Longest Novel: Fall of the Republic

by morgan kingsley

In 2018, nearly twenty years after he sold his honor and integrity to a media company for cheap money and entertainment for kids, a middle aged author decided that he wanted to make one final book in his career that would tell the truth of the adventure he had when he was young. An au of seasons 1-4 that takes place in the united. Also the world will be in dark danger.

37. Best Case of the Decade

Chapter 36: The Case of the Decade

In later July of 1986, there was an event that lasted a few days that really sort of changed the course of everybodys lives involved. There is a larger and grand story that will change the views of people who read it, but that was not the whole story. In fact, there was another shorter, less upper scale, but much more covered by the media event that lasted about three days or so that happened to have everybody involved in the other incident involved in this in some way, just without them all knowing. This event was huge right when it happened, but due to the fact that the second event happened less than a week later, this event was sort of thrown by the wayside right after it had happened.

So in July 24 1986, four days before the adventure story started, there was one of our great heroes who was inside of his bedroom. His name was Tai, and he was getting himself ready for the summer camp that he had come back home from for a couple of days when his father told him to watch his younger sister. But since his father was back again and the two of them discussed a babysitter Kari can go to, which she would go to in a very short period of time, Tai and his father agree they would go back to summer camp again for the rest of the summer on July 26. All he had to do was just wait one more day.

As he was sitting down, his younger sister Kari walked inside of the room and Tai was just not even saying anything to her and he was sort of also pretending as if he had not seen her at all, which was a terrible thing for him to do, but he was doing a good job at it so far, so he was just going to keep up at it.

But that ended soon enough when she had told him of what was going on in the living room. "There is the phone ringing. The person who called say that they needed to talk to your urgently. I tried asking them what was happening, but they told me to get you." Kari said and then as she had said that, Tai was losing his annoyance sine he was wondering why this guy was calling him now.

Tai walked up to the phone and then he grabbed the phone and then he listened to the phone for a moment, which was really scary what he was hearing, and it was showing that he did need to take the moment much more seriously. "You are needed to go to the police station right away. The police chief is wanting to talk to you. Any detours will not be accepted." The voice on the phone said and then after they had said that, Tai hung up the phone and then Tai told Kari he would be gone for an hour and that if their dad saw him gone that it was absolutely urgent. In order to help speed up the time, Tai got on the bike and rode to the police station to get the questions over with.

Once he was inside the police station, he was sitting down for a moment and as he was waiting, he saw the guy from his summer camp cabin with the left arm cast looking at him. There was the V-Loser on his cast, which was still funny as hell but when he saw the troubled look at the guys face, Tai knew that this was not a joke, and then he got his serious face on right away. "You are expected to know everything. Not that it would surprise me, but don't try and keep them thinking that you are this smart ass." The guy said and then he rubbed his face with the hard cast and then he headed out of the police station and then Tai was wondering what the hell was going on as he walked inside of the police station.

Tai took the first seat and he was looking at the police chief, which was a middle aged man with a beard around his face and then he drank some of his coffee. There was this really hot girl next to him, a young lady, probably twenty three or so, with red hair and she was a police officer as well. But when Tai looked closer, when he saw the rings on the two people, as well as the picture on the table, was not that she was a young cop who was just working with the chief she was a young new cop that's husband was the chief of the police force and he was working with his wife to make sure that she was safe.

"This is my partner Whitney, this is her first day on the task force." The chief said, whose name was David, when he saw that T.K. was clearly confused and then he said "Yes, I get it, there's a big gap between us, we heard this from the last guy. That is not the point though. We need to ask you a few questions now."

"What exactly are you wanting to talk to me about?" Tai asked, getting serious when he was seeing that this was not something he should taking lightly as David took another shot of his coffee and then handed Tai a giant file and then when he felt how rough it was he said "You let the previous guy read it?" He could tell with the feeling of a arm cast and then David nodded.

"There is missing girl who has been hunted down by us for a few days, but with no luck. Her name is Kimberly. Here is everything that we do know about her, so go ahead and read it and see if there is anything you know, and we will ask you some questions, to see if there is anything you know about her." David said and then Tai felt like it was better to just get this over with, so he started to read it and the more he read it, the more that he was thinking he was actually knowing what to be expecting now.

The name of the girl was Kimberly Cohan, and then there was a little bit more to the girl. The girl had been eighteen years old at the time that she had been missing. She had a 2.8 GPA at high school, which was one that wasn't too great, but it certainly wasn't terrible by any means of the word. She had about seven or so really strong friends, and she did date two people back in the day, although as the file said, there was little to no knowledge of the people that she had dated, and Tai was thinking that this could have been really useful information. Tai then brought down the file and stared at David.

"So you are expecting me to know all of the answers to this missing case. I didn't even know that this person existed until less than five minutes ago. I get that you really want to find the girl, but I want you to be realistic here. You are the police chief, and you are here asking somebody who was just trying to get ready for returning to my summer camp." Tai said and while the statement was fine at first, by the end David was getting a little bit annoyed at him.

"Look, I understand that you know nothing about the girl, but you should not be a dick about it. I want to just solve the case. Her parents are feeling terrible over what happened, and from what I am seeing and hearing from people who knew her, she seemed like she was a decently special girl. I know that she may or may not even be alive, but I do not really want to take the risk." David said and then after he had said that, Tai was thinking about it and then he slowly nodded and then he brought both of his elbows onto the table as he was looking up at Whitney and winked at her. She smiled for a millisecond but then she got a face of utmost seriousness.

"I will let you ask me some questions, and I will answer the questions. I just want you to understand there is virtually no chance that this is actually going to help you in your case. If you get that, you may ask me the questions and I will give you what I can." Tai said and then after he said that, David nodded and then he asked Tai the first question.

"Now that we are understanding each other, let's get right to the point. My first question is where were you four days ago? That is when people said she had started to go missing, and I want you to think really hard on it. I know you were probably at your summer camp, but what were you doing at the camp?" David asked and then Tai actually stopped and thought about it as best as he could. He was trying to give the guy the true answer, but he was not having it in his mind.

"It was my last day before my father told me to come back. He told me that he needed me to watch my younger sister Kari. I was pissed at him for this, but there was a certain tone to his voice that was making me realize that he was not to be fucked with, so I reluctantly decided to do this to make him not get any more in my business about it." Tai explained, and then he added in "Although we did make an agreement on that when this was all done with, I would go back to camp tomorrow or something. I'm sorry, but I am trying to figure out why you are asking me this. Was Kimberly at the summer camp?"

"Look Tai, I get that you don't get why I am talking to you. I get it. You are a young man. In all reality, you are probably thinking about some hot chicks, thinking about how to pick them up. I was exactly the same way when I was a kid. Having sex with girls and all that. But I am working on a case. Tell me where the hell at the camp you were, and what you were doing. Please, I was willing to let your attitude slide earlier, but I am getting kind of over it now." David said and Tai was trying to see if he could even get this guy to understand his innocence, but he took a groan as he answered the question more in depth.

"I was hanging out with one of my friends. Her name is Sora. She and I were talking about what we were going to do when we came back to school and what classes we were going to take. We were planning on getting some of the same ones, in order to you know fuck around and have something more entertaining than listening to old men talking with each other." Tai said and then he added in one thing when he was thinking about it. "There was a little bit of a uneasy feeling to the camp owner, and he refused to talk to us."

David stopped when Tai was saying that last bit, and while he was ready to start bitching about what Tai was saying, but then when he heard about the camp head feeling worried, he thought that maybe there was something he could get about Tai "Can you please tell me more about him?"

Tai was about to ask him what he meant when it clicked to him. "Oh yeah, my camp head. Well, he didn't really talk to us when we asked him what was going on. He was just telling us that there was something about a girl calling him and sounding a bit worried. The guy said that he needed to be alone and that he needed to talk to the girl again since she would call again in a hour or so. I don't know where else this went, but it still made no sense to me." Tai said and then David nodded and got the number of the summer camp head master.

"Hello, I am police chief David. I am hearing investigating the disappearance of a young woman named Kimberly Cohan. I am wondering if you have any information regarding her getting lost, or if you don't have any idea what is going on." David said and then after he had said that, there was a moment of silence and then David said "So you have seen her? When was the last time you have seen her, and was she in the summer camp program before she had gone missing?" Tai was just listening to this, and the more that he was listening to this, the more worried he was going to get over what these following results would have been.

