Chapter. 5 At Cline's.
------------------------------------------------------------------ To wait: The reason I always wrote CollIG you can find in the review from Meera. Bullet, balls, whatever I'll change that, of course I didn't mean anyone to shoot the 'body balls' from a gun, oops! Thanks for the review. To Halo: Thank you for your review too and I'll try to explain things better.
Just so you all know, Frank and Joe are 22 and 21 years old. They're NOT two innocent school kids, they're MEN or Frank, at least. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
'What do we do today?' Joe asked at lunchtime.
'Well, I'm going to have a little chat with the nightclub's owner and I was wondering if you and Frank could.thanks, Gertrude. could go to Mr. Cline, how does that sound?'
'Fine, but must I, can't Frank do it alone?' Joe asked.
'Are you busy?' Fenton asked back.
-'Well, no but.'
-'What is it with the two of you, anyway?'
-'I guess we're just going different ways in life, you know'
Fenton nodded. That made sense.
'Are you going with Frank?' he asked.
Joe sighed. 'All right, whatever.'
'Mum! Can I borrow your car?' Joe asked Lauren.
-'Of course, just drive carefully. You know where the keys are..'
-'Yeah, mum. Bye!'
Joe took the keys and went out.
His mother had a small red car which Joe drove when he had to travel with someone but when he was alone he rode his motorcycle.
Joe stopped the car in front of the block where his brother lived.
He didn't ring the doorbell. He had locksmith to make a key to Franks apartment without Frank knowing to surprise him.
Joe went up on the 5th floor where Frank's apartment was. He put his ear against the door. He heard a sigh and then a sound when something fell on the floor. He put the key carefully into the keyhole and turned it. He opened the door without making a sound and went in.
He heard the water from the shower. He froze when he heard a woman's voice and it was not Callie's. Oops! He went quickly into the kitchen.
'Frank?' The woman asked. Joe had heard this voice before but he couldn't remember where. Strange.
'I'm in the shower!' Frank yelled.
'Ok, do you have something to eat?' the woman asked.
'You can look in the fridge' Frank said from the shower.
Joe heard footsteps. He was in trouble. Oh, well. There was nothing to do about it.
The woman came into the kitchen. Joe knew who she was before she saw him. She was going to say something but Joe jumped to her and held his hand over her mouth.
'Hush,' Joe smiled, 'Hi, Nancy. There's been a long time.'
He let go of her.
'Joe! What was that about? Don't you know how to knock .how did you get in?' Nancy Drew asked.
'I have my ways,' Joe said and felt very cool.
-'Joe, you scared me' Nancy said.
-'Sorry, but you scared me too. I didn't even know you were in town. I haven't seen you in ages.'
Actually Joe wasn't sorry at all. He was having fun now.
'What are you doing here?' he asked.
'I actually came to see Frank,' Nancy answered and blushed, she didn't like the way that Joe was looking at her.
Joe smiled. He was enjoying this conversation very much.
'Wow. You must really like him,' he said and looked deep in her eyes.
Nancy looked away.
Frank came into the kitchen with a towel wrapped around the middle.
'Hey, what's going on?' he asked, 'Oh, hi Joe. When did you come? No, wait. How did you get in here? I didn't hear the doorbell.'
-'It was open,' Joe lied.
Frank and Nancy stared at him.
'WHAT?!' they both shouted. They looked at each other and blushed.
'Are you sure?' Nancy asked.
Joe grinned. 'How did I get in if no one opened for me?'
'Well, did you want something?' Frank asked.
'Oh, no dear Frank. You won't get away with this so easily' Joe thought to himself.
He smiled. 'I didn't know you broke up with Callie.when did that happened?'
Frank suddenly became pale. He saw the nasty smile Joe sent to Nancy.
'Joe, you're not going to tell her, are you? Please don't!' he begged.
Joe whistled. 'We'll see. But now you're supposed to come to work.'
'What?' Frank asked.
'Dad said we should go to Mr. Cline and ask him about something,' Joe answered.
-'Ok, give me a minute. I'm going to put on some clothes.'
Frank went into the bedroom.
Joe looked at Nancy.
'Did you know that Frank is still with Callie?'
'I wasn't thinking about her. I totally forgot that she existed, 'Nancy answered, 'Don't remind me of her.'
