SHE (On hold)

Chapter 19 - The Mess

Chapter 19

I am tired of not having any type of breakthrough on this. I had to find something on this person. This is why I asked my dad to bring me back here, at this hour. I could feel the crisp, cold, dry air grazing at my skin as I look at the theatre. The last time we were here, we got out played. But how? All the questions causing my ears to feel like I'm drowning.

" You better find something kid, it'll be a darn waste not to find anything coming out this far from town."

I just nodded, pushing the drowning sound to the back and headed in.

The theatre seems untouched. The arrangements of the chairs, the stage, the curtains all look untouched. Nothing has changed. I remember the stage : that's where we found Jake. I recalled the events and stood where he was lying here hours ago. I played the scenario in my head from the stage point of view on how Jake might have seen us enter. This is where I foolishly assumed that it would be the end of all our problems, but instead, it opened the damn Pandora's box. He had a spotlight on him, Eyes closed and panicked when we got to him. which is now turned off enveloping the atmosphere in darkness. Wait..

" Have we been up there yet? " I asked my dad who was trying to get something in the curtains, signaling to the spotlight.

His gaze focusing on the spotlight.

" Only a couple guys to turn off the light.Why?"

"we need to get there."

The area that has spotlight is just a little corridor with railings till waist level on one side and a wall to the other. It seems like the rest of the theatre, untouched. Just very dusty. Why would someone come all the way here? Why not set up the spotlight below? Wouldn't it be more convenient than to climb through the creaky staircases and just avoid the dust? Why??

"You might wanna see this." I heard my dad say in an urgent tone.

And there it was, the reason why someone would take an effort to climb up here.

Among the dust, is a signature. Signed with the initials C.D

"Any idea who?" I ask as my mind goes into over drive searching every single person I know that might contain any similar initials.

My dads' eyes widen, but within a fraction of a second he composes himself and choose to keep a blank face.

"I'll get my guys on it" He answered and picked up his phone requesting the tech guys to be present at the scene.

Two days.... That's exactly how long it has been since we all knew that Megans' dad has been the target all along . Two days since he has been kidnapped with no contact from the psycho. Needless to say the moment I told Megan about it, she didn't take it well. Why she cares about an abusive father who mistreats both her and her mother : Elizabeth is beyond me.

The rest of us are just broken, confused and demoralized. Or somewhere along that lines. My headache seems to be worsening. That drowning noise just overwhelms me whenever I start thinking about the possible scenarios. I just can't help it, my brain just tends to get into an all out thinking mode.

Ever since the stint with mr bigshot we have all been "requested" to move to a safe house.Yes all of us: Dad, Mom, Me, AJ, Jake, Megan, her mother Elizabeth and Lea) we are somewhere so high up in the woods that not even animals disturb us. No one goes in or out without approval from the head of operations a.k.a my father. This safe house can hold quite a number of people. It looks like it has been ripped from the movies. From the outside it looks like a grey cub, but the interior was a classy monochrome themed house. The rooms however have wooden floorings to give it a cozier feel.