In Today's Case: Haunted Murder

A week has gone by. Tess was out of the streets of Tokyo walking around. It was maybe 12:00 in the afternoon and Richard knows where she was going. Jimmy would've asked to gone with her if Amy, George, and Mitch didn't show up. She was kind of glad they did. This gave her time to be by herself and think. She sighed knowing she knew nothing. For one she couldn't figure out who this guy from her past is whose name begins with a D. And she didn't know who this man and woman were who killed her parents.

She decided she walked far enough. She looked around at the street signs trying to figure out how to get home. Then the boy was there standing in front of her. The one she met up with in the restaurant.

"Lost?" he asked. Tess looked at him.

"Um… no." Tess said to him walking around him. He turned and followed her.

"Richard Moore's office is back that way." He stated to her. Tess stopped turned around looking at him.

"Who said I was going there?" Tess asked him.

"Well I assumed you wanted to go back by the way you were looking at the street signs." He answered.

"Maybe you should ask me before you assumed." Tess stated, "what's your name anyway?" she asked. The boy smiled.

"My name is Darien." He answered. Tess's eyes widened.

"Darien? Little Darien?" Tess asked a little confused at first. Darien smiled.

"Yup that's me." Darien said smiling, "I'm glad you remember. It's been awhile since we seen each other." He added. Tess nodded her head in agreement.

"Yeah… I think the last time I seen you was…"

"When you bit me on the arm." Darien cut in, "it was the day before you left to go to America." He added. Tess nodded her head.

"Yeah I remember now. I was nine I think." She said.

"Can I walk you back?" he asked turning to the side bowing a little. Tess placed her hand on his head rustling up his hair.

"Sure you can." She answered. Darien and Tess started to head back to Richard's office.

"Remember when we were eight and you asked me out?" Tess asked. Darien looked at her and blushed.

"Yeah. But you said yes." He pointed. Tess nodded her head.

"I'll admit it. I did say yes from what I remember." Tess said. Then something hit Tess. Her eyes widened as he begun to think. 'Wait! His name begins with a D! Why didn't I think of it when he first told me his name? Should I tell him that his life is in danger?'

"What's the matter?" Darien asked her. Tess blinked turning her head to look at him.

"What?" she asked.

"What's wrong? I don't think I ever saw you in such deep thought." He answered.Tess smiled a fake smile trying to make it as believable as she could.

"Nothings wrong." Tess answered him frowning again. Darien smiled patting her back as in a joking way.

"You're right! There's no reason for me to suspect something from you!" he shouted as he smiled. Tess blinked a few times looking at him funny.

'Great… he's going to be JUST like Jimmy. Peachy, another man to ask me random questions about my life.' Tess thought. Darien and Tess made their way back to Richard's office.

Darien stood at the bottom of the stairs as Tess walked up them. It wasn't until she was half way up the stairs that she noticed that Darien wasn't following. She turned and looked down at him waving him up.

"Come on. It's been awhile since you've seen Rachel and Richard and there's a friend I want you to meet." Tess said. Darien inhaled and then let it out getting a little nervous he walked up the stairs and Tess opened the door.

"Where have you been!" Richard shouted at her. Tess let in Darien as Richard pointed at him. "Who's that?" he asked.

"This is Darien." Tess answered. Darien waved.

"Hey." Darien said. Rachel smiled walking up to him.

"Aren't you the boy Tess bit when she was like nine?" Rachel asked. Darien nodded his head.

"Yeah that's me." Darien said. Tess smiled as Rachel and Darien started to talk. Conan sat on the couch with his arms crossed. He didn't know what was going on with him but he felt a little… jealous about Darien knowing Tess for so long.

"Oh Darien!" Tess shouted as she grabbed onto his hand pulling him toward Conan. "This is my good friend Conan. Conan this is Darien." Tess said. Darien looked down at Conan and smiled holding out his hand.

"Hey there Conan." Darien said. Conan hesitated but he ended up shaking Darien's hand anyway.

"Hi." Conan said with a fake smiled. Tess was able to pick this up because it was the same smile she used on Darien.

