Euphonious Memories {H.S}

42.

My eyes went wide when I realized that we had only a small amount of time to figure out what to do.

Harry, Gemma, and I shared shocked stares for about a minute straight, while I was trying to figure out what we were going to do about Ethan.

"Excuse me, miss." One of the police officers asked me, but I was too shocked to answer I stood there staring at the wall blankly, still trying to come up with a plan. "Miss?"

Harry then pulled me closer to him and answered the cop's question for me.

"How does she know the suspect?" He asked Harry.

"She works with him down at The Limestone." He Answered with a straight face, except for his clenched jaw. I knew that he wasn't mad because the officer was asking questions, he was mad at Ethan. He was going to kill him when he layed eyes on him.

"What is his name?" The cop continued asking Harry questions as Gemma and I stood there regretting everything from the past few weeks.

The same person who killed my first friend and roommate in the city, had been fucking with our minds the past two weeks. And we were completely oblivious to the fact that the criminal was right under our noses the whole time.

"Sky? Skyler?" Harry was waving his hand in front of my face trying to bring me back to earth.

"W-what? Oh sorry I Uh...what was the question?" I said in a shaky nervous voice that wasn't intended.

"What time did you say that Ethan was supposed to be here?"

"Um around 6:30 is what he said." I looked at my phone to see what time it was and when I saw that it was 6:53, my heart sunk.

"Ok here's what we're going to do..." the other cop said. He explained how they were going to catch him.

They told us that they didn't want him to run when he saw them, so they were going to hide and we were going to act like we didn't know that he was the killer of the people from the coffee shop that day.

At 7:10 we finally heard what we had all been dreading, a knock on the door.

We shared nervous looks, as the cops went into the hallway where Ethan wouldn't be able to see them.

Gemma and I looked at each other trying to decide who answered the door.

"You get it." I mouthed to her

"No you!" She yelled in a whisper. We argued about that for what seemed like forever.

"I'll get it." Harry finally said and walked over to the door.

Everything was quiet as we all tensed the moment Harry twisted the doorknob.

"Hey guys! I brought monopoly and..." Ethan said in a perky voice, but trailed off when he looked up to see our faces.

I guess we looked just as scared as we felt because he was caught off guard.

"What's up?" He asked us with crinkled eyebrows.

Harry and I shared a glance at each other for a split second. Although he put on a brave face, I could tell by the look in his eyes that he was just as terrified as I was of the situation that we were in.

"You're late that's what's up." Gemma tried to act normal, and I guessed it worked because he quickly apologized with some made up excuse.

"Uh well let's get this party started!" I said in a super fake excited voice.

Ethan walked over and sat on the couch beside Gemma, and the fact that a murderer was sitting on my couch pretending to be innocent made me want to puke.

"So what have you guys been doing?" He asked.

"I think the real question here is what have you been doing?" Harry said. His jaw hadn't unclenched yet.

"Huh?"

"Oh don't huh him!" Gemma suddenly yelled.

"What are you guys talking about?"

"You are not innocent Ethan so you can stop putting on this fake little act you have going on and be real." I said, but this time my voice was stern and not nervous.

"We know what you did Ethan." Harry said.

"I-I don't know what you're talking about." He said and I could tell that he was starting to look guilty.

"Didn't we already say to shut the fake shit up?" Harry warned.

He looked around at all of us and then he made eye contact with me.

"Ethan how could you?" I asked in small voice.

He didn't say anything, but the look that he was giving me now said "I'm sorry I didn't mean it"

"I thought you were my friend." I said.

"Sky..."

"Put your hands up and turn around slowly." One of the cops said as they both hopped out from the hall way, one on each side of Ethan.

"What the..." Ethan said, but didn't say anything else because he knew exactly what was going on.

"I'm sorry Sky." He said "I really...I can explain."

I rolled my eyes and walked the opposite direction of the police and Ethan.

As they dragged him out of my apartment I walked over to Harry who looked more at ease now.

"I can't believe it was him." I said as I buried my face in his chest.

"I knew I didn't like him from the beginning." He said sternly.

"I just want to know why he would do such a thing." I said, thinking out loud.