Suitcase Mystery

Chapter 2 : The Note

When i was done we opened the suitcase and we where all shocked to discover a human hand holding a folded paper. 

Olivia: "what in the world is that !!"

Noah: "Guys i think we should call the police, it's safer that way"

Liam: "Are you out of your mind, if we tell the police we'll be the prime suspects !!"

Olivia: "But if we don't call them, we'll look even more suspicious" 

Me: "I agree with Liam, if we tell the police matters will only get worse and non of us want to go to jail, do we?"

Noah: "well i always wanted to"

Olivia: "Noah now is not the time for jokes, we just found a human hand and you're making jokes about going to prison"

Noah: "Oh calm dow-"

Liam: "Both of you should shut up and help us find a solution"

Me: "I have an idea, we can keep the secret and investigate on our own. If police ever think about accusing us we'll have clues to defend ourselves." 

Olivia: "And how do you plan on doing that" 

Me: "First we can look at the note that the hand is holding and search the rest of the suitcase pockets"

Noah: "I'm not touching that hand"

Olivia: "It's Alice's idea, she'll know what do. Right Alice ?"

Me: *rolling my eyes* "We shouldn't touch the hand with our bare hands but with gloves so that we don't leave finger prints"

Noah: "Wow, looks like you've been doing this your whole life"

Me: "Oh shut up, you guys know I'm a huge fan of true crime"

Liam: "Yeah, psycho. Anyways, I'll go get the gloves"

Me: "No need found some in the first aid kid"

Olivia: "Okay who is gonna touch that hand"

Noah: "I think we should bury that hand"

Me: "Yeah, Noah dig the hole. And because you guys are all chickens I'll bury the hand."

Liam: "I'll just check the rest of the pockets"

Olivia: "what do i do?"

Me: "take the note and read it"

Olivia: "I don't wanna do that, you do--"

Me: "Okay, you bury the hand then"

Olivia: "Ugh, Fine"

Noah started digging a small and deep hole in the sand, when he was done i wore my gloves and put the hand in. Liam was checking the rest of the suitcase pockets, while Olivia was staring with wide eyes at the unfolded note. I never knew i could be that brave and that she would be that scared. 

Liam: "There's nothing in there"

Me: "We're done, what does it say Olivia"

Olivia: "I--- i i can't do it, you open it"

She tossed the paper in my hands, i removed my gloves and threw them in a trash can near by. When i came back everyone was staring at me, waiting for me to read out the not.

I opened up the note and read out:

Me: "Call or die ; 66679173"

Liam: "All this for a stupid joke, you know what we should just call this number and end this joke"

Olivia: "Are you insane, we found a human hand holding a note in a suitcase at the beach we didn't call the police but now you want us to call this weird number that starts with 666--"

Noah: "Aka the devils number"

Me: "We all agreed that we would investigate and find the person behind this so we wouldn't end up in jail. And everything we did will look even more suspicious if we just call the police"

Liam: "Alice is right, once we call the police everyone will look more suspicious.  And even if we did call the police, what are we going to tell them. Oh hello officer i found a human hand in a suitcase so i buried it at the beach"

Noah: "But they'll understand that we were scared and that we didn't know what to do, after all we're only teenagers" 

Olivia: "he's rig---"

Me: "No he isn't, we are considered as adults"

Liam: "Can we just agree, if you want to go to jail call the police if not then we'll just call the number"

Me: "I'll call the number, but we need to wait for the two scaredy-cats to agree"

Liam and I looked at both of them waiting for an answer. I was freaking out on the inside but i just kept a straight face so i wouldn't scare Olivia and Noah even more than they already are.    

Me: "So?" 

Olivia: *sigh* "ok fine, call this stupid number"  

Liam: "Noah"

Noah: "i don't know guys, it's just----"

Me: "Come on so we can get this over with"

Noah: "okay okay, just call the number"

Liam: "Finally" 

Before i could call the number Liam snatched my phone and added "*67" at the beginning of the phone number.

Liam: "Extra precautions"  

I then called the number not forgetting to put it on speaker. 

One beep

Two beeps

Three bee----

Someone picked up the call, but the person didn't speak. We only heard silence. No one dared to talk so i did.

Me: "Hello? Is anyone there"

No answer

Me: "We found this number on a piece of paper, an--"

A deep and raspy voice cut me off,

on the other line: "The old house"

and just like that the call ended, me and my friends looked at each other terrified. We all knew what house he was talking about. 

And we never wanted to go there again....

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