Forcible Entry

"I was going to make a cocktail, but I thought that would be in bad form," I said to him, then turned back to making my list of things to do.

"You should have. Its been a long night. It should be the first thing on your list," he said with a hint of a smile in his eyes.

The detective turned back to my entertainment center, dusting for the fingerprints that he would never find. I looked up, sighed heavily, and thought just another victim, and wrote that on my list.