Monsters who devour dreams
The time passed by and I went on with solving cases. It were no difficult ones but it was fun for me. I also kept playing puzzles until one day when I decided that they were to easy for me.
"Mr. Wammy?", I said one day, "Can't I get some more difficult games, please?"
Mr. Wammy smiled kindly and said yes, he would buy some soon. When he came to the orphanage two days later, he had got many new games and puzzles which were more difficult, so that I did nothing else but playing with these for weeks.
I related games to cases I tried to solve and it helped me a lot to distract me from cases so that I could concentrate on it later even more. When a case was to difficult for me and I was upset because of it, the only thing that helped was playing and sweets. Especially cake was rising my mood, maybe it was the sugar which affected me. And this way, I grew up. I solved cases, played and ate sweets.
When I was 15, I asked Mr. Wammy for a computer.
"Why do you want a computer?", the old man asked.
"I think a computer gives me a better possibility to communicate. And communication is might to me, Mr. Wammy. I could actually start solving cases official and collaborate with the police worldwide.", I explained a little excited.
"If you want to do this, I won't stop you. I'll get you a computer and a own room so that you can work without being sidetracked. Does this sound good?"
I nodded satisfied. Mr. Wammy was the only person I really trusted because he seemed to support me and he accepted my way of life without any friends as long as I injured nobody, which I was not up to. This was the reason for me to ask him whenever I had a question or a problem instead of the teachers and professors he invited to Wammy's house to teach us and improve our special abilities.
After a week, I got my own bedroom. There was a bed, a small wardrobe and a big desk. On the desk was a laptop laying with multiple microphones and voice changers and there was a small window above the bed which showed the backyard and the houses of the neighborhood. I immediately turned the laptop on and started working on the new case. Now that I had the internet, it was much easier to get the important information about happenings and I had the possibility to get a overview about all information I had. I was excited, I did not even new what it felt like to be so excited as I was. I never had a reason to be excited, no thing to be passionate about but my cases and justice. All I ever wanted was justice and this little piece of electronic was a big step on my way to justice.
Since I had almost everything I needed in my room, I only left it for the bathroom and tennis from now on. Tennis was the only thing I did and I liked which had to do with human interaction. Once a week I would go to tennis practice in the city of Winchester and I was good. Just after a few weeks of practice I went to my first tournament and I won. A year later I was tennis champion in the England Junior Cup. But when I had not to practice I barely left my room.
Mr. Wammy brought my sweets to my room, I had my computer and it was all I needed. When I solved a case, I used to call the police per laptop with my voice changer. When they asked for a name, I just said they should call me L. Nobody but Mr. Wammy did ever new that it was my real name. In the beginning, some curious police officer tried to find something out about me but they were not able to.
The fact that I was not leaving my room let even the last teacher or child lose their hope for me getting friends and I really had no problem with this. If you wanted to achieve something in life, you had to concentrate on this thing and nothing else. And I wanted to achieve justice, that was my goal and I was full of resolution achieving it.
I spent my main time in Wammy's House in my room. I spent my main time solving cases alone in this dark room. Sitting in a unnatural position on a chair, eating sweets and cake and without moving for hours or even days, I spent a important part of my childhood in this orphanage. Once a professor came to my room but I refused to talk to him. I had a case to solve. I had a world to optimize.