My Reason

Chapter 11: Did not see that coming...

(Connor’s POV)

I have cousins? Cousins who are criminals? What the actual fuck is going on here? This is insane. I’m being held hostage by my psycho cousins who raped the girl I’m in love with. I feel like I’m in a nightmare thats never ending.

"Your lying, its not true," I state my opinion.

"Don’t you remember us little Conrad?" Mark asks.

Conrad? Did he just call me little Conrad? Only my cousin…. Holy shit.. My cousin Marcus always called me little Conrad when we were little. He and his brother Will, use to come over to my house every summer. They would come to help out my mom, it was like a summer job in away. Plus it kept them out of trouble. They lived about 2 hours away from us. The neighborhood where they lived, has a lot of gangs, and shootings. So while they were out of school for the summer, they would come and stay with me and my mom for summer break. Making sure they would be safe from all of that bad stuff. Looking at the two men, I use to think of as my brothers, even though I was an only child. I thought of Marcus and Will as my big brothers. They have changed so much, since the last time I saw them. I don’t even see Marcus or Will anymore in these men, now all I see are monsters. Evil is all I could see in their eyes. In my mind, this was not going to end well.

"What happened to the Marcus and Will I used to know? Because your not them," I say briefly.

"No were not, we got better at this game though," Wilson says.

"This is not a game Will, this is real life. You can’t just kidnap people, and expect not to get caught," I say.

"If you haven’t realized, we are cops, and you’re just a high school student," Mark replies with no emotion in his voice.

"Who do you think they would believe? Look at you, and look at the girl. From what I can tell, is that you had a little fight with your girlfriend. You got angry, and things got out of hand. Then here we come along, two cops seeing that you cut your girlfriend up into little pieces. Instead of actually killing your girlfriend, we will substitute another girl, who looks just like Haiden. Your girlfriends body will be the corpse of a girl we will kill, and put her blood on you. Making sure you are accused of killing your ‘girlfriend’. By next week people will be wondering where Haiden went, so cops will be on a search to find her. Which will be us, we will begin by saying ‘we saw a boy walking in the woods by a cabin, with his clothes ripped up and blood covered his skin. Suspecting something of the situation, we continued to investigate. We followed him inside, and asked the boy what he was doing. Next thing we saw is him playing with the hair of his dead girlfriend. Thats when we came and handcuffed the boy, as my partner checked the girl if she was breathing. Calling for backup and an ambulance. The doctors, determine her as Haiden Emerson. The girl who went missing, being killed by her secret boyfriend. Her boyfriend the murderer.’ You can’t run away from this, if you haven’t figured it out. We won, you lost little Conrad," Mark laughs a bit.

Everything still didn’t make sense to me, as to why they were doing this? or why they are doing this to me? So many questions that needed to be answered. All I really cared about right now, was getting Haiden out of here. Some how some way I was going to get her out of this mess. I wasn’t going to let my fucked up cousins so this to her. This wasn’t a game anymore it became a war. A war I plan on winning, no matter if I get hurt as long as she’s safe.