A social media influencer reincarnates as a detective
Just something fun that I wanted to publish. Hope you enjoy!
As a cool breeze rustled his long dark hair, John D. Tective wondered how on earth he was alive and why he was looking at his own dead body. He remembered that not long ago he was still known as Chad Bossan, an average university student with lofty goals of becoming a social media influencer. He had had it all, the looks, the tan and his parents' money.
Had he been better friends with an ever brooding quiet student, he would have known to stay home that day. However he wasn’t and now he stood in the cool summer night breeze as John Tective, a middle-aged man without the looks, the tan or his parents' money.
He was walking across the lawn from the engineering building to the language building when he felt a pinch right at the back of his head which was followed by a long period of blurry vision while the world seemed to get sucked into the void.
Chad was woken from this stupor by a police officer. She had blonde hair in a bun, big blue eyes and was wearing an officer's uniform. In a chirpy but concerned tone she spoke to him “Hello? Can you hear me, sir? We can’t have you standing in the middle of the road”. Nodding, Chad quickly moved to the sidewalk. He thought to himself that perhaps something had happened while he was out.
As he tried to remember what happened, only fragments returned, a pure white figure made of light, a contract, and something else. He couldn't be quite sure but all he knew was that he needed to get back to the campus as he had forgotten his phone in the mens bathroom and this was an experience worth posting about.
Luckily the distance wasn’t too great, only a couple kilometres from his position. This distance used to be his warm up but now with all his joints screaming to stop and gasping for air, Chad was only able to jog half the distance after which he was forced to walk.
Eventually Chad made it to the lawn of the engineering faculty when noticed the body of a young man. He walked up to it. The young man was of an athletic build and looked eerily close to Chad. In fact as he looked closer at the body he discovered that it was him.
As he was still processing the information he could hear the cocking of a gun behind and the words “Freeze, Paikka police”. “Hands up, you are being arrested for the murder of that university student”.
Panic started to rise in Chad, he couldn't be getting arrested for the murder of himself and most importantly he hadn’t yet gotten his phone back. Imagine the short he could make over his own body. All he could blurt out in the moment was “No I’m not”.
“Alright right but I’ll have to take you down to the station, so keep your hand up” The police officer responded.
Chad, still in a bit of a panic, “No you don’t! I’m actually a detective.. The name’s John… John D. Tective”
As he said those words a blinding flash illuminated the sky and in Chad’s head he could hear the voice of light speaking “As per the reincarnation contract rule 28: The first lie to be uttered by the returner shall become a universal truth”
As the light fades, the officer who had just been holding his gun at Chad quickly puts it away and continues speaking with no acknowledgement to what had just transpired “Oh! Detective Tective, I didn’t realise it was you in the dark. How can I be of assistance?”
Thanks for reading! It might continue or not but hopefully you had fun!
