Familiar Face

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YOU DON'T VALUE WHAT YOU HAVE TILL ITS GONE, THEY SAY. I HELPLESSLY WATCHED YOU TWO GO~ Chris Landon

KHLOE DIAMOND
My stomach grumbled as I made my way down the stairs in his oversized shirt and shirt which I had to pull on it's rope to fit.

The fear of him not being perfect enough to have good culinary skills scared me. I was famished! My poor self dragged my feet down the stairs only to find him seated, typing away on his phone.

It was still raining heavily so ordering takeouts was completely out of it. I pondered on how to tell him about my hunger but fortunately, my stomach did the talking as it grumbled again.

He turned around to look at me and nodded in satisfaction.

"You look great in my clothes" he said.

Really? I need to feed my stomach not my ego!

"I was thinking about dinner but it's quite pathetic that I do not know my way around the kitchen". He confessed.

My hungry self couldn't take it anymore. After opening up several kitchen cabinets, I found noodles and pots to cook with. In no time, the noodles was done and we ate.

It was then I remembered I had planned on giving Kelvin a call.

"Hello brother" I said.

"Hey Khloe, now that I think of it, you are not home". He replied

"Now that you.... you know what? Forget it! See you tomorrow". I told him in anger.

"Tomorrow?" Hilda yelled from the background.

I shook my head at them. They really make their secret relationship so obvious, it was way past 10pm.

"Where are you two?" I asked.

"Living room" Kelvin said
"My room" Hilda thoughtlessly said

What a pity!

"You know what? I don't care, goodnight". I told them and hung up.

Will was busy making calls as well, he must have a lot of prior arrangements to cancel in advance for tomorrow. I was already so sleepy and decided to sneak my way up the stairs.

I didn't want to catch his attention at all for fear that it might result in another long discussion. It was a good thing I made it to the room safely and had a really good sleep.

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10 o'clock in the morning! What the fuck! I wanted to believe the bedside clock was wrong so I searched for my phone beside me, only to remember that I had left it downstairs last night.

It took a lot of effort to drag myself out of bed and down the stairs. Thankfully, he wasn't out yet. I picked up my phone to check the time and it truly was 10am.

Rather than being shocked by the time, I was shocked by several missed calls from Kelvin. He had never bombarded me with...... his call came in again.

"Kelvin" I said worried, the moment I picked up.

"Khloe, you need to get here now! I found Annie dead in a car parked right in front of our house". He explained. I could sense fear in his voice, who wouldn't be?

My brain couldn't process it all at once. Annie! Dead! Car! Our house!

I ran up the stairs screaming Will's name like the house was burning. Truth was, I was terrified. He dashed out of a room with worry.

"What's wrong love?" He asked me but I was too nervous to make out words.

"My brother called and ....... Annie... Annie, she.... she..... she" I don't know why I started crying but tears rolled down my face uncontrollably.

Maybe because I felt guilty for thinking about killing her several times, maybe because I didn't consider us on good terms, maybe because I was worried about how devastated Chris would be.

"Calm down okay, I can't understand you when you can't explain" He told me and I nodded but still all I could manage to say was

"Get me home".

Still in his clothes, I left his house. I had totally forgotten I was in his clothes at that moment. When I had calmed down, I explained everything to him on our way back.

"I bet the murderer wants to frame you and truth is, the cops will buy that and make you their prime suspect, after all you do have a motive". He told me.

A motive? Because of Chris? That's insane.

By the time I arrived, they already moved her and restricted that spot as it had become a crime scene. I could see Chris weeping uncontrollably as the cops interrogated Kelvin.

"There she is". I heard Kelvin say and all attention diverted to me.

"What's wrong?" I asked them, why were they out her interrogating everyone when they should be searching for the culprit.

"Miss. Diamond?" One of the cops asked me and I nodded.

"You are under arrest for the murder of Miss. Annie Gilberts" He told me pulling out his cuffs.

I was dumbfounded, no questions asked, no investigations and they planned on arresting me? Funny!

"Why?" I asked them.

Will was quick to step in and asked them "Do you have a warrant?"
from the look on their faces, they had none.

"Kindly get a warrant please!" He told them.

"Fine, we'd be back with one". The other cop replied and their left.

I headed for where Chris was curled up crying, whatever he was going through right now, I couldn't imagine. I remember when I heard the news about my mom, nothing could comfort me. I just had to let out the tears before thinking about the way forward.

I sat beside him and stayed silent, giving him his space to grief but at the same time letting him know he wasn't alone.

"You know, she was the most interesting and carefree person I ever met" He told me.

"I don't know that but you know she really was in love with you". I managed to say, she would have wanted him to know that.

He looked shocked at my statement, no, he looked like I grew horns.

"I don't believe that, she...."

"She admitted to me when she came to my place. She loved you so much that she was starting to become selfish. You must have had a fight right before now, she must have seemed strange to you. I bet she was that kind of friend that sacrifices everything. Her feelings! Even her life!". I told him, and he nodded.

"I heard you were with some man last night Khloe. I know now isn't the best time but trust me, I never deceived you at any point. I can't lose Annie and lose you as well, I could die". He told me but I didn't want to hear.

I wanted to care for him as a friend, and forget about all of the years I spent being in love with him. I wanted to put all those years behind me and move on. As a friend, I wanted to help him and that was my final decision.

He might have sincerely liked me but that doesn't change the fact that he lied to me. However complicated their relationship might have been, if he wanted to be true to me, he could have been. He chose to lie and I chose to end it here. My life long crush on Chris Landon.

Right now, I had bigger things to think of, like getting my lawyer ready.
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Author's note
Who saw this coming?
I'm sorry if you loved Annie, she just had to die for a lot of things to get unveiled.

In Loving Memory of Our Dear Annie Gilbert.

I didn't have Annie's last name in my notepad, I hope I didn't make a mistake.

Khloe is putting a final end to her crush on Chris. Is this like Will 1: 0 Chris?

And would Khloe really go to jail?

Let's meet Fiona in the next episode😁

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