PROLOGUE

Sunday night, 2000

I had just returned from my evening stroll.Yeah, it's true am a damn cop but that doesn't mean I shouldn't rest on Sundays. I really got a whole lotta shit going through my head right now, plus the headache am having nowww. Ohhh Dianeeeee. What have you gotten yourself into. Sometimes I wonder if I should have listened to my parents and studied medicine. Yeahh, I really could have become a cool doctor by now. Doctor Diane. Ohh, really. Sounds cool yunno.

I grab a can of soda as I want to cool my head. Suddenly, I remember something..

FLASHBACK...

"ohh, Diane how ya doing? You decided to come check on we old folks" That was the old Mr Parker, a chef living in the neighborhood.

"Aahh, it's not really that way. You know about my work stuffs. Cop activities trying hard to garrote me from behind.." Tskkk, but seriously speaking, he is family to me. He has been, ever since I relocated to Texas.

A butterfly flies past me. "ohh, so beautiful" I whisper. Trying hard to catch it, I find myself outside the bakery shop. "haha.." I was literally laughing at myself 'cause this was what I had done 10 years ago by the side of the river with that cute fellow. I wonder where he is now. Still thinking, I mistakenly bump into someone. Although wearing a hoodie, I can sense it's a guy. But what's about the face cap and the mask?? I don't really understand.. this is summer for God's sake. My heartbeat stops for a while as I hear his voice.

"Ohh, don't worry" I said to myself. "we have a family history of arrhythmia".

"You better look where your going, beautiful. It's rude to stare".

"ohh, I think you dropped something.." I said.

He bent to pick what he had dropped...oh my , isn't that a butterfly pin?? What's he doing with a butterfly pin?? With mouth agape, I looked into his beautiful green eyes. Ohh my!! He even has a cross sign beside his left eye brow too. "Guys and tattoos" I mumbled. "Poor Dianeeee" I scolded as I recovered and found out I was already looking at his silhouette. Leaving me with mouth agape, he had long gone.

FLASHBACK ENDS

"Ohhh pretty 23 - year old Dianee, u really think this the right time to fall in love??" I scolded myself again. I jumped on the bed as I prepared myself for sleep. Sleeppppp. I really need it 'cause this cop thing is kinda tough yunno. Then my phone rang. Brrrrrrr who the heckkkkkk.I groaned as I stretched my arms to get my phone.

"Detective?? there's an emergency"

"An emergency?? how serious is it??" I asked

"Very serious, and you need to be there"

"Tell me what it looks like"

"Murder, butterfly pin, the CCTV spotted a man wearing a hoodie, and also, a cross sign beside his left eye brow"

"Huh"

"Detective are u there??"

"Yeahhh, sure, give me just 15 minutes" I said as I cut the call.

"hehehe" I said

This is surely gonna be interesting..... I smirked

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