Yoongi and I went out of the apartment early in the morning to move toward the main office of the apartment building to discern the footage of the CCTV from the last two nights. Luckily, the owner was too considerate to help us and gave us the authorization to discern the footage.
Yoongi was on his phone as if he was contacted, anyone. I leaned my chin on my palm as my elbow touched the table while I examined the footage.
I communed the CCTV camera 1, which was located at the main gate of the building. There was something odd about it when a person is hiding behind the right wall that connects to the gate. I zoomed the video if I could comprehend the face but that person didn't remove the hoodie and the mask.
At CCTV camera 4, the person roamed to the floor, where my apartment was located. The person kept looking around before ringed my doorbell multiple times.
After we went out to check the surroundings, the person hurriedly ran to the main gate. I zoomed when watching it slid off the hoodie and it was a woman. However, the face wasn't shown in the footage.
"What did you get?" Yoongi asked as he placed his phone in the pocket.
"It was a woman." He took a glance at the footage and hummed.
"Have you recognize the face of the woman?" I shook my head as a reply. He sighed and stood up.
"I hope we could get some hint about that woman. Let's go, we need to go to the office as soon as possible." I nodded and strolled out of the office.
After we gave the keys to the owner, Yoongi drove us to the office of the staff, who operates the footage of the CCTV and the person was a friend of Yoongi and also the known hacker from this place. I felt anxious to know if it was the same girl, who stared in front of the shop and to the person who rings the bell at my apartment and the person who's standing beside the light pole from the last two nights.
"Are you okay? You looked stressed."
"How can't I stress out? I don't know what was the woman's intention with me. I mean, I didn't have any hostiles when we were in college and even back in my childhood so it was really impossible that someone followed me." I said as I leaned my back at the backrest of the car seat.
"Do you think it's the same person?" I shrugged it off as I leaned my face into the car window.
"What are you going to do if you knew about the woman?" He asked without looking at me.
"We'll get her information and details so I could confront her to quit doing this. She kept my life in a threat which terrified me and I won't tolerate this behavior." I sighed while looking at the window.
"How will you get her information?"
"I have a friend that could help us." I smiled as I turned my head to face him.
"And who could that be?"
"Seraphina. Don't you know her?" He shook his head.
"You've met her at the campus and she's the one who hacked the system of our campus. Haven't you heard it?"
"I remembered now, so her real name was Seraphina. I just called her Ina so I forgot." I just hummed as I looked outside.
"Where will we meet her?" He asked as he parked the car at the station.
We stepped out of the car and strolled into the station. A man, who's in the mid-20s greeted us when he noticed us step inside the station.
"Mia, this is Arkin Sebastian, my friend who's operating the CCTV camera, and Arkin, this is my sister Amiadainne." I smiled at him as I offered him a handshake.
"Nice to meet you, Arkin."
"Just call me Ark and nice to meet you too, Mia. Shall we get inside?" We nodded as we followed Ark behind.
We went inside the operating system of the cameras around the province of Minnesota which really fascinated me. There's a big screen placed on the wall that could see the map of Duluth, Minnesota and below that big screen, there were three large flat-screen TV shows footage of the CCTV, and luckily, there's no one around the room.
Ark instructed me to sit beside him and mumbled, "Mia, tell me what's the place and the time."
"Last two nights, around 10:00 to 10:30 in the evening at 100st Avenue and yesterday, around 1 in the afternoon at Canal Park." Ark nodded as he typed on the keyboard. I looked at Yoongi, who's standing behind us. He smiled at me.
"Here we go." He showed me the footage from the last two nights and my intuition was right, there was a person who followed me, behind me but not closed to my direction.
And until I reached my apartment, and it stopped following me when Yoongi appeared from the main gate. The person slid off the hoodie along with the mask. And it was the same from the footage in the building.
I pointed out the person and instructed Ark, "Can you zoom the person behind me?" He nodded as he zoomed closely the person and my eyes went wide when it was the same person standing in front of the shop.
"Can you screenshot that person?" He nodded again.
The second footage was yesterday and it was the same scenario. But suddenly, I stopped from wandering and looked around, the person hid from the bushes and when I started walking, the person followed from behind but this time, it slid off the hoodie. I felt the shivers into my spine when it's the same person. The woman in front of the shop.
"Can you screenshot that one?" He nodded as he screenshots the screen and printed out before giving it to me.
"That woman kept following you. Do you want to report that?" I shook my head while looking at the paper.
"Why not? What if she does something against you."
"It won't happen. Thank you Ark for helping us. This was a big help." I said as I smiled at him. He nodded as he stood up and he escorted us out of the room.
"If you need any help, just contact me." I nodded and bowed at him.
"Thank you again, Ark. We'll get going." He just nodded and walked back inside the station as we went inside the car. I looked at the picture before placing it inside the bag.
And when I put it in, I felt an unfamiliar paper inside the bag so I put the paper out of the bag "What was this?" As I opened the envelope, the hints of elegant perfume across my nose. "Too strong." I unfolded the letter.
"What was that?" Yoongi asked.
"It's the letter coming from the woman," I said. He frowned and asked, "Where did you get that?"
"Did you remember the last time we checked the footage from the shop? She was slid off to the cabinet."
"That woman… She was unbelievable. Read the letter out loud." I nodded and cleared my throat.
"I used to be in your position,
As to get his attention.
I used to be his lover but,
You take that away from me.
His eyes bloom when he sees you,
as my heart glooms.
I can't think what you have,
To make him pleased and delighted.
If I can't take what's mine,
you need to prepare yourself.
I'll find and hunt you,
everywhere you go."
"That...was disturbing." He mumbled as he stopped on the side of the road.
"I know."
"Where are we going next?" I looked at him as I folded the letter and placed it inside the bag.
"At Seraphina's office." He smiled and responded with a nod.