The cameras flashed in my face and a roar of voices attacked me as I stepped out of the hotel room, temporarily blinding me. I paused, raising a hand to shield my eyes so I could adjust them. "What's all this?" I asked, glancing to the officer beside me.
He smiled. "It's been all over the news that you've solved the 15 year old murder case in under just two hours. People want to meet the genius who found the murderer that we police couldn't."
I just barely managed to not grimace in front of all the cameras. "Oh..." I hadn't expected that. I just had gotten curious and followed the clues. Who would have expected that the same guy would have been cleaning the hotel for the past 15 years? Talk about luck. Talk about stupidity that he wasn't implicated before this point. There had been signs everywhere that he'd done it. Of course, police work wasn't what it was now back then. "I'm sure if you'd reopened the case, you guys would have figured it out just as quickly." I hedged. "It's just that I got there first."
"And the media is dying to find out how you managed just that." The officer said with a smile. Gesturing me forward. "Go ahead, we've already given our statements to them, you can have your 15 minutes of fame."
"I hope it's more like two minutes. This is embarrassing." I muttered, lowering my hand keeping a polite smile on my face as I strolled forward. I had no idea what I was doing. It wasn't like I was used to cameras in my face after all.
-Inspiration from a dream where I'd solved a 15 year old murder and now had to face the media.
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