DAD

Part 25

"Dustin never reacted to that until one day Chris banged his sister."

"What the hell are you talking about? My brother ain't like that!" I shouted out.

"Do I seem like I'm lying?"

His eyes seemed quite truthful, so I went quiet.

"Dustin had a simple talk with the weird guy which was the other friend and that guy only answered 'I'll see him' and don't know why that calmed Dustin."

"Then what?" I asked again.

"Dustin got this gun from that guy, with broken silencer at it's tip and told him that it's all his. He took the gun and never dared to shoot it. So, he kept it with him and thought of saying something else."

"Then?"

"Chris was in the meantime Derek's pal and Derek was quite possessive about him. Derek was the guy who was able to make Chris a new person." he tightened his fist. I saw his face getting hard.

"Loslin, you fine?"

"When Dustin told Derek about all this of stuff what Chris did, thinking maybe Derek would help him; Derek didn't pay least attention to him and snapped away.

Dustin was raged at this as no one was on his side, and he banged up Derek's girlfriend Rachael Cox. Derek had loved her a lot and after getting banged up and when she got to know that it happened to her because Derek did not intend to help this guy, she started issues with him.

This made Derek's blood boil as she had meant the world to him and he went lifeless for a couple of months.

Chris noticed this and being taking Derek as a brother, he attempted to risk out Dustin. He took some marijuana in a polybag and had slipped it in his locker burning it a bit. When the essence came out, the authority charged him with drug offence and he was ousted from the university. Jailed.

The next day Chris made his bail on his own and told him to kill Derek. Or else he puts Dustin back to jail."

"The heck?" I was quoted black and blank.

"So what Dustin did was to take preparations for that; no one wants to spent time in jail. The day he was assigned to put out his act on Derek, he went to Chris's uncle's place instead with a horrible state, maybe he was drunk and shouted out Chris's name and shot the couches. He went unconscious then and... next time he saw himself he was all tied up with rope in the woods and he saw a guy... your brother and next thing he remembers that he was hit hard on the head by a steel rod."

"Then?"

"That's all I got to say."

"That doesn't relate anything to my dad's death." I whispered to myself, and we left the place leaving our incomplete frappes on the table to our own places.

At the hostel

I had demonstrated the whole story to Alexa, I was quite surprised at some parts of it; it contained a lot of things I didn't know.

"What do you think?" I enquired of her.

"This is so deep...too much controversy...and that guy didn't even tell you some of the parts." She sighed.

"What parts?"

"The name of the weird introvert, who gave Dustin the gun." Alexa stated.

"He must've forgotten."

"That's impossible." She stood up, "Look, there's a lot of fact here we need to note down."

"Like what?"

***

I was not feeling quite comfortable to move forward with it seeing my brother involved there as so. Things were getting dirty, and it's always a saying don't leave the things around you spoiled...clean 'em up. Hygiene issues I'll say.

"So we need answers to these questions first." Alexa sat on the bin-bag with her note book and pen in her hair bun.

"Who should we go first?"

"We'll make a list of the people we need the answers from. Say the names." She took her pen out of the bun, opened its cap with her mouth and opened the notebook.

"Well, My brother."

"Ok Chris."

"Loslin?"

"He won't say much now...he's down to a later person."

"Then...Derek?"

"Yeah, he's important."

"Dustin?"

"We have no minimal idea of where this guy even is, but still he counts."

"Rachael Cox?"

"Oh yes, but I don't know if she's alive or not...she's a complete new person."

"That introvert?"

"We need his name first."

So the list be....

01. Chris

02. Loslin

03. Derek

04. Dustin

05. Rachael

06. The introvert

"Just six people?" I asked seeing the list.

"Well, sometimes it's hard to ask even a single person, we got six."

"So a hard work, huh?"

"Kind of."