Don't get involved...

Chapter 11

Me and Sabrina, we both started doing our jobs. I went to the back door while my friend went to the front. As soon as  I entered inside, I began looking around the house. So far, I found no hint nor anything suspicious. Since it was night time, the house was, of course, dark. So, my best friend and I had flashlights. I feel bad for trespassing, but I need to find out what's the secret.

As I was looking around, I noticed a path leading me downstairs. I eventually went downstairs and found a basement door that drew my attention. I decided to go to the basement. Once I went into the basement, I began looking around, trying to find any hints.

Then, I found a rectangle-shaped glass on the floor. I walked towards it and picked it up. I put the flashlight in my mouth and held the glass with my right hand. Let's not forget that I had a cast on my right arm.

While I was taking a look at it, the first thing I saw was the letter V on the rectangle-shaped glass. I then remembered that it was the letter that Mike saw on the black box when I first showed them the video. While I was observing the object, I also noticed that there were a few broken pieces around the glass.

Suddenly, I've hurt myself. Because there were broken pieces around the rectangle-looking item, there wasn't any protection as I was holding it.

"Ow!" I exclaimed, dropping the glass on the floor as soon as it hurt my hand.

My hand started bleeding. Also, once I said 'Ow!', I dropped the flashlight since I had opened my mouth while saying it. I took a look at the glass that I dropped and I saw that it broke even more. Now, the whole glass was shattered into plenty of pieces.

I knew that I've made a loud sound by breaking the whole glass since I heard footsteps coming closer to the direction of the basement. So, I grabbed the flashlight with my right hand, even though it was still bleeding. Well, honestly, the wound in my hand wasn't that big, so it wasn't bleeding a lot. I looked around, trying to find a hiding place. Luckily, I found a couch in the basement. So, I hid behind the couch.

While hiding, I heard a door opening. I thought that it was Phil who opened it until I heard a female voice saying

"Vicky, are you ok? I heard something breaking"

I got up from hiding behind the couch and told her

"I'm ok, don't worry. I've only found a rectangle-shaped glass on the floor and it had the letter V in it, like it was shown in the video when I first spied on Josh"

You're probably wondering, how does my friend know about V when it was only Mike and my Dad who discovered it? Well, ever since I realized that my mother's husband was a liar and when Sabrina agreed to help me find out what Josh was up to, I explained all the hints that me, my older brother, and my Dad found when we were teaming up together to find out what Josh was hiding, which was before the car accident.

Sabrina looked at the broken object on the floor, then she looked at me and asked

"Why did you break it?'

"I've accidentally hurt myself with the glass, so it made me drop it. Don't worry though, it's a small wound, it's not bleeding a lot" I answered, showing her my right hand.

She looked at my right hand, then she looked at me and said

"Be careful, ok?'

"Alright," I responded "It's weird that Phil didn't hear anything..."

"Speaking of that, I just wanted to tell you that while I was looking around the house, I found this letter in his room," she said, pulling out a paper.

She then showed me the paper and explained

"It is said that he took a flight to Italy and that he'll come back in 3 days"

"Oh..." I said "Well, that's good. That means that we have plenty of time to go search in his house. By the way, did the letter mention when he left?"

"Yeah, it's said that he left this morning"

"I see..." I said.

The beautiful girl then looked at her watch and said

"Well, it's 8:30 PM and we said to my aunt that we'd come back home at 9 PM. We have to leave so that my aunt and your father won't worry"

"Right. Let's go home"

We both walked to her home, using the GPS. When we arrived at her home, I said goodbye to her and her aunt. Then, I used my GPS to walk home by myself.

To be continued.