Every Breath You Take

Closure (Arthit)

       

Prem, Knott, Bright, and I follow Mr. Baramee into his private room.  After the story about his friend I felt like this man really understood our pain.  I'm sure we all did.  And sadly we understood his pain just as clearly.

"This is called the screening room.  It's a completely secured location, no signals come in or go out of this room.  If you pull out your phones you'll find there's no signal." He states.

I notice that we all check our phones then laugh at ourselves.  It's like when someone tells you it's impossible to touch your elbow to your chin or that your foot is the length of your forearm from elbow to wrist, you try it out to see if it's true.

"Before we start I want you boys to make a solemn promise with me.  If this something that you cannot do you are free to leave but you must know that if you break this promise with me I will be terribly offended." He says and we all understand the warning.

"If you are willing, I need for you to promise that you will never divulge any information about what you are about to watch."

We all agree.  Of course we do.

"This is not for the faint of heart." He says peering at me.

Everyone's heads turn towards me.  Fine, fine.  Yes I'm the one afraid of horror films and yes I still get sick at crime scenes but that does not overtake the fact that I want to know.

"I can do it.  I'll just close my eyes if it gets to be too much." I tell him confidently.

"And your ears? There's a lot of screaming." He says with a creepy smile.

"Maybe..."

"I've got you Arthit." Knott says sitting beside me.

"Thanks." I whisper.

"Once I lock this door there's no turning back. Last chance." He warns looking directly at me.

Once I hear the click of the door the lights dim and a video begins.  There are two men in a room.  We all know who they are.  They are the ones that attacked Toota and his friends.  I'll name them asshole number one (AH1) and asshole number two (AH2).  Asshole two is the one we're focused on.

"Why are you doing this to us?" AH1 sobs.

"I wonder how many of your victims asked the same thing." A cold voice says.

"Victims? Those queers? This is not the same thing!" He yells.

"You're absolutely right.  They didn't do anything wrong before you attacked them." The voice replies.

"Please don't do this.  We're sorry." AH2 begs.

"I looked into it and you have a lot to pay for.  You have a long line of victims and more than these two deaths on your heads." He tells them looking at file.

The camera is always angled so we don't ever see his face and I'm positive that his voice has been altered.

"What? We didn't kill anyone you asshole!" AH1 shouts.

We don't really pay attention to AH1 because he's not the one who actually killed our Toota.  The man in charge walks over and grabs him by the shirt pulling his face close to his own.

"Why do you think you were in jail?  You each killed a person.  At least these were the only people you were charged for murdering." He says with a chuckle.

"You probably thought you could continue getting away with it.  You got cocky and then got caught." He explains as he drops the second man to the ground.