Finding Them [ON HOLD]

Chapter-5

Ira's pov

"Ok, stop with the jokes now… it's not really that funny!" I said with a nervous chuckle.

"Do you really think that I'm joking?" Ray said in a serious tone.

"Come. Let me show you something," he said, leading Ira to Rose's old room, which they hadn't opened for years.

"No need to go there! I get it," said Ira, still a bit nervous.

"No, let's go! I'll show you something that I found after Rose left. I hid it so Mom and Dad never find it," he said while walking upstairs to Rose's room.

He takes the key from a drawer and opens the door, revealing an old dark room. Everything is black, from the bed sheets to the door colour. Even the curtains are black! Ira had seen the room before, as she used to sneak in there sometimes.

Yet it always makes her feel weird and different when she enters it.

"Come," Ray said to Ira as he went into the old closet, which still had some clothes and other things in there.

He walked to the corner of the closet, crouched down, and pulled out a box from underneath many other things.

Ira's eyes widened in shock when she saw what was in it.

"W-wait what? How? Why?" she said, her voice cracking in between words.

"Yeah, I know. That's what I thought too… I always thought that it was a bit suspicious of her to just run away like that after getting scolded by mom and dad, but then I found out that her school had reported that she’d been bringing these to school," he said, pointing at the things in the box.

Ira stood there speechless, before taking a bottle in her hands and looking at the faint coloured pills.

"So she had been taking drugs."

"Yeah… I'm sorry for not telling you before Ira, it's just that you were too young back then," said Ray with an apologetic look on his face.

"It's fine, you didn’t have to," I said, still shook.

Suddenly, before we could say anything else, the doorbell rang.

"Oh, it must be the pizza. I'll get it! And please don't touch anything in the box, Ira. It's not safe," Ray said as he walked out of the room, leaving Ira alone.

Ira's pov

I looked at Ray going downstairs and then back at the box. I know he told me not to touch it, but I couldn't help it. So I bent down, took the box in my hands, and opened it. Inside, there was a bootleg of the 'pills', a couple of accessories, and a locket? I took the gold locket in my hands and looked at it. It still seemed quite new.

It looked as though it could be opened, so I tried opening it, and CLICK! It opened. There was a piece of paper inside with something written on it, so out of curiosity I unfolded it. As I did, I became even more shocked.

It said:

"Hello Ira, so Ray finally showed the box to you? I know he did. I left clues for him to do so. Well, you can have this locket. It was meant for you."