LOCKWOOD: EPISODE 9

 

NOA POV ❤️

"Happy children's day." I said to the kids, it was the 27th of May. I went to the adoption center. Owen decided to host a party for them. The kids were happy about this. His wife Maryann cooked the food, even though she was pregnant she insisted on doing it, saying that nothing would make her happier. I decided not to dwell on Khalils words today, I wanted to be happy and not think about them or how true they were. Owen came close to me, he was holding a balloon.

"Hey, N. I have bad news." He said 

"What is it Owen?" I asked worriedly.

"Mr bobo cancelled, he got a higher paying gig for a birthday party." he sighed.

"But what are we going to do now?" I said frustrated." the kids were really excited." I said.

"We just have to give them the news I guess." We both went to the kids, as we were going near them we heard laughing sounds, we came closer and I saw Khalil, he was carrying little Amy and telling the kids some joke. Before I could talk Owen beat me to it. 

"Hello, who are you please?" He asked. Khalil wanted to respond but I cut him off.

"It's okay Owen. I know him." Khalil dropped little Amy and I dragged him to a corner. 

"What are you doing here? How did you even know I was here?". I asked 

"You posted on your Instagram. And you even dropped a location." he said

"So, you're stalking me now?" I asked clearly annoyed with him.

"I'm here to make it up to you for what I did and said. I was wrong Noa. You're not meaningless or useless. You're funny, smart, caring and authoritative. Very strict and authoritative." He said and I couldn't help but smile a bit. 

"But I like that, I consider you a good friend now and I would be devastated if my foolishness cost me that. Please forgive me and please never agree that you're those things again. I don't like what you said during our conversation. You're not meaningless." He said. I looked at Khalil and gave him a playful hit on the shoulder and smiled.

"Oww, that hurt." He said sarcastically and I laughed.

"You deserve it and I'm sorry too, I said some pretty bad things as well. Let's never hide anything from each other again. Deal?" I said.

"Deal." He responded and gave me a hug. It surprised me and I hugged him back. When he released me, I looked him in the eye and he looked at me, a strand of my hair fell on my face and he put it back in place. That strange look on his face came back again and that strange feeling in my heart came back. Friends don't look at each other like this. I have to say something. Anything.

"Would you like to be Mr bobo." I blurted and he raised one eyebrow.

"What's that?" He said. I smiled knowing Khalil would look wonderful in a dinosaur costume.

A few hours after watching Khalil entertain the kids and me of course. He came over to where I was sitting and I couldn't hold in my laughter, he was still wearing the costume but the dinosaur head was off.

"You're wicked, love." He said. And I laughed even harder. he had that look on his face again and I stopped. Suddenly I remembered something.

"Khalil, about Claire's phone and laptop. I've been wondering if there was a way we could access it without anyone finding out. Some important hints might be there." I said

"Or else you want to break into the police station. I don't think you can." He said.

"What if we can?" I said. He looked at me checking if I was joking. When he saw I wasn't his expression changed.

"Noa, we can't do that." He said.

"We'll be careful, we just need to make sure we're not caught" I said.

"That's dangerous, if we get caught, we might become suspects okay. I can't let that happen to us. Especially you." He said.

"Khalil, we need to give it chance. Come on." I said. He sighed before responding.

"Fine". We both stood up, I went to Owen and I told him all about our plans, I trusted him, he was good. He told me to be careful and with that Khalil and I headed out.

Lockwood police was usually empty on the weekends, I hope its the same now. Khalil helps me climb over the fence before he does, we sneak in  quietly but then he suddenly pushes me back. Someone was near the door, it was a security officer. He threw a stone at the other side. The officer stood up and left and we ran past the gates Into the station. It was dark inside. We walked a bit and we saw an office door with Detective Walter written in bold letters. We entered inside and switched on our phone torch.

"You search the drawers and I'll search the table." I told Khalil he nodded his head. We both searched thoroughly but we found nothing. 

"Ah, come on, there has to be something." I hit my leg at the floorboards out of frustration and it spilt into two, the board must have been pretty weak for it to do that. We bent down and I put my hand inside. I found the laptop and the phone.

"Detective Miller must have put it here for precaution." Khalil said. 

I opened the laptop. The passwords weren't there anymore since they were already hacked. I opened the mails, some things there we're irrelevant really but then I saw one addressed to a Mr A. 

"It was written the day before Claire died". I told Khalil before I started reading the messages out loud. The last one struck me

"You better meet me to talk about our situation or else I'll tell your wife everything". Claire was seeing a married man. Before we had time to react. We heard footsteps. Khalil dragged me and we both hid under the table. It was small down there but we had to. We couldn't risk getting caught. The person went in and took the laptop and phone. Whoever it was wore a mask so it definitely wasn't Detective Miller. He kept on pressing buttons and searching drawers. I held my breath. 

"Are you okay, love" Khalil whispered. Our noses were both touching. It was really small in here. His eyes were darker from this direction and it sparkled in the moon light.

"Yeah." I said. That weird feeling came back again. And the weird look on his face returned. We were breathing heavily now. The proximity between us getting thinner. Khalil's face was moving closer to mine.

"What are you doing Khalil?" I asked him.

"I don't know, I really don't." he said. Before his lips could touch mine an alarm rang and we both came out of our trance. We came out only to see the person had left with both the laptop and the phone and the worst part was that the detective barged in with two police officers. His face was hard and angry as he spit out the words.

"NOW WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TWO DOING HERE!"

To be continued.