“What?” asked Xiaotao. “We’re only reenacting the murder! Come on!”

She pushed me onto the bed and climbed atop of me herself. So she wanted me to act as the murderer. 

“Your skin is so smooth,” she said with a smile. “It feels like a baby’s butt! I love girls with smooth skin like that! Tell me, how old are you?”

“You don’t have to get that deep into the role!” I exclaimed. “It feels weird!”

I knocked her leg with the Echolocation Rod, and Xiaotao stopped joking around immediately. Although I was a little shy about it at first, once I got into investigating mode, the surrounding environment blurred into the background and all I would think of was the murder.

We tried to reenact every detail of the crime. When I stabbed her chest with the Echolocation Rod, Xiaotao immediately covered her chest with her hands and shrank away.

“No,” I said, “you must think like a gangster. What would...