The Cellar Retold

Summer POV

My texts finally go through. Colin started to ask me about my life and almost every detail about it. I lied about everything. I couldn't let him make me vulnerable. Anxiously waiting for the police to arrive and take him away, he said something to me that I will never forget.

"I need to go, they are probably close to me by now. Come on, Lily, come with me,"

Lily? Who is that? He looked me directly in the eye.

"Come on, Lily," he said in now a sterner tone.

This cannot be happening.

"Come with me, Lily. I need my perfect family back. I was looking for Lily tonight when my family was taken. I risked them just to find you,"

In the darkness, I still saw his terrifying smile. One that I will never forget as long as I live. This night will change me and I will never be the same. When is it common to find a captur and have a conversation like this? I have to stay strong now and hope, pray that the police or Lewis come soon. I know he got my text. He always sees them right when I text him. Colin starts to get up, seeming to want to leave. I can't let him. He gets up fully and extended his hand to me.

"Come on, Lily. Please, I need you in my family,"

With hesitation, I grab his hand and get up. As I do this, I see many shadows lurking in the distance. The police. Please be the police. Colin cannot see them since they are behind him, but I think he senses that they are there. They have guns pointed at him.

"Police! Put your hands up!" an officer yells.

Slowly, but surely Colin raises his hands up to his head. When he does, the police surrounded him and push him to the ground, handcuffing him where he is. The whole playing fields are illuminated by the lights of the authorities. I am pulled away by a detective and asked to tell them everything he told me. I tell them about the girls, the perfect family, everything about the kidnappings that they knew. I told them about the people he killed. How they were burned in his fireplace or thrown in the canal. They gathered some information about some of the killings from the girl Violet, Rebecca. Those were just the ones down in the cellar, but I explained that he said there were more due to the 'dirty' people he killed. The detective let me go. I glanced over my shoulder at Colin, who was crying and staring at me saying "Lily," I turn away. I couldn't stand the thought of being someone named 'Lily' and being in the 'perfect family' Colin always wanted. He was never going to have that and he truly deserved his fate.