Sequel to 'It Started With A Dare'

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

19 March 2021 (one month later)

The past three weeks Sam and I had our boys-meeting. We went to a different restaurant every week, so we didn't get acknowledged by the people working there after a few visits. We had to do this because Anna, the waitress from our former restaurant, had given her telephone number to Sam so we couldn't come there anymore. For her own good, because it would only break her heart and Sam couldn't explain to her why he did this. We couldn't have any social contacts apart from our work.

My working contract was changed to four days working in a week instead of five days in a week, because I needed some time for myself. It really did me a good thing. I had more time to go to the gym and I actually saw my own process going better every week. The gym is for me the perfect place to take all the negative thoughts out of my mind.

Currently I was at work and our team had a briefing by Cameron, who is the manager from our district. The district is divided in five different teams. You had the 'normal' police officers who had to go outside into the city everyday and every night. There were two teams of special police officers who also had a lot of tasks inside and outside. The team Sam was part of only consisted of people who investigated cases of abuse but also robbery and sometimes even murder. Most of the time they worked inside the office and sometimes when it was needed, they could go outside to investigate any further. Olivia and I were part of a team alongside with the team of Sam. Our team only consisted of us two because of how less cases we had to investigate.

Olivia and I had to investigate the cases about fraud. It was our task to find out what actually happened from the beginning and to look into the case, see who has been questioned and who were witnesses.

We worked together at one case at a time. When we reached a point in the case where we had to wait for replies from other people or organizations then we left the case for a while. I was placed in this team because I really like to dig deep into a case and try to find out the secrets.

The whole reason why Sam and I worked at the police office was because we had to find out if there is corruption inside the police office. We both worked as undercovers. The reason why we were placed at this district is because of a very nasty case which contains money laundering and missing money from the evidence which all happened two years ago.

I looked up at the presentation which was still held by Cameron. He had introduced Chris to everyone from the district. It seemed to me that Cameron and Chris already knew each other, because they did so friendly to each other and laughed about stuff. Or maybe I was just paying too much attention on everything that seemed out of place or not as usual.

Since it was Friday, we had planned to go to a club here nearby. The younger people from under 30 all agreed to go. The elder people had the go home because they had kids and a family who wanted to spend time with them.

We went with a group of seven people to the club. I walked together with Sam and Olivia. Olivia was talking about which drink she was going to have first. It was a long time since we all went to a club. I suggested her to have a cocktail which she agreed to. But then there was the question about which cocktail she would have.

"What is your favourite fruit?" Sam asked to Olivia. She replied with peach and then Sam said that she had to take a drink with peach in it. "How come I never thought of this before" Olivia asked to herself and we all laughed at that. "You always think too difficult about making choices" I said.

This evening at the club I realised that I finally feel myself at ease at this job and being undercover. The first few weeks I had a really hard time with trying to make contacts with colleagues and making sure to not tell too much about myself. After six weeks Olivia came working at our team, she was transferred from another city to ours. That was also the time that we paired up in a smaller team, working at the fraud cases. Now we worked for three months here and I really enjoy my job.

Tonight, I decided to let myself a little bit looser and have a few drinks. Two hours and a few drinks later most of our colleagues already went home. I was still with Sam and Olivia, who was trying to get Sam and me at the dancefloor to dance with her.

It was already crowded at the club and a lot of people were dancing on the dancefloor. "Okay I will come and dance when they play a song from Shakira" I said to Olivia and she looked at me questioningly. "Why Shakira?" she asked, but she already waved off the question. "Actually, don't tell me that" she said and then she went off to go to the bathroom or something.

I pulled my phone out of my pocket and saw that I had an Instagram notification about a few people who posted a picture on their story. I decided to just take a quick look, secretly hoping that Leah had posted something too.

Suddenly I felt a brush from someone's hair at my arm and when I looked up, I saw someone walk away with very dark hair. My heart skipped a beat because she looked so much alike Leah. She stopped walking and slowly turned around towards me. I kept staring at her, hoping to see her face. My heart dropped at the same speed as it earlier skipped a beat because it wasn't her. 

I looked away from the girl and back at my phone because suddenly I really wanted to see her. The only way to see her was through her Instagram. I opened the app and saw that her story was the first in the row of all the people I was following, with Ellen's account off course.

I clicked on her story and saw that she had a few photo's in her story. The first photo was one of her apartment with many boxes in it. Maybe she did a make-over for her home and all the boxes consisted of the new things she bought.

The second picture was a few hours later than the first and it was a picture of a laptop screen. I couldn't see it really clearly and even after looking at the picture a few more times I still couldn't see what was on her screen.

I decided to leave the picture for what it is and move on to the next one. It was a short video from her locking the front door of her apartment with a text onto it which said: 'Moving on to a new adventure'. This all seemed to me that she was going away for a holiday or maybe she was moving to another house.

I let all the information sink to me, and I clicked the story to go further to the last picture in her story. It was a picture made at the airport from the screen where all the departures were showed on. She had underlined one particular flight with the text next to it: 'New home. New chapter'. So, she was actually moving to another state.

I squeezed my eyes to see the destination she was going to, but it was really hard for me because my surrounding at the club were dark and that didn't help at all. I blinked my eyes a very few times and then I started her story again and clicked until I was at the last picture.

I blinked my eyes again to make sure I was reading this right. In capital letters I saw the name of the state I was currently living in. What was she going to do here? I had to find it out right now.

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💜 Bella

SONG TIP: Dancing On Dangerous – Sean Paul, Sofia Reyes, Imanbek

I'm wondering, from what country are you reading my story?