TAMING BECCA

THIRTEEN

THIRTEEN

“I can’t believe I let Anthony sleep at my place and to make the matters worse, I had the night mare again today, I feel so embarrassed that I felt so vulnerable in front of him that I had to ask him to stay and spend the rest of the night with me in my bed, it sucks” Becca said to Joanna as they both took the elevators to their office, it was around eight in the morning and the two had just gotten to their place of work. That morning Anthony woke up early before Becca, made her breakfast then left her a note saying that he had to rush home, he had another emergency but truth is that they had agreed to drive home with Michael, he had to bring Joanna her car despite their father didn’t know that the two had left for the girls places so they had to go home before he woke up and found them gone, he would literally go mad if he learnt that the two were spending time with the girls, their mission was to make them fall in love with them and with that, they would run their business smoothly since having friends with the police was one advantage to them and them dating the well known detectives in town was like another bonus

“Huh, Anthony was at your place? Did you invite him over?” Joanna asked surprised because her best friend had said earlier that she has some paper works to do at night and that is why she couldn’t spend the night with her and it came to her as a surprise that Anthony spend the night with her

“No, how can I have invited him when I was the one that told you I had some paper work to do? You think I can choose Anthony over you? Think Joanna, I found him waiting for me at my porch and trust me I wanted to chase him away but would have sounded rude of me so I invited him in and he ended up sleeping at my place although I had him spend the night in the guest room and this night mare chose the right time to show up, I had to ask him to spend the rest of the night with me and he agreed, I was so shaken but then I woke up and found the other side of my bed empty but he left a note saying he had an emergency he had to attend to so he made me breakfast and said we could meet if I tell I wanted but he respected my decisions” Becca said and Joanna shook her head and the chuckled

“Oh my God that guy is falling for you, it is high time you accept facts and what was the nightmare about? The same nightmare or?” she asked as the elevator stopped on their floor and the two stepped out

“Yeah the very same dream but only that this time is that the whole family dies in the fire, I am too late to save them and I call the fire fighters but I later find myself in the forest with an ugly looking man he tries to kill me and then there is this small boy that comes to save me, he hits the guy with a stone in his right eye and then we manage to escape although we don’t go far because he finally catches up with us and ties us both on a tree, he says he will chop us into small pieces one by one because I was supposed to die in the fire and the boy who saved tried to kill him and when the boy tries to resist he shoots him in the head and I wake up drenched in sweat” she says as they walk in their office and both get settled on their office chairs, they always sit across each other, Baker and Oscar are yet to arrive so it is just the two of them at their work station and a few other detectives at their work stations

“You know I have never really understood how you mom and sister died and I still think that maybe someone triggered that fire, I still think that someone was behind that, don’t you think it is time we followed up that case? I am not trying to pressurize or anything but I still think someone murdered your family, and those people are still out there doing God knows what, I don’t to even imagine that I think it is high time you followed up that case, your dad might be knowing one thing or two and even though he may not allow you to follow up, we can hire a private investigator to help us solve the case as we gather information here and there we are detectives Becca and those dreams are not just there, they definitely mean something, the bad guy in your dream said you were supposed to die with your family meaning they wanted the whole of your family dead, think about it and I am not just saying this to make you feel bad or something but I am just saying this just so you know that there is someone out there who is still after your family and w have to find them before they find us” Joanna said as the two were seated on their chairs and it made sense to Becca, she had been trying so hard to convince herself that it was only a dream or maybe her mom and sister just died because of the electricity fault in the house but as Joanna mentioned it, it made sense to her, she knew Joanna was right, it was time she started digging out who really killed her mom and sister and find out what they had against them and who was it after her family

“Yeah, you are probably right but you know I had never given it much of a thought until you mentioned it, but I can’t really put in picture who the boy was, he tried to save me but he was killed by the bad guy, I am trying so hard to remember if I had ever seen his face somewhere but it still doesn’t make any sense to me, I have never seen his face anywhere but why is it that he showed up in my dream? There must be something just like my therapist always say, sometimes dreams are visions of what will happen or maybe it is a flashback of what happened, the boy I saw in my dreams might be knowing something I don’t know but the problem is that I didn’t even master his face and he didn’t tell me his name, so it is like I am back to square one, at least if I knew his name I knew I would try and run a data base on him and find out about him, you know his family, his career, education and what he knows but I have nothing, this is frustrating” she said and Joanna shook her head, she knew her best friend was trying so much to remember the little boy in her dream but over thinking was not going to help her either, she had to let go and be free first

“You don’t have to struggle or strain Becca you will remember everything if you try to calm down and let everything flow on its own, at least that is what is going to help you, but if you keep on pressurizing and forcing your brain to remember everything, the it might as well as stop giving you the right information, despite this was a just a suggestion, it is not a must we you start doing it right away, we need to time and enough of it to think and go through whatever small we have, w can always start with the private investigator then the rest will follow, come on stop punishing yourself and by the way that reminded me that Michael also left early in the morning, I woke up to an empty bed and I was wondering why yet he said he was going to stay with m up the time I’ll go to work then h will have someone bring my car over, h only fulfilled one, I woke up and found my car in the parking lot, a packet or chocolates and fresh flowers lying on the table, saying how sorry he was but he had an emergency at home that is why he had to leave early but he would make it up to me, sometimes I have my doubts on him and I always wonder if truly he is the Michael I know in the house or there is another Michael on the other outside world” she said and Becca chuckled

“I don’t want to imagine what business Anthony is involved in and honestly I think the duo are just the same and to me I don’t think Anthony was on the tinder app to find himself his perfect match, I still think that maybe I was the target because honestly speaking the guy like Anthony can’t be single and same thing applies to Michael, I think it was not a coincidence that you two met when you were on your morning run, he stays miles away from the road where you do your morning runs, why would he just choose that road? Because he knew he would find you there, something tells me that maybe the two are friends who are just here for a mission, I mean why doesn’t he do the morning jogs anymore and how comes the two showed up yesterday I mean it was not a coincidence and when is the last time Michael took you to his place? Leave alone these diner dates he takes you, have you ever been at his place?” she asked and it hit Joanna hard, the two had been dating for close to two years but he had never invited her to his place, he only gave her excuses

“Hmm… by the way I think you are right, I have never even met his friends or stepped feet in his house, he only wants to come to my place” she said

“And the same thing Anthony told me when we were planning to meet, he said his place was inconvenient and that we should just meet at my place, I was too dumb so I just agreed, and I think I might have an idea of what to do, now that Anthony asked if we could be friend, why don’t we both ask them if we can meet at their places, we would really like to see their places and see their reactions, the we can tell each other how it went down? This coming weekend before we go for the undercover mission?” she asked while looking excited and Joanna smiled, the two had just made a deal that was probably going to get them know what the two guys were trying to hide from them and thy highly hoped that it worked because that was the only chance to get to know the truth about them