Chapter 65

"Why did you go back to get the toast?" Aurora asked In between munching on toasts. "I thought you would both need privacy, I thought Damon would spend long time on his knees". Arianna shrugged. "Because I'm a wicked person and would love to punish him?" "Damon is back you can argue with him not with me". "I'm enjoying arguing with you more". "Please don't. I'll get the drink, what do you want?" "Anything your hand hits, I'll set the movie". "We have take home". "We could do it early in the morning before school, or in the ride to school". "Or we could after the drama". "Whatever suits you". "What movie do you wanna play? It's weird you suggested movie". "I overheard the girls at school saying there was a new show and they'll be doing a rerun tonight". "Now I get it". "It's a murder case, a woman got murdered in a sauna, autopsy shows time of death is 4: 15 but she was found by 9pm by a drunk pedophile. Total number of people who entered the hot bath where she was found twelve, all twelve are possible suspects". "That's hard to solve". *Quite hard, means she didn't die in the sauna or she died somewhere else in the sauna, but around the hours of 8-9pm when the sauna was empty, somebody brought her in without anybody noticing and dumped her there". "Of all places to dump a body why a hot bath tub". "Maybe because the hot water would wash off a lot of things from the body? The water was so hot the flesh was getting peeled". "That's quite grosteque. The death however seems unplanned, whoever killed her didn't mean for her to die". "Because of the way if getting rid of the body?" "Yeah, I mean he could have buried her somewhere and the body would never be found". "What if it was so someone who had access to the bath tub could be framed. There are twelve suspects but the police is only focusing on the owner of the sauna, the hot tub attendant and the three men that made use of the hot tub last". "When did they make use of it?" "7pm, they exited some minutes before it was 8pm". "... and from the hours of 8 to 9pm it was empty?" "Yeah". "Don't the attendants drain the water and refill it?" "That's true". "Turn on the movie, I suspect the attendant". "I suspect the pedophile". "Why the pedophile, he didn't blow the whistle on himself, did he ?" "Well considering that because he blew the whistle he got off the list of possible suspects, I'd say that makes him a suspect". "Let's just watch the show". "Thought we were playing detective?" "Nope we're not". "Wake up Ari it's morning". Aurora says shaking Arianna, she didn't look wide awake herself. "Time?" Arianna grumbled. "Six am". "The actual fuck, it's still early, why are you waking me up?" Arianna grumbled again sneaking deeper into blanket. "Get up". "We still got loads of time". "... and we still got that assignment from yesterday we're yet to do". "Urrgh". Arianna grunts. "Get your ass up". "Fine". "Morning mom". Aurora greeted. They were few minutes away from running late. Who knew mrs Smith had set a college arithmetics for them. It was just first day of school and the teachers were already aiming for their necks. "Aurora your Dad is on seat". Mrs Salvatore says calmly. "Dad..?" Aurora asks before looking to the other end of the table and finding her dad. What's with the sitting arrangements? Her mom was sitting at the head of the table, her dad at the other end and Damon beside her mom. "Morning aunty... Morning uncle". Arianna greeted coming down after Aurora. "Morning sweethearts, you didn't come down for dinner last night, Damon said you were busy with assignments". Mrs Salvatore responded in that same calm manner she had responded to Aurora earlier. Something seemed off, her mom was too peaceful. "Yeah, mrs smith had us hooked". "First day of school and she's already aiming for the neck". Arianna grunted. Were you unable to solve it ? You could have asked your brother for help". "Hell he could have". Aurora responded taking a seat beside her mom and Arianna taking the seat beside her. "Aurora it's your final year in high school, what's your plan afterwards?" Mrs Salvatore asked. The girls were approaching the agemark, hopefully they didn't have any grand plan and wouldn't be hurt that their plan would get scrapped. "Well, I'm a vampire and would be young for long, what's the rush?" "Meaning you have no plans?" "I'll go away for quite a long while then come back to attend college". "Where'd you wanna go?" "Don't know around the world as I please". "Go to Paris and become a designer". Arianna suggests excited. "...or go to China and become a swordswoman". "The actual fuck..?" Arianna responded, choking on the cereal. "I thought we were naming Interests?" Aurora asked innocently. "Yeah sure we were". "Dad, when would you be leaving home?" Damon asked finally speaking up, everyone on the table goes mute. "What do you mean?" Mr Salvatore asked, looking up from his food. "I just wanted to know how long you'll be home for". "I had an important file to pick, I'll be traveling back tomorrow". "Great". Damon mutters. "You say...?" "Nothing. Girls are you done? Let big bro drive you to school today". Damon says rising up. "Who are your girls?" "Okay little sisters". "Who lied to you?" Arianna asks. Damon goes into a daze remembering Brittany. It was one of the reasons he had chosen to come home, he needed to keep a distance else they were done. "Penny for your thoughts, Damon". Aurora asks snapping her fingers in his face. They had gotten up, but he was just staring off into space. "... and what would your penny do?" "Buy you a warehouse of solution?" THE VEIL ON THE DARK