Story on Display: Fall Semester

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Fall Semester

Chapter One: The Crime:

December 19th, 2012, 10:00 a.m. Ono Yumiko, the Fuji Apartments cleaning lady, unlocked the Gabriel’s front door. No sooner had she opened the front door, she began to sense that something was wrong. First of all, the house was deadly quiet. The professor, David Gabriel, usually had the Clash blasting while he was grading papers. Many of the neighbors had to come over in the morning and ask him to turn down his stereo. Yumiko had to hit pause or turn it off in order to talk to her client. The silence shocked her almost to the point that she thought that she had unlocked wrong the apartment. She looked at the door to see if she was at the Gabriel apartment. Yes, this was apartment 337. So, why the silence? Were David and Ashley sick this morning? No, they would have sent her an e-mail last night. Maybe the complaints finally got to him? Nope, he’s been blaring the Clash for two years. So…

That’s when Yumiko noticed the strong familiar scent of metallic blood in the air. Blood coupled with the scent of gun power. The cleaning lady had to smell a couple more times to see if she wasn’t imagining things. “Is that…” she thought. Fearing the worst, Yumiko raced down the hall. She noticed that the bathroom light was on. The cleaning lady ran over and looked inside. All of the color drained from her face when she saw Ashley slumped over in the bathtub, dead. All that Yumiko could see was red on the walls, floor, and water. Mrs. Gabriel looked as if she was trying to get out of the bathtub when she was killed. Yumiko slowly stepped backwards before running further down the hall.

“David-san!” she cried. “David-san! David-san!” She ran straight to his office. The nightmare became heavier from there. The professor himself was slumped over on his desk with four gun shots to the back of his head. He blood had seeped into the papers that he was grading for the morning. Yumiko was too choked up with terror too scream out. She reached into her jeans pocket and pulled out her cell phone to call the cops. By lunch, Keio University was rocked with a double homicide. Students and neighbors watched as the bodies were hauled out the Gabriel apartment. The police asked Yumiko many questions at the front door.

“Do you have any ideas about who could have done this?” one of the officers asked. The cleaning lady didn’t have to think an all about that answer.

“There was one of his students,” she said in a low voice.

“What about them?” the cop asked. Yumiko forced herself to keep talking.

“She had been stalking the couple for the past couple of months,” she went on. “I would not be surprised if she had finally lost it and opened fire them.” The police wrote down all of the information.

“Does this student have a name?” they asked.

“Nakano Miho,” she replied. The police didn’t have to ask anymore about that student. You see, since late October, the Gabriels had problems with Nakano-san involving stalking and harassment. Had Miho’s behavior escalated to violence after so long? What pushed her to snap? And why would she do such a thing to the professor that she dearly adored? Why didn’t anyone see the signs? And most importantly, why didn’t anyone do anything when David and Ashley made multiple calls to the police about Nakano-san?

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