They stood quiet in the kitchen until Frank came.
'Well, we can go now' he said.
'Ok. Bye Nancy' Joe said as he went out of the kitchen and out of the apartment. Frank followed him. A second after he closed the door behind him Joe said:
'You're in a deep shit, man.'
Frank nodded. 'I can handle this, stay out of it or I kill you!'
-'You will? God, I'm real scared...not.'
-'Joe, shut up!'
-'I talk when I want to talk' Joe said and slide into the car.
-'And you don't talk when you should' Frank said.
They didn't talk more on their way to Mr. Cline's house.
The house was very large and white. And there were many, many round, big windows, there were trees around it which created shadows on the white walls that made them look like grey.
Joe whistled. 'Wow, that's nice.' He said.
He and Frank walked to the door. Before they could ring the doorbell a young woman opened the door.
'Are you the Hardy boys?' she asked but didn't wait for an answer.
'Your father called and told me to expect you.'
Frank nodded, didn't say anything This woman probably wouldn't listen if he did.
'Well, Mr. Cline is upstairs, on the 3rd floor. You turn to the right, his room is at the end of the hallway, understood?' she continued and went away before Frank could answer.
When she was gone, Joe started to laugh.
'Wow.'
The brothers followed the woman's directions and knocked on the door.
'Come on in' someone said from inside.
Frank opened the door and they went in.
When they came in a big wooden desk stood in front of them and behind it sat a rather old man.
'You must be Frank and Joe Hardy, you're Joe, right?' he asked Joe. He stood up and shook hands with them.
'Yes, I am' Joe answered, 'I'm very sorry about your daughter' he added.
'But you're going to bring the man who murdered her to justice, aren't you?' Mr. Cline said and smiled weakly.
-'Of course' Joe answered and smiled, 'At least we'll do what we can.'
'That's true but to do that we need some information' Frank said.
'I'll tell you what I know.which is not much, really' Mr. Cline said.
'Well, here we go' Frank said and took a micro cassette recorder from his pocket, 'Did your daughter have any enemies?' he asked.
Mr. Cline thought for a while.
'Not that I know about' he answered, 'Maybe some jealous girls from school but I think they're harmless.'
-'Why were they jealous?'
-'Well, Sarah was good at almost everything and she was also beautiful, that's a rare mix.'
-'What about boys? Her relationships?'
-'That's one of the few things she wasn't good at. She liked to change them quite often.'
-'Do you think some old boyfriend could have done this, or possibly she was with two at the same time?'
-That's a chance but I have no idea. She never brought a boy home, always went to their places. I only know this about the 'guy switching' because she used come to me and say: 'dad, I'm going to Jake' and the next time:' dad I'm going to Tom. Then she said she was going to some other guy and on and on. I remember she was once going to Joe Hardy' Mr. Cline said and looked at Joe.
Joe blushed.
Frank smiled. 'I believe that. 'Now he understood the way that Joe looked at her in the mortuary.
Joe cut in. 'This is a big house, Mr, Cline, 'he said and looked around inside this room which was twice bigger than the living- room at his home, 'How many people are living here?' he asked.
'There were five persons living here, four persons now' Mr. Cline answered.
'I thought you only had 3 children, 'Joe said.
Frank was wondering where he was going with this.
-'I have 3 children with Rose, but I also have 2 children from another marriage.'
-'They're not all living here, are they?'
-'Sarah was the last child along with Rose who still lived here, but Randy who is the younger 'child' with Annette, my former wife, God bless her, he lives here too though he's 24 years old.'
-'Ok, so it's you, your wife,(Joe counted on his fingers)Randy and who's the fourth?'
-'Our household assistant, Luise.'
-'I see and all the others are moved out?'
Mr. Cline nodded.
'Well, I think we're running out of questions but we'll talk to you again if we come up with something, is that all right?,' Frank asked and turned off the micro cassette recorder.
'You're welcome,' William Cline answered.
'Do you think your wife could tell us something?' Frank asked.
'No, she can't. I was telling you what we share. We hold a weekly meeting about our children' Mr. Cline answered.
'All right then but we'll talk to Luise, is she very busy?' Frank asked.
Cline smiled. 'No, but good luck!'
Frank closed the doors.
