My best friend the serial killer

Chapter 20 Another Loss

About two weeks after the baby was born the house next to us opened up. Hunter and I talked about moving in and we bought it.

The house was just big enough for the three of us. Hunter and I had enough money in our savings accounts to decorate the house. It took about a month for us to get it fully furnished and decorated.

Little Hunter has gotten so big and is starting to develop his own personality. He's just like my brother. He has the same smile my brother had.

I missed my brother very much. it made me sad to think our baby would grow up thinking Hunter and I are his biological parents. I didn't want my baby finding out how he came to be with us, but I couldn't hide it from him.

It was around 11:00 one night. The baby was asleep and Hunter was in the shower. My cell phone started ringing. It was a restricted number calling. I slowly answered.

"Hello"? I asked.

"Katie this is Gretchen, we need to inform you that Melany committed suicide this evening."

I dropped the phone and fell to my knees. I began to sob. Hunter came running down the stairs.

"What's wrong baby"? he asked. He sounded so worried and concerned. before I could answer him he scooped me up off the floor and set me on the kitchen counter. I picked my phone up again. "Thanks For calling Gretchen." I said.

"We are paying for the burial Katie don't worry about the money just worry about you and your new family." she hung up the phone.

"Baby"? Hunter asked again.

"Melany killed herself." I managed to spit the words out but they left an awful taste in my mouth.

Hunter placed his arms around my waist and held onto me.

The baby monitor on the edge of the counter lit up and then I was able to hear little Hunter start crying.

I hopped off the counter and ran into his room. it was time to feed him. Hunter fixed his bottle and brought it into the nursery. I had the baby in my arm rocking him in the rocking chair. he was still whining. when I put the bottle in his mouth he was calmed.

"Can you put his bassinet together"? I asked Hunter.

"Yeah babe, why?" he asked me.

"I want to keep him close to me tonight. I don't want to lose him too, he's all I have left of them." I said. I began to cry again. I've lost both of them in three months. Hunter picked up the box and took it to our room and started to assemble it. He placed it next to my side of the bed. I handed him the baby and went to the nursery and grabbed his baby blanket and stuffed monkey.

That night Little Hunter stayed up crying on and off all night.

Hunter left for work at 7 and wouldn't be back till 7 tonight. Mom heard what happened and decided to come stay with me and the baby.

She came over around 10. "Hey honey, how are you feeling today"? she asked me. "honestly mom not great." I said. I fixed her a cup of coffee and sat it in front of her. The baby was sleeping. "I'm just so tired mom" I said.

"How about you go take a nap I will clean and take care of little Hunter." she said. "Mom I couldn't ask you to do that." I felt like I couldn't ask her to do that because he is my responsibility.

"Oh, Katie come on I can do it, besides it'll be like old times." she insisted. so I let her do the cleaning and caring while I slept. I felt so guilty but I needed sleep."

Mom's POV:

The baby was still sleeping so I clipped the baby monitor to my side and began cleaning. I started in the kitchen. I loaded the dishwasher, wiped the table and counters off, swept, mopped, and washed the windows. "Kitchen check." I said to myself. "now for the living room." I decided not to vacuum because I didn't want to wake them. I straightened the pillows up and spot cleaned the floor. "That's done now for laundry." I went into Katie's laundry room and separated the whites from the colored and the coloreds from the jeans and the whites. They had more colored clothes so I washed them first. While they were washing I decided to clean the bathroom. I cleaned the toilet and the shower and tub, organized the baby supplies basket and fixed up the counter. I noticed the medicine cabinet was ajar. I opened it up and right in the center of the medicine cabinet was a bottle of birth controll and a box of condoms. "at least they're safe." I told myself. Little Hunter began to cry. I walked into the nursery and picked him up. I knew exactly what it was. I sat him on the changing table and changed his diaper. after that he was happy. I decided to take him into the living room with me. I fastened him into his swing and turned on cartoons for him to watch while I folded clothes.

Katie's POV:

When I woke up it was 3:00. I felt so much better. I decided I needed to check my phone. I had 3 texts.

Message 1:

From: Hunter

Hey baby. how r u?

Message 2:

From: Hunter

Talked to your mom heard u r sleeping. love u!!

Message 3:

From: unknown number

Hey Katie this is Paris. Melany's older cousin. I'm in town cleaning out the house and I ran across a lot of melany's things. I saved them Incase you wanted them. Call me and let me know.

I thought about it. it would be nice to go through and find some things to make a memorial room for her and Jason. I pulled my phone off the night stand and called Paris.

"Hello"? she answered.

"Hey Paris this is Katie I got your message I'm on my way over give me thirty minuets."

"Ok sounds great."

I hung up the phone and told mom where I was going I kissed my baby bye and drove to meet Paris. I settled on some pictures of us in high school. I thanked Paris and we talked about the situation and my baby. I got back home at 5 and Hunter was home already. I was so happy to see him