“I don't want to have to explain to everyone why I fell in love with a boy and not a girl.  Oh, that's pathetic”.  Gemini crumpled up the paper with Erin's notes.

“Everything's all right?” First asked worriedly.

“No, nothing is fine”. Norawit admitted openly.  He was tired of pretending, tired of playing the role he was assigned.  He wanted to be fully himself, for the first time in a long time he just wanted to be an ordinary boy, not a screen star who had to be careful about what he said and what he did.

“Tell me about it”.

“It's... It's a long story,” Gemini hesitated.  First may have been Fourth's older brother, but he was much different from him, he was calmer, more prudent, he didn't make hasty decisions that he might later regret, but above all, he got along with Gemini from the very beginning.

“We have time”. First glanced at his wristwatch.  “There are still five hours left until the press conference, which is a long time”.

Gemini removed the moisturizing mask from his face and looked at himself in the mirror.  Today's press conference was very important, they were to announce the date of the concert that young Tangsakyuen had been waiting for so impatiently.  Performing in front of 12,000 people seemed crazy, but at the same time it was his biggest dream for a long time.  An opportunity like this doesn't come around often.  Gem knew perfectly well that he should be grateful to fate for putting Fourth on his path, without him it wouldn't have been possible.  Many people already believed that Gem didn't even like Fourth in private.  There were comments that Gemini's popularity had dropped so dramatically that Gem's manager, P'Erin, even went so far as to create a fictional romance between him and Fourth just to sell well.  What irritated Norawit was that it was shown this way, twisting his own words.  Plus, his feelings for Fourth... Weren't they real?  After all, they hadn't been pretending anything for some time, they were just letting themselves be carried away by the magic of the moment.  And that it looked quite awkward at times?  Well... Fourth wasn't the most experienced in his love life, and Gemini wasn't much better either, except they were great actors.  In addition, recent events required more detailed explanations and the help of someone with connections to the police.  In short, Gemini had to take the risk and tell everything.  Also for Fourth's own good.

“Okay, I'll make us some strong coffee and tell you everything”. Gemini decided.  He went to the kitchen to prepare a drink. Today First came to visit Gemini to talk with him about the „plane action”, because he felt that there's still some mystery which he didn't quite understand. He just wanted to know more and asked Gemini if he didn't notice anything more. Gem was sure that nothing was different than on other flights he used to fly but First thought that maybe Gem's own memory tried to stop him from remembering something very important.

Half an hour later, First knew almost all the details.

“To sum up: you see ghosts and one of them is a boy who looks like you and his nickname is Heart?  And this Heart needs help?”

“Exactly.  I still haven't been able to figure out who created Heart's fake death certificate and why, since Heart didn't die until many months later”.

“B-but you're not going to tell me that H-heart…” First looked around him in horror, waiting for the pale, ghostly figure of a nineteen-year-old to jump out from behind the couch or for the door to open with a terrifying, blood-curdling creak.  However, nothing of the sort happened.

“Yes, Heart is here with us”. Gem looked suggestively at the chair next to First, which was pushed away from the table as if someone was sitting on it.  Terrified beyond belief, Kanaphan stood up abruptly, knocking over his chair.  “Don't worry, you won't see him until you complete a certain ritual.  Other than that, Heart is harmless”.

“B-but you said it was a poltergeist, and poltergeists are mischievous spirits that can cause harm”.

“He is only partially poltergeist .Oh First, First, there is nothing to be afraid of, really.  Ghosts cannot harm us any more than other people”.

„Ghosts are scary”.

“Some yes.  Those stuck between two worlds with no way to come back to life and no knowledge of what happened to them and why can be dangerous indeed, but Heart is fully aware of who he is and knows why he is stuck here.  He came to me because only I can see spirits, only I can communicate with their world.  You're a cop, that's why we both hesitated for so long to tell you, but I think you're the one who can help us the most”.

“Yes, but I'm an ordinary policeman, I'm not a detective or an investigator”.

“I know, but you have some access to the files, right?  I'm sure you'll be able to get more information than I could”.

First thought.

What he heard reminded him of the case from a year ago.  He was a newbie then and really wanted to prove himself.  It was about the murder of a sixteen-year-old girl.  Nobody knew who she was or why she died.  The investigation was discontinued due to the lack of final evidence pointing to the perpetrator.  There was no motive either.  No one was looking for this girl, no one reported her missing and no one came to claim her body.  She didn't have her phone or ID, but she didn't look homeless.  Her body was beautiful and well cared for, and if it weren't for the undeniable fact that she was dead, First would have thought she was just sleeping.  As he looked at her corpse, it seemed to him that the teenager was smiling gently, as if death had come to her at a moment when she was very happy.  When a month later he found a mention of a similar murder in old newspapers (16-year-old girl, straight, long black hair, slim, no ID and no phone, no one came to claim the body), he wanted to dig out the files of the previous case, but when  he went to the archives, there was no trace of such a case anywhere, as if the murder had evaporated.  First was sure someone was trying to cover his tracks.  This led him to a clue: the murderer must have had something to do with the police, since he had easy access to the archives.  First Kanaphan Jirochtikul was known for being inquisitive, but also suspicious.  He didn't trust anyone and didn't want to go to his superior with this matter.  Instead, he shared his thoughts with the only person close to him at the time, Fourth.  And now he told Gemini the same thing.

