Enigmatic by Joshua Randle Firth

Author:Joshua Randle Firth
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Shawline Publishing Group Pty Ltd
Published: 2023-02-10T02:51:29+00:00

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN

Albert

I unlocked the interview room and entered with two cups of coffee. I put one down in front of Megan. ‘If you want it,’ I said, and I sat opposite her again. I took a big gulp from mine and placed my mug on the table. ‘Megan, you have to start helping me here.’

Once again the stone-cold woman didn’t say anything.

I had tried to play the bad cop by being semi-aggressive and reading her book as a statement. So now it was time to try something new. ‘Megan, you know Erin is worried about you,’ to which Megan just did a light chuckle. ‘You don’t think so?’ I questioned.

‘Erin was attacked, Detective. You did nothing about it. Nothing. So that’s on you.’

I had done everything I could. Lori and I took every detail we could, I interviewed Megan, I interviewed Erin. I had the car tested for fingerprints. Lori organised the CCTV footage. We raided a house at Megan’s request. This was not just about Erin’s attacker; this was now a four-person homicide. I was doing the best I could, the very best I could. But I wasn’t the best detective, I knew that. I know that.

‘Megan, do you know why I became a detective in the first place?’ I placed my elbows on the table, a movement my mother always cautioned me not to do because it was ‘rude’.

Megan mimicked my movements, moving closer to me. ‘Enlighten me, Detective Strom.’

‘My best friend was killed when I was seventeen,’ I started, staring at me, almost as if she was quizzing me: was I telling the truth, or was this a lie? This was true, and Megan needed to know why it was important for me to be in this career. ‘Adam was only seventeen. My best friend from school. In Junior High, Adam transferred from another school to ours. It would not be out of character for me to say I was the loner of the school. I spent most of my time with my head in a book, or on a computer. I loved video games; I wasn’t good, but it was a distraction. The people in the games were almost like friends, mostly because I didn’t have any.

‘When Adam came to school on the first day, it wasn’t that classic movie scenario where that person is seated next to you and you realise you have everything in the world in common. Adam was seated at the front of the classroom. He introduced himself. He was tall, blonde, with curly locks of hair and hazel eyes. This was the first time in my life that I thought to myself, “I’m attracted to a boy”. Adam sat a few rows ahead and I watched him the whole way through class. I watched him scratch his head at questions written on the whiteboard. I watched him lose interest in the class’s curriculum and then I watched him stare out the window to the world outside of school. I watched him in the hallways, at his locker, by himself at lunch.

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