You Don't Know

Chapter four

"Do you see this right here?" Albert pointed at something in the picture, but I refused to look at it. Instead, Lia looked at it. To show it better he took out another picture, a closeup. This one, I dared to look at. It was just, what seemed to be, a piece of a little, black, boxy thing. I couldn't identify it.

"This isn't a part of the car. Cars don't have any component that could look like this. Not even after an explosion or after it burned down. This is something else, and we think, after our specialists gave it a closer look, that this is a... a bomb."

Albert watched our reactions. Lia just started to cry, but I was... overwhelmed. I just sat there, thinking of the moment when Jack walked out the door that day. He turned around just as he was about to close the door behind him. He ran back in and placed a kiss on my temple. I chuckled and he told me how much he loved me. Back then I had no idea what was about to happen. No one could've known, even though I should've known that something was odd. But there, while I looked at the photo... it was different. Someone was behind all that. And that person knew. That person was responsible for Jack's death, for all the people's suffering and grieving who he left behind. I wanted to see that person. I wanted to tell them how I felt, how much I hated them for this, how much they hurt me. I wanted them to get punished for what they did, because this... had not to be!

"What does... wh-what does this m-mean now?" Lia sobbed.

"Well... of course we are trying to find the person who could've placed the bomb and... we found something else." Albert pulled out another photo. It was a screenshot from a bank account. "So, this is Jack's bank account. And in that month here, he was quite in some debt, but the next he was suddenly back in the black with quite a lot of money... Can you explain this?"

"What? I don't... I-I don't know. He never told me that." I was really confused. I was surprised to hear any of it.

But so was Lia. "I can't believe he hid that from us! But how did he get the money so quickly?"

"I have to say, that is indeed suspicious. No one could get to so much money in such short time, under normal circumstances. Did he maybe have another... job?" Albert was professional about this, but he still managed to respect our feelings, which I appreciated really much.

"No, he went to the university with me and while I worked at a restaurant, he had a small job at this tiny store, but that was it." I explained.

"That's not where he could've made so much money." Albert added.

None of us could explain how any of this happened. All we had were assumptions and our scary imaginations.

"Did you guys talk to the owner of the store?" Lia suggested. That was a good call, I thought.

"Yes, we did, but we couldn't do much. We had no evidence for anything. The best we could do, was to talk to them, but they weren't suspicious or anything. We found nothing. It's just... some electronic store."

Everyone was devastated about that, but no one could do anything about it. Suddenly I had an idea. It was probably stupid, as I only had experience about this, through movies, in which we all know that not everything is true, and if it was something good, then they probably had already tried it, but I told it anyway. "Would it be possible to know from who he got the money, like from which account it was transferred? Then maybe that person could help us."