Chapter Five ---Mysteries in the Dark
Fujin stared down at her meal. It didn't seem right to eat after looking at those pictures. But she was starving. Diving into the plate of fries, ethics lost the battle against hunger. Squall smiled to himself as he watched the internal struggle.
"So where should we start? We have no leads, except they all knew each other, so then it must be someone they know…what do you think?" Squall asked quietly. Fujin thought a moment.
"Start with their closest friends." Squall stared at her. Friends did NOT murder each other. Well, not any of the ones he knew.
"What are the chances of a stranger taking out three people who knew each other intimately? You listened to Trepe's babble of statistics, you tell me." She had a point.
"But why?" Squall asked, mostly to himself, but Fujin answered anyways.
"Why does anyone kill? They've snapped." Squall took a few of Fujin's fries, which she only glared at him for, and tapped his fingers on the table.
"Her funeral is today, we should go. Talk to the families and friends. Wouldn't you think the killer would be there? Avoids suspicion if one is the killer." Fujin nodded, finishing off her food. The two to leave, not noticing the pair of dark eyes that followed them out.
The sounds of sobbing filled Fujin's ears and she cringed. She absolutely loathed the sound of crying. The funeral talk was short and sweet, but Fujin felt a knot in her stomach. She hated funerals too.
"Excuse me, are you the detectives on Joan's case?" A young Asian woman asked. Fujin and Squall nodded and the tears, slipped down the woman's face silently.
"So she was murdered…if you need to know anything, please call me. I want to put that sick freak away." Fujin put a hand on the woman's shoulder and smiled gently.
"We will. Um…did she have any enemies? Did the other girls?" Squall jumped in.
"What was your name by the way?" Fujin slapped herself mentally for not asking that.
"Alisha …no…well…not really. I mean people never really liked us much, so no one close enough to her or the others to kill them." Alisha's dark eye's narrowed in anger but she quickly regained her composure.
"I'm sorry…the others and I were all so close…and with the babies due, we were even closer…the seven of us are like sisters…now Kard, Sissy, Dane and I are the only ones left."
"Kard?" Squall asked. That wasn't the commonest of names. Then again, neither was Squall.
"Oh, our nickname for her. Melissa Figueroa, Aye Phoung Matsuura , and Jez'Reel Lee. Respectively." Squall nodded.
"Your…all expecting?" Fujin asked, curious as to how seven friends managed to end up pregnant at the same time.
"Well, no. Melissa isn't. But she's the only one. Though it drives Phoung crazy because her modeling is on hold and Melissa is still skinny as a twig." Alisha smiled, remembering the times the girls had shared.
"Did she seem angry that you were getting so close and she was kind of left out of that?" Alisha's eyes narrowed.
"No…if you think Melissa killed them your wrong! She would never do something like that, not to us." Fujin nodded.
"I'm sure. I just have to ask. How long have you known the others?"
"I've known Mai for…11 years…since middle school. Um--" Fujin stopped her.
"I need their real names." Alisha laughed softly.
"Right. Kelly. I've known Kelly for 11 years…I knew Sylvia for 13 years…and Joan for three." Fujin nodded, writing the facts down.
"How long have you known the others?" Squall asked softly.
"Well…I've know Melissa for eleven years and Jez for eleven years…and Phoung my entire life." The woman wiped her eyes and rubbed her round stomach.
"Thank you…we're going to talk to the other women. Alisha?" Fujin said before turning to walk away.
"Yeah?"
"Be careful. It could be someone you know." Alisha nodded and walked to her husband.
"Phoung? You are Phoung Matsuura, right?" Squall asked. The young woman turned and immediately, Fujin was jealous. The woman was beautiful, it was no wonder she was a model. Even eight months pregnant she looked gorgeous.
"Yeah…well, not legally. I'm technically Phoung Dong Wan now." The woman smiled and took her husbands hand. The two made a beautiful couple, both almost painfully attractive.
"How long have you know the victims?" Squall asked, looking as if though the woman's beauty had absolutely no affect on him. What Fujin didn't know was that it didn't.
"The same as Alisha. We meet through her the same year she meet them and we've been sisters ever since. I miss them so much but it's really hard on Jes…she and Kelly were like twins…and slightly telepathic. I think she may have known Kelly was in trouble." Fujin made a special note of this.
"How so?" Phoung sighed. It wasn't the easiest thing for her to explain.
"Well, it's weird really. Even when we we're teens, whenever one was sick or had a headache or something, the other got it too. One time when Kelly got put into the hospital, Jes was sick for that entire week and it really freaked her out when Kelly was put into the hospital because she was so afraid for Kelly. Her and Melli always had the horrible feeling something was going to happen to Kelly. I guess they were right." Squall nodded, jotting down various things and Fujin frowned.
"You said she might have known. Why didn't she do anything?" Phoung sighed.
"Because, with them, they never knew what was exactly wrong with the other. It could be a cold, stomach flu or anything. One time when Kelly got sick, Jes got sick the same day but she said it was a really painful stomach ache. One she'd never had in her life and so she was panicking, thinking Kelly might be in serious trouble. Turns out they gave each other a regular stomach ache that some medicine fixed. Jes could never pin point what was wrong. She only knew that something was wrong. It tore her up when she found out Kelly was dead. Kept screaming that she should have been there. That she should have done something." Phoung wiped a tear from her eyes and Fujin turned to Phoung's husband.
"What was your name?" The man smiled sadly and answered that his name was Kim Dong Wan.
"Did you know the girls?" He nodded.
"Yeah, a few of them. Alisha, Jes and Silver. Phoung took it pretty bad when she found out what happened. She knew the other more then we did. We just heard about them." Them, we. Who was we?
"We? Who's we?" Squall asked, his thoughts mirror Fujin's. This scared her, however.
"The other guys and I. They're around here somewhere." Fujin and Squall thanked him for their time and left in search of more suspects and witnesses.
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