Swept off my feet

~•Chapter Twelve•~

Am so sorry sorry.. I didn't notice that part of chapter ten was repeated in chapter eleven.. So initually chapter Eleven was a very short new chapter with only Crystals pov.. Am so sorry sorry.. I don't know what happened.. I just noticed it now when I wanted to edit. I'll be sure to make chapter thirteen longer. I was having writers block on this chapter.

Crystal's POV

It's been two weeks since I agreed to Eric's plan. At first I didn't want to agree thinking it was just my imagination that someone finally believed me but when it registered that this was real I didn't think it through at all, I gladly agreed. I didn't know it would be this hard. For an accident that happened almost two years ago it was not easy especially that it had died down. I still remember it perfectly well when one of my 'friends' that time asked me to switch to the news.

Two years ago
House burns down completely- one person dead.
That headline did not concern me until I heard the address being announced. I immediately began to panic:
One person dead, believed to be Jason King. Heir to the King Inc Properties.

My ears could not believe it, my limbs went weak and my tears poured down willingly. This can't be true. I was in denial that's why I drove to the place so that I could prove to my ears that they heard wrong but it was all true. There was fire truck, police, ambulance and on lookers everywhere. How can this be? I cried like a mad woman for days. Who wouldn't when the love of your life was burnt to death? No warning, no good bye. My world crushed into small pieces so suddenly like someone just clicked on a button. Even though we were not married, I felt like I became a widow.The funeral was short and immediate for there was no body to bury. The most prominent memory i had of him is the last time I saw him. The same day of the accident we argued and I left. Now I only have a picture we took before the argument broke out and many pictures we took before. The most painful thing is that the cause of the argument is still a vague memory.

I asked the fire department the source of the fire but they couldn't figure it out since the house was in ashes. They thought maybe it was from a kettle, or maybe he was drunk and was using electricals, or he was smoking,or he was asleep and didn't get alerted by the fire. Non of those reasons added up cause Jason would not use a kettle during the day, he doesn't smoke, his a light drinker and light sleeper. Even in angry state as I left his house, I swear I saw a van by his house but didn't think anything of it. Surprisingly, the smoke detector did not alert him which was weird. Nothing was making sense but I had no proof.

Many onlookers blamed his parents for allowing him to live by himself with only a maid. But mostly I blamed myself for allowing him to come to Lockwood. We would have managed the long distance relationship. I blamed myself for leaving him that day cause maybe this wouldn't have happened.

ERIC'S POV

I listened intently as she told me the whole story. At first, I had no reason to believe her but now I had every reason to believe. As she told her story I tried my very best not to break down with her.
Now I remember where I saw her when she looked familiar, at Jason's funeral. She was one of those that looked very miserable, but no one introduced her to me and Jason's funeral had many people, I couldn't register all of them cause I was equally miserable.

Now that I was totally convinced, I would do everything in my power to deliver justice for Jason. How? I still had no answer to that. We have tried to find all we can but no progress. The records did not show anything different from what Crystal told me. We were on the verge of giving up. Internally we both knew we would find nothing but neither of us spoke cause we knew that even if it took us years we would find the culprit.

Instead of dwelling on our failure, I took that as advantage to spend more time with her. She has become more cheerful. I don't know where this urge to spend time with her came from. My own emotions where confusing me.

The annual carnival was around the corner and I wanted to attend. I needed to live a bit more, if Crystal could at least show signs of breaking her walls so could I.
"wanna come to the carnival with me?" I blurted out.
She looked confused at the sudden question so I decided to make it light and not make it sound like a date.
"everyone is dying for me to ask them this question. They will kill you once they hear you denied this pretty face the honor" I said with a smug smile. If she denied they would rejoice.
She burst out laughing and it was like the sound of music. Good music.
"sure, only to keep the huge ego inflated"
Internally I was doing back flips. What was happening to me. I need to see my therapist about these sudden unknown emotions.
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Am not so happy about this chapter but Thank you for reading
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