Tai was not daring to speak, and he was not daring to make any real big noises, and he was just staring at Whitney. Instead of last time where he was making a terrible attempt at flirting with a older woman he was doing it this time as a fear and he was just trying hard not to show how worried he had actually been over this whole thing, since in reality this was actually starting to scare the living shit out of him.

"I understand that you don't want to place anybody in danger by telling me any information, but in reality this may be the life of a young woman that we are talking about here, and if you stay here and not do anything to help me out, there is a very good chance that this woman is going to die. Do you want to have that be on your mental stability for the rest of your life?" The police chief asked and then Tai was thinking that this guy was being kind of rough with what he was saying and that the guy could have been a little bit more nice about the whole thing, but he was telling himself not to really think about that too much since he needed to get more facts, and he was thinking this guy would have the information needed.

Tai was looking outside the window of the police chiefs office and the more that he was looking around, the more he was getting scared of something just coming in the room and the more that he was thinking that there was something after him. After Tai was getting himself way too worried about all of this stuff, he looked right back at David and Whitney and he was trying himself not to think of this.

"So you talked with her about two weeks ago? And she was talking about how she was getting restless and wanted to leave the town. Alright, I will talk to her parents about that and see if they have something else to say on the matter. Thank you for that, and I will leave you alone now. That is enough of a start for me." David said and then he hung up the phone and rubbed his eyes in agitation but then looked at Tai again.

"How well did that turn out?" Tai asked casually, trying his best not to act like he was pretty much listening to the whole thing, but he figured that since there was already a lot of stuff going along with the guy, that he better not really mess around with the guy. David looked at him and Tai was no longer the biggest problem that the guy had, and then he stood up and then he was putting on the gun holster and placing the gun in there. Tai was not really sure if he was going to be scared to see this or if it was kind of badass that he was seeing this.

"Well, it turns out that I am going to have to talk to their parents for a little bit. You know what Tai, since you are here with us right now, why don't you tag along for this little interview that I am going to be having with her parents? Normally I would never ask for a young teenager to come along but consider this a bit of a job shadow. Just remember one thing though. I don't want you to say a single word during the whole interview. You can stay there, you even even listen to the whole thing, but that is all that you are getting." David said and then Tai thought about how this was the most interesting offer somebody gave him in the last several weeks, and then Tai nodded.

"Do you really think that he should be witnessing this stuff? He's only fifteen after all." Whitney said and then after she had said that, she was looking at Tai and she wasn't trying to indicate that he was a trouble maker or anything, but she was just trying to be realistic in that Tai might not really be ready for this type of material. David looked at Tai for a second and then he nodded and looked at his younger wife.

"Yeah, I think that he will be fine. I don't really thinking that there is any problems with him coming along. I trust that he will not really get in our way over what we are trying to do." David had said and then afterwards, Tai finally stood up and then he was walking outside of the room with David and Whitney, and everything was still going well up until he reached the car, and the very moment the three of them walked in the car, that was when things started to get much more crazy.

David started up the car and as he was starting up the car, he pulled out his box of cigarettes and then he started to smoke the cigarette and he was ready to go out and do his general daily investigation, and while it was normal for these things to happen, there was something about this girl that made David a little bit more annoyed at what was happening, like he really needed to stop it from getting any worse.

David was driving along, going as fast as he possibly could in order to reach Kimberly's house fast enough. He had a slight sinking feeling in him, but there was going to be very sad news about the case coming up any minute now and he was just bracing himself for it. In fact, there was a part of him that was just told me that he was wrong about it so that way there would be a slight chance that you would have to turn things around. As he was driving along Tai was looking at Whitney, and he was doing his absolute best just to remain quiet. After all, that was exactly what the police chief told him they wanted of him. And for the time being, there's sort of was no real purpose did not do what he was told to do.

Tai did believe any idea of breaking orders, and going around to do his own thing, but he always felt like there should have been like a purpose to it. He wasn't quite one of those people that would just randomly go to parties every weekend and go around doing crazy drugs and all that stuff. He had gone to one of those parties one time in his life and they just didn't really kind of like it, but he would do it again if he thought it would give him a good chance to score with girl that he liked.

The police chief was in the middle of his cigarette, about 1/3 of the way smoked, and he butted the burnt off out of his window and continued to go along the process of going through the remainder of it. Neither Tai nor Whitney decided to try and argue with him about it. After all, Whitney kind of like the smell of it on him. While she didn't do it during work hours, when the hours are out, she would have just as many as her husband when they would be sitting outside the front porch, talking about the work day. And Tai, while he didn't do it at parties he still did it. The person that was his former babysitter, a older guy named Davis, who is soon to join the military, had probably gone through a pack every single day. Seen him do that, made him do it himself.

His father was well aware of it. Despite that, he only tried to do to get his 15 year old son to stop doing it once. They just ended up agreeing that he wouldn't do it as long as he was inside the house and the sister was in house as well. But as long as he was outside or or not with his sister, then his father while reluctantly agreed to it.

Soon enough the three of them were pulled up at the front house of Kimberly's parents. David stood up and drop the finished cigarette on the ground and stomped on it.

Inside of the house, David sat down on a couch that was kind of squeaky when he did so. He was looking at the parents of Kimberly, as he was trying to think of a way to start the interview between the two of them. At first he just simply ask them how they were doing, and while he knew it was a dumb question, he was just trying to be nice. He knew that they weren't fine and he knew that they were going through a lot of stress, but he can tell that if anything they didn't need people to just be nice to them.

"We're doing okay. Just thinking a lot about our daughter. We really want her home so badly. Just thinking about the fact that she might not be here is making us go crazy. Even if the worst happens, and she just isn't alive anymore, at least it would be some form of closure. At least there would be an answer to our question. But not knowing what the answer is, and just hoping what could be a false hope just makes everything seem even worse. But if you have any information or need any questions, please ask us so that way we might be able to help out." Her mother said, as David was moving his foot and a cigarette stopping Fashion on the ground and Kimberly's father was remaining silent during this whole event, as he was just trying to process the whole thing still, really more than ever letting in the fact that his daughter might not return come to his mind.

Despite wanting to say something, and while he felt like he could make at least some contribution to the conversation, thinking that he might vaguely know where a Kimberly might be, he remembered what he was supposed to do and the fact that David told him to be quiet so Tai just remained silent the whole time.

The interview lasted another about 5 minutes or so, with David asking some questions about where Kimberly was last seen by them before she had gone missing, wondering what their perspective on the whole thing maybe. He was also not too sure if he could fully rule out the two of them as a suspect yet just on the off-chance that this was something that their parents did in order to get a publicity stunt. David knew that was very unlikely, but he needed to evaluate all the options.

Kimberly's mother said that the last time they saw her before she had gone missing was that she was going on a date. There was no further information on the date and they barely even knew that name of the guy she was going on a date with. She vaguely mentioned the fact that his name was Davis, that guy who was getting into the military. They weren't too fond of him going on a relationship with her but since she was legally old enough they knew they couldn't say about it. David asked if he could check her room and they agreed and the three people in the investigation went up and to Kimberly's room to check it out.

Right before the three of them were inside of the room, Whitney had her police phone ring and then she waited for a couple of seconds as she was listening to the news that was being exposed to her. "Alright, you want us to check the well near the outside of the town." Whitney said and then after she had said that, she was looking like there were some tears coming down her eyes and then she was listening to the rest of the call and then she just said "Alright, we will be there as soon as possible." That was the way that she had ended the conversation, and then she looked at David and Tai.

"I have some bad news." Whitney said and then she had gotten really quiet and then she said "News report says that Kimberly's dead body was found near a well at the exit of town. I said that we would be there. We must leave right away I would say." Whitney told the two guys and then after she had said that, the two guys were letting the information settle in and then they both felt like they wanted to hate the world for what had happened.

Tai was looking in the room and he was thinking about going back to the room, and then he was looking at the other two bedrooms in the house, and he was thinking that Kimberly had two siblings, and when he saw the stuff in the room for a split second as David was getting ready to check things out, that they were probably both girls. This was strange for him since he was feeling like he was starting to sort of become a little bit of a investigator. After a few seconds of this stuff going on, David went out of Kimberly's bedroom and then he yelled out at the living room to make her parents hear him. "We will come back and check the room later. We will probably be back at the end of the day. We need to check something else out." After he had said that, the three of them walked out of the house before Kimberly's parents could even try and say something to them at all.

As the three of them were in the car, David took out his second cigarette and then they started to drive over to the exit of the town and as he was doing so he was looking at Tai. "After we find the body, we are going to drop you off at the police station. I am sorry for questioning you. But I do not want you to pursue this case further at all. I want you to go home on your bike once these questions are done, and then just pretend that this never happened." David said and then after he had said that, Tai felt bad for hearing that.

