“Everyone is a moon and has a dark side, which he never shows to anyone”
Mark Twain.
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A little girl walks out of her bedroom with a teddy bear tucked under her arm, the thunder from outside makes the girl flinch and she increases her pace. She had to get to her parents' room, the thunder was scaring her to no end.
As she was about to knock on the door to her parents' room she hears an ear splitting scream. For a second the girl freezes staring at the door, the scream had come from the room. Her body couldn't move and her thoughts went wild, by the time she get back to her senses she realizes that her brother was standing in front of her trying to open the door to their parents' room.
“That...that was mommy screaming” the little girl says, and for the first time her elder brother notices her standing there.
He stops his attempt to open the door and turns back to his little sister, he kneels in front of her and puts his hands on her shoulders, “Aria! Can you go back to your room...I'll call you back again...okay?”
“I'm scared...I can't go back, please let me stay with you please Harry” Aria pleads with her brother.
Harry uses his thumb to rub off Aria's tears then he pulls her in for a tight hug.
Harry moves back and turns to try and open the door, but before he could do anything the door is pulled open. Their father Mr Bauer stands there with his shirt soaked in blood and his eyes puff and his hair a mess.
Harry pulls Aria and covers her face “what happened?” Harry asked in a panicked voice. Mr Bauer looks at his kids and walks away in a hurry.
The thunder strikes again and Aria flinches in her brother's arms, Harry carried his little sister in his arms and walks in the room cautiously. The scene in front of him was shattering, Harry had to put his palm over Aria's eyes. Their mother's body was sprawled on the floor with blood soaking her white pajama.
“get out right now” Mr Bauer yelled at his son as he walked in the room with cleaning equipments. “what have you done?” Harry asked raising his voice so that his voice could be heard over the loud noise of the rain and thunder outside.
“take Aria outside right now...we will talk after you have helped me cleaning this up. ” Mr Bauer replied.
Harry walks out of the room with Aria still in his hands, he goes to put her back to her bed and promises to return soon.
Harry walks in his parents' room with dark thoughts clouding his mind, he didn't know what to expect from his father. From all he saw he could just be walking back to his own death or to become an accomplice to a murderer.
“remove the bedsheets” Mr Bauer ordered as he pulled up the zip to the body bag he had put his wife in.
Once they were done with cleaning the room, they walk out of the house into the heavy rain. Mr Bauer carried a shovel in one arm and the other arm secured the body bag on his shoulder. He digs a big hole and throws the body in it, he covers the place and pulls his son along with him into the house.
“You and Aria will be leaving early in the morning tomorrow I have already booked a flight. ” he explained to his son as they stood in the kitchen with their drenched clothes. “what happened dad?, why did you kill her?” Harry asked in a calming yet dangerous tone.
Mr Bauer's eyes widen “ I didn't kill her, I could never do that ”
“ then what happened...and don't lie to me”
“ son, your mother's mental health hasn't been stable and I'm sure you have noticed it over the months” he paused to let Harry sink in the information and agree to his words.
“ so, what does that have to do with the situation we are in? ” Harry asked crossing his hands on his chest to look intimidating.
“ she found out about my relationship with my secretary at work and she lost it, she wanted to end everything. She wanted to kill you and Aria so that you won't have find out about my affair. But when I told her you already knew about it she got angry and frustrated. She tried to kill me and I held her off, when she saw that she couldn't kill me she resulted to killing herself. Harry your mom had lost it she knew I didn't want to stay married to her anymore”
“ so you're sending us away to get your freedom, isn't it?...you don't want us to be a burden when you marry your slut Secretary ” Harry snaps, he was angry at his father for what he did.
They both knew that Mrs Bauer had been on the edge of losing her sanity for months, ever since Mr Bauer had said he wanted to get a divorce. She truly loved her husband and the thought of being separated from him was too much for her, but when she found out about the affair she had completely lost it. It was either she killed her husband so that nobody else could have him or she killed herself and doesn't have to see him happy with someone else.
“ I should have told her when I found out about your affair, this is all my fault. I caused this, I brought this upon my mother. ” Harry slid down the floor with his back to the kitchen counter.
His shoulders start to shake as he cried, “ Harry you telling her couldn't have changed anything. ” Mr Bauer couldn't move close to comfort his son, he had seen the anger in his eyes and knew what would happen if he touched him.
“ at least she wouldn't have died thinking I betrayed her, I shouldn't have hid your disgusting fling from her. ” Harry rubs his eyes and gets up from the floor already making up his mind “ you were a coward to tell her about your stupid affair and now you are going to hide this whole thing from the police. ”
“ Harry we can't tell this to anyone, please...just keep this between us” he pleads with his son.
Harry looks at his father with disgust “ I'm not helping you anymore, I'm done taking your side. I should have come to that conclusion a long time ago. You're pathetic you know that? ” he pushed his father aside and walks through the door.
Mr Bauer hadn't expected Harry to actually call the police but when he hears the sirens approaching he panics. He was scared of going to jail, although he knew he didn't kill his wife but it was still suspicious that instead of calling the police he had resulted to hiding the body.
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