House Of Secrets [#cghalloweenart]

Chapter 8

"Megan, what's that?" She said pointing right behind me.

I turn around and see the two puzzle pieces I found in the mansion laying down there, exposed and uncovered, instead of being sealed , hidden and kept a secret. I was shocked when I saw those right in the open, where anyone can see it.

I turn around with a shocked looked. I didn't know what to say to her, should I tell her about what I have been doing these past few days? Or should I just play it off as if nothing had happened. I didn't know what to do, I was scared of what she might think about me.

"Uh.... uhm.... you see.... umm.."

"Megan what are you trying to say?" She asks anxiously.

"Wait a minute, isn't this that thing that Dexter took from the haunted house we visited? What's it doing with you?"

I just stood there speechless, I didn't know what to tell her. It was like as if I couldn't gain control over my own brain and actions, I looked like a stiff tree branch as I watched her examine those things that I found in the house that i've been trying to keep a secret from them.

"Were you connected to Dexter's death?!"

"What?!" I told her. "Why me?! I would never hurt Dexter!"

"Then tell me, what's this doing with you?!" She asked me as she showed the sword handle that Dexter once had.

".... ..... ..... .... I... I don't know." Those were the words that I could only tell her, I couldn't risk telling her what i've been up to these past few days. I couldn't risk uncovering the secret that only me and the old man I saw in the old people's home know.

"Tell me what you know! Or else i'm calling the police."

I was a bit skeptical for a minute though, I was asking myself if telling her would be worth it, should I risk telling her about the secrets of that house or should I risk getting accused for showing someone something that the victim had found the night before his murder.

"Alright fine Amber, i'll tell you but please promise me that you won't tell this to anyone, only me and you can know about this okay?"

"Of course, I can always be trusted in keeping secrets, now tell me everything that you know."

"Okay, but please keep your promise okay?"

"Yeah yeah."

"Alright, you might think that i'm crazy but..... I've been seeing.... things."

"What things are you talking about?"

"Well, since we visited the house there's this little girl that's been following me in my dreams, she always tells me to find it but I don't know what she means. She just keeps telling me to find this certain thing."

"And what does this have to do with those things I saw earlier?"

"Well, you see I saw this man hanging outside of Dexter's house, the day we found out that Dexter was murdered and he saw me examining this." I told her as I showed her the sword handle again.

"And?"

"And he walked up to me and asked me where I found it, obviously I told him that I didn't find it, it was found by Dexter in the haunted house just outside of the neighbourhood, when I told him that, his eyes widened and he flipped out telling me to find the other missing pieces that he refers to as 'treasure' and then he started spazzing out and called me by my first name. I was really shocked when he called me by name though because, obviously I don't really know him."