Tai nodded to show his fake approval in order to make David not get in his case anymore and then he was remaining silent to be able to keep up with what he had been told to do earlier. Tai did want to figure this out though, and that was why he was going to go against what the officer said.

The three of them had reached the outside of town and then David did the same cigarette thing that he had done before, and this time Tai could tell that there was quite a bit more force put into it this time around, as if the fact that this was happening was just genuinely pissing him off. Then the three of them took a few steps further along and then as they were done with the walking, Tai was seeing the body of the girl and Tai was feeling really bad when he had seen her, as if he was about to throw up.

Kimberly was looking like she had been left outside for like two to three days, and all of the flesh in her body was starting to show. Tai realized right then and there that the day she died was the day that she had gone missing. David walked up to her and he was staring right at her for a little bit, and he was taking a moment to pray that she would have a good afterlife. Then after he was done with the praying, he stood up and stared at Whitney. "I wonder why this was so close to the well. I want us to look at the well." David said and then he started to walk towards there. Whitney was following him right along, and then Tai was very close behind, wanting to see what would happen but not wanting to do it in a way that he was going to possibly piss off the two officers and get in the way of their investigation.

What was inside of the well looked like it would have been seen in a horror case. There were like twenty to thirty bodies at the bottom of the well and they were looking like they were all forms of decayed, with some of them looking like they would be like zombie material, and some of them looking like they had been there much more recently, maybe only a couple of weeks. As the three of them stared down there, David was shining his flashlight as he was holding his fingers to his nose. Tai knew that this was now the start of a much bigger case, although he was not really sure where the case was exactly going to go.

Whitney and David stared at each other for a few seconds. Just a few seconds of them looking at each other made Tai understand perfectly what the hell they were thinking about.

"I want the entire area covered. I don't want any of this area left open. I don't care how late it has to get before this is all done." David said and he started calling up other officers to help start the investigation. Tai was still remaining silent, just obeying his orders, despite how much he had wanted to say something, because he knew that if he did, he was going to just really piss off David and make the officer feel like he was not doing this end of the deal.

"Alright Tai, it is time for me to bring you back." David said, and then he was putting the flashlight away and then he looked at Whitney and said "Alright, you guys better check the place out. I will be back in about half an hour or so." David said and then after he had said that, he and Tai started walking towards his car. This time, Tai got to be in the shot gun seat and then David was starting up his third cigarette. Tai started to pick up the pattern that David only smoked on the job when it was in the car as a sort of driving thing.

"You know Tai, I know that you probably saw more there than you ever really wanted to see. I just didn't know what to do with you since you were here and everything. But I want you to just go back to normal life. I do not in any case wish that you pursue this case. Please, for the love of god, let the police do their job and leave us alone." David said and then he was staring at Tai and then he said "Since we're away from the scene, you can talk now."

"I want to know how this gets solved though. I feel like you guys can use some help here." Tai said and then after he said that, Davis placed his hand up and he was shaking his head. He was tired of Tai having this argument with him, and this was not even really one. It had barely started, and he was already sick and tired of the fact that Tai was trying and fight with this guy at all. "But if you want me to leave it alone and let it go, I will do my best." Tai reluctantly agreed and then David nodded to show again that was indeed what he had wanted.

"I am sorry that this is happening, and I am sorry that Kimberly may have been the girlfriend of your babysitter. I feel bad for you knowing that Davis is probably not going to be in a good shape for the next few days." David said and Tai was thinking that this guy had a lot of random information if he is already well aware of the fact that Davis was his babysitter. But then Tai figured it was meant to be general knowledge.

"I will perhaps talk with him soon. Maybe I can try and comfort him or something." Tai said and then after he had said that, David pulled up at the police station and then Tai walked out of it. "If the case ever gets solved, you can come along and tell me how it went at the summer camp or something." Tai said, under the assumption that this is going to be solved sometime in the next month or so. After that, David started to drive back to the evidence area and then Tai goes to his bike to ride somewhere.

Tai grabbed something that looked like it could have been able to help him figure out some information relating to Kimberly. It was a small video recorder and curious to see what it contains, Tai starts up the tape that was in there. It had some information that Tai was confused by, wondering how the hell this stuff was being recorded in the first place. The first thing it showed was Kimberly hanging out with Davis at the edge of a cliff, near a waterfall and Tai never saw Davis so happy in his life as be was in that moment. He felt glad to see the guy have some joy in his life.

Tai watched as Davis was pointing down to the water at the bottom, and then Kimberley was watching Davis as if happy to see him happy for once in his time that they had known each other. "When I was a lad, I would jump down and plummet to the ground, and I always would love the splash, and I would try to out do my splash each time, in a sort of personal competitive way." Davis said and then he checked up on Kimberly to see what her reaction would have been to this.

"I never was really into the waterfall before, but seeing how into it you are, I think I might have to give it another chance now." Kimberly said and then Davis was starting to go on and untie his shoes as he was thinking about just jumping in there, to prove himself to be a good jumper. He turned to see how Kimberly was going to react to this, if she was thinking it was cool or if this was insane, but in all reality, he was going to just make the jump either way since he was too excited to pass up on it now.

"I think you would love it if you try it out. Just don't think about it and jump. You can even close your eyes if you don't want to watch the drop. The first time is always the one that is going to scare you the most when you get into something. That fear that you are going to fail at what you are trying to do." Davis said and then his shoes were off and soon enough he was taking off his shirt as be was ready to make the jump. Kimberly took a moment to look at his chest and seeing the slowly growing muscles on his chest, wondering how big they would get when he left to boot camp.

"I will go first, and you will see how easy it is." Davis said as he stood up and stretched his arms and then he took the leap. As be was leaping, he grabbed his legs as they were bending and be bit the water and the splash was a decently successful one. Then he looks up at Kimberly and he is wondering if she would also take the jump as well.

As he was looking right up at Kimberly, the woman was so happy to see the smile on his face. She thought that this guy was so happy about what he was doing that she figured maybe it was something she actually should try out after all. So she took off her shoes and then she was thinking that despite her not liking this idea at all, she did need to give thus a chance. Kimberly slowly took off her shirt and then she placed the shirt above her shoe. Davis felt like he was going to get a bit of a score with Kimberly after this, and that excited him. She then went on and took the jump and she hit the water and looked right at Davis, hoping he would be satisfied with her jump.

"That fucking rocked." Davis said as Kimberly was glad at his approval. Davis was thinking of how great Kimberly was and how much be had wanted her to feel and understand that she was special, and what he would do to show her that. They played around in the water for a bit, splashing water at each other and for a little bit had a fake innocence big youth to them, even though neither one of them were quite in a youthful stage anymore.

Davis and Kimberly did this for a few minutes and then they went on to reach the shore with their wet and exercised bodies. They were soon off to get the clothes they were, to be ready for public. Kimberly was slowly forgetting about her previous hatred of the waterfall, and in some cases was hoping to do it again very soon, wanting to experience the pleasure the plunge brings as well as the admiration of her boyfriend, as well as the boners her wet body probably provides him.

The two eventually were walking up the cliff hill and then they were some bustles in the woods. Davis had a bad feeling about this, and he started to walk in that direction quietly. Kimberly was wondering where be was going, so she started to follow him a little bit and then Davis saw that it was a young man, probably about nineteen or twenty years old with a white hoody, and he looked like he was a long time social reject who had not been talking with people for a extremely long time.

As Davis got close to the guy, he saw the guy refusing to budge as he stared at Kimberly or Davis. It was strange, no doubt, but Davis thought he could somehow get this guy to speak, get this guy to let them know a little bit to make him see that he was safe, that there was nothing to fear at all. It was something he thought could work, and something he thought could have been worth the try if for nothing else. But looking back on it, if you were to ask him in hindsight, he said he would have regretted this. As many things to have happened since then were at least indirectly attributed to this event.

The guy held his hand forward as he was doing his best to scare Kimberly and Davis. It was doing a semi good job at it. Enough to make them a bit cautious, but not enough for them to want to leave this guy entirely. They just thought he was a little bit of a freak, but they thought that it was just simply that, so Davis stood there with Kimberly a few feet behind him, but she was just trying to hide the fact she was just merely unsure more than she actually had a feeling of terror.

"Sorry to bother you. We will leave you alone now." Davis said as he was slowly starting to get too scared to talk to this guy. The man was having his left hand in his pocket, but there was nothing to do far indicate any real melicious attempt to do something. That being said, Davis did feel that as long as he had kept his composure, he can get out of this just fine. They waited in fear for a couple of seconds and they eventually gave up and started to walk off as the man began to talk to them suddenly and as he did so, it was like their blood turning to ice.

