Psychotic Bitch

Chapter 12

"Christina I'm so glad you're okay! I knew this wasn't a dead case. I just wish you and everyone else would have just listened to me" Miss Bitchie Detective walked in the room. When she saw who was next to me, she whipped out her gun. "Detective" the officer across from me ordered.
He looked to my side and spoke "maybe you should wait outside. I see you've hit a soft spot." She watched the door open and close with wide eyes. "What the hell am I missing out on?" The officer got up and left us alone. She sat exactly where the officer was. We sat in an expecting silence for a few minutes.
"I did it! I watched him burn alive. God I'm such a terrible person" I sob. She just sat there in confusion. "What do you mean? Start from the beginning Christian" she demanded an answer.
I take a deep breathe slowly. "I went to Italy to visit my brother. And I was just at my hotel and he came. He took me and tied me up somewhere. He held a gun to my head! He went on and on about how I betrayed him. But you told me how manipulative he was. So I kept that and manipulated him instead." She was SO confused.
"I got him to untie me. It took a lot, but I did. I played into his game of manipulation by manipulating him. Im such a terrible person!" She frowns at me "you did what you had to in order to survive."
I nod slowly. Another deep breathe, in and out. "So he untied me and I played my part still. He thought everything was perfectly fine. But he was wrong! The moment he wasn't watching, I tipped over the can of gasoline and dropped my lighter into it. I ran as he screamed for me! How could I not help him? He's still a person and I just ran away!"
She gave me a sympathetic smile as she slid over the box of tissues. I grabbed some and whipped my eyes. "So who was he? Why was that man in here with you" she questioned. I watched as she glanced at her notepad. She probably thinks she's so good at her job.
The same officer from earlier entered again. He was holding files in his hands. It was a thick amount of paper. She looked at him in confusion. He handed her the papers within a second. "Remember when you were asking why this man was following me? If I knew anything? I figured it out" I insist. She glanced up at me, letting me know to continue.
"Well, his name wasn't Nicholas. Everyone was wrong. Nicholas is the man who was sitting next to me. Nicholas is the innocent one. His brother, Dominic is the one you all were really after. He stole his brothers identity" I let out.
Her eyebrows meets s she looks down. "I see" she states. HA, she knows how shit she is now! "But why was he after you? You said you had figured it out." I was getting there.
"I knew Nicholas. He probably just wanted to get to Nicholas and used me to do so. I met Nicholas at the bar I worked in. He was a customer. We got along, fell in love, and all of that. Maybe Dominic really was just trying to be his twin. Nicholas was constantly there drinking because he heard his brother was out of the asylum. He never told me his name. Later he told me it was because he didn't want me to call the cops on him for being the one who ran from the asylum. That was after I told him about my situation with his brother, who you all believed to be Nicholas. Then the real Nicholas went and hid. He didn't want to be mistaken for his psycho brother" I explain.
She nods. Of course everyone would fall for this bullshit! "So me and Nicholas ran away to Italy once the case went dead. It was open for a year and you guys had nothing on Dominic. But when we were in Italy, Dominic found us. It was terrible! He was pissed to see me with his brother. Went on and on about how I betrayed him and how he loved me. Dominic was a fucking lunatic! My only option was to kill him. If I hadn't, I would be trapped with him" I insist.
"You aren't in trouble Christina. It was all self defense. Can your brother testify that you did see him in Italy? Just in case we need it" she questioned. I nodded.
"Well, all of these files back up what you were saying" of course they do, we made them. "I'm sorry for the mistake on our part. We should have been able to figure this all out before it got this deep. Give Nicholas our apologies won't you?" I nod. "For your sake, I hope to never see you again. Everything must have been vary traumatic" she adds. I stand up. Before I exit I give her a sad "thank you."
I meet Nicholas in the middle of the waiting room and we give each other the biggest hug ever. "It's all over dear. We won" he smiles down at me. "I know love, we did it" I hug him tighter.

Everyone thinks we're happy because we just figured out a psycho is dead. Little do they know that we're happy because we manipulated the world into believing Nicholas was the victim. We made everyone believe Dominic was a real person! Now we can live our lives together without worrying about getting caught.