Dark Little Secrets

Chapter 6: Murder, Attempted Murder, and The Police

A couple days later I woke up, I hadn't been talking much and I could tell that it was worrying Cassian. Nyx has been in and out of the apartment more frequently visiting Mary at the hospital. She still hasn't woken up yet and I'm starting to worry even more. I walked out to the living room to see the one and only Alana on the TV.

"Ugh, what does she want!" I scoffed.

"She's talking about what happened with Mary. Apparently someone saw her push Mary off." Cassian replied.

"Oh." I replied sitting down on the couch, curling up next to him.

"So, tell me, what happened to cause you to push Mary Meadows off of the mall?" The reporter asked.

"She attacked me. She was working with Athena. She tried to kill me! I didn't want to do what I did, it was an accident! I was trying to calm her down and she just fell. Mary didn't know what she was doing. Athena got into her head. Into both of their heads!" Alana said with fake sympathy. How dare she talk about Mary! How dare she mention her name! A fiery rage rose inside of me.

"What do you mean both of them? Is there another individual that is helping Athena?" The reporter asked.

"Yes. His name is Cassian Jacobs. We used to be friends, lovers even. But she got into his head and spread lies about me trying to get him to her side." Alana shed a tear. Oh great she's fake crying on national television now, great!

"Excuse me! She didn't just do that!" Cassian yelled. "I hate her so much!" He cursed under his breath.

"Yeah, same." I replied coldly.

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It's been a couple hours since the interview and I was still boiling with rage. Cassian had already left to go see if he could talk to his family.

"Ya know what f this." I said standing up from the couch. I walked over to Nyx's room and opened her nightstand grabbing the pistol that she keeps for safety. I grabbed my black hoodie and put it over my white crop-top. I slid the pistol to the back pocket of my jeans and hopped out of my window. I walked down the back alley towards Alana's penthouse.

"And where do you think you're going?" I heard a familiar deep voice. I turned around to see Alana's older brother standing behind me with a crowbar.

"Chad." I hissed.

"Hello Athena. So you're messing with my lil sis?" He smirked. "Do you know what I do to those who hurt my family?" He asked. Of course I knew. Five years ago his ten year old little sister, Millie, was killed and he went insane. The whole city was scared of him before he was sent to an insane asylum.

"How did you escape?" I asked. I thought he was still locked up but apparently not.

"My lil sis helped me out." He smirked. "The same sister that you are trying to hurt." He said, stepping towards me. I took a step back, placing my hand to the pistol handle.

"Why you backin' up? You're not scared are ya?" He chuckled, man this dude is crazy! I thought as he walked towards me.

"Back up!" I yelled.

"Or what?!" He yelled back, lifting the crowbar.  "You'll kill me?" He chuckled. "With what weapon?" He asked mockingly.

"This one." I pulled out the pistol aiming so the red dot at the middle of his wrinkled forehead.

"Ha! Bet you don't even know how to use it. You're just a tiny lil girl. All bark no bite!" He laughed in my face. Who does this guy think he is?! He thinks he can just boss me around! Without any consequences! He thinks that I'm too weak to pull the trigger, He thinks he scared me but he didn't. He's just some crazy guy who has lost his mind. My rage continued to burn inside of me.