Blood Money

Chapter 4 - Blood and Murder

When I wake up, I'm in a hospital bed. I try to sit up, and my head feels as if someone stabbed a sharp stick right into my ear. 

"Ow!", I scream bloody murder.

"Oh, he's awake!", my mom, who's sitting right next to me, says, her words laced with happiness.

 "You were in a coma. Landed pretty hard on your ear, apparently. Look at it!" She holds up a mirror. 

"Holy crap", is all I have to say. The top third of it is full-on gone, and the rest is caked with blood. Then I remember what happened when I did pass out. "Mom, what happened after I passed out?" I actually wanna know. I mean, where did those shots come from? Who shot the gun?

"Why don't you see for yourself?", she motions to the wall in front of me. That's when I notice the TV. The Scrillaville news anchor, Tod Redmond, is standing there holding a michrophone.

"We still don't know what is really going on here, but I can say without a doubt that three rappers were murdered today.", a reporter says. The camera swings down to the ground. I notice that they're in the judge's booth. There are three bodies there that I instantly recognize as Horatio Herbert, Shaun Davey, and Hardy Carter! They're dead?! 

"No!", I say, a little bit too loud. A doctor comes in. "Everything all right?", he asks. 

"Yeah", my mom says for me. "He was just saddened by the news." 

"Aren't we all?", the doctor replies, sadly. Then I continue watching. "The Scrillaville police force and the FBI still haven't found a sure culprit. They did, however, find bullets in all of the rapper's backs but one. Woody Erle, the fouth rapper, who is now a suspect." 

The camera now swings to Woody Erle, who is in handcuffs. 

"I swear to God I didn't do it!", he says quickly, with a lot of fear. "Me and the guys go way back! Why would I murder them?!"