RED: Welcome To Fayetteville | Complete ✔️

Chapter 63: The Breaking Point

"What?!" Kathrine squeezed her hip tighter. "Evelyn... how could you do this to us!?" she screamed.

"You're dead, Eve. You're freaking dead." Zach lunged toward her, but the ropes and cinder blocks kept him from going anywhere.

Evelyn rose the gun to Zach. "No, if anyone is dead, it's you." She dropped the gun back down to her side. "But not yet..." she looked over to Adam's dead body. "I didn't really mean to kill you guys... it was a part of a bigger plan. This was punishment and it just had to be this way."

"Punishment for what?" Kathrine cried.

"Not you... your parents." Evelyn looked over to Zach. "Our parents..."

"This doesn't make any sense," Zach gave up trying to break free.

"They just don't care. These parents care about so much about everything else but their kids," Evelyn shook her head. "Genni's parents didn't care for her. They fought all the time... and she told me about it. She kept confiding in me—"

"Then, you killed her," Zach said.

"You picked me up that night... I got into your car!" Kathrine yelled at her.

"Yeah... Genni's body was in my trunk the whole time. While you were at the police station I dropped her body off in the river..."

"Oh, my God," Kathrine looked down at her wound that was still bleeding too much.

"You killed Genni to get back at her parents?" Zach asked.

"Yes. To make her parents care." She lifted the gun and pointed it at Zach. "And our parents... they divorced and get married to each other and then run off to their honeymoon for a while. Do you think they thought for a second how we felt? No," she snarled.

"Jasper... how could you?" Kathrine asked.

"That was actually going to be his kill," Evelyn kicked Adam's body. "But, a car showed up and there were more people around than he thought so he let him live... that night."

"His parents seemed happy..." Zach started crying.

"I thought so too... until we had lunch one day. He told me that he was so bullied and everyone called him gay and a faggot. He said his parents didn't help. All they do is fight and they don't even notice him... So I had to make his parents finally notice him. Now... they do. They finally learned that they had a son."

"You're sick," Kathrine said.

"No, I'm not."

"And you framed Derrick..."

"Oh yeah, I wanted to plant it on someone with divorced parents. Maybe the cops would lock him up and see that maybe divorce can make a kid go crazy."

"Apparently..." Kathrine said through her grinding teeth.

"Watch it, hun. You don't have much longer," Evelyn pointed at her bleeding hip with the gun. She turned to Zach. "Derrick came and tried to fight you in our house. He had so much blinding anger that he left his car unlocked... while you two were at it in the living room, I snuck out and slid the crowbar in his backseat. Made my job so easy." She flipped her hair off her shoulder. "Oh! And when we woke up in the room and I cried and yelled really loud... that was to let Adam know that you guys were finally waking up. He came in there, dragged me out of the room, and I put on my favorite hoodie."

"But what now? You killed your partner and Natalie got away."

"Now," she looked at her gun. "You have to die. You know too much... but I'll use the pictures that Adam took in that room and send them to your parents... our parents."

"AHHHH!" Zach yelled.

"I never wanted you to die, Zach. But this has to happen..."

"No," Derrick's voice said from behind her in the darkness. "This has to happen."

Derrick squeezed the cinderblock so tight his knuckles were white. He slung it with all his strength he had in him.

Clunk. Evelyn's teeth jarred in her head and she flung to the ground in a dizzying pain. The gun dropped from her hand and fell to Kathrine. Evelyn couldn't see straight... She tried to fix her vision, and when she could finally see again, Natalie was standing over her.

She was holding a large shard of glass from the broken window and didn't care that it was cutting her palm. She reached down and jerked up the red hoodie to reveal the gunshot wound in Evelyn's side. "I wish I had better aim." She dropped to her knees and slammed the shard of glass into Evelyn's side right through the wound. Blood shot out onto Natalie's face.

"AHHHHH!" Evelyn yelled.

"No!" Natalie yelled at Kathrine. She was pointing the pistol and Evelyn's head. "Don't kill her," Natalie told her.

Derrick picked the cinderblock back up and stepped above Evelyn's legs. He aimed it right above her shins and dropped the cinderblock hard enough to break her legs.

Snap.

"She's not going anywhere..." Derrick said. Then, he pulled his phone from his pocket and hit play on the video on his screen. Evelyn's voice came from the phone. He recorded her entire confession.

Evelyn was gasping for air and holding her bleeding side.

"There you go," Natalie said as she dropped the ropes from around Zach's wrists.

Zach jumped up and ran to Kathrine.

"Baby, are you okay?" Zach asked.

Kathrine dropped the gun. "No... Everything is getting dark. I'm dizzy."

"We have to get her out of here!" Zach yelled at Natalie and Derrick.

"I've already called the cops. The ambulance will be here soon," Derrick said.

"Hold on, baby," Zach was desperate. "Please, hold on."

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