Dear Writer, - The Fooo Conspiracy (Felix Sandman)

46: Page of Lies

-Linnea-

Felix leans forward awkwardly against the couch.

"Are you okay?"

"Yes! Of course." He cover his lips with the tips of his fingers and scrunches them together.

"Felix?" I whisper.

"Linnea it's fine."

I sit up so there is enough space between us that air rushes between our legs where they used to touch.

He moves farther away from me now, sitting against the arms of the couch.

I shake my head at him because I am so lost for words to even ask where to begin. but suddenly I see what he is shielding me from.

When your father leaves you all your life and suddenly returns it's hard to forget what he looks like.

"Hey! I know him." I say moving over to see the paper his mother holds up.

"Linnea!" Felix's voice cracks as he speaks.

"What! What! What's going on?" I try to lean forward reading the news, maybe my dad has come back to town?

"Felix move please." I say in a desperate tone, I am not about to wait for this, and if he thinks he can push me around me is wrong.

"Felix?"

"I said No! He picks me up around the waist and push me against a wall away from the paper.

"Felix! Let her go!" His mom shouts, Felicia is shouting too, even their dog is getting antsy.

The more noise calls his name the harder he pushes me away preventing me from seeing the article. I feel his fingers dig into my skin, he must be able to feel my ribs by now.

"Felix." he cannot hear me.

"Felix!" still nothing, I have to compete with three other animals all screaming his name.

"FELIX!.... Your hurting me." he stops bickering then suddenly raises his hand off my chest.

I look within my shirt and see his hand print is left imposed red on my skin.

He moves head closer to see, I wasn't lying, he is actually set back a ways once he gets a view of the stamp of my chest. I am too, I never though he would hurt me.

"What were you trying to see Linnea?" His mom walks up to me and elbows Felix back behind her. He turns away throwing his hat to the other side of the room and pulling his hair.

"Mom please, can I at least speak to you first!?" He moves on circles like he is nervous.

"Oh stop acting ridiculous!"

Felix thinks fast, he pulls the back page off the paper and throws it within the fireplace making it shred to ash in seconds.

"What the hell was that for!" I walk over and push him to the ground.

"I was trying to read that don't you understand!? That was my father on that page! It might be important!"

My nerves are on edge, why is he acting so strange?

He looks at his mother who is just staring back at him, judging by the looks they give each other they both read the article.

"Well you already know it's him we can't keep it away from you."

His mom sits beside him on one couch while I sit on the other.

"Linnea your father is wanted for murder." Felix says to me, he cannot find it in himself to look at me, he must know I will break down and is preparing himself.

"Of a woman named Bea Måriklund?"His mother recalls from her memory.

I don't cry, at least not right away. My dad can't be a murderer, Bea has raised me my whole life why would he take her away from me?

I think of the time I met my dad in the forest, we were alone. Would he have murdered me if I had not left sooner? Did he murder my mom? I haven't seen her since I was like two year old. I could be dead right now. If I was, I would have never known Felix as well as I do today.

I look at him as tears collect in the beds of his eyes but refuse to fall. He looks so young when he cries. This is who I would be missing if I was dead. If my father had murdered me.

Now the tears come.