Sanity: The Saw Chronicles [C]

Chapter 32 | Razor Blade

Ricky was being so sweet to me over dinner. He's trying to get back in my good graces. It takes a lot for him to get over something. He's completely acting like I never cheated on him, like he's the only one in the wrong here. I didn't want to be played like a fool. If this was a game, I'm keeping my guard up. From what I can tell though he seems like he's genuine about trying to get my forgiveness.

I couldn't help myself. I love him too damn much. After all he's been through recently, I figured throwing on a little lingerie is the least I could do to ease his mind. Most guys love red the most. Ricky likes it but he's always had a love for the way I look in purple. I slipped on a silk nightgown that was a deep purple and stopped an inch above my knee. He had a certain perfume he loved too. I spritzed my neck and wrists. Then I headed down to his office to see him.

He left the door unlocked for me. I made sure to lock it after I walked in. The first thing I did was put The Big Sleep back on it's shelf. I felt him staring at me as I reached up to put it away. "I hope you don't mind. I borrowed a few books while you were gone."

"Of course I don't mind, Beautiful. What's mine is yours." He responded while I walked over to his desk. As I approached, he put his hands on my hips, "We are married after all."

"You don't share everything with me." I responded unhappily.

"I'm sorry for what I did. I'm not going to get on my hands and knees and beg for you to forgive me but I hope you know, I don't want to lose you."

"You can start by helping me help Mike. That's actually what I wanted to talk to you about. He's going insane in there. He keeps saying there's an evil that is trying to get to him and he told me what he did wasn't his fault. He said he wasn't trying to hurt you. Plus a few other things but I'm not going to repeat them. I was thinking, maybe there's something on the security footage that would help me figure out what he's been rambling on about."

"Give me a minute to pull it up. I actually haven't looked at it yet but I probably should." He replied, typing away at his keyboard.

Ricky went through some files, entered some security codes. Shit that I didn't really care about. I just needed to see that footage. He pulled up the archive from that day. It happened in the morning, Chris told me. In fact, it was the same day I had come home. Maybe if I had come home just a little earlier all this would've never happened.

The footage he brought up was from the camera in the hall where all our bedroom doors are. He fast forwarded through the start of the day. It was just everyone getting up and all that normal stuff. Then he stopped when he got to the point where you could see him and Kuza getting heated with each other. Mike wasn't doing anything actually. It was Ricky that initially pushed him. Ricky paused the footage, looking up at me with concern.

"I don't remember this." He said, "I thought it was him that hit me first."

I returned his worried expression, then looked back at the screen. Ricky let it continue for a few more minutes of him and Kuza argueing. At some point Chris tried to intervene but neither of them would have it. Ricky pushed Chris back, then started to go for Kuza rather viciously. Then the camera blacked out. I could tell by the way his mouth gaped, Ricky was shocked that the feed cut out like that.

"These cameras are state of the art. They don't fail." He spoke as he started to skip through the blackness.

It seemed to go on for awhile. Once the video finally came back, the scene was rather gruesome. Ricky was laid on the ground in a pool of blood. Kuza was against the wall with his knees to his chest. He started to rock himself and I could tell he was mumbling. The audio wasn't good enough for me to hear. Balz knelt down to Ricky, telling Ryan-Ashley to go get help. Vinny dropped down beside him as well, taking off his shirt to wrap it around Ricky's bleeding wrist. The others had disappeared from the scene.