Sorry I let you down Curious George! -kTe-

The Discovery???

" Who knows, they all were from different areas... and stuff.." " I have no idea.." he said unsure. His hands were shaking.

" What is it?"

" My fear was right..." he said. He looked as white as a ghost.

He looked at her. She was completely baffled by his statement. She hadn't been awake when he had gone through every reasonable possibility.

" What's your fear?" She said looking at him concerned.

" Whoever did this, just to do it! They have no motive, no reason, no particular people, there just crazy!" he said angrily. She looked down at the floor.

" So there's no hope..is there?" she said. Jimmy could see a tear form inside of her eye. But she blinked to cover it up. The gaping whole that once was filled by Libby now clearly evident. His heart filled with sympathy. But instead he angrily snapped towards his blank screen.

" No, I guess there isn't" he said unsure of what to think. He again looked at Cindy who now was seriously holding back major tears.

" Okay," she said quietly. Wiping her falling tears, on her already tear stained sweatshirt. He loved her. Even like this he loved her. He felt it down in his heart. But he could never say so. Not even when she was asleep. He had come close to telling her a few months ago, but never got it out. But he did kiss her this morning. Well just on the cheek. She looked at the blank screen behind him. He shrugged looking at her blank expression. Like a robot of some sort.

" Cindy! It's okay! We will try to find out who did this!!!" he said without thinking. " We will not rest until we find whoever did this..if it takes us the rest of our lives!" he said. She smiled at him. She was moving closer.

" Thanks Nuetron, I owe ya big time." she said. And again she embraced him. He felt the warmth spread very quickly. Like he had just drank a carton of hot chocolate. She pulled away smiling. With whipped cream and marsh mellows! He smiled at this wonderful happy feeling.

" How do we continue with a non-existent lead?" she said looking at the floor again. Obviously feeling disappointed. His head began to spin. Sheen! He had said there was a guy outside his house around five or so. Just before Libby arrived. Someone knew that Libby was headed there. But she had no time to talk to anyone. Unless.. Someone knew about her journal! He grabbed Cindy's hand and led her over to Libby's house. She refused , but he urged. He won. He had an idea. He asked Mrs. Folfax lots of questions. If anyone had been in Libby's room lately. And she replied.

" Only me," she said looking at the floor.

" Well, can we go check it out anyways?" she nodded without a word. This time Cindy led Jimmy, towards a girls room. Her dead best-friends room. He could feel her uncomfortableness. Besides, he felt it to. She plopped down on Libby's bed..or rather what was her bed. She was hiding the pain that he knew was inside of her. But obviously she was afraid to say, because they were 'enemies'. He looked at the floor again.

" Why did you bring us here Nuetron?" she snapped coldly. He could feel a shiver run down his spine.

" Because, I.. Well ..I wanted to see.. If anyone other than her had been in her room!" he said pulling out a fingerprint detector. He had samples of every girl that had been murdered. He scanned the room. No foreign finger prints found..it kept beeping that annoyingly sickening saying over and over. Cindy sighed at every announcement. Finally she just took it out of his hands.

" There's no hope Neutron..None..." she said.

" Well there has to be!" he said again. This time forcefully.

" Maybe we need more than just us working on this case!"

"We can't tell anyone remember!"

" Maybe someone that already knows!"

" No one knows except us and the parents!"

"True.. True.." he said sighing. Silence fell once more in the room. His heart fell as Cindy looked through old pictures, she was hiding the pain again. He just wanted her to let go! But she never could! He angrily searched the things completely insignificant to anything. None of them led him to anything. The circle was returning. Now would be a really good time for a brain blast dang it! THINK..THINK..nothing.. Nothing at all. Stupid.. Why couldn't he come up with anything? WHY! She looked at him again. He hated how her green eyes looked right through him. Like she was trying to read what he was thinking. He was scared that she might be able to. He quickly looked towards the walls. Plastered with music bands posters. Just then it hit him. Maybe there was a secret. That they hadn't been told. Because no normal person could make any sense of this so called "case". He saw a paper lying near her desk. He picked it up. It was the same clip from that old newspaper that they had seen at Sarah's! Maybe there was a connection between the dead people. They all knew about this guy being killed. He read over everything repeatedly.

' He was murdered in broad daylight.'says one witness. ' It was horrible! All the government people were there and there was not anyone who reacted.' 'It was a little strange.' the government replied that Retroville is a safe place, that if they had known that he was being killed they would have acted in a moment. ' With fighter planes, with jet beams, anything it took, we'd do it. We want Retroville to be safe.' says Mr. Olson, town governor of Retroville.

' And this man was an big part of our safety, we will sorely miss him!' ' The town park will be named after him,' ' may you all rest in peace.' This is all the information that the governor agreed to give us. The corner's office says that he had been stabbed 50 times in broad daylight. A local disagrees with this conclusion. ' I only saw like three times once near his shoulder, near his heart, but not directly and one near his knee,' which is very confusing. Maybe there is more behind this case then what the government is giving us.

"Maybe there is!!" Jimmy exclaimed. Cindy looked at him confused. He handed her the sheet of paper.

" Hey isn't that the same??" he interrupted her.

" yep, funny how all the girls had this exact same clip, the exact same things highlighted. They were suspicious. But who gave it to them? Whoever did is next!!" he said. Then Cindy looked down at the paper.

" The guy from the library." she said quietly. He looked at her.

