A Cry Unheard

Chapter 5: A Day Unexpected

After along couple if days i wake up expecting the unexpected with my head swirling trying not to think of all the wrong that can happen today.

I check my parents room to see them asleep and my brother downstairs cooking breakfast. He gets a phone call and heads outside to talk on the phone.

Me have a strange feeling i go near the door and easedrop on the conversation he's having. I"m entirely confused by what i hear.

My brother says over the phone "i took care of it and no one will trace it back to us. Lost in shock i go back to the kitchen and sit down eating my breakfast trying to put the puzzle pieces together of what he could be talking about.

Is it possible my brother could be linked to the death of a teenager. I mean it can't be possible but then i think back to what my brother said before "if i told you why i came back you wouldn't the same reaction you do now".

But why would he come back? He had a full scholarship, a dorm, and he was in the city of angels, so why come back all of sudden and without notice too?

My brother walks back in and i start up a conversation asking him how was his night last. I'm very lost and stuck by his response "it was very messy and uneasy". It wasn't his response that had me confused but the tone and the emphasis he had said those exact words with.

I eat half my plate and start to head out the door when my brother stops me. I turn around and say whats up. My brother says i'm sure you're aware of the murder in the park last night so just be careful and be aware of who you trust, even the closest people to you.

I nod my head and walk out the door. As i get in the car to only see Taylor which i'm not really so surprised about since my other bestfriends girlfriend was found murdered in a park last night.

Taylor looks over at me and says "is everything ok, you look like you've got to vomit?!" I respond with no i'm ok it must just be the breakfast not cooperating with my stomach.

I mean how could i tell her the truth? How xan i tell her i think my brother murdered a teenage girl with no proof and just a gut feeling that my brother is hiding something deep? We arrive at school and everyone just has this gloomy look on their face because of the death from last night.

When we get to class we find out from our homeroom teachers that she had actually been missing since sunday night. My body locks on me and my heart sinks and i think to myself "Sunday night?", that's when my brother showed back up without even a heads up.

The bell rings and i link with Taylor as we go to first period together. As we're walking i'm stuck in a deep thought process trying to put pieces together that i'm not even sure fit right.

When we make it first period which is physical education we go into the locker room and change. I change and just sit there for a minute trying to shake this feeling of wonder and confussion.

A few moment later i stand up and close my locker when all of a sudden all the lights shut off and turn on my flashlight a few seconds later. I don't think to much of it until i hear a noise by the showers.

Now i know anyone in their right state of mind would've just ran out got the teacher. But no, i had to go see what it was that made that sound and maybe it might be the reason the lights turned off.

I walk towards the showers covered in darkness but for some odd reason i can feel eyes watching me. I get to the showers and see that one is running on high. I reach over to turn the knob when all of a sudden i hear something run right past me.

I'm frozen in place wondering what it could be. Could it be a dog or something that coild hurt me? I get a grip on myself and turn off the shower but when it cuts off something touches me and i jump and turn around to see nothing there.

I giggle for a moment and say to myself "see you're stressing so much you're starting to hallucinate". I start walking back to my locker, when i get back to my locker i sit for a second knowing that i'm already late to p.e. when i hear a sound but the end of the lockers.

I point my flashlight up slowly when i see a pair of eyes looking at me dead into my soul. I sprint out the locker room and tell my teacher what happened.

She says let's go check it out and everyone comes with. When we get back to the locker room all the lights are on and no ones in there. I try to tell my teacher i know what i saw but she says "it's ok we are all grieving and sometimes deep grief can make us see stuff that isn't there." I look at her snd just nod my head because truth be told maybe i was just hallucinating and no one was really there.

After p.e. the days goes by pretty fast since i'm pretty much in my head most of the day. When i get home i see that my brother isn't home. Being caught up in my intuition i search my brothers room and get stuck by what i find.