Chapter 6 Deeper into Investigation

Feeling restless, Tim closed his eyes. He started to run down the hill at full force from Valley High School’s main building and crashed into the cherry blossoms a minute later. Petals flew around him. When he opened his eyes, the petals were still on the ground. There was no more wind. His eyes wandered onto the ground and spotted a torn piece of cloth from his black T-shirt.

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The door creaked open of Mack’s office. A tall figure stepped in, clothed in a black sweat suit. It was a man wearing black sunglasses; he was capped with a black hat, concealing his hair. Mack glanced up from his writing, placing his long silver graphite pen down; he had  just finished erasing a scribble of a circular shape with the graphite vacuum on the other end of his graphite pen. The graphite pen was a new invention last year, ridding the use of the rubber eraser.

“Dr.–,” Mack gasped shortly. The man strode to a wooden chair, and plopped onto it.

“Say no more,” the man said curtly. “Have you cleared all the evidence?”

Mack’s eyes wandered to a nearby drawer, hesitating for a second. “Yes.”

“Good. I should not encounter any problems then.” The man stood up, and placed his hands into one of his pockets, taking out a stash of paper. “This should do it.” The man closed the door quietly as he left Mack’s office. Once he was gone, Mack took the papers into his hands, opened a drawer, and stuffed them on top of a small plastic bag and a sealed gray envelope.

***

Gabby’s hands were shaking when she opened the envelope, as she shut her bedroom door. She took out two filmy cards.

One card was  bar-coded  Kl03, and the other Kl04, in the same exact format.

“Sigh-broke-tree, interesting. Never heard about this before,” Gabby said to herself before opening up her browser on her computer.

***

Tim picked up the cloth and curled it into his fist.

“Maybe, maybe Sally was ambushed here. Some how kidnapped,” Tim whispered uncertainly to himself.  He started to imagine a scene in his head where a pale brunette girl was struggling in the cherry blossoms against a group of people. As she she would be struggling, a piece of her hoodie would tear and her wallet would drop to the ground. “Unlikely.”

He walked passed the cherry blossoms and turned onto a common path where students walked  home on, surrounded by many oak trees. The shade was welcoming, blocking out the hot sun above him. He walked for ten minutes before he noticed a slightly concealed unfamiliar fork of the road with berry bushes  he had never noticed before to his left. He pushed through the converging bushes and ended up in a whole new path. The floor was quite sandy and the surrounding was abnormally quiet. As he kept walking, he felt gentle breezes around him. He stopped abruptly when a huge rock towering over him appeared in his path. When he stepped around it, he saw a steep dirt road before him.

With the sky turning dark and his feeling fatigued from his wandering, Tim sat down at the edge of the the steep path. He looked at his watch. It was five thirty P.M., thirty minutes after Sally left Valley High School and disappeared last month.

“I should be heading back,” Tim grunted as he stood up after five minutes of sitting down. He was about to turn around when something caught his attention. Down the lofty road ahead of him, flashes of light began blinking out of nowhere. A huge translucent bubble materialized, as a man with a cane started to step out from the bubble.

Startled, Tim quickly ran for cover to the trees behind him.

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~ by jellylver123 on May 9, 2009.