Murder Of Two

CHAPTER {02}

    I got out of the tree house and decided to get more information. I went to the station and found an excuse to wait for my dad. Some people were called by the police; Mrs Hudson, 60years old, she lived in the house across the street with her disabled husband. She said that the last time she had seen Mrs Miller was the day before and said Hi to her. Jared Scott, 45 years old and lived next to the Millers. He was a musician and he claimed to not have heard any noise because he was practicing. He saw Jack Miller take out the trash the night before from his room window.

 The police thought that one thing would have solved this case. Was there anything missing from the house? The Millers were nice people; no one ever had a problem with them. I knew that it must have been something else.

Dad asked some officers to check the house for anything missing. However it wasn't that easy; nobody was close to them to know what they actually had. So I thought to wait a day or two for things to calm down and sneak into that house again.

Some of their family members came. Mrs Miller's sister, Camilla, started to mourn around without crying and she insisted to be taken to the house. When she came back to the station minutes later, she had a ring on her finger that she didn't have on earlier and nobody noticed.

Mr Miller's brother and his wife arrived first. They lived far away but they managed to rush in that slippery road. They were both so silent and answered the police's questions as short as possible. There was something wrong about them.

They interrogated the two neighbours Mrs Hudson and Jared, Camilla, Paul and Karen. All of these people were the suspects' list that I had written down.

I started with Mrs Hudson and I went to her house. She knew me so let me in.

"You shouldn't be out wandering around while there is a killer on the loose".

'A killer?' I thought to myself, 'They still didn't announce the cause of death yet'.

"What do you think happened, Mrs Hudson?"

"I don't know, the police don't say much, I was just wondering if you know something from your father".

"My father didn't tell me anything, he sent me to ask you few questions".

She laughed and said: "He sent a seven years old child to ask me questions about a crime? Darling I have been there in the station, they have already asked me".

"I'm ten and I just want to know where you were last night".

"As I told the police, I was home all night. I always watch over my husband's medicines so I can't possibly leave".

"Can you lead me to the bathroom, please?"

"Of course dear, it's at the end of the hallway to your left. Meanwhile, I'll pour you a glass of hot chocolate drink".

I pretended to go to the bathroom but I was looking for her husband's room. I found it, the door was half open and it was very dark from the inside. I got close and calmly said: "Excuse me". The man came out of nowhere from the dark in a silent wheelchair and said: "Miley is that you?"

I freaked out but thought 'Miley? Who is that?' I said: "Yes it's me, Miley, what's wrong?"

He squeezed my arms and said: "Oh Miley thank god, I'm sure that your mother didn't give me my medicines last night but she insisted that she had given me".

"Is that true?..."

Mrs Hudson interrupted us and yelled: "Mason! I told you to wait for me. And you little girl, this is not the way to the bathroom".

"I'm sorry ma'am, I got lost".

She then put her husband to bed and closed the door. She grabbed me by my hand and took me back to the living room.

"Who's Miley?"

"Someone you don't know".

"I'm so sorry, but he called me Miley".

"She was our daughter and she left this world 30 years ago, she was ill and died when she was your age. My husband has dementia and doesn't know what's real and what's not".

"Okay, but did you really not hear anything unusual last night?"

"A gunshot is loud enough but the road separates our houses". She let me finish the drink she had given me then continued: "I think your mother may be worried about you now".