"My name is Jeffery Woods. I know all about you and where you guys live. I would suggest bring more careful with that in the future. You should probably check up on your guys places more often before you go out to do some things. I will be watching you." Jeff said as Davis and Kimberly walked off and the worst part about all this was that they had actually believed him that he could do something in order to make things even worse.

Once the two were a few feet away from him, the two started running out as fast as possible. There was no way they would take any risk. With this guy. In fact, the two just simply grabbed their clothes and started running to Kimberly's car, where she threw Davis the keys since he was closer to the front door and despite it being her car, he was the one driving this time, and thankfully she trusted bum enough to do it.

Davis was driving just above the speed limit until they were on the main road, where he began to go slower. As he was getting slower, he and her both were thinking it was going to be at least relatively safe for them to be going at the slow pace. Eventually, the two grabbed their clothes and went inside her house where they began to feel a tiny bit safer as Davis closed all doors. Before Tai can see more, there was a knock on the door and Tai was forced to stop on his own there.

Tai turned to see the mom of Kimberly standing there. Tai felt even more terrible for her, since he had now started to know some small details of Kimberly and every bit of knowledge he had made him get this whole thing even more now. Tai stood up and then he started to go towards Kimberly's mother in order to go on and try to provide a base amount of support for the broken woman. "I do not even understand how it is to know your daughter might never return." Davis said as he felt bad for the lies. He knew she was not coming back, but he was pretending she would just for her sake, since she probably needed that hope for just a little bit longer.

"I just want to have somebody who gets it by me. I don't think they will ever be able to understand it. But if somebody did, I could really use them right now. Probably now more than I ever would have." She said and Tai could not handle it anymore. He could not handle being there as a false sense of hope. He got up and sighed as he decided he needed to leave the place right then and there.

"I will possibly be back later. I don't know yet though. I don't know about anything anymore." Tai said as he was talking about the camera indirectly and be began to head on out of the house to go on and pick all of this up later. Besides, Kimberly's parents most likely needed a few minutes alone before David came along to break the news or ask for even more questions. Or even worse, both of those at once, which Tai was sure was going to be too much information to share all at once.

"Yeah, I guess you gave been here for a while. Thanks for trying. Please, try and put this whole case to rest for my husband and I." Kimberly's mother said as Tai began to leave the house, and then as he was gone, Tai got right on the bike and was riding as fast as he could go, scared how he would do. Wanting to finish this whole thing but scared David would get him and then he would have a lot of answers he would need to provide, and he started to peddle even faster at that thought coming to his mind.

He rode his bike for a while until be started to go so fast he could not keep up anymore. He lost balance and then hemis ankle had the worst part of it all. Not breaking it, but still needing to give it a decent amount of icing. He got back in his bike and began to ride to the closest store, but now doing it slowly to not deal with a chance at making the situation even worse for himself, which he knew was a real possibility.

As he had eventually reached the store, Tai was walking a bit slow and his energy was practically drained by this point, and he had no real desire to continue this up for too much longer. As much as he hated to admit it, he needed to get home as soon as possible if he wanted to be able to have this leg get remotely close to being in a condition that would be considered working. But he was in the store, and he was ready to get right down to business. He grabbed those really shitty cast bindings one can put on easily and then after he did so, he went outside to give himself the scrappy medical treatment.

As he was outside, he can see people around him were eyeing him to make sure he was fine and that he really didn't need to be sent right to the hospital. He just grabbed his shoe and took it right off, as Tai winced in pain. Then he started to show his weakened, but not broken, ankle to the public for the short term as he started to wrap his foot up to try and make things better than they had felt. It was only after this that he felt even relatively ready to start going out again into the public. As he was setting off, he saw that somebody in the store was heading on towards him as Tai rolled his eyes a bit but still let her get close to him.

"Hey, you seem like you are in a lot of pain. Are you sure you don't need at least a tiny bit of help?" The girl, dressed in red with a brown cowgirl hat asked, and after Tai took a moment to process it, he got why she was looking at least a little bit familiar to him. It was Mimi, one of the five people at his summer camp cabin, and she was using that to be nice with him.

"Hey Mimi, didn't see you there. I didn't think u would see a random cabin mate here. I'm guessing you're just getting something. I am going back tomorrow. Anyways, since you asked nicely and I feel like I might need a little help and I do sort of know you, I will accept your offer. But just don't try and get to close to me. I have a lot of stuff I an trying to figure out." Tai said as be started to head off and Mimi was right behind him the whole time to make sure he really was fine.

"So how did that incident with your ankle occur?" Mimi asked innocently enough as Tai thought about the bike he just picked up right when Mimi came to see him. Tai felt no wish to ride more, and he was just working all of these things out in his mind. "Did you just break the law or something?" Mimi asked innocently again as Tai thought about how to tell her that it was slightly true that he did, but probably not in the way she would have thought he did.

"Well, I did go out and have a interrogation with the police chief. He was asking me some questions about a girl who had gone missing. I don't really want to talk about it though." Tai said as he was thinking about all that, and how Mimi would probably do her best to get more info out of him on the case, and how he would have no desire to let her know more on this, but that she was probably going to have none of it, as much as be had hated it.

"I hope you had nothing to do with her going missing. I don't want to think of you as this terrible person who has no respect for others. But I doubt you are that evil, or at least you do not give off that impression from the few times I have talked with you, this being one of those times." Mimi said and Tai felt strangely relieved to know she had mostly approved of him. Mainly to know not everybody had been his enemy during the last couple of hours or so. Plus, Tai was wrapping his mind around the whole Jeff Woods thing he had seen in that tape, thinking it was related to Kimberly and her missing case. He didn't know why, but he was now certain that was a part if it all in some form or fashion.

"I do feel a lot better knowing you think I am on the clear. I don't want people to go around thinking I was a part of what happened to her." Tai said and then Mimi had a nod of showing that she was just glad to know he was able to believe her on all of this. But it was still annoying to know a few people didn't believe in him at all, such as David. Tai was still not sure if David felt like he was fully cleared up by that point.

"I mean, you just don't seem like you are that type of guy. I just hope my assumptions are proven to be true, and that you do not back stab me or something like that. But I will be giving you a benefit of a doubt here." Mimi said and then Tai nodded, still thinking it was better than nothing at all. She thought he was on the clear, and he needed to take that.

"Despite that though, and knowing it is not safe for me to, I am looking into the case a bit, trying to see if perhaps I can put a bit of a rest to the theories, to show that it is just a simple missing case." Tai said and he felt bad for lying and then he said "Never mind, I will tell you the truth. It turns out Kimberly has been dead for a while. Her body was recently found. I feel bad for her family now, and I wanted to on a way make up for it all. I wanted to go in and find the person who killed her, and see if I can bring a sense of some justice to the family." Tai said and then Mimi felt like this was lunacy, but to some extent was able to get it.

"I feel you. In fact, I quite respect the goal. You want to be a hero for the people. I respect that. I think at least for now, plus your ankle, I will be by your side to help your sorry ass out." Mimi said, kind if meaning it as a joke but kind if was being serious about it at the same time. She was also worried about Tai messing up now.

The two were in relative silence for the next few seconds as they were on the sidewalk, and Tai was just hoping Mimi would not get too much if a hassle, as she seemed to give off that impression on the few times he saw her in camp, and he was just hoping that he was wrong about her and that she truly would be a good ally to the overall cause. Then soon enough, Tai and Mimi decided to take a bit of a break.

"I am tired. I am curious about you tough. What is it about you that you would be fine with telling me?" Tai asked, being patient enough about it and then Mimi took a very long, deep breath as she thought about what she would like to tell him, maybe thinking that this whole thing can get the two to be a little bit of friends with each other.

"Well, my father is a rich man. A businessman to be exact. Has several million dollars. One of the most rich people in the town, and he seemed to think it wise for me to be away for the summer where he can do his business at optimum level. He said he is working with one if our senators. Claims this will be a major breakthrough in the business. Usually he knows he will pull through and he had never shown this level of certainty. Besides, I thought three full months out of the house was a great offer so I accepted the offer and decided to spend the summer here." Mimi said as Tai thought it was cool that she was in that spot.

