Trapped

Chapter 3

Detective Kelly brought over her partner, Detective Katherine Cimorelli. She was a tall woman with short hair and a big smile. The whole time she was there explaining why they had one more person coming to the house, all everyone did was roll their eyes, sigh, stare at each other, and quietly bitch to themselves. The house had five bedrooms and the last room would be taken up by the last witness to the murder, Camila Cabello. The mousey girl stood next to Detective Cimorelli and Kelly looking as if she was in a world of her own, and she probably was. After the detectives left, everyone got acquainted with each other and then went back to doing their own thing. Once Camila had put her things in her room, she went and sat on the porch in the rocking chair. Ally came outside too and sat down on the stairs with a book in hand.
"What's that you're reading?"
Ally turned the cover towards Camila.
"Oh. Never read it before," said the younger girl.
"How old are you?" asked Ally smiling.
"As old as the universe."
"Excuse me?"
"The universe. I'm as old as the universe. People continue on in life even after death. I'm just another version of myself that's been here since the earth was made. I probably started off as a flower, then I moved up the food chain. Life is a circle my friend," said Camila smiling sweetly.
Ally got up and walked back into the house shaking her head.
"What's wrong with you?" asked Dinah.
"New girls kinda weird," said Ally giggling.
Dinah walked out onto the porch to see Camila sitting in the front yard rubbing her hands through the grass.
"What's up newbie?" asked Dinah lighting a cigarette.
"Gas prices, the sky, ya know, the usual. Not to mention the price of meat and milk these days," said Camila not turning around.
Dinah shook her head and walked back into the house to see Lauren taking the trash out.
"Hey green eyes," Dinah greeted her blowing cigarette smoke in her face.
"H-hi Dinah. Excuse me, I haave to take the trash out now," said Lauren quietly scooting pass a smirking Dinah.
Lauren walked out of the front door and went to the side of the house to throw the trash in the bin.
When she walked pass again, Camila was asleep in the grass and Dinah was on the front porch staring at the sky.
"Its about to rain soon, ya know?" said Dinah looking towards Lauren who was walking back on the porch.
"Y-yeah I think it uhm, I think it is," said Lauren with her head down. Dinah lifted Laurens head back up by grabbing her chin with her left hand.
"Why do you talk with your head down?" she asked.
"LAUREN! COULD YOU GET ME SOME WATER!?" Normani yelled from the inside the house. Lauren swooped pass Dinah and went into the house quickly.
Dinah sighed and sat down in the rocking chair. Camila got up from the grass once it started raining and came to lay on the porch. She had gotten her flannel and jeans dusty from laying on the ground.
"Its a storm coming. Not only from the sky, but from the outside world. This bubble they have us living in won't be enough to stop what's coming for us," said Camila before lying down on the porch and closing her eyes.
Dinah kept her head forward and smoked the last little bit of her cigarette before walking into the house.
"Yup, just wait on it. A storm is coming," said Camila before she drifted off to sleep on the porch to the sound of the raindrops.