DAD

Part 32

3 weeks later

Door creek opens.

"Clementine?"

"I want you and mom to go to a place with me, now...please." I sighed, my breathe getting warmer and calmer.

"But...okay."

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"Why did you bring us down the highway? No one even uses this place anymore."

"That is the fact brother. No one uses, so we shouldn't have either."

"Right..." he glanced at mom and turned to me again, "So what are we doing out here?"

"To make this place even more unusable so that not any other person comes here just like we did anymore."

"Make it clear Clementine." Mom spat.

"Do you remember this place brother?" I didn't look at them the whole time.

"I never even came here okay?" He stammered...sweat beads appearing upon his forehead.

"You came to dad's funeral through this root of the road, didn't you?"

"Again 'dad'? Are you a lunatic?!" He screamed.

"Is it me or is it you?!!" I screamed back, at his face.

"Clementine..." Mom came to me and placed a hand on my back.

"You were using a car with the number of CX-782961, had a gun with a broken silencer...the name Dustix engraved on that...does that ring a bell?" I take out a gun in my hand, loaded...the same gun that killed my dad.

"What are you talking about? Car numbers don't have that many digits and there is no suck state or city code as CX and why would I have a gun?" He stammered on every word.

"That's a fun fact...you got a registered car out of the city and after reaching the head of the highway you changed the plate to that because there are no cops on this highway and plus, no one could trace you. Talents up the hill brother."

"No, you're wrong!" He shouted.

"You knew dad would hold that root, and you smashed it."

"Shut up."

I pointed the gun at him, then glared at mom, "Why did you do this?"

"Dear, I didn't know Chris would do that, I never knew." Mom stumped.

Brother's face became dark as mom said that.

"You knew it the whole time mom, you just used my brother as he was an addict. You brought him drugs and gave a brainwash about dad. You wanted dad's money mom! He made you nominee for everything!!" Tears crawling down my face, "Why mom?! Why did you have to kill dad to have another affair? Because you won't get the money?!"

My brother snatched the gun from my hand from behind and pointed it towards mu forehead.

"Shut it out Clem! You're gon'na be done too."

"Only if it was possible." Loslin comes and throws away the gun. Not a second after, Derek punches Chris on the nose and he falls to the ground. My mom tried to run away but regrets, Alexa was there. "Dustin?!" Chris exclaimed.

Well, there was a lot of complex stories all around, every person had different stories. But the root was simple. Straight as a Chinese girl's hair. Yes, everything was solved when my mom was jailed and my brother hung up to death sentence...leaving me an orphan but I had a family then. A new family, new people. Though we couldn't discover who Jokerio was...didn't really matter because he had nothing to do with my dad. I love you dad.