" I was there with Libby when he gave it to her." " he was this really old guy, and he told Libby that she should look at it..and then he was silent. It was really weird. But Libby agreed, and said she'd do it later.."

" Was there anyone else there?"

" No. Just me...and her..." she replied. Maybe there wasn't a connection. If no one else had been there.

" I think it's time we talked to that librarian!" he said grabbing her hand. The tingles were stronger this time.

" Sorry," he said as he let go.

" It's okay, I just want to find out who killed Libby, and why!" she said angrily. She grabbed his hand.

" My turn!" she said as she pulled him through the house, to the library. Jimmy had to keep telling himself that this was not real, other wise he would be so confused right now. She let his hand go as soon as they walked in. The librarian was working below the desk. And they could not see him. She walked up to him. He looked at her. What on earth was she going to say?

" Remember me?" she asked. The librarian was a grey haired old lady! She looked at her with sceptisicm.

" Where's the guy librarian?"

" Vacation! Now shush!!!" she spun around with wide eyes. Jimmy's jaw dropped. NO WAY! Had there been another murder? This one was an old guy! They had to look into it. She grabbed his hand and pulled him in between two nearby shelves. Marked fiction Hi-Kl. She looked at him with those green eyes. He tried very hard to overcome the need for her. He just wanted to kiss her. She pulled him into her closer.

" There is something really suspicious about that don't you think!" she whispered. He looked down into her eyes again.

" ya I would dare say so." he was so close to her. He could've kissed her. But he didn't dare. At least not while she was awake. He touched his lips thinking about the wonderful electricity her lips gave off. She was amazing, in every way form and being.

" So what do you think?"

" I think that librarian was on to something! And whoever did the killing knew it! And just before they killed the librarian he gave the clipping to those girls! Who were young and he knew wouldn't look into it until after he was dead! He knew that they were after him..it's the only thing that makes sense!" she smiled.

" OF COURSE!" she brightly smiled. The librarian placed a finger over her lips and shushed them. Cindy looked at him.

" We have to go to that guy's house!"

" But now we have to be careful, we don't know who could be involved!"he continued.." We should probably wait a few days or something.."

" How bout one!" she snapped. He could see the determination burning in her eyes.

" Okay!" he said as he placed a hand over her mouth. He loved the way her lips felt.

" Shush, someone will hear you!" he said. She took her free hand and removed his from her mouth. She smiled as she placed it near her waist.

" Okay don't die!" she laughed as she walked away from him. He stood there his arm leaning up against the book shelves. She waved goodbye as he smiled and followed her..like a love sick puppy..

" How are we gonna find out where he lived?"

" Ask the lady." she said again.

" But what if!!" she raised one eyebrow as she reached for his backpack. She dug in there and pulled out the short-term memory ray.

" Brilliant..." he said laughing.

" Where does the other guy live" he heard her ask. She took down notes and as soon as the lady asked why Jimmy hit the button. And she looked at them, very confused. " Where am I? What day is it today? Who are you?" she asked. Cindy smiled and led him outside.

" How is it that you've been coming up with all the ideas lately?"

" I'm smart..." she replied cooly. With a hint of sarcasim in her voice.

" Yes you are..." he said without thinking. She looked at him very surprised.

" for a girl I mean.."

" Ya your pretty smart for a guy I guess..I think we've been making a pretty good team..you know..we haven't fought..I kinda think we'd do better if we stopped fighting for good..for Libby you know.."

" Exactly! Cuz look how far we've gotten on this case! Three days ago we would have been no where and fighting. Look where we got when we stopped! We should just be friends.."

" I know, for those who are dead," she said quietly. He looked at the ground.

" Yes, for Libby." he said. She looked up at him. He froze there on the sidewalk. She smiled at him.

" What is it?" she asked. He saw the sun hitting her face just right. He had to keep the drool from emerging. She smiled again.

" What are you looking at Nuetron?" she almost was red..she was blushing!! Why was she blushing??

" The sunset..it's so beautiful.." he said looking over her head. And indeed it was. She spun around almost surprised at his answer. He snuck up behind her and stood next to her. She faced him now. He looked so deeply into her green orbs of eyes. " Ya, beautiful.." she said looking at the ground. He was a little bit freaked out by his sudden craving for her to look into his eyes again. He realized she had completely addicted him. He'd fallen even more in love with her these past three days, without ever realizing it. She was like some sort of an insane drug, that he just kept wanting more of. Of course she could never know that she did that to him. She probably didn't even know that she gave it to him in the first place. It was really complicated. He felt like he was flying. Were his feet touching the ground? His mind turned to jelly again as she placed her free hand on his cheek.

" Well I'd better go now. So I don't have to be at your house again." she said quietly. Without thinking he pulled himself very close to her lips.He was leaning in to her, about to touch her lips, when a loud screeching filled the streets. A black car was parked across from them. BANG!! A gun shot filled the empty space..BOOM! Again a shot. He grabbed Cindy and pulled her along as he ran. Ducking the gun shots. The squealing tires getting closer..the gun shots getting closer to there potential victim. He saw some bushes. He forcefully threw her on the ground and almost landed on top of her. Her breath was quick and raspy. He watched as the black car drove by. He looked at the plate. None! There was a not a license plate! Just a blank black car. He heard Cindy sigh.

" No I don't think you should go home..." he said. " I think we found something.."

END OF CH!! -kTe- stay tuned for the next ch. entitled An Adventure Waiting to Happen!! :D :D