It’s funny how the cold came to hug my body today, acting like it did show up when I asked it to because the heat is eating me up. The city looks nice when you’re looking at it from a rooftop. From here, I can actually tell what building has the brightest light and how many trees we have in the city. It’s actually sad to see that there are more buildings than trees. I love nature so much. Before moving here, I lived in the province where my dad came from.
 
It’s good living there. Fresh air, fresh foods, a simple life, happy neighbors and the natural alcohol we drink? It’s the best. I remember hiking every weekend just to see the beautiful view of farm land and the ocean from afar. It’s sad that I had to leave all of that when my Dad died and I have to live with my Mom, who doesn’t know how to live by herself and who kind of abused me when I was a child.
 
My phone dings.
 
Your article is now posted.
 
I sighed and said my goodbyes to the beautiful view of my city. I have to go down there to check the article I wrote about the murder. This sucks. I asked my boss if he could delegate this task to someone else, but he insisted that I do it myself.I tried to talk him out of it, but when he said that he’s going to give me extra money on payout, I couldn’t say no. I badly need the money.
 
The office is almost empty, so I can frown and make a face while walking back to my office. I’m so exhausted, I don’t want to write about them anymore.
 
A famous celebrity died— Murder on sight.
 
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Something’s bothering me about this whole situation. Yesterday, I couldn’t even close my eyes without seeing a dead person. This is the first time I've regretted asking Jax about a murder. It also bothers me that my own mind tells me that I am a liar and a user. Oh, speaking about that, poor Denise. We had to rush her to the emergency room because of a panic attack. She must know how much trouble she’s in right now. Her pain, too.
 
Despite the cheating situation, Ocean is still her fiancée. She loves him and I know that because he’s been texting Ocean since yesterday when we were preparing for ‘THE’ ball up to the moment she found out what happened—— Ocean’s death.
 
She’s not answering my text and I understand that. There’s a lot going on with her right now, especially that Ocean’s death could possibly be a murder.
 
"Jess?" I immediately recognized Perry’s voice.
"Come in, Perry." He’s holding a Starbuck’s paper bag and with him, a smile of concern. "I thought you might be hungry. Alex said that you’re still here." He pulled up a chair and sat next to me. He observed my screen and nodded when he saw what was displayed on it. "So how’s your friend now? With all of this happening?"
"I don’t know." I wiggled my phone. "No texts."
"She must be mourning. This is a shock for all of us." He said this while emptying the bag. He handed me a Starbucks coffee and ensaimada.
"Yeah, she didn’t even get the chance to ask about the cheating situation that I wrote about. Thanks for this." I took a bite. Ensaimada’s the best. This is not just any other ensaimada, this is from a cafe that’s thriving for four decades already.
"No problem." He licked his lips like he was getting ready to say something. "You know that the article is not your fault, right? You wrote it and that’s what you do." I smiled, not knowing what to say.
 
Perry is a good friend to Alex and me. He kind of reminds me about Spencer Reid from Criminal Minds.
 
I think it is not the article that bothers me, it is the lie. She’s a good friend to me, even if we just met, and this is what I’m doing to her.
 
I don’t want to drop this at Denise. She’s going through too much pain right now. All she needs is a friend.
 
When Alex joined us, the conversation grew longer and longer. The thing about these two is that they know how to read the room, so they avoid talking about things that they think we’re dealing with too much in our daily lives. We didn’t talk about the situation, instead we talked about work and mostly, how we all hate Relm.
 
It was almost 9 pm when I got home. There was no sign of my detective boyfriend, but then I saw that he left me a note.
 
Hi, my beautiful person. Sorry about me getting busy. The FBI guys are so cool, want to impress them and also solve this murder. :) Love you!
 
I remember what Denise and I said about Karma yesterday. I bet that’s what she’s thinking about right now, how she regrets saying those words.
 
I can’t imagine what she’s feeling right now. To learn that the person you’re about to marry is murdered in cold blood. She didn’t even got the chance to hear his last words or hold him while he goes because someone took that away from them.
 
I can’t imagine that happening to me and Jax. It feels like I can’t bear that much pain in my heart, in my whole soul.
 
I texted Jax, saying all the sweet words to him.  I tried so hard not to make the text cringe and too clingy. We’re lucky that we’re still together and we’re alive.
 
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Hey, Detective. I love you and I’m lucky to have you :)
 
I think that text is fine. I’ll just make him feel the love that I have for him. Action is better than words, right?
 
Ocean’s death is a surprise, and there will be more articles for me to write about. Not that, I’m happy about it, but I actually don’t want to write about it anymore, even if it means more money for me. I’m fine with going back to reviewing articles because it’s harmful.
My boss is asking me about the reason why I’m making myself anonymous every time I need to write about them. I just said that I didn’t want their people to come knocking at my door because of the article to try and talk to me about not writing about their bosses again, and he believed me.
 
This news and the incoming news about others—— celebrities from local and international, the investor’s reaction to his death is going to be world wide since he is a well-known actor. For sure, there will be a lot of theories about his possible killer and the possible reason for his death. The content people will have a lot of money from views because people are eager to know what really happened.
 
First thrown in the mix is because of the cheating situation. They are right to be suspicious about it because after days of the reveal about the cheating situation, after I wrote the article, Ocean’s death happened. There’s no way that no one will think that it has something to do about Ocean’s death because if they kick that out of their theory, they are dumb.
 
I’m sure that there will be someone saying that he got what he deserved and that someone gave Ocean his Karma.
 
Or maybe Mira was the one who killed Ocean...
 
Or Denise did.