Reborn- His Scarlett Moon

Ryan literally ran inside his home after jumping off his car even before it could brake.

Sherry was standing at his porch with her hands over her hips.

His sharp nose could easily pick up the oddity in the air.Nôvel(D)rama.Org's content.

“Hey Ryan, what’s the joke?”

She haughtily asked.

“What are you talking about, Sherry?”

Ryan asked with his head arched in an angle at her manners.

“Don’t play dumb with me! My stuff is missing, and I know you were the one behind it.”

“I have no idea what you’re talking about. What stuff?”

He literally was clueless.

He looked impatient.

But his impatience was not due to Sherry’s accusations.

He could sniff somebody else’s presence.

Somebody whose scent was not supposed to be there. Somebody who did not belong to his household.

“You know, my favorite lipstick, my phone charger, and my lucky socks and…”

She hesitated.

” And what? ”

” AND MY UNDERWEAR! ”

Sherry yelled with almost tears in her eyes.

“They’re all gone, and I bet you’re behind it.”

She sat down with a thud on the floor.

” What do I do now? I don’t have any money to buy new ones. What do I wear… ”

She was beating her chest in such a manner which was honestly, funny to watch from a distance.

“Why on earth would I take your stuff, Sherry? It’s not like those are of any use to me or anything… ”

“Oh, come on, Ryan. You’re always doing something or the other to annoy me for no reason. This must be a part of that game as well. ”

” Don’t get stuff in your head. You are not that important. And I promise I had nothing to do with your missing items.” Ryan retorted.

“Fine, then who do you think took them? A burglar? There was a break in at your place in the middle of the day? ”

She looked Ryan straight in the eye.

” Maybe you misplaced them. What kind of burglar would want to wear your lucky socks! ”

Then he paused in the middle of his own counter statement. He began looking around the place and repeating,

” Bellow wasn’t there, so that means the place was empty.

Everything seems to be fine yet I can sense a foreign presence.

No burglar would dare to break into the mafia prince’s house.

Even if you go by the theory that some stray did, it’s even more odd that they didn’t take anything except for a pair of belongings that you brought along.

There are millions lying around here just like that. ”

He pointed at the many relics decorating his entrance. ” Yet you say they settled for a few things that don’t even have any penny’s worth? ”

Ryan was scratching his stubbles as he thought.

” Hmmm, indeed interesting. ”

Just then his men joined the conversation.

” Hey, Josh, what do you have to say about this? ”

” What does he have to say here Ryan? It’s terrible! Wouldn’t you call the police?”

The whole group broke into a loud chorus of audible laughter.

“Yes, they’re on their way. ”

Ryan couldn’t help but scratch Sherry’s head and joke.

She truly was naive and innocent, yelling at the underworld Lord at his own place and also demanding that the police be called.

And over what?

A worn out socks, underwear and a charger?

It was a joke that was going to do the rounds for a couple of days.

” I don’t know, Sherry. This is really strange. Maybe they thought your belongings were valuable.”

Josh could not help but join the trend of mocking her as well.

” But they could have taken something of yours instead! Why mine?”

Sherry had no clue that they were just fooling around. She went about with her serious tone.

” Are you sure none of your stuff is missing? ” She asked.

At that Ryan stopped laughing. He moved his head in a gesture asking his men to take a swift look around the place.

It was a spectacle worth watching the men switching from their ‘ROFL ‘ positions to that of a drill.

They ran inside like ranked soldiers and immediately went about checking each room with care.

Ryan and Sherry stood there as they watched them in action.

One by one the men came back and reported that they found nothing missing.

So finally there was only one spot in the entire place which was left to search.

It was Ryan’s own room and his study.

” Josh, come with me. ”

” I will come as well! “Sherry announced, finally standing up and striding away in front of them.

She banged the door of his study open and began looking.

Ryan and Josh followed suit.

After what were some very intimidating moments of shuffling through his belongings Ryan came to a conclusion,

” Nothing is missing here as well. ”

Josh too declared that everything was intact after another five or ten minutes later.

Sherry, however, was going on and on through the pages of the books on Ryan’s shelf.

” Sherry , come on. Let it be. You must have misplaced your stuff somewhere. Get out this… ”

” There was someone here. ”

Sherry suddenly announced.

” What makes you so sure? How do you know? ”

Ryan asked, taking slow steps towards her.

” I know because you made me arrange and rearrange your books like what, a couple of dozen times? ”

She pretended to be counting.

” But the funny thing is that you never even bothered to read any of these after you made me arrange them in all sorts of aways… ”

” Sherry come to the point… ”

Ryan was getting frustrated at her babbling.

” Point is, somebody was in your study. And they flipped through all your books. And perhaps read some , after going through my stuff. ”

Ryan could not but help let out a small growl that ended in a scoff.

” So are you now a psychic or something? Can you see the past by touching stuff? ”

Sherry’s expression was unbothered.

” No psychic Mr. Ryan. Look at these reddish finger marks on these papers.

This is the color from my lucky red socks, because it’s low grade and cheap like me and it constantly bleeds. “