Town of Red

Chapter 3

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After the fifteen-mile, silent drive to the abandoned house. We parked outside of the gate, for a better getaway, I positioned my truck for that. We walked forward, a few gasps were heard from the teens. "This place is huge," they said at the same time, I turned to face them. "Backstory for this one," I started as I stared at them.

I cleared my throat, and turned my back to them to step closer to the house they followed. "Margaret and Johnny had two children, on the age of 5 and the other age of 17, by the name of Lisa," I say slowly some of them jotted that down.

"Lisa was old enough to drive, but she hated the roads leaving the house, so she would call for her friend who had a truck to come take her to school," I said "she was a track-star and would always go to the track after dark and after everybody would be gone for the night," I cleared my throat as I stayed silent for a second.

"It was late, no one knew the specific time it was but when she didn't come home, Johnny had called the police, gave them her description and they went and searched the track and the surround ten miles," I say, "when she didn't turn up in the search they declared her missing right away, as this was almost eerily similar to the first victim," I mentioned as they stayed silent and listen.

"The next day, early morning both the first victim and second victim turned up on the streets where everybody could see them, murdered." I said, "lastly the last thing Lisa had on was a tank top, black shorts, red converse, and a necklace her mother gave her which was a rose." I gave a basic description of the girl.

"But no one found the necklace" we walked into the house right after I said that, they searched as I stayed where I can hear them and see them. And if someone stayed silent for too long, I quickly went to find them, my nerves were on full alert. Both abductions were over two day period, so the next two victims would be dumped on the fourth day.

When I didn't hear the blonde-haired girl, "Hey what's the blonde hair name?" I asked the brunette he turned around for a second "Ashlyn," I nodded "Ashlyn! You okay!?" I yelled up the flight of stairs, after a few seconds, my feet were up on the steps and I was flying up the stairs, running. She comes out "sorry did you call? I was behind closed doors." I let a breath go I didn't know I was holding.

I stared at her "yeah, just wanted to make sure you were okay." She nodded and turned back, I groaned as I found Aaron walking up the stairs "so what are the relations are you to them?" I asked he chuckled "their parents both died, I was a family friend, I am 34 years old." He said and he looked good for a 34-year-old. "Oh, okay then." He gave a smile and walked past me, the brunette several minutes later.

I finally asked for his name, Mike, it took roughly an hour for everybody to comb this house and the outside. "I'll take you to the track nobody uses it again because of this incident," I said as we loaded up in the truck, I was the last one when I saw a shadow, a human-looking shadow.

I brushed it off as I got in, locking the doors and slipping on my seatbelt. "You okay?" Aaron asked, I didn't say anything but I gave a sharp nod of my head, I turn the key and put it in the drive. "Are you?" He asked minutes later.  "Honestly, no, I am getting bad vibes from this and I'm really worried," I said as my hand gripped the steering wheel tightly.

My knuckles started turning white, "hey, like you said you're a marine they should be scared of you, and even if you weren't a marine, Lucas," he said and I glanced over for a split second "you are the bravest soul here." I smiled and gave a slow nod.

"Very well," I said as we stayed silent for the rest of the drive, I contemplated what could happen and what not could happen. We already found more evidence than the cops did, and they spent a month on this case before it went cold. And we have already been to two victims' locations, which would take them days on each.

But the sounds and what I saw five minutes ago, has me doubting we should do this, the fact that it went cold, and not even the cops could find the killer, really could mean he is just dormant, for so long, and could be finding his new targets, us.