Thanks to the people who reviewed. Sorry it took me so long.
Buddy
'The things I do for the team' I grinned cheekily as I caught sight of the library. I didn't mind going to the library at all, because I would be able to meet the very intriguing Serena Longe and best of all I would be able to pick up Forrest's little sister Alex and she would most defiantly help add to the chaos that I was sure was going on at William's house.
"Thank goodness that the Library fixed the air conditioner." I was standing right underneath the said air conditioner, as soon as I walked in, letting the cool air flow over me. "Now off to business."
Serena
I was, very simply put, in heaven. There were books and more books all over the place. When I had first walked through the door I had made a B-line straight for the fairy tale books. Well actually it was more of an A-B-C- and D Line. It wasn't my fault the librarian didn't give me the right directions. When I had finally made it to the Fiction section I, being my klutzy self, tripped over a stack of books.
"I'm sorry. Are you ok? I'm so sorry about leaving those books there." A small boy was trying to help me get up. He had short black hair; green eyes, round glasses that looked like the Kind that Harry Potter might have worn, and was wearing a red sweater with jeans.
"I'm fine."
"Oh good. My name is Alex and before you ask I'm a girl not a boy." She smiled and proceeded to help me get up.
"Serena, nice to meet you Alex. Do you know where I could find some really good fairy tales?" I said taking an immediate liking to the girl.
"Yep," She smiled brilliantly at me. "What kind of fairy tales are you looking for?"
"I figured that Britain, being home to the famous King Arthur, would have some good fairy tales about knights in shining armor."
"Well you've come to the right place." She grinned and dragged me off to one of the many bookshelves.
"Here you are, knock yourself out!"
"Well I don't think that I will go that far." I said laughing
"You have a pretty laugh. Well I'm going to go now. Bye." Alex skipped off
"Bye."
Buddy
"Alex there you are!" I said as I caught sight of Alex's favorite red sweater and her short black hair.
"Buddy!" She jumped up and gave me a bone-crushing hug.
"Love you too Alex, but my old bones can't take much more of this." I said grinning down at her.
"Sorry." She let go of me and looked down at her feet,
"It's perfectly alright, but…" She jumped up and proceeded to crack a couple of my ribs.
"Alex I found the books I want. Can you show me where the front desk is? Oh. Alex I think you're strangling him." A tall girl with short brown hair, and violet eyes was standing between two bookcases. She was smiling.
"Alex, seriously his face is turning purple. I think you should let go."
"Ok. Buddy this is Serena, Serena this is Buddy. Serena's my new friend it's that great!"
"Wonderful!" I agreed. I turned and bowed to Serena. "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, madam." Her grin got bigger and playing right along she replied.
"Well my dear sir I believe that the pleasure is all mine."
"Alex m'dear, what's the possibility of you wanting to join the gang at Holmes' house and helping us cause some chaos?"
"Pretty good Bud. I have but only one condition." I laughed only Alex would want to make sure she got a win-win situation.
"Sure Alex name it."
"Can Serena come? I want her to meet my brother." She pulled her famous puppy eyes on me.
"Well, it's up to her, but we may have to walk the long way there cause there's something that John wanted me to tell her." I looked over to where Serena was standing. She looked at me with a calculating look, which eerily reminded me of Holmes.
"Sure I'll go. I have a surprise for you two," She grinned. "I'm living with Holmes."
"Really, really! Oh who I feel sorry for you! Holmes is only good in small doses. Besides I don't think that he really likes me. " She hugged Serena and I let out a dramatic gasp. Thinking all the while how honest little kids tended to be.
"How could someone not like you!"
"Buddy when are you going to grow up?" Alex looked at me with exasperation.
"Hey take it easy on me. I've only just gotten my hormones under control," I grinned and bowed. "Now it would be my extreme pleasure to escort you two lovely ladies to the Holmes residence."
"Time to cause mass chaos!" Alex started to skip out of the library.
"Which I'm probably going to have to clean," Serena looked glum, but then seemed to cheer up. "I wonder if they have whipped cream?"
"I'm sure they do and if not I guess we could just stop at a store and buy some."
"That would be nice." The silence became a little uncomfortable. 'Well Buddy it's now or never.'
"So Serena I believe that Holmes won't tell you about his first case involving a certain pyro?" Her face hardened.
"In all honesty I'm not sure if I want to hear this story."
"I promise it's not that bad, dangerous but not gruesome."
"Go ahead." Serena turned her head slightly to maintain eye contact with me. Alex was of skipping ahead of us.
"Ok it was about three years ago. We were all pretty much in high school at the time, so of us were in grade school. Early in October Rowen's Uncle was killed, well murdered more like."
"What did her uncle look like?"
"He was a short man, green eyes, long brown hair. It was defiantly down to his shoulders. Always dressed nicely. Rowen loved to guy to death."
"Wait a minute, who's Rowen?" Serena looked at me bemused.
"Rowen is one of the irregulars. Don't worry you'll meet her soon enough. So her Uncle was stabbed to death and in an attempt the person who did it tried to burn the house down. Luckily the Fire Department responded quickly and the body wasn't completely burned." I grimaced. Serena mimicked my grimace.
"I'm sure that I didn't need to know that."
"Sorry 'bout that.
"It's ok. I think, so how did Holmes get involved?"
"I'm assuming you know about Joel?"
"Yep that I do." She got that hard look on her face again.
"Well Rowen convinced her mother and father that Joel Brown was an out of town detective who was willing to work on solving who murder her uncle, for a reasonable price. I have no clue how she managed it. However this Joel brown was in the works and Holmes had an interesting choice of hair colors for Joel. Imagine if you will a Joel Brown with red hair." She started to chuckle and I grinned.
"Oh boy."
"Tell me about it. We nearly got followed back to Holmes house because of the wig. Back on the farm. Holmes managed to more or less get all the information that he needed to start the investigation. He first started with the knife, which had melted during the fire. He tried to track down who had bought that kind of knife and to our dismay it was a fairly common knife that people would by for carving things."
"Very interesting but do you think you could shorten the story a bit?"
"Sure no prob. Ryan, Holmes, John, Rowen, and myself nearly got killed by Hunter. Holmes girlfriend did die. And…"
"Wait a minute! Holmes had a girlfriend?" Rowen said with surprise.
"No one told you?"
"No I wasn't told. What was she like? What was her name?"
"I don't suppose you would ask Holmes to tell you would you?"
"Holmes thinks it fit to not tell me anything. If some psychopath is on the lose I think that I should be informed of what he has done and what he's capable of doing."
"Hmmm very true, but what does Holmes girlfriend have to do with any of that?" I was curious. I had no problem telling her about Holmes' girlfriend, but I wanted to know why she wanted to know."
"I want to understand Holmes, as impossible as it sometimes seems at times. I'm the kind of person who enjoys learning how people think and what makes them act the way that they do."
"Irina Jones. About your height, long blond hair. When I say long I mean long. It was down past her waist. Bright blue eyes. Loved to sing and tickle anyone she could. The best way to describe her is vivid and incrediblely (?) joyful."
"I wish I could have met her. How did she die?"
"Stabbed."
With that ominous note I leave off. Whoever invented writer's block needs to be sent to jail. Hopefully I will be able to write on a more consistent basis. Happy Holloween Everybody! Although it's a little early.