Shots Fired

Chapter 8

"Hey." I said to Austin when I walked in the apartment. I was surprised to see him up, I haven't seen him walk around the house unless he wants some more vodka. "Hi." Austin said rudely and walked to his room. I followed close behind him to see what his problem was with me. "Why have you been ignoring me, what did I do," I could feel the tears building up in my eyes but I fought them holding them back. "What didn't you do?" Austin screamed at me. "What do you mean?" I knew exactly what he meant, he blamed me for the death of our parents like did. "Never mind, just leave me alone." Austin demanded. "No! I'm not leaving you alone, you barley even said a word to me for over a month, since -" "Since our parents were murdered." Austin spatted out cutting me off. "Yes, but you know I had nothing to do with that. do you?" I asked. "I don't know, you were there you just stood there worrying about you. You only thought of yourself, you didn't bother to think of our parents being shot and killed." I stood there as anger bubbled up inside me. He blamed me for this. He told me just a month ago that there was nothing I could do, that if he lost me he wouldn't know what to do. Now look at him he blames me for everything. "Austin, there was nothing I could do." I said in shock. "You could've killed the man who did this." My eyes widened when he said that, he wanted me to kill him I never thought that that was even an option. "I wasn't going to kill him that would only make me a murderer as well. why would you even suggest that?" I was screaming as I spoke, I was shaking with anger. "Because it would of saved our parents." Austin slammed the door in my face. I stood there processing what just happened. My brother wanted me to kill the man. Could I really have done that, would it have saved my parents life and mine. No! stop thinking like this! Mom and dad wouldn't want me to kill him. If the man didn't kill them then the thought of their daughter killing someone would. After an hour Austin finally came out of his room. I expected him to talk to me but instead he grabbed his keys and left. What did I think was going to happen? Austin just apologizing for what happened. He obviously believes that so why would he apologize? "Get up." Austin demanded. I turned around and saw Austin standing behind the couch where I was at. "Why? where were you?" I wondered. "That's none of your business. Just get up now." Austin sounded pissed. "Austin, what are you doing?" I said as I got up from the couch. I followed him as he stormed off to my bedroom. "Leave, I don't want you here anymore you fuck everything up! You don't even bother to think twice about what happened, you could've done something. I don't want you here anymore." Austin said as he threw my suitcase on the ground in front of my feet. "Austin, I'm sor-" I couldn't finish my sentence because Austin cut me off. "Save the bullshit. Just get out." Why was he doing this? What got in to him? I've never seen him like this before. Was something bigger going on that I didn't know about? Was he just using that as an excuse to get me out of the house for him to do god knows what. Austin walked out of my room as he slammed the door behind me. I pulled out all of my clothes and shoved them into the bag I didn't even bother to fold them. I walked over to my bed side table and pulled out the picture of my parents. "I really did fuck things up, didn't I." I said to the picture before placing it into my pocket. I dialed Juliet's number waiting for her to pick up. "Hello?" Juliet said on the other line. "Hey, can I take you up on that offer?" I chocked on my words. "What do you mean?" Juliet said. "Austin is kicking me out." I spit out the words. "Wait why?" Juliet wanted an answer but I didn't want to give her an answer over the phone. "I'll explain later but can I stay with you for now?" I sounded pathetic, but what was I supposed to do? "Yes yes of course, do you need me to pick you up?" She offered. "No I'm fine I called a cab, they should be here shortly." I explained. "Okay we'll be here." I hung up the phone and sat on the sidewalk waiting for the cab to arrive. I had so many questions that needed to me answered. Why was Austin acting so strange? Does he really blame me for all this? Could I really have done something I save our parents lives? Why did my dad open the door why didn't he just hide as well? Did the man have anything to do with my dad? But most importantly why did this faceless man kill my parents?