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Chapter 2 - Chapter Two

He had to do his job, so he snapped out of his memories and focused on his crime scene. He noticed that a large gash was on Tim's side and then seen something sticking out of it. He asked the photographer to take a picture of that wound and then asked one of the officers to hand him a glove and an evidence bag. After pictures were taken, he received both he slid the glove on to remove the item from the wound. He pulled the unknown object at first with little strength, but it didn't give much.

So, he added a little more muscle to, and it was finally freed but he could not identify the object at all. It looked like a claw with mini hooks attached onto something, someone, or its prey. The object was about two inches in length and curved around like a hook. His mind was going crazy, but he could not show it on his face. He then looked up at me with confusion, but I had no answers either. Tim was my friend that I met while working at the community center. He was good with his hand and could fix anything.

He fixed many things at the community center and would often help the workers for extra money as well. Tim was supposed to come to my house to fix my leak under the sink but when he got there, he was different. Detective Truth looked at me in silence for a second and then asked what happened. I'm not too sure myself all I know for sure is that I did not kill Tim. Ok ok ok let's back up for a second, now start from the top, he looked at me with understanding eyes to calm me down and so I could trust him. I did indeed calm down a little and started telling him the events as they took place.

When I saw Tim at work today, he seemed a little off, but he was still doing his work as normal. Truth stopped me and asked what do you mean by 'off'? He was acting strangely like he was sad and depressed. He moved slowly and had his head down, most of the time he made a joke or gave a compliment but today he had this strange look and did not say too much, I said. I asked him could he fix my leak today because I did not want my bill to get outrageous and he agreed but…. He just sat there and watched me talking and he started rocking side to side.

In the middle of my sentence, I asked him if he was ok, and he said I'll be there at seven and turned to walk away like we were not talking. I did not know what was wrong but my co-worker over there witnessed it. After that we did not see him anymore in our area, so I did not have any idea what happened after that until he came to my house. I was having a book club meeting and it was not the first time he had come to fix something while we were in the meeting, so nobody thought anything of it. When he came to the door, he pressed the doorbell repeatedly, normally he would knock twice and walk in.

The door is always unlocked when we have a book club, so we do not have to keep getting up to answer the door. We yelled and repeatedly said come in, but nobody did. So, I got up to answer the door and it was Tim, but he looked bad. Truth face was already twisted with confusion but when I said that he was really interested and asked what do you mean by looking bad? I looked at detective Grier with impatience in my expression and spoke he looked like all the color was gone from his face and his teeth were starting to turn brown not like normal, he had a beautiful white smile but not today.