Hiya~ I finally got this chapter up. I feel like I'm gonna love this case. x) Well I hope you guys enjoy reading it. :)
"Give me back my mommy."
Case 3: All Alone: part 1
Mai awoke panting, her hair was plastered to her forehead drenched in sweat. She glanced at the alarm clock next to her window to see that it was 5:00am and still dark outside. Mai felt weird, like there was a presence outside, and it was very uncomfortable. She scrambled out of bed and went to the bathroom grabbing her phone on the way and locking the door after. She looked through her contacts and clicked on the name of her favorite narcissist, calling him.
"Hello?" Said a familiar voice, he sounded like she had just woken him up which was probably the case considering the time.
"Naru?" Mai whispered frantically.
"Mai? What's wrong." Naru asked sounding a lot more awake now, the concern in his voice evident.
"I don't feel safe...like someone's outside watching."
"Hold on, I'll be there in 5 minutes."
"Alright," Mai replied quietly then hung up. True to his word, Naru showed up 5 minutes later, there was a man standing outside her apartment near one of the windows in the front, for what reason, he didn't know but the man ran away when Naru drove up. Naru walked up to the door and used the spare key he had told her to give him for safety reasons to let himself in.
"Mai?" He asked looking around the apartment.
"Naru!" Mai yelled running out of the bathroom and into his arms. "I'm sorry you had to come all the way over here I think I was just being paranoid." She blushed hiding her face in his chest. "The feelings gone now."
"It's fine, I believe that your intuition was right again so it's good you actually called someone." Naru said returning the hug.
"Wait? What do you mean? How do you know I'm right?" Mai asked looking up at him curiously.
"I saw a man standing outside your house, I don't know if his motives were good or bad however and since we don't really have enough visual evidence to tell the police it may be best if you stayed at the apartment Lin and I are at for the time being. I have an extra room you can stay in."
"Naru, you really don't need to go through all that trouble."
"It's not really that troublesome but it would be if something happened to you so you don't really have much of a choice." Mai rolled her eyes then smiled at Naru.
"Alright, I guess I'll go pack some stuff then." She was about to pull away from the hug when Naru stopped her, kissing her. When he pulled back Mai was blushing, a big smile on her face despite that, and made her way to her small room.
Mai, Naru, and Lin finally made it to the office at 8:00. Lin had been informed of the happenings by Naru before he had left for Mai's house and after her stuff was all set at Naru's apartment and the three had been able to shower, change; Naru showed up at Mai's house in his pajamas something she had failed to notice at first; and eat breakfast they left for the office. Mai sighed plopping down on the couch and frowning at the floor.
"Are you okay?" Naru asked walking over to her.
"Yeah, this is all just kinda unexpected. That's all." She mumbled forcing a smile on her face. "Would you like some tea?"
"Yes," Naru nodded as he started to walk to his office. "We have a client in about 7 minutes as well at 8:10 so you may as well make an extra cup." Mai stood going over to the kitchenette to make the tea. As she waited for the water to boil she leaned against the counter lost in thought, wondering what the client was coming for and eventually wandering to the strange feeling she felt this morning. Even thinking about it again caused Mai to shiver unconsciously. The kettle began to whistle and Mai reached for it unconsciously setting her hand on the burner, she let out a small scream at the sudden pain as she pulled back her hand quickly.
Naru sighed as he sat down in his chair running a hand through his hair.
'Maybe I shouldn't have left her alone, she is possibly being stalked so it's probably safest if I'm there with her even if we are already in the office together we're still separated and something could happen.' he scowled running a hand through his hair yet again, leaning back in the chair he crossed his arms. 'I shouldn't be over-thinking this too much, if I go out there now she might think that I don't trust her.' After thinking like this for a couple more minutes he stood up having made his decision, however just as he did there was a scream. It was Mai's scream. He immediately ran from the room to the kitchenette cursing himself for not going to her sooner. Once Naru got to the kitchenette seconds later he saw Mai holding her hand to her chest, tears in her eyes.
"Mai," Naru said as he made his way over to her and turned off the stove. "What happened?"
"N-nothing, I was just being careless. It's not too bad." Mai winced and he could tell she was lying.
