Chapter Two

Early next morning Marcel woke up to the chirping sounds of the birds outside his window,  the sun was shining through the window before he sat up and looked around the room. It was a normal sized room which had a few posters on the wall, a bed in a corner which belonged to a still sleeping Jacob, a reading table with a chair with a fan above them in the ceiling.

‘Not much but its home’ he thought with a sigh as he stood up and left the room and almost collided with someone, the person he almost hit was a young girl slightly older in age with wet hair and a towel wrapped around her body signifying that she just had her bath.

“Jeez marcel watch where you’re going" a female voice berated him 

“Sorry Rose, I wasn’t looking” he apologised to the girl he almost bumped into. Rose was Jacobs elder sister and she was quite the looker, she was one of Marcel’s first crush ever since he found out that they were not related by blood and he fantasizes about her when he’s in the mood something he’s never told anyone not even Jacob.

She just sighed and went passed him, he was staring at her as she entered her room which was opposite his before he moved on. He entered the sitting room that has three single chairs and one long one with a small dining table, there’s also the television facing the chairs he went and turned it on and scrolled through the channels.

“Open the doors man-“

“Naaa you silly dude-"

“weeeeee are the champions my friend-"

Marcel kept changing channels looking for something interesting until he got to the news channel and got something unexpected 

“-well what can you tell us about the dead body?”

“Have you identified the killer?”

“Who is he or is it a she?”

A bunch of reporters were clustered around a police man who happened to be the chief of police asking him questions about a dead body that was found behind a hotel, around a dumpster where marcel was the previous night.

“Ok calm down people, this is a new case that was just reported this morning but me and my men are on it as we speak but as of now we have nothing so please move back and let me do my job” a man Marcel recognised as the police chief said before he turned and walked away towards a police tape line where his fellow police officers were checking the dead body , one of them who was a forensic officer was bent over the body collecting evidence, the body in question or what remained of it looked like it had been put through a shredding machine, torn apart in different ways with some parts on the wall and the rest on the ground.

"This is Sandra from Eternal City News and as you can see there's been a murder and the victim is yet to be identified, are our citizens safe we keep asking ourselves-"

 Marcel turned the television off at that point and started thinking on what happened when he left the hotel dumpsters with Kim and the bald man. 

“Hey isn’t that where you were last night?” Jacob suddenly spoke up from behind Marcel 

“Jeez man you scared me and keep your voice down would you, don’t want your father finding out I was out late last night do you?” Marcel whispered a little loud. “besides whatever that happened did happen after I left because I didn’t see anyone there before I left with those two".

Okay calm down I believe you alright, Rose just prepared breakfast and remember we have to go to school” Jacob told him 

“Yeah, I’ll have my bath first then I come eat" 

    At the dining table, there were six chairs surrounding the table with two of those chairs on opposite ends of the table, three people were seated eating in silence till one of them spoke up.

“Marcel you sure took your time in the bathroom, hope there’s enough soap for the rest of us when we want to bath?"  teased Rose while looking at him

“(cough cough)” Marcel started coughing till he drank water with his face a bit red 

“Rose that’s so gross, I’m eating and you’re bringing up something like that” said a frowning Jacob 

“C’mon I know what you teenage boys do when you think no one is watching, take you for example don’t think Ihaven’t noticed a few panties which are not mine hidden in your room, somewhere under your bed to be precise “ Rose said with a teasing smile. This time it was Jacob that was coughing having been caught even when he thought no one had noticed his solo activities .

“Is dad up yet?”. Said Jacob trying to change the topic “its unlike him not to be”.

“I don’t know, he might be down with a fever or something” Replied his sister  

“Thanks for the food Rose” Marcel stood up and left immediately followed by Jacob with Rose looking at them while laughinga bit.

             Meanwhile back at the murder scene, The police chief was still looking at the corpse on the ground not knowing what he was looking at or what to make of it. He’s seen a lot of strange things in his career from his days as a rookie to his current position the scene in front of him was one of them  

“Okay what do you got for me here, what can you tell me about this person" asked the chief of police 

“Honestly chief Robert’s, I can’t tell, maybe a chainsaw or something but we’re searching the body for prints of the killer and we’ve yet to identify who this person is but what we can tell so far is that it’s a female in her twenties I think” replied the forensic expert Paula 

“Hmm, do what you have to do, identify victim and let me know what you find out the killer. I can’t have some psycho killer like that on the loose in this city”.

“Yes sir” they replied”

“Talk to eye witnesses if there’s any then report back to me on your findings”

“Yes sir" 

“Good, I’ll be heading out to the office since I was on my way there before I got a call about this incident”. The police chief Peter Robert’s entered his car and zoomed off from the scene leaving the work for his subordinates.