First Clue

It was about 3.30 when I reached Shabab’s home. Adeeb was there by exactly 3.00.

  “Can I have a glass of water first?” I requested to Shabab.

  “Of course! But not just water, also rice.” Shabab insisted.

  “That’s better, I’m hungry. All my time was wasted on P.P.M.” I said.

  “Now, what’s P.P.M.?” Adeeb asked quite astonished about my new word.

  “It means persuading persistent mother, you know, it’s too big, so I just made it short.”

  “Ooh! Your language!” Adeeb laughed.

  Shabab had already prepared a delicious lunch for us. We all sat in the table for the lunch.

  “Okay Shabab, does your mother know, why are we here? I hope you did not tell her that we are here to solve a crime, and same question goes to you Adeeb. What did you tell your mother?” I was worried.

  “It was quite easy for me. I just said that ‘Adeeb and Abirul want to come, so will you allow them?’ and she just agreed.”

  “WOW” I was surprised to hear what Shabab had said because it was so hard for me.

  “I was not allowed first, but when I said were coming, my mom thought it might be something important and she let me come to Shabab’s house.”

  “Hmm. Good that none of you told about the real thing.” I thanked to them for not saying the reality or everything would have been destroyed.

  “Okay, Guys! Now what is the plan?”  Shabab asked munching his food in his mouth which sounded quite funny.

  “Hmm. What is the plan?” Adeeb repeated.

  “Don’t look at me like that! I am not the only one to make the plan.” I said. “As we did not make any plan, we will make it after we eat, and then we will go for our investigation.” I declared.

  For a moment the room was sent to silence. Three of us were quite. It was already 3.50 and our time was getting less.

  “Okay, we’ll just have ten minutes to plan. Not more than that.” I insisted as soon we finished our lunch.

  “Okay!” came the answer from both of them.

  “Have you guys thought of any name for our detective team?” I asked them.         

  “Is this even a detective team? If it is, what kind of detective skill do we even have?” Shabab retorted.

“Of course, it is a detective team. You fool, you are so lame!    Adeeb did you think of any?” I ranted Shabab.

  “No!” Adeeb replied.

  “Oh! Whatever, I did think of two names. One is ‘Three Lakehead Solvers”

  “Hey! No Lakehead, I do not except that name.” Shabab retorted.

  “Okay, then what about the second name ‘Secret Three’”

  “That is copied.” Adeeb never likes thing that is copied.

  “Then you guys say what can be the name. I just had two.”

  “We can have Secret Solvers.” Shabab suggested.

  “Tree Secret Solvers” Adeeb shouted.

  “Yeah, that’s a good name. So, from now on, we call our group ‘Three Secret Solvers’.” I declared.

  It sounded odd to us at the beginning although everything was good when we reached the crime scene.

  Our investigation was going to start and The Three Secret Solvers were really excited. We did exactly leave at 4.00.

  “Hey! Where are the shops?” I asked to Shabab.

“There, those are the two shops and the alley.” Shabab showed us from a further distance.

  “Hmm, which shop’s whose?” Adeeb asked.

  “The left one’s Mamun Uncle’s although which is now owned by the middle aged man. And the right one’s the butcher’s.” Shabab said “I think the middle aged man had a deal with the butcher that they both would murder Mamun uncle and own the shop fifty-fifty.”

  “Hmmm, that may happen because they have done it.” Adeeb said.

  “Okay, let’s venture the alley.” I said.

  We walk toward it. I was thinking, what clue we might find there.

  “Welcome, to the graffiti world.” Shabab said as if he was inviting us to his own house. “In this alley, you will find every kind of graffiti, if you want to research about graffiti, you just visit here. Every single people of Mohammadpur, Kaderabag Housing’s do the graffiti in this alley.”

  “Whatever, let’s just get in.” I said. The roads in this place were narrower than any other place. The alley was good enough for two people; I don’t know how the all three got in did.

  “Hey! You kids, what are you doing here?” As soon as we forced our leg to go front a strange man from our back shouted at us. We slowly turned at him.

“Yes, we were just trying to venture the inside.” I took the lead. It was the butcher who was shouting at us.

  “I know you boys very well; you will do graffiti all over and destroy other’s property,” complained the butcher, “get lost from here or I will call the police.” The man tried to scare us.

  We did move away from there. Indeed, we ran away from there and reached in front of another alley. But amongst us, Adeeb did something different. He went in front of the butcher’s shop, and there was a sack on the road, he took that in his hand and ran for us. It quite confused me why he took that.

   “Hey! That man was so scary!” Adeeb said with relieving his breath aloud.

  “Whatever, Adeeb why did you take that sack in your hand, what if the butcher caught you killed you? Huh! What would we say to your mother? I was worried Man!” If the butcher would catch him, we would have been doomed.

  “I thought the sack could be a clue for us. Here look at it.” Adeeb replied. “Hey! Shabab, is it the sack you saw the butcher carrying, you know I noticed this sack and it had blood on it so I thought it could be helpful.”

  “Yeah, that’s the sack I believe.” Shabab said.

  “That is good that you tried to collect a clue, but you need to think of the situation. The butcher could have held you and taken you. We would have been in a big trouble.” I ranted. “Please, don’t take such action again. But it’s good that you have collected our first clue.”

  “So, what to do next?” asked Adeeb.

  “Find out more clues!” I said. “And try to find whether this is really blood.”

  “This is blood. What else can it be?” Shabab retorted.

  “I know, but if we can strengthen it, it would be better, isn’t it?” I replied.

  “Now, how do we strengthen it?”

  “Hmm. That is a matter to think.” I replied.

  “Hey, what we can do is, we can just give it to the police and they we will do the rest.”

  “Yeah, that’s better, look now we can’t a get a study room to do the chemical experiments.” Shabab retorted.

  “Okay! Whatever, you guys want.” I did want to find out by myself, but indeed was not a matter for us. We will not be able to do it. So now we have to go for our next search.

  “Today is late enough, let’s leave for our house.” Adeeb said.

  “Okay! But come to my house, first inform my mother.”  As Shabab said we headed for his house.

“Okay, when do we do our next investigation?” Shabab asked. “A sack with blood can’t be that helpful.”

  “Yeah, that is right.” I replied. “Let’s meet on Tuesday.”

  “I am always okay.” Shabab replied.

  “Me too.” Adeeb said.

  “Then our next investigation is on Tuesday, do be present” I declared. After a moment we left for our own houses. At 6.05 I reached my home.

  “You are 5 minutes late.” My mother said.

  “Mom! Five minutes does not matter.” I retorted. She started laughing at me.

  “You may have some minutes rest and then you must sit for studying.” She insisted. But I had no time for rest. I have to finish my studies and then I need no study on my case.

  Although I sat for studying, I continuously though about the murder, it was hard for me to give attention in the studies. After I finished my studies, every time I tried to find out some big points of my case, I end up thinking what will happen when we will find out the criminal. I was a lot excited about it.