The Last Victim #JustWriteIt

CHAPTER THREE

It was finally Thursday morning. The havoc wreaking news his parents had leaked him about a day and a half earlier now had Jay standing alongside them at the London airport. It was busy with activities going on all around. Strolling around casually, doing business were several hawkers selling miniature goods and keepsake articles to tourists. There were occasional squabbles on the cab's fare or while paying the porters. The place buzzed with activity. Jay was not so excited. His parents on the contrary, seemed to be bursting with exhilaration. Close by stood Dawn and her family chatting along animatedly with Jay's parents, as he quietly took in the scene around him. Beside him, Dawn was her usual self, silent and alert. Though over the past week they had met a few times, she hadn't completed seemed to shrug of her shyness. In fact, her cheeks still dashed into a flaming red colour if Jay kept talking to her for long. Jay, dressed in a black hoodie and a pair of fading blue jeans, with hair blown all over the forehead by the wild wind, looked pretty smart. His green eyes were hidden behind dark sunglasses since it was sunny and it complimented his fair skin tone.

Dawn was dressed in an oversized 'Guns-N-Roses' shirt and cream coloured jeans, with hair swept back neatly over her shoulders. With her blue eyes darting nervously around; she looked pretty and drew admiring looks from the onlookers. Jay had to admit, each time he looked at Dawn, his heart skipped a beat too. He could not believe someone could be this pretty. She wasn't beautiful. More like unnaturally beautifully. You didn't see this every other day.

And then there were her eyes. Glistening, shimmering peering in which would make the person swirl and be lost in the world that hid behind them. They always made Jay feel as if Dawn had a big secret hidden deep in her heart. If only he could understand it. She was made nervous easily. Keep on looking at her ten seconds straight and she would start fidgeting and all. But then again, Jay knew he was a keen observer. His eyes, noted most things a normal person would probably not even pay attention to. At times, this seemed to be his greatest strength. He would see right through most people. And he found Dawn, oddly amusing. There was something about her which he had not ever seen in another girl.

Lost in his own thoughts, he nearly jumped a mile when someone softly touched his shoulder.

'Umm, Jay? I guess we should go now. Your dad's waiting.' Dawn informed him in a low voice. He followed her gaze and spotted his dad standing next to a chauffeur driven Mercedes Benz waving at him earnestly to get his attention.

'Oh! Let's go then?' He asked her and she followed him nodding her head. Within minutes, they were inside the car and off to their destination.

'Waooh!' Jay exclaimed quite beside his usual self.

The place they had just entered was something Jay could not have imagined in a hundred years. It seemed almost magical. A long, curving road dominated the central space of a large stretch of lonely, unused land. There were only a few buildings around. They passed a large, rundown church along a steep cut. It seemed abandoned and creepy. Jay could hardly believe it was still in use. There were a few major food outlets. He managed to see KFC & McDonalds. As they moved forward, he even caught a glimpse of a café, serene and quiet, suiting the aura of the surroundings. Further on, the road steepened dangerously. They were now gaining height.

Jay's heart pounded in anticipation while his father's voice droned in the background, weaving in and out of his already occupied mind.

'...... Still consider it one of my luckiest projects. Finding this place, economical and large, just proved to be a milestone for the latest investment. And you people won't believe, this wild place had been turned by me into.............. THIS!'