"Poor, Vinz. My son didn't know how happy I am to have a genius son like him. I think he wasn't able to see that his name is included in the topnotchers list", His father whispered.

He is not an ambitious person, he never boasts. He's not expecting more that's why he just check the list of passers without checking the topnotchers list where he truly belongs. He grew up simple and contented", Mr. Pascual held his son's head showing love and concern to him.

Then, he uttered, "You never disappoint me in everything you do, son. I know how hardworking you are. You are an independent man. You grew up like your mom".

He stared at his son's face and said, "Congratulations, son! You nailed it! You are really different from your brother, Lewin Ben Pascual", Mr. Edward Pascual whispered.

"Sir, what shall we do to your son?", the body guard asked him.

"Kindly take him to his room and let him rest. He must be tired with his whole day activities", his dad commanded the body guard.

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"Cheers to the new detectives of this town", Detective Torres shouted. I still can't believe that I passed the examination. I'll disappoint dad if I failed. He will be upset and dismayed if his only son failed", he added.

"I'm pretty sure that your dad will not just scold you, he'll kill you if you ruin his reputation", Gaile uttered in a threatening way.

"Your dad owns a lot of businesses in the country. Take note, you will inherit all of it, you are the only heir of your dad so, you have to prepare yourself for a big responsibility", Gaile glared at him to make it more believable.

Matt just nodded. He knew that Gaile is just kidding but he knew his dad. His dad will surely kill him for real. "For her it is just a joke, but it is true. He will kill me if I failed, he said that to me before I took the exam", he told himself.

"Wait for a while, I forgot to check the topnotchers list. I remembered what I read a while ago that our batch got the highest passing rate among the batch of examinees these past ten years", Detective Lopez said smartly.

"Wow! That sounds great. Let me see who the topnotchers are, please move", Detective Torres requested her to move.

"What? No! You find your own way to see it. I also want to see who got who's the 'Cream of the Crop' this year. Use your own laptop if you want to check it out", she held her laptop and she pushed him away.

Detective Torres took a revenge. He pushed her away from the laptop. He looked closer into the screen when Detective Lopez grabbed his hair.

"Are you crazy? Why did you grab my hair?", he asked. "Ouuucchh! My scalp hurts", he reacted.

"You pushed me, my knee hurts. Ouuuccchhh!", she reacted.

"We are acting like a child here!", they both shouted at each other. "Why don't we look at it together?", they added.

They shared the screen together. Detective Gaile Andrea Lopez clicked the topnotchers list. Detective James Matthew Torres accidentally hits the glass of juice at the top of the table. It breaks and the small pieces of the glass scattered on the floor.

Gosh! Matt! Why did you break my favorite glass? Ugh! You are so clumsy as always", Detective Lopez  glared at him. "Get ooooouuuuuttttt!, she shouted at him. "Clean up your mess or else I will punch you", she ordered him.

She looked closer to the screen and she noticed how high the average obtained by the top 1 was. It's 97.81.

"Oh gosh!", Detective Lopez covered her mouth because of amaze. "This man is genius! He almost got a perfect score. Maaaaaattttttt! Did you already see his average?", she shouted at him.

"Yes. Don't you remember, I'm farsighted", Detective Torres answered from the kitchen.

"Vinz Earl Pascual? That's the name of the genius detective. He got the record from Lewin Ben Pascual who obtained the average of 94.08, two years ago", Detective Lopez discussed intelligently.

"Really? They have the same surname. Do you think they are related to each other?", Detective Torres makes sense.

"You are so talkative. They just have the same surname, there's a lot of people who uses that surname", Detective Lopez said.

"I don't believe it's just a coincidence", Detective Torres assumed.

"Whatever! Vinz Earl Pascual... Vinz Earl Pascual. Hmmm... Did he really study hard to get on top? I'm so amazed. I really admire him because of his intelligence. Is he handsome? I can't imagine how cool he is", Detective Lopez admired him.

"So, you already have a crush on him? Yiiieeeee! She's in love", Detective Torres teased his best friened.

