Closer

Chapter One.

December 24th, 2003.

When the snow began to fall and trees of many kinds began to fold and covered themselves for the spring with layers of snows, the house on the Madden Hills was no far out for the preparation of the coming winter and wishing and hoping for the year to end.

The wood crack and blow out the sparks in the fireplace while the young couple shares their blissful rum and red wine as they watched their only child happily sprawled his new toys next to them and created a scene of a very epic stories in front of them.

As they were laughing and carefully follow through what the boy had said to them the door on their family room came knocking. And then entered a middle aged woman, seemingly prepared to face the cold night as she quickly fixed her scarf over her head and displayed a wide smile, displaying her straight teeth and sighed,

"I'm off to go! Happy Holiday everyone!" She picked up her feet and off to the hallway.

And the family happily smiled and replied in sync, "Happy Holiday Gina!" —"Have a safe trip, Gina." The wife added.

The husband sighed, "Hey, sport! Why don't we go and say farewell to Gina before she flew back to Italy." He nudged the boy on the floor.

He didn't wanna leave the set yet but he knows better. He followed his parents to the door and watched their driver closing the door for her. He didn't even get to see her getting inside the car.

"What are we gonna do without her, honey?" The wife sighed but she didn't get anything back from him.

Soon, the night falls in and fast. All of the butlers and chefs and night watchers bid their goodbyes to them as they are coming up for the winter holiday.

The huge Madden Hills Mansion was left surprisingly less homey when half of their in-house workers left home for the holidays.

They were not big on having strangers in the house for the longest time so, when the boy wakes up to a loud shrieks down the hall from his room in the middle of the night, he couldn't help but being curious to know who else was in the house besides them.

He calls for his parents but non of them answered, he slowly made his way to the only lit-up room in the entire house and soon realises that's where the sound came from.

His breathing was fast but maintained the sound as he spied on the situations. He have done this a lot of times, especially when his father is in his office, writing things and making a calls. But something tells him that this wasn't the same thing that he felt when he spied on his father. No, this was something different and real.

"We've been patient enough to watch you guys rising up like new money in the sky, being a pretentious face of this town! You think you can get away with such power and forget about us? I will ask you again, where is the document?" The guy spat. Pacing around in the room. All the books are scattered on the floor, any objects that used to be on the table are now on the floor.

"Let me be clear, that documents with 50 million dollars was signed and sealed for me! But you fucking stole it. Stole it! You son of bitch!" The guy yelled in frustration as he kicked on a lifeless body laying on the floor. No sound came out of the man even though the impact on the body must have been brutal.

The bad guy was wearing a mask but, he was no doubt  a huge man he had ever seen. He had a silver chain hanging on his chest. He looks and sounds familiar but he couldn't exactly put a finger on where he might have seen him.

Maybe its because of a cold blooded murdering sight he just witness makes his mind fogged with confusion and doubt. His feet turns cold and he could almost feel himself moving forward to help the victim of their assault.

"You will never get away with this, never!" The woman scream with blood in her mouth, the boy's eyes widen when he saw blood on all over the floor. He couldn't move his feet and his eyes couldn't blink. What have he woken up to? Hell? What is going on with his mother!

"Wait till I wiped out every Westbay in this town. You selfish bitch!" The guy kicked him
on her stomach making her groaned in pain. Her breathing was ragged as he continues to put his heavy feet on top of her and stomped her again.

"Mom!" He gasp. He immediately covered his mouth as he knows the bad guy could hear him.

"I forgot about the mini-Westbay!" the other guy chuckled sending every wrong signals to the boy.

The man who stood on top of her turns to look at the door creaks open. He sneered and produced a loud growl and then kicked the woman as if she was just an object. He move his feet towards the door and that's when Nathan made a move towards the hallway with tears in his eyes. He moved his trembling legs down to the great hall and snuck out of the back door and left as a loud thud of the bad guy footsteps followed behind him.

He wanna called for help but he knows there's no hope in it, for it was 2 in the morning when this happened. Besides, their house is up in the hills and the nearest neighbour they had is down to the mountains about a couple of miles away from here. He ran through the woods in a cold snowy night. He only wears his slippers and his night robe so the cold hits every part of his body quicker than usual. Even though he is only a kid, he is smart enough to wait and hide in the woods until morning comes.

The bad guy lurks around him for the rest of the night but this is his special hiding place where no one could ever find him before. It was cold and scary but, he stay awake for the rest of the night waiting for the dawn to break.

Since he carefully hides behind the bush he was very familiar with , it was actually a place where he played hide and seek with his father all the time. He sits down and try not to make any sound until the bad guy left.

When morning arise, he ran towards his grandparents house and cried for help. He couldn't understand what happened that night. He couldn't talk or say anything because he was in so much shock. But, the police quickly took care of the mess and cleared the whole place for investigations. They found nothing around the areas. No footprint, no tracks, and no fingerprint to examine.

It only took half a day until the news broke the entire town and the whole country to announce the death of 33 year-old, multi-Millionaire Cole Westbay and his wife Georgie Silva Westbay. Murdered on Christmas Eve in 2003. Leaving their only child a 10 year old boy, Nathan C. Westbay II. They couldn't find the murderer since they couldn't do any further investigations around the house with no security cameras or footage most people ended up believing that it had to do with some family issues. Nathan, the only person who came out without a scratch in his body was just a kid and besides he can't think or say anything about the night of the murder. Leaving people in distress.

It didn't took long before people began to run speculations on him and started to points their fingers at the family itself. Blaming them for being a threat to a society. It was the time of Christmas and nothing like that news ever hit the town for over a years. So, being the quiet kid into the public eyes, Nathan was blamed for the murder of his parents.

The story starts as a horror and then continues as a tale of the town and people still murmurs about it while Nathan was put under the wings of his billionaire grandfather. He was isolated from the outside world when he had a severe emotional issues coming as a teen. He was struggling to sleep with the lights off and play with people he wasn't familiar with. His mind and his thinking could not be anywhere further. Every night its all he could think about. Every night for almost ten years he struggles to concentrate on things.

Almost a decades later, Nathan began to see the lights of day as he started to make his comeback from a boarding school with his wingman and came back in town. Holding the position of Chairman in his father's company. He finally made a decision to make it back home once his parents house was renovated into a one of a kind bachelor pad in town. He didn't just came home to celebrate what he have achieved as the youngest Chairman in the history of the Cole Westbay's Company. No, he came back what none of the people of this town didn't do for the justice of his parents. Nathan Cole Westbay Jr is back in town to take his long awaited avenge.

None of the people in town  could believe what a flimsy kid ten years ago could do.