A friend to remember

55: Mini-Investigation.

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"Why would she do this Shettima?! We... we did everything right! I thought she was happy! I thought... I thought... everything was fine."

Maybe it was time to fess up. Daniella couldn't see her mother so devastated. Did Denise overdose on sleeping medicine or did the killer get to her too?!

From what she observed, the killer had his style of killing, she didn't know if Denise wanted to take her life or if the killer got to her too. 

She had spent two consecutive days in the hospital. From Goke to Caleb and now her sister?! Daniella always thought that if something like this happened to Denise she would be relieved. Finally, she would have her parents all to herself. Now, there was this real fear that Denise or the killer might succeed in killing her. Her mother would surely be devastated. Daniella couldn't imagine her parents falling apart once again, crying for her child. The heartbreak was too much.

"I thought she was doing good! She was going to therapy! She was..."

Daniella stiffened, she remembered Denise didn't go to the sections. She wasn't sure if she ever attended one. Daniella felt it wasn't her business so she didn't pry. Now?! She felt so guilty for not informing her parents that Denise had been skipping sections. There was so much going on in her life that she didn't remember to tell them.

"What have we done wrong?!"

"Nothing! Nothing!"

"You cannot say that! If there is nothing wrong why did she try to kill herself?! What is going on?"

"We will find out soon when she wakes up." Shettima pulled her into his arms and started stroking her back. He tried to assure her that their daughter would wake up but he was also terrified, what if she doesn't? Why after so many years of searching, did they lose her once again?

The doctor came out an hour later to pronounce Denise alive. It was a relief for her family.

"But there were drugs found in her system, apart from the sleeping medicine."

Daniella frowned, Denise would never do drugs! She was the most prudent person she knew. She was hanging out with Goke Baolgun, Armstrong and Bishop, could it be that she had taken when they took too causing their death, what is the conspiracy behind the recent deaths?!

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Colton walked into his house visibly exhausted, he decided to skip school that day after all the chaos that happened over the weekend.

As he was entering the house, he noticed something, his voice was filled with white roses. Decors were being hung up. A frown graced his face, he wondered what the decors were for because it was ruining the artistic design his mother put into the house.

He walked toward a maid who was watching the scene before her. As soon as she noticed his presence, she flinched back. To be caught not working was like a sin in Wilfred's family. She wondered if she was going to be punished like Tife had done.

"What is going on here?" Colton signalled to the decoration, waving carelessly at it.

"Decor?! Oh, Decor! Mrs Colton asked us to put it up! She said the house looks very boring, so we put it up, sir."

Colton's eyes narrowed. He had been out so long that he wondered when Tife took his mom's title and why she was redecorating their house. He wasn't going to stand for either, he was done with this disrespect.

"Where is she?" Colton questioned, trying to rein in his anger. The staff was not the cause of his anger, he channelled it towards the cause and that was Tife! He would not let her get away with it.

"In her room sir." she now had a room! What a disgrace! He was not going to let his father hear the last of it for sure. This was highly disrespectful to his mother and the fact that his father consented to it made it more painful.