"Duhhh! I just admire him. I'm not in love. You can't love someone right away", Detective Lopez defended.

"You are in love, Gaile. Don't fool me. I know you. You easily fall in love to someone even if you didn't see him yet", Detective Torres emphasized.

"Every lady will surely admire a genius police officer, a genius detective like him", she widened her eyes to Detective Torres.

"Every lady will surely admire a genius police officer, a genius detective like him", Detective Torres repeated the words she said a while ago.

She pinched his best friend's face and clipped his ears. "You are a bully friend, a bully detective", Detective Lopez added.

"You are so immature, Detective Lopez!", Detective Torres emphasized with flickering eyes. "We are both detectives now, so act professional and be matured enough!", he shouted at her.

"Oh wait, I just have to excuse myself. I need to get something important inside my room. Wait for me, okay? We'll go somewhere. Don't leave yet, I'll watch over you", she said in a bossy way.

Detective Lopez goes upstairs while swaying her hands because of excitement while Detective Torres is watching over her.

"I'm glad, my best friend totally recovered. I hope she already forgot what happened to her in the past. That was 5 years ago but everything is still clear into my mind", he told himself.

"I hope she'll be happy in her present life. I can't afford to see her crying all day and all night. I don't want to see a traumatized lady who was deprived to get the justice she deserves. I hope her recorvery continues for her to get back to her old self, the jolly, friendly and optimistic lady just like before", Detective Torres wished then he suddenly took a deep breath.

Gaile and Matt are childhood best friends. Their family are good friends. Matt's mom and Gaile's mom were college best friends then Matt's dad and Gaile's dad were high school best friends.

He stands near the door and reminisc the old memories including Gaile's past. That moment he wondered why her case wasn't able to solve.

That moment he realized something's strange happened that night. He remembered the three men he saw near the area where he found Gaile unconscious. "If I arrived late, maybe she died that evening", he told himself while looking far.

"Who among them is the culprit? If I'm not mistaken, the man holding a gun ran away when he saw me running towards my best friend's body. The man who peeked in the alley to check out who rescued her. And the man who's lying on the road with a gun shot in his left arm", he slowly figured out what happened in the past.

"All of them disappeared quickly. The police officers weren't able to catch them. I'm sure that I saw three men. The man peeking in the dark alley, the man holding a gun and the man lying on the road. They are my suspects. Aha! Gotcha! Everything gets clearer and clearer. But the question is, what happened to her case? Why is it left behind? ", Detective Torres got a hint.

"Maaaaaattttt", Gaile called him but he didn't look back.

"Detective Toooooorrreeeeessss", she shouted at him but he ignored her.

"James Matthew Torres!", she uttered madly while stepping downstairs. "Are you deaf or you intentionally ignore me?", she pulled his shirt and pushed him.

"Is there something wrong? It seems like you're thinking so deep. What is that all about, huh?", she hugged him from the back.

"It's nothing. Where are we going by the way? What did you get in your room that took you so long?", he frowned. "I've been waiting here for 15 minutes", he added.

"Here it is", she gave him the other file folder. "This is yours, Matt. I mean, Detective Torres", she uttered in a sweet tone.

"A resume? Did you prepare it just now?", Detective Torres widened his eyes on her.

"No. I did that before we took the examination. I search those documents inside my drawer because it was covered by the latest documents in my drawer", she smiled at him.

"I know someday we can use it. Now, let's go and apply for a job, He held his hand and pulled him outside the house. Oh wait, are you riding on a car when you go here?", the lady asked him gladly.

"Yes, it was parked there. Come on!", he guided her while they are walking.

They ride on his car then they passed their resume in some police station departments.

After a week, Detective Lopez received a call and Detective Torres received a call too. A call from the same police station, 'The Manila Police District'. They both accepted the job offered to them as detectives of unit 7.

Detective Torres arrived early in the office to report his duty.

On her way to the office, Detective Lopez saw a man who's trying to kill himself by jumping from the 4th floor building, a suicidal case.