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Anna's Closet

By BluRoSeS

Chapter 12: The Verdict

The next morning, I awoke to the shrieking screams of Mrs Kyoyama. She had found a dead mouse lying where she had slept. She must have rolled over and crushed it in her sleep, yuck!

The mouse was actually Hao's pet; it had escaped from its box. Hao didn't mind.

Mrs Kyoyama called out that she had prepared breakfast for us. She had made fried eggs, bacon with toast. Her definition of breakfast was burnt toast, partly blacken bacon, cold baked beans and one-minute runny eggs. My stomach wouldn't entertain any greasy looking food like that.

I politely declined. My parents had no choice in the matter,

They had to endure the cesspool she placed in front of them, which she called …BREAKFAST!

There was a queue for the toilet before lunch. I wasn't in it!

Mr. Kyoyama knew that his wife couldn't cook so he just continued sleeping. As for Hao, he didn't care he had cereal.

My parents made no complaints, well…to her face.

I considered that has a tangible beginning in the friendship between our families.

I found a letter that Anna wrote to me. It had been in my rug sack and I didn't relinquish the letter to the police, because it was dated a week before her murder. I didn't think it was relevant or necessary.

I accidentally and absolutely forgot about it. I took it down stairs and showed it to the Kyoyama's.

This may had been a blessing in disguise. I proceeded to the living room and without saying a word, I handed over the letter and said," Read this" "What is it? " asked Anna's mother. "? It's a letter to me…from Anna! "

Mrs Kyoyama held her hand to her mouth. She started to cry. Anna had described her love for me like that of her mother.

Mrs Kyoyama sprung to her feet and said emotionally, "Oh Yoh! I had no idea. I'm so sorry for all the pain we put you through" There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

After a group hung and eyes were dried, I muttered that I was famished. Mrs Kyoyama was about to offer to prepare lunch, but my mum knowing how awful her cooking was, insisted that she take a deserved rest, after the wonderful breakfast she had made.

Mrs Kyoyama felt overwhelmed with the praises bestowed upon her. If only she knew what they really thought of her cooking.

It took two whole weeks before the police got back to us. They said their forensic team delayed the release of the new evidence. It was checked thrice to relinquish any room of doubt.

They phoned to say that they would come over to see us the next day. They claimed the evidence found was concrete evidence in the murder of Anna Kyoyama.

The thought of Hao and I lingering in jail for a crime we didn't commit, gave my parents and the Kyoyama's strength to be more obtrusive in looking for answers.

The only incriminating part of the case was that our fingerprints were at the crime scene and that alone threatened to convict us.

Anna's demised was a sad occasion. However, I contemplated the fact that we might have gone to prison. I remembered that I blurted out to the Kyoyama's that I 'didn't do it'

It's amazing how situations changed when, immediately the accuser realizes the innocence of the accused. In the case of Anna's parents, they felt the guilt and decided to help prove our innocence.

The Kyoyama's insisted that detective Booms stayed the night. They wanted to be such that he was around when the police arrived.

Booms agreed, then held the edge of his nostrils and blew out a patch of bogie. " I think you' would be comfortable sleeping in your car, don't you think!" My mother told him. He didn't seem to mind and picked his overcoat and wiped his bogie on his trousers has he left.

We all felt sick after that encounter. The next morning, just as the Kyoyama's had predicted, the police arrived.

Detectives' Potts, inspector Lands and a woman police officer marched into our house as if they were attending an assembly.

Booms asked the detectives to stop the intimidation and insisted that they told us what the out come of the evidence from the closet was.

Inspector Lands did something very strange. He apologized to my parents. He then turned to Hao and I and took a deep breath.

He took out a sheet of paper and shook his head.

"Get on with it man!" Said Booms anxiously. He began to recite from the sheet he held and said,"I am the investigating officer in this murder case. The new evidence found in the closet, at the residence of the deceased had not been tamped with and it is our conclusion that the bloodstains found at the scene and on the evidence was that of the deceased, Anna Kyoyama."

At this time we were all more anxious to hear the climax of his statement, which seemed to be going on forever. I felt like giving him a kick up the backside.

He asked for a drink of water. He drank it like a pig and even asked for a bottle of coke.

My dad bluntly told him " sorry, it's finished"

He belched loudly, then continued…" The piece of paper found was actually a note… a note which said…Uncle Sam is trying to kill me and all I can think about is you, Yoh. I love you"

There was so much whaling and crying. We now knew why the woman police officer was there; she sprung into action and comforted my mother and Mrs Kyoyama. They were crying uncontrollably.

Detective Lands then said something that surprised us all. He looked over to me and said…" We went back to the scene and found a good set of fingerprints of the killer. We have arrested a man named Samuel Jackson. He has been charged with Anna's rape and murder"

I could believe it. The person who we had delivered the parcel to was the murderer. Anna called him Uncle Sam. I now remembered.

Samuel had gone to the house and pounced on Anna when she opened the front door to him wearing just a towel. She had been in the shower.

He raped her down stairs. She managed to break free and ran up to her room. Samuel followed her and killed her in closet. He has now confessed.

Detective Potts then put his stinky hands on my shoulder and said to me " Young man, I know you have been through a tough time, but remember, we were only doing our jobs. I am sorry for the pain we caused you and your brother"

The detectives left. For a minute, there was silence in room.

Detective Booms (eating a sandwich) farted, then simultaneously we all burst in to laughter and had a group hung again.

The Kyoyama's were off the hook and they felt it too.

Hao gave a sign of desperate relief and went up to his room. I could hear him crying. I was sure they were tears of joy there too.

Everyone had gone to his or her various homes. The Kyoyama's said their goodbyes and detective Booms left with a bowl of rice and sushi.

It was now six hours after we'd heard the news of our freedom.

My father asked me how I felt. I was speechless and went outside to look up at the stars; my father came with me.

I sighed and said emotionally, "It hasn't sunk in yet, but I'm glad that we're free"

My dad patted me on the back and said…" Justice has saved you"

I think he was wrong; justice didn't save us…Anna's closet did.

And for a moment in the sky I thought I saw Anna's face…. smiling.

THE END

Sorry it was so short I probably might add more to later on anyway please review COMPLETED

A/N: Finished the whole story is finished. Hard work I would like to thank my dad for helping me a lot and all the peoples who read this story and even if you didn't review I still love Yawl especially the reviews. Byes. Test me O lord and try me, examine my heart and my mind, for your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth. Psalms 26 verses 2-3