"She's so pale ! You sure that she's okay ?" I asked Cora when all of us went to see Beth .
"It's okay . She's pale now , but after effects linger for 2 more hours . She'll vomit and go to the bathroom till the time finishes . We just have to make sure that she doesn't submit to the spirit anymore . Also , we should make sure that we don't make eye contact with the spirit because then you'll be possessed next ."
It didn't take long for us to understand how hard the next two hours was gonna be . The Kitsune was opaque but it was indeed like a fox dressed up . I always tend to look people in their eyes when I want to see their face so I wouldn't be able to look it in the face . Others were also having their own difficulties because of it's size , the way it was , we didn't know whether we would be able to move through the Kitsune so we tried hard to avoid it at all costs . We also couldn't touch Beth during her two hours because then it would be easy for the Kitsune to get back in her body .
Two torturous hours later , the Kitsune finally vanished . Bright light filled each and every corner of the house . When it was all normal again , all of us went to Beth and saw that she was lying peacefully and speaking . She hadn't had the chance to talk to me after the time we saved her but I hoped she had her own chatting time with dad when he was staying there .
It was after everything that I realised that Ben was with us . I looked around to see him completely horrified . I went towards him but he backed away from me . "What are you ? Let me go from here !" He saw what normal people weren't supposed to see so now , we can't lat him go like that . Cora was quick and she locked all doors and windows to stop Ben from running away . "I'll explain everything Ben . The world you've seen isn't completely true . Supernatural creatures are real."
"Oh my ! Why are only the rich being the ones who don't know anything ? When we use our money for good purpose , people say we show off and don't know the life of middle class men . When we go and have a good time spending time with middle class clients , they say we know nothing about poor people . When we learn and try living like a poor person , people say we are showing off and shaming poor people . And now you're telling me that a whole different world is out there !" I could understand his problems and uncomfortable life style filled with stress but he had to accept this . "I understand you but Ben , the truth is always shocking ."
It took him some time to calm down and we finally explained what happened . It was midnight when we finished so after telling him that we would start our search for the men tomorrow , went to sleep .
The next morning , we woke up and had a grand breakfast made by dad . Nathaniel and Cora came with Marge . Her presence wasn't pleasant for me but I didn't want to be rude with her so I welcomed her .
The crime branch of New Jersey was also on the case to see who killed Jed and all they got was the name of the type of bullet . They also broadcasted the CCTV footage on the news and we were lucky enough not to be caught on camera . That area had very less crime cases so they didn't have a lot of cameras . A group of masked men were only caught on the camera . They were probably our rivals .
With having that as the only lead , we were going to reach nowhere . Ben then handed me a list of people , "They are all the rivals of father that I know of . Maybe they are useful ?" I went through it and obviously , they were all business rivals . "Look Ben , would you try to kill your business rival's son because you want to grow much more in business ?" He shook his head .
"Exactly . You're father doesn't have really serious problems with any business partners . He has some other side business that was kept from you . We need a way to move to square two ."
He clearly didn't have connections with the mafia because mafia men don't try to hide theirs works of they do it to a person like this , unless there's an ulterior motive .
I went out to see if any one had any kind of information by luck . The news had spread quite fast . They talked about the case everywhere , even among random strangers in the washrooms in shopping malls but none of them had any kind of new information other than straight out assuming the killer the same as the one who killed Jed's family before 2 years . It would have seemed logical if I hadn't learned about the supernatural world . This was something that made me feel special .
I was in a shopping mall washroom , trying to get something from the gossip between some girls . They didn't seem to have anything so I finally came out without waiting for them to leave because I had wasted 30 minutes on my last encounter with gossip girls while waiting for them to leave . The girls who were talking non stop a second ago looked at me up and down , judging every part of me . Their appearance made it clear to why they would do that . They had all kinds of makeup on their faces , wearing only trendy clothes whereas I was wearing a black hoodie with grey sweatpants . Worse , they were my bullies in middle school . I hoped that they wouldn't recognise me like I recognised them .
"Oh ! Sticky Rene came out of her bedroom ! Finally !" Yup . That was my nickname in middle school because once , a student had "accidentally" dropped cheese on my head because he couldn't see me . I was the shortest and thinnest among all . I wasn't the perfect weight , but under weight that my teachers struggled to make me eat a sandwich . Of course nothing worked because my bully , Maria always made fun of me for being "fat" and that made me loose my appetite . I was naive and thoughtless then so this was almost a good opportunity for me to payback .