The part of the garden that was under construction was a mess. Torn up grass, broken pavers, plants broken at the stems; the entire days work was ruined. It made Andy’s heart sink all the way into the pit of his stomach.
When Andy had been told that the site had been vandalized, Andy was expecting maybe a few broken pavers, upturn plants, that sort of thing done by a group of punks looking for kicks and giggles. But he wasn’t expecting a disaster. It was like someone had purposely set out to destroy the work that Andy and his team had done.
Kids looking for a way to cure their boredom didn’t do this. Now, this was savage.
And Andy couldn’t help but feel that he was being targeted.
“Don’t touch anything” Eric warned Andy as he saw Andy knelt down to inspect more of the damage.
Andy managed to put on a brave face and said “ Shouldn’t take a long time for me and the guys to fix this”
Eric didn’t look all that convinced, but he didn’t say anything as he cast a glanced around the garden. Eric seemed to be mulling something in his head.
Then, a police officer joined them, and Andy guessed that he was the lead officer in charge. He spoke a few brief words to Eric while Andy rose to his feet, looking around the destruction place with a sense of awkward vulnerability. Eric must have sensed this, no, he did sense it, Eric was always be able to tell when something was bothering Andy.
“It looks like a targeted attack” the officer known as Kim Dongwan explained, tilting his head slightly in a motion for them to follow him. “A truck at the parking lot also had sustained damage” said Dongwan.
…A truck at parking lot???
Andy felt that his heart beating faster but not in a nice way. Cold sweat started to form on his forehead. He had already sent his crew away, so only his truck should have been left.
A small voice in the back of his head reasoned that maybe it wouldn’t be his truck; maybe it belonged to someone else. And he held onto that small bit of hope. But the moment he saw the damaged truck, surrounded by police tape and uniform policemen, that hope was immediately crushed.