How to be Visible

Chapter 1

"You mean you have no idea about any of this information that has just been disclosed to you?" Officer James asked me again, the tone of his voice clearly showed that he did not believe a single word I spoke.

"I've told you countless times, I didn't do it! Why would I?" I screamed, slamming my hands on the desk.

"We'll give you some moments to recollect. Confess now and have lesser charges or keep on lying and increase the chances of you spending the rest of your life in jail."

With that, he stood up and walked out of the interrogation room.

"Dear God, why did you let me get into this mess? Please, only you know I didn't do it. Help me!" I silently cried.

I know, it was pretty low of me to ask him to help me right now that I was stuck in a huge mess, when two weeks ago, I was boldly living my life like he didn't exist and that if he did, he was the meanest person I knew. Honestly, if you were stuck in my situation, you'd surely pray to the God you knew or the one you never knew because right now, I needed a miracle.

I just had to trust God right now. That's if he'd even look at my face, but then again, he always accepted a contrite heart and if my heart wasn't sorry, I didn't know what else I'd call it.

I raised my head up and took in my environment. The interrogation room had a camera at the top corner of the wall in front of me which I assumed was turned on and there were only one table and two chairs. Through the huge glass window, I could see two officers outside discussing seriously. I couldn't hear them and I didn't think they could hear me.

I bent my head down and sang a loud song in gibberish. When I raised my head up, they were not looking at me in a weird way as if I'd just grown two heads. The experiment led me to believe that the room was sound proof.

The door opened.

"Are you ready to start talking Miss Jones?"

If any body would have told me three months earlier that I would be in an interrogation room accused of being a murderer, I probably would have laughed and asked them if their brain was still in the right position.

Nevertheless, here I was because I made some stupid choices along the way. So much for being the invisible new girl. Every one in the state literally knew me now.

Okay maybe they didn't, but they probably would.

Let me take you back to the very beginning right where it all started. The first time I stepped foot in Griddle high.

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I wasn't late to school today thankfully, but I was late to the building.

How? You may ask.

I got to the school premises on time, but for some reason, my shoe lace decided to get stuck in the rose bushes.

It really wasn't my fault. I just wanted to perceive the aroma of the lovely roses. My old school didn't even have a tiny shrub. Every where was interlocked. Now that I chose to appreciate nature, nature grabbed my shoe lace and chose to appreciate it. If you know what I mean.

A torn shoe lace and forty five minutes later, I ran into the school building. Would you believe that students walked passed me and greeted me during my rose bush struggle but did not even attempt to give me a hand? Yeah, I still have a hard time believing it.

I roamed the halls like a lost puppy looking for the 'office'. The particular one with the word 'administration office' on it. I passed the principal's office, bursar's office, cleaners office a.k.a janitor's closet until I finally saw the office.