"I'll be right back; I'm going to go get the mail okay?" Rachel said to everyone. They all turned and looked at Rachel nodding their heads. Rachel disappeared out the door and down the steps.

"So… this is the kid you bit before you left for America?" Richard asked as he eyed Darien. Tess nodded her head.

"Yup." Tess answered. Darien stepped back as Richard took another step forward.

"I have the scar to approve it if you want…" Darien said. Richard raised an eyebrow.

"You left him a scar?" Richard asked. Tess shrugged her shoulders.

"Hey! I was mad that day!" Tess shouted at Richard.

"But you didn't have to bite him!" Richard yelled back. Tess crossed her arms and then Darien smiled.

"She bit me because I broke up with her." Darien said. Tess, Richard, and Conan looked at Darien as he stood there smiling. Richard looked at Tess as she blushed a little.

"You were dating this kid?" Richard asked. Tess looked at him and then looked away. "You did!" Richard said in shocked. "You said you were never going to date that young!"

"Well… I did." Tess said. The Rachel came back into the room opening the door and shutting it behind her.

"Hey dad…" Rachel said. Richard, Tess, Darien, and Conan turned and looked at Rachel who held up a small envelope that looked almost like an invitation. "You got an invitation."

"Really?" he asked excitedly. Rachel nodded her head handing it to her father.

"Yup." Rachel answered. Tess crossed her arms.

"To where? Another Police Ball?" Tess asked. Richard glared at Tess as Darien nudged her.

"Great one." Darien said to her smiling. Tess smiled back. Conan watched the two as they both tried to hold in their laughter. Conan has never seen Tess this happy before. When Tess looked away from Darien her happiness was striped from her face. He blinked as he saw the expression on her face. It was like she was worried about something. Conan continued to look at her.

'I wonder what's going on…why does she look so worried about Darien?' Conan wondered. Richard opened his invite and read it out loud.

"You have been invited to the Grand Ball at 234 Lake Street, Tokyo." Richard read.

"Lake Street? I didn't know Tokyo had a lake street." Tess said. Rachel nodded her head looking at Tess.

"Same here."

"It's on the other side of town." Darien stated. They all looked over at him. "I use to live on that street. It's all the way on the other side of Tokyo." Darien added. Richard sighed.

"It's going to take all day to get there." Richard complained. Tess shook her head.

"Stop complaining." Tess said to Richard. He just glared at her.

"Well we better get going. Darien how about we drive you home?" Rachel asked. Darien smiled at Rachel.

"Sure. That would be nice." He said. They all walked out of the office and got into the car.

Tess sat in the middle of Conan and Darien. Tess and Darien talked about all the years they missed together and Conan just looked out the window with his arms crossed.

"Looks like your friend is jealous." Darien said nudging his head toward Conan. Tess blinked and looked at him. She looked back at Darien smiling.

"Watch this." She whispered. She then placed her forearm onto his head using it as an arm rest. "Is someone jealous?" Tess asked. Conan turned his head looking at Tess. He then glared.

"No…" he said seriously. Darien pointed to a white house.

"Here. I live right here." Darien said. Richard nodded his head. He pulled up next to the sidewalk. Darien said goodbye to Tess and walked out of the car walking up the walkway of his house. Richard pulled back out into the street. Rachel turned and smiled at Tess.

"He's nice." Rachel said. Tess pushed over into the seat behind Richard giving herself room.

"I know. You met him before." Tess said. Rachel blinked a few times.

"I did?" Rachel asked. Tess nodded his head.

"Yeah we've met him at the family cook out." Richard stated trying to find the other side of the town. Rachel smiled nodding her head remembering the cook out.

"Yeah I remember that… wasn't that when you broke his arm?" Rachel asked. Tess looked at Rachel shaking her head. Conan shook his head.

'She breaks his arm and bites him leaving a scar behind… what is she?' Conan asked himself. Tess then sighed.

"He fell out of the tree!" she shouted. Rachel smirked.