I guess I don't need to say it but: Please review and tell what you really think. ------------------------------------------------------------
------------------------------------------------------------------ To wait: The reason I always wrote CollIG you can find in the review from Meera. Bullet, balls, whatever I'll change that, of course I didn't mean anyone to shoot the 'body balls' from a gun, oops! Thanks for the review. To Halo: Thank you for your review too and I'll try to explain things better.
Just so you all know, Frank and Joe are 22 and 21 years old. They're NOT two innocent school kids, they're MEN or Frank, at least. ---------------------------------------------------------------------
'What do we do today?' Joe asked at lunchtime.
'Well, I'm going to have a little chat with the nightclub's owner and I was wondering if you and Frank could.thanks, Gertrude. could go to Mr. Cline, how does that sound?'
'Fine, but must I, can't Frank do it alone?' Joe asked.
'Are you busy?' Fenton asked back.
-'Well, no but.'
-'What is it with the two of you, anyway?'
-'I guess we're just going different ways in life, you know'
Fenton nodded. That made sense.
'Are you going with Frank?' he asked.
Joe sighed. 'All right, whatever.'
'Mum! Can I borrow your car?' Joe asked Lauren.
-'Of course, just drive carefully. You know where the keys are..'
-'Yeah, mum. Bye!'
Joe took the keys and went out.
His mother had a small red car which Joe drove when he had to travel with someone but when he was alone he rode his motorcycle.
Joe stopped the car in front of the block where his brother lived.
He didn't ring the doorbell. He had locksmith to make a key to Franks apartment without Frank knowing to surprise him.
Joe went up on the 5th floor where Frank's apartment was. He put his ear against the door. He heard a sigh and then a sound when something fell on the floor. He put the key carefully into the keyhole and turned it. He opened the door without making a sound and went in.
He heard the water from the shower. He froze when he heard a woman's voice and it was not Callie's. Oops! He went quickly into the kitchen.
'Frank?' The woman asked. Joe had heard this voice before but he couldn't remember where. Strange.
'I'm in the shower!' Frank yelled.
'Ok, do you have something to eat?' the woman asked.
'You can look in the fridge' Frank said from the shower.
Joe heard footsteps. He was in trouble. Oh, well. There was nothing to do about it.
The woman came into the kitchen. Joe knew who she was before she saw him. She was going to say something but Joe jumped to her and held his hand over her mouth.
'Hush,' Joe smiled, 'Hi, Nancy. There's been a long time.'
He let go of her.
'Joe! What was that about? Don't you know how to knock .how did you get in?' Nancy Drew asked.
'I have my ways,' Joe said and felt very cool.
-'Joe, you scared me' Nancy said.
-'Sorry, but you scared me too. I didn't even know you were in town. I haven't seen you in ages.'
Actually Joe wasn't sorry at all. He was having fun now.
'What are you doing here?' he asked.
'I actually came to see Frank,' Nancy answered and blushed, she didn't like the way that Joe was looking at her.
Joe smiled. He was enjoying this conversation very much.
'Wow. You must really like him,' he said and looked deep in her eyes.
Nancy looked away.
Frank came into the kitchen with a towel wrapped around the middle.
'Hey, what's going on?' he asked, 'Oh, hi Joe. When did you come? No, wait. How did you get in here? I didn't hear the doorbell.'
-'It was open,' Joe lied.
Frank and Nancy stared at him.
'WHAT?!' they both shouted. They looked at each other and blushed.
'Are you sure?' Nancy asked.
Joe grinned. 'How did I get in if no one opened for me?'
'Well, did you want something?' Frank asked.
'Oh, no dear Frank. You won't get away with this so easily' Joe thought to himself.
He smiled. 'I didn't know you broke up with Callie.when did that happened?'
Frank suddenly became pale. He saw the nasty smile Joe sent to Nancy.
'Joe, you're not going to tell her, are you? Please don't!' he begged.
Joe whistled. 'We'll see. But now you're supposed to come to work.'
'What?' Frank asked.
'Dad said we should go to Mr. Cline and ask him about something,' Joe answered.
-'Ok, give me a minute. I'm going to put on some clothes.'
Frank went into the bedroom.
Joe looked at Nancy.
'Did you know that Frank is still with Callie?'
'I wasn't thinking about her. I totally forgot that she existed, 'Nancy answered, 'Don't remind me of her.'