“So you think these cases might be related?”

“Exactly.  And I think that it is not one person who is responsible for it, but a whole group of people”.

“Mafia again? Wouldn't it be a little bit too much?”

“Hmm, but it's more serious than that.  It's a police mafia”.

“Huh?  Could such a thing exist?”

“Yes.  I'm not proud of it, but I was taught many things in the police force, including that our ranks often include scum who chose to live in plain sight.  You know what they say: it's darkest under the lamp”.

“Well, yes... Do you suspect anyone in particular?”

“Let me show you a photo”. First took the phone out of his pocket and a moment later Gemini's eyes fell on the screen.  He froze.  He knew this person.  It felt like his world was starting to spin.

“NuNew?”

“We know him by a different nickname.  In our world, his nickname is Annabelle.  Annabelle is responsible for many crimes, although nothing has ever been proven against him.  And you know what's the worst about it?”

“I can't think of anything, what it is?”

“That Annabelle is the leader of the gang that Gun belongs to.  You didn't tell him anything important, did you?”

“Oh shit”.

Gemini hearing this turned pale. He didn't only tell Gun too much. He also took Fourth to meet his twin after Fourth had hurt himself. Gem in slight fear tried to remember what they were talking about there. First didn't know how bad it was.

“Right, oh shit.  Do you now understand how delicate this matter is?”

Gemini nodded his head, a veritable tornado of thoughts raging inside.  He tried to calm them down.

NuNew Chawarin, a famous singer with many millions of fans around the world, would be involved in the mysterious murders of young girls?  Why would he do that?  After all, he leads a happy life, has a partner...

“Wait, NuNew has a partner... A partner he never talks about!”  Norawit exclaimed excitedly.

“Yes, that's the problem, no one knows who his partner is.  I tried to find out by asking your brother to hack his Instagram account and X, but it didn't help me.  Chawarin is damn careful, he doesn't talk to fans, he uses Instagram only for work, and on X he mainly flirts with friends, with James, Net, Yim and Tutor”.

“It's understandable, they work together, they have a band, Black And Red Roses, or BARR for short.  I'm sure you know them”.

“Sure, everyone knows them.  You know what?  It's time for us to summon a few extra brains to help us think”.

“What?”

“Call your brothers, have them come here, I'll call Fourth and Khao.  We can't come up with anything here on our own”.

Another hour later everyone was there.  Fourth bought a corkboard and pins along the way, and Prim provided them with snacks.  Phuwin found it useful to have his Notebook for Secret and Mysterious Matters, which he almost never left behind. It was an ordinary notebook, but inside Phuwin always wrote down his dreams and any event that seemed even a little mysterious. Along with  Doctor Khaotung also came with Phuwin and Dunk. Gemini's surprise reached its zenith when Joong Archen was the last to enter his room as if nothing had happened.

“Come on?  Dunk told me that you're solving some crime, I love this kind of stuff, maybe I'll be of some use”. He explained and gave his heavily soaked jacket to the unnerved owner of the room.  “Do you have anything to change?  It's raining heavily and I'm all wet”.

Dunk quickly appeared next to Archen.

“What are you doing here?  I asked you not to come, my brother doesn't like...”

Joong didn't find out what Dunk's brother didn't like.  They were interrupted by the loud sound of breaking glass.  Everyone looked around, searching for the source of this unexpected sound.  On the floor they saw the remains of a glass vase that Gem didn't particularly like.

“Who did it?”

Gem's guests looked at each other, but each shook their head.

“Heart!  I know it's you!  Come out, these are my friends, they won't hurt you”.  Gem called loudly, but as usual, only he could see the ghostly figure of the young boy.

“Heart?  Who is Heart?”  Khaotung wanted to know.

“That's why I invited my brothers here.  I just didn't think that others would come with them”. Gemini was not happy with the presence of so many people and he showed it in a way that was easy to understand.  First felt even worse.  He looked at each of these people with suspicion, trying to quickly analyze their personalities in his mind.

“Write me your full names and surnames on this piece of paper”.  First ordered them, handing first to Fourth a piece of paper torn from the notebook and a pen.

“Do I have to?  After all, I'm your brother”.

“Yes, you must too.  Everyone must.  I'll sign too.  Come quickly, we don't have much time.  Gemini has to go to a press conference afterward”.

“You don't have to rush us,” Phuwin looked offended, but he took the piece of paper from Fourth and signed it, then handed it over to Pond.

“Okay, but we still don't know what's going on”. Khaotung didn't let go.

Gemini took a stack of documents from the briefcase on the desk and handed them to the doctor.  Khaotung began to look through them briefly.  He was the one who knew the least about the whole thing.  He didn't even know that by a mysterious coincidence, Gemini and Fourth were given the roles of Heart and LiMing by their agency, which were based on real events. This was the weirdest part of the story: First thought that he didn't believe even for a tiny moment that it was accidentally that Gem and FotFot were given exactly those roles to play. Someone wanted to scare them off.

