Chapter 6 - FLORAL KISS

And at dawn, when the moon shall conceal itself, giving the sun a chance to shine brightly. a peaceful summer's day.

(FLORAL KISS)

The mind can be a beautiful place, but when things get too hard for us to handle, we always manipulate our minds first.

Inside the house, James found a family of bodies lying recklessly in a pool of blood. he could not fully fathom the whole situation, but he tried his level best to understand what could have happened for so many corpses to appear, what kind of psycho could have massacred so brutally.

Things were not very clear in the house, although the house had a definite modern look, there was a painting right on the middle wall of the lounge, a peculiar, mural looking painting, and the bodies on the ground did not have a definite number, more like the number of corpses changed themselves to make it hard for you to know the right number of bodies available.

James sat on the right side of the painting and looked at the furniture of the house in detail for a couple of minutes, and out of nowhere, he stood up from the sofa and walked out of the house. When he got out of the front door, he found himself back in his room again.

The old lady who had been sitting right opposite him was still in his room, still sitting on the sofa. She looked like she knew exactly what James had been through, and just about when James tried to get off the sofa she said, “He isn’t an easy case to handle isn’t he?” James looked hopelessly at her and spoke with a saddened tone, he said, “He is more exhausting than I though he would be, it’s the same as the case from twenty years ago.” James got up from the sofa and walked with the lady out of his room making their way to the dinning hall.

The old lady looked at James and spoke exhaustively, she said, “It’s a case of memory manipulation again, you’re going to be investigating his case longer than twenty-four hours, aren’t you? I hope we find out what really happened to him, he seems like a cute kid.” James turned his face towards the old lady, looking at her with a suspicious look and said, “How do you always know about every client I choose subconsciously? Its very suspicious you know; how do you know everything all the time?” Everything became silent in the room and all of a sudden there was a sound of the doorbell ringing, it was strange to both of them, the doorbell had never rung for any customer before, it felt more like the customers were forced inside the bookstore.

Everything about this day seemed out of place for James, firstly, he had allowed Eva as a customer although she had been trying to deny killing her whole family, then he met a boy who does not want to remember his cruellest memory, and lastly, the front doorbell rung on its own for the first time. This looked like something horrible would happen afterwards. But hesitantly he could not face the matter head on.

They walked towards the front door slowly, creeped out by the whole situation, when the old lady opened the door, they found a little boy standing outside. He looked exactly like the boy James had met subconsciously, they both stared at the boy with freight, not knowing what kind of calamity would befall them from a customer who could open the doors of the bookstore willingly. And with a simple smile on his face the little boy spoke with bright eyes, he said, “Hello I am Nathaniel Peterson, this is the mysterious Book store is it not? I’m here to look for a book. Can I come in?”

When Nathaniel entered the bookstore his eyes sparkled with joy, he ran through the whole store amazed by every part of the store. James watched Nathaniel as he kept jumping around the bookstore, all he could really picture was the pure and excruciating pain the kid he saw in his dreams, although the kids looked exactly the same, they had completely different eyes. letting go of the image of the little boy who was crying in the middle of the street was hard for James, and the boy in front of him was a little too happy to be true.