Broken.

27. Blood.

" Jesse We are at the Russell's House you need to come quickly!" Bella practically yelled into the phone.

Maddox was over on the Couch comforting Mrs Russell as she sobbed hysterically into her Decorative Pillows. Maddox was talking to her in a shooting calm voice.

Mr Russell was across the room his fist on the wall as he talked in an angry tone with the police department. So far they were doing nothing but arguing.

Bella had tried Jesse's Cell about 20 times frantically leaving messages.

" You know what! I know what will make us feel better! I'll go get some drinks for us while we wait for Jesse. Then we can all make the first move."
Bella said faking a smile.

She walked into the glimmering clean kitchen. She poured a glass of dark red wine for Mrs Russell and a glass of Scotch for Mr Russell and two diet sodas for Her and Maddox.

She walked in balancing all the drinks and handed each person their drink.

Mr Russell drank his scotch quietly while leaning against the wall.

Then finally a knock came at the door.
"May I open it?" Bella asked politely.
" Go ahead Dear." Mrs Russell said ushering her on.

She opened the door to find a middle aged man in a blank trench coat with a fedora. " Hello there young Lady, My name is Winston Charles and I am interested in Lily Russell's Case." He said politely. Bella just stood there with the door open.

After Mr Charles had been properly introduced He and Mr Russell sat down in the study to talk about the case itself.

A few minutes later Bella decided to brush up on her case form to show to Mr Charles. She added all the details and polished up on some of the writing. Bella wasn't looking for approval, She was looking for answers.

" Look who's here." Bella heard someone say as she whipped her head around. She saw Mrs Russell with a unexpected Jesse. " Well you achieved your late entrance." Bella said sarcastically.

" I'm really sorry! I didn't get your messages until 5 minutes ago." Jesse said impatiently. " Why did you only get to your phone in the last 5 minutes? What happened to the plan of keeping contact and alert with each other?!" Bella asked annoyed.
" I was um.. um-Basically speaking I was grounded." He said shamefully.
" Figures." Bella said shrugging her shoulders. " Hey!" Jesse said hitting her arm playfully.

After everyone had settled in Bella presented her case file to Mr Charles.
" This is all her personal information with help from Mr & Mrs Russell." Bella said pointing toward the paper.
Mr. Harley's nodded in approval.

" This is information on the night she went missing." Bella said pointing towards the left hand section of her Paper. " Wait a minute." Winston said looking at her paper. " It says the last person to see her was Jesse." He said frowning upon it. " I walked her to her door the night of the dance but that's all I know. I haven't heard or seen her after that." Jesse said sadly.
" I see." Winston said slowly.

" What about the letter?" Mrs Russell blurted out. " What letter?" Jesse & Winston said in unison. Maddox grimly got up to get it. He couldn't even bear to look at that letter.
Maddox handed Winston the letter.

The old letter was torn at the sides and it's envelope was barely covering it. There was a golden yellow color stain along the old paper.

The letter said : Go to evergreen park tomorrow at sundown. There you will find something you might want. It is buried under the old willow tree. If you don't Lily will get a bigger beating than she already has. Don't put your Daughter/Sister/ Friend in a worse place then she already is. Try to guess what this is : at the bottom of the letter a dark red stain drew a long line.
" Holy Crap." Jesse said tears forming at the base of his eyes.
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