeguard must be connected to this murder, he's the only one who recognized the corpse, I thought.

"Hey, Kudo," Mathew said to me.

"You think the lifeguard did it? He's the only one who recognized the corpse."

"Yeah, I think he did it," I said to Mathew.

"He's the top and only suspect on my list... so far."

"Didn't it seem a little odd when the body hit Serena's leg?" Mathew asked me.

"Yeah, it was found underwater because--" I said, cutting short my sentence.

Mathew and I ran back to the body and checked the pockets of the corpse's swimshorts. Instead of rocks, we found about 4 golf balls in the pockets.

Golf balls? I thought.

"Somebody must have filled up Larry's pockets with the golf balls after murdering him, and then dropped him into the ocean," I told Mathew.

"Yeah, and I thought there were rocks inside," Mathew said to me.

"Me too," I said.

"I'll go tell Inspector Meguire," Mathew said to me.

"Yeah, go," I said to him.

I think I've got it right now, I thought as I put on my T-shirt.

I know how it was done... now the only question is: who did it?

I looked around at the whole crowd. I noticed Larry's wife, Martha and his little boy, Devin was in the crowd as well. Was it the lifeguard, or Martha. I knew that Larry must have been murdered out at sea.

His wife, Martha is the only one who could've done it, I thought.

(Rachel's P.O.V.)

Meanwhile, while Mathew and Jimmy were tending to the case, I was still trying to convince the crowd that Serena was innocent. She was innocent after all; about eight times out of ten the one who found the body was not the murderer. I couldn't wait to get this over and done with because the crowd still thought that Serena was the murderer when she really wasn't. When I looked at her, I noticed she wasn't wearing her headband she normally wore.

"Serena, where's your headband?" I asked.

She ran her hand through her hair and found out that I was right. To my surprise, Serena didn't gasp.

"Oh, it's right where we set down our stuff," She said, finally remembering where she put it.

"Mathew wanted to see me without my headband unlike other times that I've been on the beach or anywhere else."

"What is he, your accomplice?" Somebody asked.

"How dare you!!" Serena retorted.

"He's my boyfriend for pete's sake!!"

She went back to our spot and sat down to get away from the crowd. I followed her. I looked back at the crowd with a scary look on my face.

"You see what you lame brains have done?" I said to them with all the anger I had.

"You haven't given my best friend a chance for innocence and instantly assuming she did it!! Well, she didn't!! Just because she found the body doesn't mean she did it!! You should all be so ashamed!!"

I followed Serena back to our spot. When I got there, she was sitting on her towel with a long look on her face.

"Serena, you didn't do it," I said to her.

"I know that, Rachel!!" Serena said, sounding pretty angry.

"But that crowd of dunces and chumps still think I did it; I found the body, which means I didn't do it!!"

"I think eight times out of ten, whomever discovers a corpse is not the killer," I said to her.

"But what does it take for that crowd to open their eyes and have them convinced that I didn't do it?" Serena asked me.

I remained silent and looked for Serena's headband.

"Serena, not to change the subject, but look at your headband," I said.

(Serena's P.O.V.)

I looked over at my headband and noticed about 1 pint of blood on both sides.

"What the-" I said.

"How in the world did that blood get there?" I asked Rachel.

"Serena, I wish I knew," Rachel said, hanging her head a little.

"But I refuse to believe that you did it because you found the body; you have no motive for killing the guy. And most of all, the only ones who know you didn't do it are me, Jimmy and Mathew."

I saw Rachel stand up with my headband.

"What are you going to do with my headband, Rachel?" I asked.

"I'm gonna show this to Inspector Meguire," Rachel answered.

"No don't!!" I said, grabbing a part of Rachel's swimsuit.

"Inspector Meguire is gonna think that I did it as well," I answered.

"No he isn't," Rachel responded, trying to get me to believe her.

"Come on, Serena, you gotta come with me."

"Okay," I said.

Rachel and I went to Inspector Meguire to let him know what we found.

"Inspector," Rachel called.

"Look at this."

Inspector Meguire turned and took a look at my headband.

"Hmm, there's a pint of blood on Serena's headband," The Inspector said.

He turned to one of his officers.

"Get this to the lab -- I want Serena's headband analyzed a.s.a.p.," Inspector Meguire said.

One of his officers took my headband to have it checked out.

"Inspector, will your officers return my headband when they're done?" I asked.

"Yeah, it'll be returned Serena," The Inspector said to me.

"Do you think I did it?" I asked him.

"I can't answer that question, Serena," Inspector Meguire said to me.

"I'm sorry."

End of chapter.

(Okay, that will wrap up another one. I hope I'll get a lot of reviews for this story. I don't know how long I'll make this murder case as well as this story.)