“These are the death certificates of two boys, Heart and LiMing, but... Why do you have them?”

“Look at their photos” First, who already knew the whole story, only now took out a few photos from the yellow envelope.  All of them depicted one or two boys who looked strikingly similar to...

“But it's Gemini and Fourth!  Is someone setting you up?  Is this some kind of joke?  Are you planning to fake your death and flee the country?” Khaotung felt that he doesn't understand anything. He couldn't take away his eyes from pics.

“None of these things.  LiMing and Heart are real people, and I was asked to solve the mystery of their deaths”.

“It says here that it was a double suicide”. Joong read, standing behind Khaotung.  Dunk took the documents from the doctor's hands and began to read them eagerly, and he even understood little of them.

“Yes, but it's not true.  Heart didn't die on the same day, but a year later.  And LiMing... I'm pretty sure it wasn't suicide”.

“Why?”

“Look at the photos from the photo section.  Do you see the gunshot wound?”. First handed them a different envelope this time.  Everyone looked at the photos carefully, trying to find something unusual in them.

“I don't understand,” Pond complained.

“Of course you don't understand, you didn't study combat science, you don't need to know it,” First smiled kindly at him.  “It's about the angle at which the bullet entered the body.  No suicide person would shoot like that. Besides, suicidal people don't hit themselves in the head. Look, it's as if someone hit him before killing him”.

First took a piece of paper and sketched two cubes that the bullet would hit, both of which were very different.

“See the difference?  LiMing's wound looks as if the gun was placed from below and at some distance from the chest, but the angle is completely different”. First drew a dashed line through LiMing's body in the photo with a red pen, showing the bullet's trajectory.

“Someone had to help him with this”.

“So this changes everything: suicide becomes murder, and we have to find out why it happened, if I understand correctly” Archen summed up their discussion so far.

“Exactly”.

“So tell me, what else do we know?”

“Not much. Heart doesn't remember much. Although we know they were dating, they went to America for better future. They just began their lives there and then it happened. Heart remembers that he tried to find person who killed LiMing, but the murderer didn't show his face”.

“Heart?  He can't remember it, he's dead, he's dead. And... It says he died the same day because they commited joined suicide, how can you think that he died later? No, Heart can't remember that, ghosts have no memory”. Pond denied vehemently.

“That's a fact, but another fact is that...”

“That Gemini can communicate with spirits and that this one ghost is different from others”. Fourth finished for him.  Gem smiled at him gratefully.  He wasn't sure how his brothers and friends would receive this sensational news.

Prim walked up to him, put her arm around him and said.

“Don't worry, we'll help you.  Or rather, you and Heart. I know a way we can all make the spirit world visible to us, but it is dangerous and there is a high probability that after this ritual you will see spirits forever.  This is the price we must pay if we want to interfere in a world that doesn't belong to us”.

Fourth glared at Prim.  He didn't like how close she was to Gem.  To his own boyfriend.

“The human world doesn't belong to spirits either, and look, they interfere in our world” Phuwin was ready to argue with Prim.

“They do it because they are looking for help.  Come on, don't be a coward. If you're scared, you can leave immediately, but I don't recommend coming back, it's going to be dangerous.

“I love and I live for a danger” Dunk said with suspicious smile but only Gem heard him.

“B-but you don't want to do it t-now, do you?” Phuwin, who hated anything that had anything to do with the supernatural, the paranormal or anything that couldn't be explained logically, was clearly terrified.

“Oh!  Of course not now!  I'll meet you here at 11:40 p.m., I'll get everything ready.  Anyone who is scsred can give up and go home, the cowards will only make our investigation more difficult and we don't need it”.

Prim could hide perfectly her slight anxiety, because she knew how much this meant to Gemini.

“Don't worry, we'll solve this case”.

“What if we fail?  If we can't help them and Heart will be stuck in our world forever and never find her LiMing?”

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So... My lovely Magicals!

Tomorrow I'll try to give you a very important chapter that may clear some things up 👀 be ready!

You may notice(or not) that we didn't have the chapter about what happened to P'Erin and if boys helped her... Well, it will be very important, that's why I wanted to leave it till the very last moment(no, don't worry it's not the end yet!)

Also... I wrote this story because... Because I wanted all these actors to play in the series/movies based on it but let's be honest, it's never gonna happen sadly 😭💔 because for that we would probably need more than 1 000 000 views here?! It's way too much and I don't think I'd ever deserve that or if this story is good enough (i think the story I'm trying to tell is great, but probably it's my way of writing it, that sucks 😭). Anyways I'll still ask you to support this book, maybe one day my biggest dream will come true? If you would like to see GemFourth and others acting this, please save this story in your library, share it on your social-media, leave me a star and comments, please ❤️🥺

Also... My Mysterious helper... Thank you that you are, thank you for all what are you doing for me. I don't know your name or face but I see that every time when I feel a little bit insecure about my writing you always find a way to support me and tell me that I'm actually doing great job just I need more practice. Thank you for all your support and reading this story, I'll call you „Magical's Mystery Helper” until I get to know you.