"I wonder which senator it is. I bet it is the younger one." Tai said as Mimi nodded to indeed confirm it was the young up and rising senator if Minnesota, Todd Robinson. The thirty six year old man took pride in being out with the people of the state and helping those in need by doing the job himself. Be was a fucking hero to many people. "I do wonder why he choose your father." Tai said easily enough, thinking nothing too hard on the subject as Mimi thought of it for a bit, not sure why either.

"I think it has something to do with the fact that my father and him went to school together. I think this is his way of trying to bring them back together. I'm not quite so sure though. Maybe when I come back to his house, I might ask him a little bit more about it. And we're still hanging on and talking by by that point, I'll probably tell you why." Mimi said, and now Tai wanted to hang out with her even more just to get that answer that she had promised him.

He didn't say that out loud of course. He didn't want to give off the impression that he was just kind of using her. After all, there was a part of him that still did want to know her more that had nothing to do with the senator thing. Besides, these sort of conversations are a thousand times better than going around to risk every second of your life. He thought of that as he was thinking about what he was going to say next.

"Well, I certainly do think that your father will be able to pull if a bit of success to this if he does it well, crazy to think that you are technically rich, knowing that I have seen you every day basically for like two months. I almost know nothing about you, and you are suddenly revealing that type of bombshell at me. Would be a lot to handle on normal cases." Tai said as he kept the response simple, generic, and yet something Mimi can get. He thought about it for a little bit, and the more that he thought about it, the more he realize just how much sense it made.

"I think you are taking it decently well." Mimi joked, as she was thinking about how other people would react every time she would tell them about her richness. Most people thought it was the craziest thing in the world every time they heard about it. In a way, it was one of the funniest things ever. Just hearing someone get a lot more serious, as well as careful and jealous when they are talking to her after they hear about that. Tai seem to be doing that a little bit, but not to the point that so others would do it.

That was when Tai decided that it was time for them to head out again. So he stood up once more, and grabbed the bike, and Mimi stood up as well, and they decided that they were going to keep walking. The more that they were walking, it seemed as if they have been friends all along. As if this wasn't just some random thing that start up in the last half hour or so. Most people would have been none the wiser through it all, but they both know the truth.

Tai felt strange being in this situation. After all, just a few minutes ago he had found out that Mimi pretty much had a business tycoon father. It was odd knowing he was hanging with the Minnesota equivalent of royalty, and he felt now more than ever to place himself on the high behavior, but he knew not to make it too obvious as that could create some problems there, dealing with her acting like he was a dumb ass and everything. He wanted to be relatively composed as he was getting to know this girl who was slowly be coming a friend of his.

"You know, I think my father would probably think you're a decent guy once he gets to know you a bit better. Just don't get too scared about being around him. If you do, he will figure it out right away and he will not really be all that happy about it. He will mist likely really get all up in your business showing that he is a laxed dude and everything. My dad does that a lot when he is around some people I hang with." Mimi said as she tried to figure what was worse, her friends getting scared around her dad or her dad trying to act like the cool guy. They were both totally terrible, but funny to watch.

"I guess your dad does have at least a little bit of a sense of hospitality to him. That does make me feel so much better to know in all honesty." Tai said, thinking that it was going to be much easier being at the house she lives at with that small tidbit of indo which can be able to save him a little bit more than he would like to admit at the end of the day. "Maybe I could be able to pull this off after all." Tai was thinking of the chance of this working actually being about fifteen percent rather than zero percent.

"I am really thankful that you are starting to see the bright side of this all. I am glad that there may be a chance you guys can pull this off. I hate it when I show my dad a new friend of mine, and the sheer level of uncertainty to it causes all of my friends to never want to speak with him. By that point it creates a level of controversy that is totally un needed and in a lot of cases just fucking annoying." Mimi said as she wanted to show that it was all fine for the most part.

"I have not seen your dad yet, so I have no real clue how I will feel about it all. I think that perhaps we could get along great, but I can also see how it can be a total failure at the same time." Tai said still understanding the small chance that this all can fail in the long run. Though he really did not want it to fail.

Eventually, Tai and Mimi were wondering where to go next, in order to really have a full experience of figuring out where the case was going to go. In all reality, none of them were really all that sure where this was going to go in the end of the road. Tai was just a little bit worried about what was going to happen if Tai was just not more careful about where he goes on the case. As much as he had hated the idea of him following in the fate of Kimberly, he was able to fully recognize the fact that this could actually happen shall he get a big head on the whole thing.

"Tai, are you one hundred percent certain that you want to continue this investigation? I mean, your ankle is starting to show some blood on your shows from what I can do. You at the very least need to go on and go to the hospital soon. I am not going to force you to do this, but I feel like if you want to be smart, that is what you should be doing." After Mimi said that, Tai rolled his eyes as if he was able to understand that this was the case in the first place, and that it was a little bit annoying that she was saying this, wishing that she would not get in his case about it anymore.

"I get it, I messed up and I should have been more careful. But you know what, at least I am still alive. At least I am not like anybody like Kimberly. I want to go home sometime and be able to know that I will be at summer camp soon, but I also want to be able to be the man who can go down as the one who had solved the case on who killed Kimberly. her family needs it, and I feel like I need it in order to find peace with the whole fact that I am living in a city where killers are going around at large." Tai said and then as he was in the middle of that rant that was when he stopped his thought set all together. He felt so dumb for not getting it earlier. Tai turned around at Mimi and then he place his right hand on his face as if annoyed at how dumb he had been this whole time.

"What is it that is bothering you?" Mimi asked and this time, there was nothing about her tone that was showing annoyance. She seemed to understand that Tai was actually really feeling dumb for this, and then Tai looked down on the ground and then Tai pointed at the small alley way that nobody was at and he was indicating that he wanted him and Mimi to go there right away. They did so and then Tai started to tell the story in a relatively rushed way.

"Look I don't think you will believe me when I say this, but I think that I know who had killed Kimberly." Tai said and then Mimi thought he might be serious and decided to give him the chance to prove himself.

"I was looking around in Kimberly's room earlier, as I was doing a bit of my investigation, and I was watching a bit of a camera that had a tape in there. It showed her and this guy named Davis, you know him?" Tai was asking about Davis and after a couple of seconds of thinking about it, Mimi had nodded and then Tai decided that since he didn't have to explain that, he was going to take advantage of that fact and go forward with it all.

"So she has been Davis for a bit, I didn't even know about that, but that is not important. The important part is that they were at a waterfall and they were hanging around there. Then they met this guy with a white hoody. The guy looked like he was full of malice and like he was ready to kill them. I have a feeling that he must be the one who had killed Kimberly. I mean, I don't really have any full on evidence to her death and the fact that he might have done it, but that is what I am thinking happened. I need to try and find him. Or at the very least, I need to find Davis, and then see what he is going to say to me if I tried to talk to him." Tai said and then Mimi thought that this was a big reveal and didn't fully get it.

"Wait Tai, be patient with this. What prove do you have that this guy was actually the one who had done it?" Mimi asked and then that was when Tai had to think about it. In all reality, he didn't have too much proof to the whole idea, but the idea just made a lot of sense and he felt like there was no way that this guy did not do it.

"I get that it is crazy. But think of it this way. There is no evidence that we have so far that can say that this guy did not kill her. It is some evidence, and I think that we need to go with it at least at the moment. We might as well go and try to go with that." Tai had said and then after she had heard Tai say that, she was thinking that this was a bit of a terrible idea, but she was dumb to try and pretend that there wasn't a level of truth to it.

"In all honestly, I think that if you really think this is what is behind her death, then go ahead and just go along with it. I may not really fully agree with it, but if you are so sure, I will go along with it." Mimi had said and then Tai nodded and he was starting to bring his bike on the direction of where Davis had lived. He was going to ask him that type of stuff first, to see if he was correct about his theory.

"Where are you heading?" Mimi asked as Tai stopped and realized that maybe she was not as into this as Tai would have thought she would have been. Tai then was thinking about how he was going to get her into the idea of going along with his plans, if this was even something that she can do. Then he was thinking about some rewards that he could try and provide for her to make her believe that this was worth it. Although he would have felt a little bit bad for lying.

"Look, I get that you think this is a terrible idea. Hell maybe it even is. But at the same time, I think that it is something to go with. If you are going to be with me on this, great, if not then please leave and just let me go back to my investigation." Tai made a very basic ultimatum and then that was when Mimi was standing there, and then she was really not sure why she was having this much trouble on all of this, and then Tai said "I am sorry if I am coming out as a dick right now, but I am trying to do something right now. I have a bit of a cause right now, and I am thinking that you will be able to understand where my motives are now."

