Our Beginning | Mickey Altieri

Chapter Fifty-Nine

"Oh my god. You're Billy's mother."

Nancy Loomis. I've heard about her in the book Gale wrote. She gives me a mischievous smile. Her eyes demonically wide and piercing with anger and psychotic energy. "It took you long enough to realize that, Y/n."

"Well I don't even watch the fucking the news channel, bitch."

That triggered her more and she begins to walk closer. Gale just stood in shock, processing her brain. "It can't be...you're Billy's mother?"

" I couldn't believe you didn't recognize me. You even interviewed me for your book."

"And all of you guys are in this together?" I look at every one of the killers. A smile on their faces. "We had to have financing," Derek told me. Hallie spoke up, saying tuition's expensive. "But why Loomis?"

"Where should we start? Sidney's mother ruined my marriage by sleeping with my husband. SHE ruined my family by killing my son. Gale aired it to the world. Should I go on... isn't that enough?"

[Gale] "Jesus, you're just as whacked as your son."

"Where do you think he got it? Mental illness is heriditary. Who do you think encouraged him to kill your mother? He was a smart kid but children need parental guidance."

"As if your ass encouraged your son to kill Prescott when you fucking ABANDONED HIM!" I yelled with all the anger I had in me. "He never knew the reason you left him until he found out. And I doubt you told him."

SLAP!

Nancy slapped me across the face, startling me. "God, you're a pain one has to deal with. I wonder how that boyfriend of yours put up with your shit."
I never told her about Mick.

"I told her." I look up at Hallie as she giggles and smiles brightly. "It was practically easy to find out before you told me. And don't think you two fucking in the bathroom quietly at the sleepover worked for Derek and I to not notice."

"You've done good, Hallie," she told her.

"And we never would have been able to it without her." Derek and Hallie gathered at Nancy. The three just glaring me from below. Derek hands the gun to Hallie, leaving the knife in his hand.

"And I couldn't have done it without the two. Now who won the coin toss?"
They all moved back and Hallie rose her hand up high. "I did."

She points the gun at her, quickly and simply fires the bullet through her forehead.

Everybody, and I mean every one of us, screamed as Nancy sent Hallie flying back the flat wall. Her body drops to the floor. Dead.
Derek drops the camera he held along with the knife. "What are you..." Before she turns the gun at him, firing again. He moves but it caught him at the stomach. And Nancy fired again and he caught it. Now dead and on top of Cotton.

"Nice kids but a little out there."

She looks back at me. I look at her back. "You never change." She doesn't know what I meant by that.
"You cherish your son, yet you abandoned him with a whore of a husband you left to. You treated Hallie and Derek as if they're your kids throughout this—and again, you shot them. You love them yet hurt them But I wouldn't say love for the previous two since you just used them." I look at Gale, then back at Nancy. "None of this would've happened if you would've taken your son to leave your fucking spouse."

I stopped as she pressed the gun below my chin.
"You leave my son out of this. I'm here to finish what he started." I felt Reggie's hand hold mine tightly. I don't care about the pain, my hands felt numb. "And think about it. Your friend's mother was the one who started this. Sidney falsely accused the wrong man. An innocent man. And he spent his time in prison where he just sits in righteous anger, waiting, planning his revenge. His life so incomprehensibly ruined he's forced to take revenge on the people responsible for it."