They stood quiet in the kitchen until Frank came.
'Well, we can go now' he said.
'Ok. Bye Nancy' Joe said as he went out of the kitchen and out of the apartment. Frank followed him. A second after he closed the door behind him Joe said:
'You're in a deep shit, man.'
Frank nodded. 'I can handle this, stay out of it or I kill you!'
-'You will? God, I'm real scared...not.'
-'Joe, shut up!'
-'I talk when I want to talk' Joe said and slide into the car.
-'And you don't talk when you should' Frank said.
They didn't talk more on their way to Mr. Cline's house.
The house was very large and white. And there were many, many round, big windows, there were trees around it which created shadows on the white walls that made them look like grey.
Joe whistled. 'Wow, that's nice.' He said.
He and Frank walked to the door. Before they could ring the doorbell a young woman opened the door.
'Are you the Hardy boys?' she asked but didn't wait for an answer.
'Your father called and told me to expect you.'
Frank nodded, didn't say anything This woman probably wouldn't listen if he did.
'Well, Mr. Cline is upstairs, on the 3rd floor. You turn to the right, his room is at the end of the hallway, understood?' she continued and went away before Frank could answer.
When she was gone, Joe started to laugh.
'Wow.'
The brothers followed the woman's directions and knocked on the door.
'Come on in' someone said from inside.
Frank opened the door and they went in.
When they came in a big wooden desk stood in front of them and behind it sat a rather old man.
'You must be Frank and Joe Hardy, you're Joe, right?' he asked Joe. He stood up and shook hands with them.
'Yes, I am' Joe answered, 'I'm very sorry about your daughter' he added.
'But you're going to bring the man who murdered her to justice, aren't you?' Mr. Cline said and smiled weakly.
-'Of course' Joe answered and smiled, 'At least we'll do what we can.'
'That's true but to do that we need some information' Frank said.
'I'll tell you what I know.which is not much, really' Mr. Cline said.
'Well, here we go' Frank said and took a micro cassette recorder from his pocket, 'Did your daughter have any enemies?' he asked.
Mr. Cline thought for a while.
'Not that I know about' he answered, 'Maybe some jealous girls from school but I think they're harmless.'
-'Why were they jealous?'
-'Well, Sarah was good at almost everything and she was also beautiful, that's a rare mix.'
-'What about boys? Her relationships?'
-'That's one of the few things she wasn't good at. She liked to change them quite often.'
-'Do you think some old boyfriend could have done this, or possibly she was with two at the same time?'
-That's a chance but I have no idea. She never brought a boy home, always went to their places. I only know this about the 'guy switching' because she used come to me and say: 'dad, I'm going to Jake' and the next time:' dad I'm going to Tom. Then she said she was going to some other guy and on and on. I remember she was once going to Joe Hardy' Mr. Cline said and looked at Joe.
Joe blushed.
Frank smiled. 'I believe that. 'Now he understood the way that Joe looked at her in the mortuary.
Joe cut in. 'This is a big house, Mr, Cline, 'he said and looked around inside this room which was twice bigger than the living- room at his home, 'How many people are living here?' he asked.
'There were five persons living here, four persons now' Mr. Cline answered.
'I thought you only had 3 children, 'Joe said.
Frank was wondering where he was going with this.
-'I have 3 children with Rose, but I also have 2 children from another marriage.'
-'They're not all living here, are they?'
-'Sarah was the last child along with Rose who still lived here, but Randy who is the younger 'child' with Annette, my former wife, God bless her, he lives here too though he's 24 years old.'
-'Ok, so it's you, your wife,(Joe counted on his fingers)Randy and who's the fourth?'
-'Our household assistant, Luise.'
-'I see and all the others are moved out?'
Mr. Cline nodded.
'Well, I think we're running out of questions but we'll talk to you again if we come up with something, is that all right?,' Frank asked and turned off the micro cassette recorder.
'You're welcome,' William Cline answered.
'Do you think your wife could tell us something?' Frank asked.
'No, she can't. I was telling you what we share. We hold a weekly meeting about our children' Mr. Cline answered.
'All right then but we'll talk to Luise, is she very busy?' Frank asked.
Cline smiled. 'No, but good luck!'
Frank closed the doors.
I guess I don't need to say it but: Please review and tell what you really think. ------------------------------------------------------------