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25 : Friend or Enemy ?

"Does she need help to walk downstairs?" I heard mom ask.

"Uh, yea, I'll get her." Niall said. "Audrey, um, wake up. Dinner is ready." And then he walks up towards my bed, lifts up my blanket.

"What?" I asked, faking a yawn.

"Dinner. Come, let's go." He said, giving me a nervous look. I pulled the blankets off me, he helped me sit up.

"Hey, sorry for-..."

"Shut up." I said, slapping him playfully. "Let's go downstairs."

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"I'll just stay here." I said from underneath my blanket.

"Just look at the weather outside, it's so nice and sunny. Come on Audrey, I'm bored to death." Zayn said.

"Fine, but breakfast is not ready, and it's only six in the morning." I said, getting up on my own. "Niall's not awake. Let's go after breakfast."

"No let's go now." He said. "Please?"

"But I can't walk properly." I said, trying to stand up. "See?"

"You're not going alone. I'm there. Let's go. "He said, pulling me up. He pulled up he blanket from Niall face, and tried to wake him up. "Niall?"

"Eh, wha?" He asked.

"Me and Audrey are going for a walk. We'll be back in an hour or so. Did you hear that?" He whispered to him.

"Yea, take care of her." He said, and pulled back the blanket onto his face. The only thing I could find was one of Niall's t.shirts. I grabbed a pair of sweatpants, didn't care to tie my hair, and walked downstairs with Zayn. Mom was in the kitchen getting breakfast ready.

"Um, I told her. Let's go." He said, pushing me towards the door.

"Are you alright?" I asked, closing the door behind me.

"Not really." He said. He looked like he came back from jogging.

"Had you gone out anywhere before waking me up?" I asked, as we walked slowly down our lane.

"Um, yes. I'd gone for a little walk myself. That's when it hit me." He said.

"What?" I asked.

"Remember that test tube that you found in the chemistry lab? It had Rosenmund written on it? Remember you even said that something else is written behind it?" He asked.

"Yes, and, oh my, what the heck was that?" I felt as though something pass by me. It left a rotten egg smell.

"I felt that too." He said, turned around to find nothing. "You felt that too didn't you?"

"Yes." I said, and turned back, to find an old man in a brown cassock. The hood of the cassock was on, covering his face too.

"Um, excuse me?" Zayn asked. The man kept murmuring something. I felt really uncomfortable.

"Zayn, please tell hi-..." I started to say. Then the man started chanting something in some ancient language pretty louder.

"Are you lost?" Zayn asked.

"Her heart sank as she stared at him from across her bed of the hospital ward. His heart skipped a beat for the last time." He said.

"I'm sorry, what?" Zayn asked, and he just walked past us. We turned back to find him walking briskly.

"What did he just say?" I asked.

"Just ignore him." He said, and we just walked. "I just wanna know how Tiara died, who killed her, and why?"

"Hey, that smell, is gone now." I said. "That smell was there the entire time that old man was with us." I said.

"Hey, leave it. He's probably out of his mind." He said. "Are you okay?"

"Yea, I'm fine." I said. "You were asking me about that test tube I found in the lab."

"Oh yes. So, what if Tiara knew this person who killed her earlier, and probably was close to her, and what if, that person's name is what is written behind that test tube?" He asked.

"I have a feeling it was some student. Because, remember Lisa said those floors were abandoned after Tiara's death, and those blood stains we saw were definitely hers. It couldn't be there for any other reason. And I don't suppose some outsider could've burst in and killed her like that." I said.

"The most disgusting part is that, they just left the blood stains like that there for how many years now, eighty years. Why did they have to just abandon those floors?" Zayn asked.

"I'm pretty sure they had a good reason to abandon those floors Zayn." I said. "Do you think she'd tell us how she got killed and who killed her? Because I have a bad feeling she won't tell us."

"What if that student, whoever killed her was her boyfriend, who said no to her for prom, and then killed her?" Zayn said. "Or, or, maybe it as her best friend who betrayed her."

"If you keep talking like this, we can come up with many conclusions. I'm just curious to know what's behind that test tube. Was it really hers?" I asked.

"Her surname was on it." He said. "Isn't that pretty obvious?"

"No, maybe we're wrong. Something is not right." I said.

"So, you wanna find that out on your own even before we meet her next week?" He asked.

"Basically, yea. But, I have this feeling that, that's not it. I feel, something's missing." I said.

"Nothing's missing." He said. "I just wanted to tell all this out to someone. I was gonna tell mom, but I felt she wasn't in a mood to listen."

"What's wrong with her?" I asked.

"Before I was gonna go for my morning walk at four in the morning, I went to tell her about it. She, well, I think she's disturbed with the whole LA trip she has to attend. She apparently has to go no matter what, and that too, tomorrow." He said.

"When did she tell you all this?" I asked.

"Last night." He said. "And yes, she is going tomorrow."

Heyy guys, my apologies for not updating for sooooo long. University really is not as easy as i thought.....but now i'm on vacation, and so I'll update regularly...just like i used to. (I know i've said this before, but this time, I really mean it.)

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