*****Camila's POV*****
I was scrolling through my phone, seeing all the supportive messages the fans were sending us. They created a whole trend for Dinah. #FindingDinah. It was cute and I loved how they loved us just as much as we loved them. I didn't really try to leave Dinah's room too much. It was nice being by all her things. It added to me feeling closer. Usually, I was left alone with my journal and her room. Just me, my thoughts, and I. I wasn't really in my right mind, but I wasn't dangerous to anyone else. I was just, according to my doctors, "obsessed". I had every right to be.
"Camila?" I heard a small voice call from. I looked up to see Kamila, one of Dinah's younger sisters, standing in the doorway. She wasn't as young as a majority of the others, but she still wasn't old enough to completely understand everything happening. Being only thirteen, she still had so much to learn. I don't know what my little sister would do if I went missing. She'd have my parents, but that's all. No other siblings or cousins around like they had here. "Come in, sweetheart".
She came in skeptically, sitting down with hesitation. I couldn't blame her. Depending on who she had spoken to, she could've heard some pretty bad thing about me. "How are you feeling?" she asked me. Not once has she made any eye contact. If it's anything like when the doctors do it, there's bad news. "To be honest, I'm tired. I just want her and our baby back. And to be safe". She just grabbed my hand, saying nothing but six words. "I know you didn't do it". "But how?" "Cause I have proof".
That caught my attention. "Kamila, be very clear on what you mean by that. This could change....everything". She pulls out her phone, going to twitter and pulling up her mother's page. I guess I gave her a confused look, because she started explaining. "Something was posted on my mom's page. It's a video of Dinah, in the hospital". It all makes sense!
"Kamila, I'm gonna tell you something crazy, but you have to listen. I found a bracelet I gave her the day I visited your Great-Grandma". She grabbed my hand, dragging me out of the room. "Where are we goin-" she cut me off. "Just shut up. They need to know you're innocent". She dragged me down the steps to the living room, where the girls and Dinah's parents were sitting. "She didn't do it. We have proof that Dinah isn't dead".
Everyone just looked at us. Yet, they said everything by saying nothing. The expressions on their faces could be read from a mile away. The girls looked at us as if they were sad for a mental patient. Milika looked slightly defeated, but she stayed hopeful... hope has been all we've had. But Gordon, he was angry and hurt. Hearing of me and his daughter made him lose his sanity. I know very well that he blames me. But I cannot act like he's wrong. Whenever Dinah has been with me, she's been hurt. I was enemy by association.
"I don't want to hear of this nonsense. Are we clear?" I knew this was tearing him apart more than anything, but he had to know. They all did. "She's still alive. There's proo-" he cut her off again and started yelling, but at me. "Is that what she told you? Don't let this monster fill your head with lies like she did your sister. Or I promise you, you'll go missing next. You trust this girl and you want be the only one missing from the planet. Do you want to be next?" "I-I didn't. I didn't kill her. Stop saying that". My head started pounding, and I suddenly felt really faint.
"Camz, sit down" Lauren said calmly. "I didn't kill your daughter. I love her, Mr.Hansen. I'm doing everything I can to find her. And your daughter has evidence that she is alive. We're not giving up hope. But by you not letting us show you, you're giving up on her". He just rose up, standing in front of me. "You need to get the hell out of my house. You and these crazy thoughts and this dumb ass book". He took it out of my hand, and I lost my shit.
"You don't understand what that book contains. I need that book" I yelled, trying to fight him for it. Normani came behind me and held me back from him, knowing he'd probably push me at some point and I'd get hurt. "Let me go. I need that book". "Fuck you, and fuck this book" he growled out. And then he pulled his lighter out of his book, making me watch as he lit my only chance of finding her...making me watch my hope burn in front of my face.
The girls came and surrounded me in a hug so I didn't have to watch anymore. "I-I'm n-n-never gonna see h-her again!" I sobbed out, clinging to Lauren's chest. Everything I had for the past month, just gone. The one thing I had control of, I lost it. I had nothing to hold onto now. All my notes. All the evidence was recorded in there. I wouldn't find out who had the love of my life. It's over now.
*****Dinah's POV*****
I was back in the cement room, shackled to the wall across from Alexa's desk. I think she might have had it moved it in here just to taunt me. Knowing it was right there but I couldn't get to it. Part of me was glad I didn't try to swim away. I would've died out there and I know that. But I didn't understand why Alexa decided to take, what seemed like an important call, right in front of me.
I had my head down while she was pacing. Hopefully she would think I was sleeping and stay in here so I could here everything. "So it's gone? You burnt that awful thing?" I heard her ask the caller. What did she burn? "If she would've kept that book any longer, she would've gone completely mad. I think it's time she just let's Dinah go...she's been missing so long". That made me raise my head up and scream. "I'm alive! Please. It's Dinah!!"
She chucked the phone against the wall, making it shatter into pieces. She ran over and grab my hair, thrusting my head back against the cement several times. "You're giving me more reasons to kill you" she growled, letting go of me and letting me cry against the wall. "I...hate you" I choked out, feeling blood run from the back on my head. "And you disgust me Hansen. Aye! Someone come in here and clean this up. I still need her alive".She walked over and grabbed my chin in her hand, with a smirk on her face. "I knew you needed me" I chuckled now.
"Only for a while longer...then you can die the slow, painful death I have waiting for you, murderer".