"But you pushed him." Rachel added. Tess crossed her arms knowing that Rachel was right. She did push Darien out of the tree at the cook out but she never meant for him to get hurt. They were on the first and lowest branch; she never thought he would've gotten hurt.

Richard pulled over the car as he came to a stop in front of a creepy looking house. They got out looking up at it. Conan and Tess stood there as Rachel and Richard walked forward.

"Does this creeping you out Jimmy?" Tess asked softly. Conan nodded his head.

"Oh yeah…" Conan answered softly. Rachel turned and raised her hand into the air.

"Hey! Come on!" Rachel shouted. Tess and Conan walked forward slowly. They were both creped out by the scary looking house. Richard knocked on the door. Not only was the house creepy a creepy butler answered the door. Richard handed him the invite and he nodded his head letting him in.

"Not only is the house creepy… they have a creepy butler as well." Tess said to herself. Conan nodded his head agreeing with Tess. He's sent his house before. It had a lot of rumors going around saying that it was haunted.

They entered the living. The house was mainly kind of dark feeling sending chills down their backs. Tess looked around at the walls.

"I fell like I'm in a mid-aged castle or something." She said.

"I agree." Conan said stepping forward into the living room. Rachel looked around to see that there weren't a lot of people there. Maybe two or three.

"Where are the rest of the guests?" Rachel asked.

"This is it." Someone said. Rachel turned behind her to see a kid maybe a pre-teen. He was wearing gothic clothes, mainly all black.

"Are you serious?" Tess asked not even turning around.

"Yup." The pre-teen answered. "My name is Jack." The kid said. Tess turned and looked at the kid to see he was gothic.

"Your gothic. Cool." Tess said looking down and then up at him. "Your short." She added. Jack got pretty mad.

"I'M NOT SHORT!" he shouted. Richard turned and looked at Jack.

"I see that you're someone protective of their highet." Richard said to him. Jack was about to yell when a woman wearing a nice black dress placed her hand onto his shoulder.

"Jack!" she shouted. Jack jerked a little.

"Yes mother?" he asked as he turned slightly to look at the woman in the black dress you he referred to as mother.

"Go up stairs in your room now!" She shouted. Jack nodded his head and then he was off running up the stairs as if he was running from a monster. Richard, Tess, Rachel, and Conan looked at the woman funny. She watched Jack walk up the stairs and soon she turned and looked at her gusts. "Mr. Moore, I'm so glad that you could make it." She said holding out her hand. Richard nodded his head and soon shook the woman's hand.

"No problem Ms…"

"Call me Yuki." She said as she smiled.

"No problem Yuki." Richard said. Tess looked around at the other gusts that were just standing there like they were ghosts or just completely… empty. Tess looked at Yuki and raised a finger.

"Um… excuse me." Tess cut in. Yuki looked at Tess. "Yeah hi… um… where are the rest of the gusts?" Tess asked as she pointed to the few people. Yuki looked down and then back up at Tess.

"Well they didn't come do to the fact that they think this house I haunted." Yuki answered.

"Is it?" Conan asked. Yuki looked down at him shaking her head.

"No it's not young man." Yuki said. "Come, I want you to meet my friends." Yuki said pushing them into the creepy room toward the only gusts there which were made up of three men and a woman.

"This one on the right is Mr. Stoma. But you can call him Jake." The man that Yuki referred to Jake raised his class into the air.

"Hey." He said. Yuki then pointed to the woman.

"And that is my good friend Julie." Julie raised her hand and waved her fingers.

"Hi." She said softly giving a small smile. Yuki then pointed to two men that looked like twins.

"And those two right there are Mark and Mac. Mac is on the right and Mark; well he's on the left."

"Hi!" they both said cheerfully. They greeted back. Soon after the party had started the butler went home because Yuki told him too and then the lights went out randomly.

"What the…?" Jake started as he looked up. Tess looked out the window to see the other houses had there lights on. Conan who was looking out the window with her also knew something was going on. They both looked down at each other and nodded their heads once. Then there was scream and a crash.

"JACK!" Yuki shouted out running up the stairs followed by everyone else rushing up the stairs.