Accident Prone ✹ Phan

Five

"What?" I asked. "You're.... You're lying..."

"Dan, I found the weapon...." He said again. "It was in his bag.."

"The police... said it was a knife..."

"I found the knife..." Adrian hesitated to show me. "I was helping Phil look for his glasses case whilst you were on your way home from work... and I saw it when he had went to check a different bag..."

"That doesn't mean he-"

"Dan, what else would it mean?" Adrian asked. "I've already called the police... I just... I wanted you to know..."

"I can't believe it..." I started to cry as I heard a faint sound of police sirens nearing. "No..."

"I'm sorry, Dan...." Adrian hugged me. "He could've hurt you next... or me..."

"Philip Lester.." I heard a cop say.

"What?" Phil woke up.

"You're under arrest.." The sound of handcuffs clanging made me feel weak.

/

The court date was moved up to the following day after the new evidence was found. It was accepted into the case after fingerprints from the knife showed up as Phil's, and the bloodstains were tested, showing Angel and Chris's DNAs.

"All rise..." The judge said. "Philip Michael Lester... you have been charged for murder in the first and second degree, voluntary manslaughter, breaking and entering, domestic abuse and spoliation of evidence... How do you plea?"

"Not guilty on all charges, your honour..." Phil spoke.

I can't do this... Sitting here at a table with Phil... We haven't spoken since he was arrested, and even whilst going through the case for the final time, I hadn't heard his voice since the last time he said he loved me.

Does he even still love me?

Time for hell to commence...

"The defense calls Philip Lester to the stand.." Liguori stood.

/

"Phil... Is it true you had a relationship with the deceased, miss Angelica Riley.." He asked.

"That is correct.. We were together for nearly a year.."

"And why did that end?"

"I broke up with her after learning about the guy she was cheating on me with..."

"And that man was.. Chris Kendall.. correct?"

"Yes.."

"What did you do when you first learned she was cheating?"

"Her friend had told me, and I was heartbroken... The next day, I went to Angel's house and broke up with her.." Phil said. "It was before she died."

"So you admit that you saw her within the time she died?" Liguori asked.

"Yes.."

"What about this knife?"

"What about it?"

God, I can't do this..