Abtruse

Prolouge

Young Mia and her mother are asleep in their small 2 bedroom apartment On a Sunday night. An abrupt knock at the door awakens Pam- Mia's 21 year old mother. She slowly rises and wipes her eyes. She stretches out her stiff back as she's proceed to walk to the extremely loud banging door.

"Hello mam, is this the longwood residents?" A tall policemen with curly hair and hazel eyes asked.

Pam was hesitant to answer the policeman but she thought about how it might be something important.

"Yes, what seems to be the problem officer?"

"We wanted to ask you to come to identify a body." The officer says like it wasn't its his first time.

Pam's mind flew with different family members. Not once thinking about her husband Clyde. She thought about her mother and how the guilt will weigh down on her because she has not spoken to her for 5 years. She thought about her troubled little brother who was in the streets and won't listen to anyone. She thought about her father who left and she wouldn't even recognize the body if they showed her. She started breathing heavily and couldn't wrap her thoughts around someone close to her dying.

"Hold on." Pam says as her mind wanders back to who it could be.

She walks back to see 5 year old Mia engrossed in her new book from the library Matilda.

"C'mon Mia, we have somewhere to go."

At 2:31 A.M. Mia's father Clyde was pronounced dead. He was viciously murdered with no evidence in sight. This was the start of the long journey of pain, regret, and remorse.