Finding 'x'

•My pledge to Tiny•

When he finally opened the box and inspected its content, his expression softened drastically and he turned towards venom voice.

"Ruby, you should check this out." At the mention of her name, Ruby peeled herself from the window and strutted towards him, making sure to sway her toned hips sensuously. I bit back a snide comment.

Her dramatic gasp when she got close enough to clearly see what was he was holding up reminded me of Dera. She then turned to me in incredulity, "did you see this?, did you touch it?" 

"No, I used my psychic powers to sense what it was and telekinesis to transport the bag from my locker to that case." I retorted and her expression hardened.

"This is not the time to joke around,"  She snapped and I nodded in agreement.

"I'm not one for jokes either, that was sarcasm. Clearly, you haven't studied your language properly." She tried to say something but it came out as a garbled mess. I ignored her and turned towards hot cop, "what are we going to do?" 

He dropped the bag, took determined steps towards me and pulled me into his arms. My heart did a double take because of the abrupt action.

"I'm so sorry you had to see that." His voice sounded from somewhere above my head. The feel of his firm hands around me was comforting and his voice soothed my emotional turmoil, but there wasn't time to revel in it.

"I shouldn't be your focus sir. We're running out of time!" His hands hesitantly let go of me and he returned to the bag of rotting skin. I sighed in exhaustion.

"We need back up. This is getting too much." Venom voice voiced out her concerns when she was done glaring grenades at me.

"We can handle this," came the quick reply from hot cop.

"In matter of days another body will show up. Do you still think we've got this? This is not some investigate-my-cheating-wife case. A psycho murderer is on the loose, it'll take more than the two of us to catch him." For the first time since I met her, venom voice actually said something that made a little bit of sense.

"You're not alone in this," I assured, "I'm with you. I'll help anyway I can."

A dismissive scoff came from venom voice, hot cop shook his head fervently.

"We won't get you involve in this, it's too risky." It was my turn to scoff.

"Oh yeah? Like I'm not already involved as it stands? This person we're talking about is very interested in me, isn't that risky enough? Please let me help." 

"And what will you help with? Making coffee or wrapping your sickly arms around men way out of your league?" I could feel contempt dripping out of her every word. I shook my head in pity.

"Maybe I'll begin by telling you the killer has members of the staff in his employ? If you aren't so focused on men, you would have stopped to think about how these 'gifts' keeps getting to my room without the notice of anyone." I turned to see the pale surprise on hot cops face, "we really have to get that ...thing to the lab soon. And afterwards, you have the non teaching staff of Lydia hall to question. You're welcome," I said and went over to open the door for principal hag, who was about to raise her hand to knock. 

Of course I knew that I was not exactly smart and might not be enough help to the currently flabbergasted duo behind me, but I was going to fight with the very last blood in my vein to prevent another murder from happening and bring the psycho, who thought himself invincible enough to play God, to justice.

That was my pledge to Tiny. My vow.

Another chapter for the new week💃, I did tell you frequent chapters will pop up from time to time🌚 and I guess I'm doing good on my word😌.

I hope y'all are safe and well.
Here in Lagos, a total lockdown has commenced since last night, no movement at all and all that. I had to rush to the market to stock up food supplies.

This chapter is for  InamorataFeels, thank you for voting on all  the previous chapters, y'all check out her books, she's a b add ass writer.

I implore y'all to stay safe, clean and healthy.

I love y'all as always,
✌illusionistic.