100 words: I believe

I knocked before turning the knob. I could have forgone the courtesy but the occasion made me do it.

“It really wasn’t me!”

The man swung his body wildly to exaggerate the point to my colleague as I threw the file onto the old metal table.

“HEY! Don’t shout!”

“I didn’t kill anyone! Officer… Officer, do you believe me?”

I tilted my head a little and looked past him.

“Actually I have to say I do.”

My colleague gave me an exasperated look but I just shrugged.

Of course I believed him, after all, it was I who killed her.