"Let me see it." He commanded holding out my hand. She shook her head. "Mai." he said, his tone warning. She pouted holding out her hand as he took it gently it was obvious she was trying to hide the pain. Her palm was bright red and slightly shiny, Naru sighed taking her over to the sink and turning on the water. After feeling it and making sure it was cool and not too cold he put her hand under it. "Stay there," Naru said going to get the first aid kit from the bathroom. He returned with Lin.
"The client is here now, Lin's going to help you. When you guys are done you may come out." Mai looked at Naru who returned the stare then left, she then turned her attention to Lin as he walked over to her. He opened the first aid kit then took out some gel and a gauze wrap, Lin then turned off the water and wrapped his hand around her wrist gently drying her hand with the soft towel he had taken. She tried not to hiss from the pain. The cool gel lessened the pain a little bit for her and soon after rubbing it on he wrapped her hand with the gauze.
"There, I suggest we go now." Lin said quietly.
"Ahhh wait I still have to finish the tea." Mai said suddenly remembering.
"Are you sure your okay enough to do it?"
"Yeah, don't worry I can do it, the waters still hot." Mai said about to grab the kettle.
"I can pour the water for you." Lin said grabbing it before she could, he brought out two teacups and poured water in them. Mai then proceeded to make the tea and Lin placed them on a tray carrying them out for her. They made their way out of the kitchenette and walked into the main office Mai sat on Naru's left and, after placing the tea down, Lin sat on Naru's right. Their client, a middle aged looking man, was sitting across from them.
"Now that you've calmed down, can you tell us your reason for being here?" Naru said, annoyance just barely making it's way into his voice.
"Yes, sorry, well I work at the college near here and I fear that it may be dangerous for students, some have even left and refused to go back before everything's fixed. There's this weird cycle of some sort going on. A student will go missing for three days, it's always been impossible to find them, we've searched everywhere. After the three days the student will be found in the school's garden, each student found is in worse shape than the last. The first student was just unconscious, and as it went on they had injuries, the most recent one was found just today and she was practically dead, the doctors are trying to help her but they say that even if she is saved she may be in a coma for a while, or might not even wake up." The man pinched the bridge of his nose, Mai could see the fear in his eyes even if he tried to hide it. Her intuition told her that he really cared for the students, she assumed that he was a teacher of one of the students who disappeared.
"How much time was there in between each kidnapping?" Naru asked.
"Two days, people have tried waiting in the spot the students reappeared at but they always pass out before seeing it and no one remembers why."
"Alright, we'll take this case." Naru replied standing up. "My assistant Lin will talk to you about the arrangements." Naru said gesturing at Lin. "Mai," he looked over at Mai who nodded in response, "come with me in my office." With that, he left going into his office and sitting in the chair behind his desk, Mai followed after standing in front of his desk.
"Is everything alright?" Mai asked.
"I should be asking you that." Naru replied, Mai crossed her arms about to retort when he continued talking, "I want you to stay in here with me for the time being, if there is someone after you it'd be best if we were together."
"What if they come in? Shouldn't we stay in the main area so they can't sneak in here without us knowing?"
"Lin will be out there, we'll join him soon but there's something I need to do here first so until then you're staying with me." He gestured for her to sit in the chair next to her desk and she sighed doing as he wanted.
"I'm sorry." Naru looked at her in confusion.
"For what?" He asked.
"I don't want to be a bunch of trouble to you." She stared at her hands as she held back the tears in her eyes, she was tired of being weak.
"No, you're not, I want to do this. Besides it's not your fault." Naru said, he noticed that his words weren't helping her much and he sighed, "and...it gives me another excuse to spend more time with you." He mumbled causing Mai to look up at him wide eyed.
"Really?" Naru just looked at his computer pretending to be interested in the object and Mai smiled going over to him and sitting in his lap. "I like spending time with you too Naru." She curled up slightly against him yawning suddenly exhausted.
"Go to sleep Mai," she heard Naru say right before kissing her on the top of her head and she closed her eyes.
I'm so ready for this case xD I've been waiting to write it, I've had it all prepared for a while now but I keep leaving my math book at school, it has my summaries and stuff in it, but I really wanted to write this so I did it from memory, I'm proud to say that I got it right. Thanks for reading I hope you all enjoyed the chapter. Review please, it always makes me happy when people do. ^^
Buh bai~