After Tai had explained that to her, Mimi nodded and then she started to walk along with him. "At least you are able to understand what it is like to have some form of motivation over this whole thing." Mimi had started to be right next to Tai this time, and it seemed that once this debate was starting to subside, the two of them were going back to talking like a general nice group.

"So once you are done talking with Davis, what do you really plan on doing afterwards? I think that you should maybe go home and try and get a few hours of sleep tonight. Just a little bit of an idea that I have right now." Mimi was curiously asking, and then Tai thought about that a little bit.

"Maybe I might try and get some sleep tonight when this is all over. That might not be a terrible idea. Really depends on how late in the night it is when it is all over with." Tai said and then he was thinking that this was a fair enough statement to make, and one that Mimi would probably not really argue with him too much on, and then afterwards, the two of them were getting back to the general nice mood that they had earlier in the day. One that would last all the way to when they had reached Davis's house.

"You know, I think that perhaps Davis could be the one who had done it, if the guy with the white hoody was not the one who had done it. I have a terrible feeling that there is a small chance that he is the one who had done this whole thing, as terrible as it is for me to admit that fact. The guy is the one who has led me and babysat me for several years, and here he is, probably my second highest suspect to be the one who had done this terrible event. As much as it would be terrible to even fathom, I can perhaps consider the idea of Davis just pretending to love her, and then using that as a chance to kill her when she is close with him." Tai said and then Mimi thought of it.

"This really sounds like it is a bit like a noir mystery. I don't really know why I am thinking that way. What do you think about that idea?" Mimi had asked Tai and then as she had asked Tai that question, the two of them had been silent for about ten to fifteen seconds or so, just not too sure where else it would be going on this whole thing.

"It is pretty cool that it is happening, or at least it is kind of cool. Not to the extent that I want to be the next victim or something, but there is something about this whole thing that maybe has a little bit of a charm. I think you might be able to get where I am coming on the whole thing that there is a small bit of a charm to the thing. But in all reality, I think that in just a couple of days, this whole thing is going to be over with and then we can all move on with our lives. That is the hope that I am having here." Tai said and then after he had said that, the two thought that if it wasn't over in a mere few days, then perhaps they were going to be getting a lot closer to death than they had wanted to admit it.

"I do see where you are coming from on the whole thing of this having at least a little bit of a charm. I mean, in all reality, we are basically going to go into something that we are probably going to be able to tell our children for the rest of our lives. I doubt that they will be able to believe us, but I don't really think it matters all that much if they believe us or not. I mean, the only way they will be able to believe us is if we actually have some form of recorded proof to the whole thing, and I am kind of wishing that maybe we had done so, in order to show that this whole thing is the truth, and that we are not really fucking around all that much." Mimi said as Tai was thinking about the jack pot that they had sadly missed this whole time.

"Well, maybe there are other people who might have proof of this. After all, there is that tape that Kimberly has. If we manage to get that tape, then maybe there is a chance that we can be able to show the world that this did indeed happen after all. Then if we survive this whole thing, we can show the recordings on television and then there is no chance that nobody will be able to deny us and we will be the most famous people who have ever lived in the rest of the world." Tai said and then as he was saying this, he was feeling like he was getting a little bit of a ego as he was talking about this whole thing, wondering if he was just thinking too highly of himself or if this was actually true.

Mimi thought that if for nothing else, there would be something that they could show the public and then when they show this to the public, they would get at least short term media attention.

"Well, then perhaps we just need to focus on finding a way to publish this whole thing, as I am not really sure how I am going to be able to publish this tape, which is a terrible thing to think about this happening, and then nobody would be able to have the chance to see it." Tai was thinking more just beyond his future children he might not have, and more on the whole just general media.

"If you don't know how to get the proof, then I guess that everybody is just going to go around and be none the wiser. I wonder if something like this has happened before, and if they were able to ever get the proof to the whole thing." Mimi said and then after she said that, Tai was considering it for a moment.

"I mean, sure there are probably somethings that happened in real life that are somewhat close to what happened in real life to us, but nothing really much that would really one hundred percent like us. Not really all that shocked now that I think about it, but who really cares what we are dealing with, since in all reality we only really have one chance to go through this." Tai was saying and then Mimi thought on that.

"I doubt that anybody really would even want to dare admit that something like this has happened even if they did. They would just do their best to act as if this was something that was just a nightmare, and repress it as just a really largely repressed memory and literally nothing else beyond that. I mean seriously, who would really try and argue the idea of that even having a small chance of happening?" Mimi asked and then as she had asked that, Tai was thinking that she totally understanding this whole thing.

"I am so glad that for the most part, you are seeing what I am doing, and where I am coming from and everything. But who the hell really cares though? I guess that none of this really matters all that much anymore. I just think that it is a great thing that people are actually able to go along and just pretend that none of this ever is happening. It is honestly really impressive that this is happening at all." Tai said and he was thinking about the total reluctance of this whole thing.

"But in all reality, I think that people are just in denial of what is happening over the whole thing. People are just probably trying to act like they are all cool. They are just probably acting as if this entire event never happened just to make it feel like they are totally safe and everything. I can honestly understand why people are that way. I mean, if you had never talked with me at all about this, I probably would have just pretended that this had never happened when it eventually came back to the news and everything. If it even had the chance of making it back to the news at all." Mimi said, as she was thinking about how likely it would not even hit the news in the first place.

"If it doesn't hit the news, there is going to be a huge level of ideas and facts going on to prove the over all corruption of this place. This town seems like there is more corruption to this town than people would really want to admit. Maybe if there is a fact to prove this whole thing, then people will not want to live in Wayside Minnesota anymore. But it is one of the most popular places in town that nobody would really want to have something like that happen.

"I can't believe that we are having this conversation at all right now. This just seems like something you would hear in a movie, never something that you are going to have to deal with in real life. But here we are, dealing with this in real life, and I am just on the verge of just refusing to believe that this is happening. I mean, I don't want my town to sort of represent the main scars of corruption in this nation." Mimi said with a hint of denial to it, and Tai was able to sort of understand how she would feel about this thing, and he was kind of feeling the same way about it.

"I think that there is just some good reason that this is happening. I would really want to believe that there is something that is driving the secrets to be hidden the way that they are. But that is nothing that really matters now I guess, even though in all reality it should matter." Tai said as they reached the front entrance to Davis's house and knocked on the door.

Davis was waiting for a moment or two before he decided that this was not really going to go anywhere as Davis had answered the door for the two to walk on in. The guy was kind of shocked to see two of the people who he had originally babysat staying here and wanting to visit him, but at the same time he was glad that there was somebody who was wanting to hang out with him as this usually never happened and he was happy to have a change to that rhythm for for once in his life. "What are you doing here?" Davis asked, wondering why the hell they were here in the first place since while he was glad they were here, he was wondering why there was two of the people he used to babysit doing this.

"Honestly, there is something that we feel like we need to talk to you about, since you are the only one that I feel like I can trust to talk to you about here." Tai said and then after he had said that, Davis was thinking that it was strange but then he sat down and let Mimi and Tai sit down on the two worn down couches that he used for the special cases of a guest coming on over, which almost never happened. Davis took out his next cigarette and smoked it, this time doing so with the window opened to show a tiny hint of respect to the guests that he had over.

"Well, we know that you recently had this girlfriend, and we know about the fact that she went missing." Tai said and before Davis was not really all that invested in the conversation, but the second Tai had mentioned Kimberly, the moment Davis got entirely serious, and he knew there was no more time to go and fuck around with the two guests.

"Please tell me more about this right now." Davis had said and then after Davis had said that, Tai was getting ready and he was totally willing to oblige to what he was being asked to do, and then after he had started to talk, he was doing his very best to tell him the sad news of how Kimberly had died and everything.

"Well, I had been questioned earlier and I found out the truth about her. She had died recently, and I was one of the first people to see her body. I wanted to be the one who told you about her death, since I feel like the police doing it would have a sense of fakeness to it all. Please forgive me. I was just wanting to help figure this whole case out, since this case is just something probably too big for any one of us to handle alone." Tai said and then after he had said that, Davis thought that there was a small level of truth to what Tai had been saying there, as much as he had hated to admit it.

"I understand that you want some form of justice, and I want to take down the asshole who killed my girlfriend. But please, I want you to be safe. But that being said, I would not really mind if you were there to help me on the short term. I think it would actually be really helpful, and that is the only reason I am not going to stop you from helping me here. But if you start to make any sort of mistakes on all of this, and if it seems like you are going to get in danger, I want you to go return to your dad as soon as possible. I know your dad, and I do trust him to keep you safe, even if it does mean that you might be dealing with a guy who is in a wheelchair." Davis said and then he started to stand up with the cigarette in his hand, ready to make Tai try and take back his offer of help.

