Twin Secrets

Truth Untold

Me and Larenz ran out the shed and looked around to see Bobby being dragged by the hookman

Bobby: "Aaliyah help!!"

                           ~BOBBY'S POV~
"Please don't kill me mr.hookman! I don't wanna die"
Hookman: "You think it's funny coming here wearing that getup?!"
"I don't know what your talking about! It's just a Halloween costume! If you let me go, I'll leave! Please!"

Hookman: "No! You ain't going nowhere!"
"No! No!"

Hookman winded his arm back

                        ~AALIYAH'S POV~

Larenz nudged the hookman to the ground and I ran over to Bobby to see confusion and fear in his eyes

"What the hell are you doing here?!"
I slapped him in the face

Larenz picked up and bat and hookman examined me
Hookman: "Aaliyah? Haughton? You gotta a lot of balls coming out here, especially tonight"
"And tonight's the whole reason I'm here. I wanna know the truth about what happened that Halloween night"

Hookman: "I didn't do anything to that child. You hear me?"
Larenz: "Yeah. We hear you, but why should we believe you?"

Hookman: "I don't give a damn about what you believe. You all are trespassing on my property. Now get the hell off!"

"Did you kill Kayana?"
Hookman: "Why are you asking me that now?!"
"Because she may still be alive. And we think you might know where to find her"

Hookman: "Is this some kind of sick joke?"
"Sick joke?! Man, a fool in a mask is running around here killing people because of the decision me and you made! So he'll naw it ain't no got damn joke"

He look at all of us
Hookman: "Follow me. I'll take you to her"

Bobby got up from the couch then me, Larenz and Bobby followed the creepy hookman

We stopped walking at a creepy weird looking car with all these veins hugging the car

Larenz: "What the hell is this?"
Hookman: "The last place I saw Kayana"
"But you said you were going to take us to her. Where the hell is she?"
Hookman: "She right here..."

He pulled off a covering with the hook on his hand as we all tilted our head in disoriented. We looked down to see the mask my sister was wearing the night she died.

Hookman: "This...this is where I buried her. I'm sorry Aaliyah. But Kayana is dead"

Larenz: "Damn this is some messed up shit"
Bobby: "No double about it. Hey, it's been awhile since we heard from the others. I think I'm gonna check in"

Bobby walked away and I still was confused. I looked up at the hookman
"You never answered my question"
Hookman: "Look, I know you think I'm a monster, everybody does. The truth is that what happened to your sister that night, was an accident"

"Man, the hell it was! You attacked us"
Hookman: "Man, I was in a hard place, I know the drinking didn't help. When I ran into you girls, a couple of shadows just in my mind, my mind went back to a bad place. I didn't know what I was seeing until the mask came off....after you hopped over that fence, your sister broke away and ran off. Faster than I could keep up. I turned this place upside down looking for her. But it was like she just disappeared. I figured she did the smart thing and ran home until the cops showed up. Those cops are never going to look that hard for a black kid gone missing anyway. They were here and gone less than a day. Wasn't till six months later.. I realized, Kayana never left.. that probably ain't what you wanted to hear, and for that, I'm sorry, but it's the truth..."

Me and Larenz looked at each other with shock. Damn..

Hookman: "You two can find your way out"
He left now it was just me and Larenz. I looked down at the old crusty mask with regrets and guilt

Larenz: "You good?"
"I just need a... moment with my sister"

Larenz: "No doubt. But Aaliyah, if you need me, I'll always be here"

He walked away. I picked up the mask and examined it for a second then I crushed the mask with my thumbs