the chaos of longing, phan

twelve

Five minutes later Dan sat in the interrogation room. There was a redhead officer silently writing down something on the paper on the wall.
He wrapped his arms around himself, the violent white light was giving him a headache.

"Mr. Howell," The officer said upon sitting down across from him. "Do you know why you're here?"

Dan stared at the frightening man in front of him for a long time then muttered the only answer he knew under his breath. "Phil."

"Yes, Are you aware of the fact that Philip Lester and Charlotte Morris went missing at the same time as the murder of Leo Morris happened?"

Dan couldn't help but smiled a little. Philip sounded so weird.

The officers narrowed his brows and Dan cleared his throat, "Yes. I don't know about Charlotte Morris, but I can promise you, sir, that Phil could never be a murderer. You know Phil."

"I do." The officer pinched the bridge of his nose and sighed.

Phil could never do such things... because Dan knew his best friend...

Phil Lester would only bring joy and light to this world.

He remembered one time on Halloween, he and the kids had planned to jump out of a bush to scare Phil. It did scare the shit out of him, but Phil had also dropped his cup on the ground and made Mr.Carter's tulip garden smelled like coffee for two days; he remembered another time he'd burned his finger while making scrambled eggs in Phil's kitchen, and when Phil tried to remove the pan to check on his injury, Phil burned his finger just like the way he did, they'd laughed so hard.

Recalling those memories, Dan smiled to himself.

"Mr. Howell."

"Huh? What? Sorry."

"I said, what kind of relationship do you have with the Morris twins? What do you know about them?" The officer looked through some files on the desk.

"Not much," Dan replied.

"Please be more specific," The officer clicked his pen, but Dan couldn't think of anything, he thought he must look confused because when the officer raised his head to look at Dan, he just nodded then asked the next question.

"Do you recall anything they've done that might be seen as an abnormal behavior?"

Oh That! The question brought one memory back to him so fast he uncontrollably burst out. "Yes! Yes! I do! A few months ago on Christmas I saw Char- "

"Please slow down, Mr. Howell. Could you ple-"

The officer didn't get to finish his sentence, some loud shouting outside startled them both. Then there was a voice from the speakers on the table. "Robertson! Emergency!" Dan could hear the panic in that officer's voice.

"What?" Officer Roberson answered irritatedly.

"We just got a report that the Morris' house is on fire!"

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an: ok I just noticed I wrote 'Ms. Carter' in some chapters instead of 'Mrs. Carter' (she's married) but it's difficult to edit so sorry if ur confused lol