"Alright then, I guess that this is probably the best you are going to give me. I really hope that we can find the person who did this. I don't want him killing another person. He has already killed over twenty people. I would not be shocked it is closer to thirty or so." Tai said and then that was when Mimi and Davis looked right at him. Davis had no idea that so many people had died, and while Mimi might have heard it, she did not even remotely think that this was possible, as she did not really process it all that much.

"That seals the deal. I am going to need your help as much as possible. I am pretty sure that if I am going to try and do this, then I might get killed if it is just one on one with the man who had done it. But if we are united, I do think that there is a slight chance that we will be able to pull this off." Davis said and then he looked right at Tai and Mimi, trying to think of what he can do to make them a bit more ready to have a fighting chance.

"You seem to be really deep in thought right now." Tai said and he was feeling like a dumbass saying something this obvious, but he was just trying to see what Davis would do, and if it was even remotely close to what he was thinking the guy was going to do.

"Come with me to my room. Trust me, I think that you would really love it. Just wait until you see what I am going to show you." Davis said and he was having a bit of a accidental sinisterness to it. He wasn't trying to scare them, but the way that he said it was in no way not scary. The three of them started to walk on towards his room and he was ready to show them what he was having planned.

Once the two of them were inside of Davis's bedroom, they realized what he was wanting to show them. It was a bunch of weapons, mostly related to his military gear that he was using during his training. He had a few guns on the wall, and he had a huge set of bullets in a bunch of open boxes. There was a small set of knives that were in the room, and a couple of throwing knives. There was a thing that looked like a grenade launcher in there, and Tai was a little bit confused by that. On his wall was a sword, hanging down and it had the mason symbol on it. Davis said that he stole that during a school dance once and kept it since. He said it was just too good to refuse. That has been there for about as long as Tai even knew that Davis was a person at all.

"I think that you are going to probably need some of these if you actually want to fight the guy who is a killer." Davis said and then he pulled out a machete from his box and then he was holding it as if he was thinking about this being his weapon. Then there was a baseball bat that had a bunch of nails on it, and then it was really funny to see that in Mimi's opinion, wondering what the hell a baseball bat was going to do in a fight.

"I don't really know if any of these are actually going to be all that helpful. I mean, I guess they could be, but if none of us have been practicing how to fight at all, I really highly doubt that this is actually going to work out." Mimi said and she was the only one who was trying to use logic on the situation.

"Well it is better than just plain melee fighting, so if you want to do something, then just accept the fact that this is something and deal with it." Davis said and he was a bit annoyed as he grabbed the baseball bat thinking about what he was going to do with this. He was thinking the exact same thing as Mimi on this regard. Then he started to get used to the weight of it and then as he did so, he grabbed a pistol as well and then placed it on his upper legs in their holster.

"In all reality, I doubt that we are actually going to be fighting this guy at all. I would just let it go. If I am fighting this thing, I am going to probably get myself killed if I continue this." Tai was saying as he was holding a gun, finally letting the realism hit him. Then he was thinking about it and then he said "Maybe if I learned how to fire a gun, I can pull it off."

"I guess that this is a good point. You are going to need to learn how to use a gun. Have you ever fired one before?" Davis asked as he was watching the look on Tai's face give him the answer that he felt like was giving him the whole level of context there. "I guess if you never even fired a gun, then perhaps you have a lot of stuff that you do need to learn after all." Davis said and then he started to head out of his bedroom and then Tai and Mimi were looking at him as if trying to decide what the hell was going on, and if they were actually seeing this or if they were going insane.

"Let's get this whole thing over with. You know, that way we actually have a chance on making this thing work out. But in all truth be told, I think we are going to have to do a lot of things that would make you understand how to fire this gun, because if you don't know how to work it out, then we are going to fucking a huge ass problem before we even start. But I guess that you already understand that in the first place. Heck, one or two shooting sessions won't really make any difference, but it will be better than nothing at all." Davis said and then he placed the baseball at his back and then after he did so, he went along with Tai and Mimi and they were going along all the way to the shooting range, hoping that nobody would question what a few teenagers are doing with a bunch of random weapons in the area.

"I have a feeling that the police are going to be coming soon, probably going to ask us what we are doing, thinking that we are probably going to try and kill some people. I guess that this would not really be all that out there of an assumption to make when this is what they see of us." Mimi said and then Tai was starting to place the gun in his pocket, thinking of that exact same problem coming up.

Eventually, the group had reached a car and then Tai got his bike and then placed the bike inside of Davis's trunk, and they were getting ready to head out, and then Davis would make this a bit less strange when he placed all the weapons in there.

Davis started to drive the car and during the drive on over there, Davis was looking on over at Tai and Mimi and he was wondering what the hell they were thinking. "Hey, do you actually want to do this? This is going to be your last chance to turn around and do something else." Davis said and then the two people didn't say anything, so Davis gave up after a few seconds. Soon enough, the car pulled up at the shooting range and he was ready to show them what was actually important.

At the shooting range, Davis was pulling out the gun that was in his holster and then he saw that there was a round of bullets in there. Then he started to aim the gun right at the wall, and then he was looking right at the targets. Tai and Mimi were watching this as he started to shot at all of the targets and he was doing so with relative ease the entire time. Tai and Mimi wondered how this was really going to teach them, thinking that while it was cool to watch him do this, none of this was actually any help at all.

"I guess that you have been doing this a lot." Tai said and then Davis nodded and then he put the gun back in the holster. Tai decided that he was going to give this a try. Tai pulled out the gun from his pocket and then he was aiming. The more that he was doing this, the more that this was starting to make him have an extremely high form of unease. But then he decided that he needed to go with this, and he started firing the gun. The first five or six bullets were a total miss, and only at the seventh did he get a clear hit. He knew how to fire a gun, but he was terrible at aiming, so it kind of didn't even matter all that much anymore. Then when he was done, he looked at Tai and then he shook his head.

"Yeah, fuck the idea of me using a gun. That was a disaster. I could not handle that at all." Tai said and then Davis placed his hand on Tai's shoulder as Tai said "I get that you want me to be ready for this, but in all reality I don't think I can be ready no matter how hard I try here."

"Tai, you have a lot of stuff that you need to figure out yes, but you will be able to figure it out eventually. I think that maybe Mimi should try it out." Davis said and then as he had said that, he looked at Mimi and then he was watching the younger girl shake her head violently as if trying really hard to make him see how this was a terrible idea.

"Please, don't make me do this. I get that you want me to help out, but this is crazy. I have no experience fighting at all." Mimi said and then Davis smiled. She knew he was a nice guy, and she respected him to a relative degree, but this guy was fucking insane if he had thought for even a second that this was actually going to work. But then she was starting to give up and then she ended up grabbing the gun and then she was starting to aim it right at the target. But as that happened, there was a bunch of noises that scared the three of them.

Davis, Tai and Mimi were all no longer on the mind set that they had been on earlier, as they were trying to figure out what they were going to do now. Davis was holding the baseball bat and he was staring right at Mimi and Tai. This whole thing was going to be a little bit bloody, and that was one of the very few things Davis knew for sure at that moment. There was a bit of a silence as the three were listening to see if there was going to be something else that would come up in order to show that this was going to go the way that they had been fearing that it was going.

"I want you and Mimi to get right out of here right now. I do not want you guys to argue with me right now." Davis said and he was saying this with a level of authority that showed that he was indeed not fucking around. Then with that, Tai and Mimi were starting to walk back and they were just doing their best to find a place in which they were not going to be attacked by any sort of monsters or anything crazy like that.

As Tai and Mimi were walking away from the room, there was the door which was breaking down. As they had seen the door get broken down, there was the guy with the knife running right at them. He was still wearing his white hoody which was covered in some type of blood and Davis knew the battle was going to get ugly. The entire thing started as Davis started to thrust the baseball bat as fast as he could possibly be able to swing it. The guy was hit right in the face and it did something that looked like a black eye, and Mimi was really happy to see that Davis did indeed get a use out of the baseball bat. "Wow, he might be able to pull this off."

That was all Mimi was saying to Tai as they were starting to head up the stairs, and they were watching as the guy with the white hoody was grabbing Davis by his face and he was getting ready to stab the guy in the face, and as he was getting ready to stab Davis in the face, he grabbed the guy with the white hoody and threw him right down on the ground.

