Love in the theater

Chapter 12

It had been 2 weeks since the funeral and Oliver hadn't heard about Loretta. He tried to call the police many times but they never found anything so they closed the case.
During those 2 weeks, he had been staying in her apartment, still maybe waiting for her to walk in but he started to believe that something happened to her.

That night was Thanksgiving, Roberta had called him to tell him that he was invited but he still didn't know if it was a good idea to go. First he didn't want to see Roberta and he was still mad at them for what they had told to Loretta.
After eating breakfast, he finally decided to put clothes on and to go join his friends in the afternoon, he definitely didn't want to be alone on that day and wanted to forget about everything.

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Loretta was sleeping on the floor until she heard the door open. She was used to it, everyday this person came in, sometimes to give her food which wasn't often and sometimes to hit and insult her.

"Wake up!" the person said, kicking her feet in Loretta's stomach "Now Durkin!"

Loretta started having trouble breathing and felt pain because of the kicks "I'm awake"

"Great now stand up" this female voice said to Loretta

"Uhm I don't think I can" Loretta said as she tried to stand up but immediately fell back down on the floor

"You better stand up and now!" she screamed at her

It took everything in her but Loretta finally stood up.
Suddenly this woman turned the light on and took her mask off.
It took awhile for Loretta to focus as her eyes had been only used to the dark.

"Now you put that on and you wait for me here, I'll be back later" the woman said leaving the room. When Loretta's eyes caught the sight of a dress on the floor. She slowly bent down and pick up the dress. It was a simple tight long black dress that was pretty classy. Her hands went to the buttons of her blouse to undress herself but she stopped when she started seeing blood all over her body. Her chest, her arms, her legs, her feet and even the floor where covered in blood, it looked like a crime scene. She tried to wipe the blood with her other clothes and then put the dress on. She went to seat on a bed that she hadn't seen in the dark and waited for this woman to come back.

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15 min, the door opened, Loretta looked up and saw Roberta.

"What are you doing here?" Loretta asked as she stood up

"Are you that surprised? Seriously, I thought you were smarter. The last two weeks, you never noticed that I was the woman talking to you?" she asked as she started to laugh

"N-no I didn't, maybe I was too busy trying not to die" Loretta said and that made her laugh even more

"Please, die ? You wouldn't have died, I was way too kind with you. Anyway I'm not here to talk about that. Tonight, I organize a little Thanksgiving party for everyone including Oliver"

"Yeah? And what? Is that supposed to be interesting? Do I have to be your waitress?" she said as she rolled her eyes

"You're funny you know. I know you like Oliver and of course I know that if he comes tonight you'll want to talk to him and tell him what happened. That's why we're gonna do something. You'll come to the party wearing this dress like if nothing happened, if he asks you something you'll say that you went to one of your friends' house for a while and that I invited you to come with us to celebrate Thanksgiving"

"But that's not what happened, I don't want to lie to him" she said as she kept looking at Roberta

"Well you better or you'll know what it is to be dead soon" Roberta said, getting in her face
"Put these on" she said as she threw black heels at Loretta who did as she said.
"Now you're coming with me" she took Loretta's arm tightly in her hands and they walked out of the room which was in the basement. They went up the stairs and came into Roberta's bedroom.