I slept last night with a chair hitched against the handle of my main door. My mind and emotions were everywhere. I think I worried myself so much that I tired my mind out and put myself to sleep. I can't explain it. I woke up several times in the middle, feeling insecure. That's why I slept with a kitchen knife in my bedside drawer.

I went to the kitchen to eat a bowl of cereal in morning. I held the bowl in one hand and ate with the other as I looked at Lucius' house. I saw his front door open and Lucius carrying two big, black garbage bags. He plopped one bag down hard on the ground and something fell out. An arm. A long, fair and thin arm fell out which had coloured of purple and red all over. I covered my mouth with one hand and stared at the site in front of me. Lucius pushed it back inside and made the bag sit in properly so that that wouldn't happen again. He then looked towards my house and I dropped to the floor, crouching beneath the window pane. I left my breakfast bowl on the floor, grabbed my car keys and sprinted out of my house. I didn't even lock my house, I figured that there was no point since Lucius could open the damn door with a safety pin.

I rushed over to the police station and immediately asked for Detective Aldrich. He soon met me in a small room, which was probably his office. I told him everything in there. From what happened after he left my home the other day to this morning. But for some reason, his facial expression remained emotionless.

"Maya, I take every case highly seriously." He said.

"But there is no case here. Lucius neither has any accusations against him nor criminal records."

"But-"

"You must've seen something else. You were frazzled, you saw what you wanted to see."

"Detective, I saw what I saw. I saw an arm with my own eyes! You need to believe me!" I pleaded.

"Maya, are you on any drugs?"

"What?"

"Perhaps it had been a hallucination."

I was left speechless at Detective Aldrich's words. I barged out of the police station and drove back home slowly. I was terrified, but at the same time I was annoyed too. Why can't people just do their job properly?