As the guy with the white hoody started to fall down to the ground, he managed to cut Davis in the upper part of his leg and Davis screamed really loudly as he hit the gut with the white hoody right in the ball sack as hard as possible. This created a loud noise with that guy, and then Davis was starting to head towards where Tai and Mimi were. Trying his best in order to make them feel as if they were safe with the one guy who was able to actually fight off this guy and then the guy with the white hoody started to head towards Davis to get ready to attack him once more.

Despite having a giant cut on his leg, Davis was doing a relatively decent job getting up the stairs. Tai and Mimi grabbed him and started to help carry him as they were running along, being much slower as a obvious result of the fact that he was a one hundred seventy pound man going up the stairs. Tai and Mimi were watching as the guy with the white hoody was starting to really catch up to them and then they threw Davis right in the drivers seat of the car. Then Mimi got in the passenger seat and then Tai went in the back seat. Tai started to hit the peddle as he needed to go as fast as he possibly go in order to get the hell away from that man.

Davis was just trying to make it so that he was actually able to concentrate on the road ahead of him, but it was really hard for him to actually concentrate on anything that was going on. He felt like he was just going to die while he was doing this drive.

It was then when the guy jumped onto the top of the car and then they were trying to break the hood of the car. They were stabbing the hood of the car, and then Tai took out his gun and then he fired at the hood of the car a couple of times and that made him fall down and ride down to the ground and then that made it so that they actually had a few moments to make more of a head way on the drive back to town. Davis was looking at Tai and Mimi and the look on his face was one of utter terror. Like this entire thing was his fault, which he was not really sure why he was feeling that way, but it was really hard not to feel that way given the situation.

Davis was getting tired and then before he was able to fully get back to town, he look behind and saw that there was no guy there and that they seemed to be fine for the time being. "I'm sorry, I can't drive anymore. I'm going to pull at a hotel tonight. Maybe the three of us can just get a night here." Davis said and then he drove another thirty seconds until the closest hotel was found and then Davis pulled right up.

Once the three of them had pulled up at the parking lot, Davis got out his wallet and pulled out the two one hundred dollar bills that he had put in his pocket. He always had a couple hundred dollars with him as some form of reserve money just in case he needed it in an emergency. They walked to the hotel and Davis was pulling out the money to the front counter lady to give them a good night of sleep.

After he had done this, the front counter lady looked right at Davis to try and figure him out at that moment. "Do you need some medical help?" She had asked and then Davis shook his head. He was trying really hard to make her stop the questions, and he was just wanting to get to the room and lock it up and then perhaps they can have a small chance of being safe for the night.

"Please, we need to be somewhere safe. I don't really have the time to argue with this. Give me a room for three for the night." Davis said and then after he had said that, the hotel counter lady raised both of her hands as if getting a little bit defensive over this and then she gave him a card and his remaining change and then she told him the room he needed to go to, and then Davis tried his best to smile but all he was able to do was just say "Thank you" before he deciding to just head on up to the room. Mimi and Tai were behind him, this time just looking behind every few moments in order to make sure that there was nothing around ready to attack them at any second.

Once inside of the room, Davis opened the door and then they walked right inside of it. Davis and Tai and Mimi started to get right on the bed. Davis said he was going to sleep on the couch and then he covered up the window with some curtains and then Tai and Mimi each got a bed of their own. Davis slowly got on the couch and then he also pulled something else from his pocket. It was the same type of weak fake cast that Tai had used earlier for his foot and then he delicately wrapped it around.

"Damn, that Jeff dude is determined as fuck. I guess he won't even want a moment without trying to claim his next victim. Whatever. At least we are safe for now." Davis said and then he turned off the room light. "I want you both to get some sleep. It's almost two in the morning. I think we all need some sleep. I will sure as hell be getting sleep now to." Davis said and then he laid fully down and then both Tai and Mimi were thinking about that. Tai got on the bed and Mimi did as well, and then they both turned off their lights as well.

Everything was all good and quite for about three hours or so. During that time, they were able to get a relatively bad sleep, but at the very least it was sleep. Mimi was thinking that she had heard something, so she was curious what it was she was hearing and then she was standing up a little bit just to make sure it was just people normally and not Jeff or something.

As she was standing up, she was checking the front door of the room and she was totally glad that there was a locked door there, and that there was no real chance that this thing was going to get them. Mimi was fearing the worst was going to happen at any moment, but then when she was who was there, she was shocked. She didn't see Jeff. In fact, she saw somebody she knew for a fact that she was going to be able to trust. It was Matt, a guy who had went to camp with her. When she saw that, she started to get a bit more comfortable and then she opened the door to walk out of the room.

Once Mimi was out of the room she was looking right at Matt. "How did you know that I was here?" Mimi asked and then as she had asked him that, Matt was looking around and then he shrugged as if thinking that this was not really all that big of a deal how it happened, as much as the fact that he was here, and there was nothing that they can really do about it now.

"I was just seeing you and Tai walking in. I saw that you were bringing Davis with you guys. I thought that maybe I could be able to help you guys. If you don't mind, would you mind talking with me for a bit?" Matt asked and then when Matt had been asking her that question, Mimi was thinking that she was a little bit hungry. Mimi nodded, and then they started to walk away. "I was just driving around for a bit. I am looking for my brother T.K. He is not at the camp and I haven't seen him in a couple of days."

That was when Mimi thought that this would have actually been a really big deal. The fact that his brother might have just randomly gone away and that there was nothing that they can really do about it. "That sounds like it would be a really big problem. It is related to what Tai and I have been doing for a little while. I think I can talk to you about it. I do trust you enough to let you know some of this stuff." Mimi said and then Matt got more serious, wondering if there was a bit of information of T.K. that he could get out of this.

"Well, it seems as if there are people who are going missing a lot lately. I think that this may be relating to what happened to your brother. I doubt that the guy has taken your brother, but I think that maybe your brother is adventurous about it and he might be wanting to see if he can get some information on this stuff." Mimi said and then after she had said that, Matt got pissed. At T.K., not at her.

"My brother is a fucking idiot. I wish that he would stop acting like he is just some big damn hero right now." Matt said and then after he had said that, Mimi was holding up her hand as if she was trying to get him to calm down and everything, even though there was not really anything about this that he would be able to be calm on. Matt thought that perhaps when he saw T.K. next, he was going to be able to get the guy to see the ways that he had were just flawed and that he needed to just go along and be a normal teenager and stop acting like he was going to save the day.

"I don't really think you should blame him on anything that is going on right now. None of this is his fault. He is probably just doing the best he can in order to even stay alive right now." Mimi said and then after she had said that, Matt was nodding and while he didn't like it, he was thinking that maybe there was a level of truth to the entire thing. He thought that maybe T.K. was just innocent all of this time, but he was trying to convince himself of that.

"If T.K. needs some help though, he can be able to just ask somebody and they will probably be able to do it. They might not really like doing it, but they will still do it and everything." Matt said as he was looking outside the window entrance of the hotel. As he was doing this, the more that he was thinking that there could be a chance that perhaps T.K. might not even survive this, and that he was going to die soon enough if he was not careful. He already broke his arm, and if he was not careful, there was a high chance that it was going to happen once again, and that would be a nightmare to deal with.

"I think that your brother just wants to do something that he can consider to be something that matters. Shouldn't you really be glad that this is the case? He is not really just acting like everything is just something that should be given to him. But I don't really know what to do right now. I should probably try to go to sleep right now, but I don't really know if I am able to do it right now." Mimi was thinking about this and then Matt was starting to close his eyes and everything.

"I am pretty tired right now. I mean, I need to get some sleep, but there is something about this town that is keeping me up right now. I am thinking that something is going to come at us at any moment. Something that is going to change the entire scope of the town. Do you get what I am talking about? I feel like there is something coming up that we will not be ready for. You know, I just can't focus anymore." Matt said and then Mimi nodded like she did get it, which she really did.

"You know, I think we really try and get to sleep right now." Mimi was saying and then after she had said that, Matt looked right at Mimi and then after he had looked at Mimi, he was thinking about that. Slowly, he was starting to stand up and as he was standing up he was heading on towards his car in the hotel parking lot. "Are you going to be heading out now?"

"Yeah, I am going to try and go to sleep right now. I will be driving to the summer camp right now. If you want to come along, go ahead, but if you don't want that, then I will be heading out right now." Matt said and then after he had said that, Mimi was slowly nodding and then she was starting to head back to her room in the hotel. She felt like it would be interesting to head out with Matt, but she thought that the other two would be scared if Mimi was gone, and she did not want to deal with that, so for that reason she decided to stay at the hotel.