Trapped In a Mind She Kills || awaited sequel to: Trapped In Kio Cyr

Chapter 5 : "demon by night."

Word Count: 1241

Josh POV:

    The doctor says a few words to Emma's aunt and cousins then starts to walk away until Emma bolts up and shouts,

"Wait!"

She quickly turns around eyeing Emma as her weak body gets up to walk towards the doctor.

"I-I understand. But- this ... this couldn't have been an accident," she breathes heavily.

"Don't think I'm crazy but ... this was one of her biggest restrictions. She was to never drink alcohol like that. Especially an excessive amount. You can tell me this was a suicide but my mother loved me, and she'd never leave me alone like that. So listen to what I'm telling you and listen closely," Emma says with a deep voice that catches everybody's attention.

Dr. Orozco goes closer to Emma, her ears perking up with every word the wise brunette says.

"How easy is it for someone to slip alcohol in a cup and get a human to drink it. Doesn't take a genius does it?" Emma spills.

"This was not any sort of slip up Dr, it was .. this was planned. We don't have any alcohol that she could've drank that much of," she says pacing back and forth. I can't tell if she's actually insane or if she has a point.

"Are you saying that this was a homicide?" Dr. Orozco asks furrowing her brows as the words come out.

"I don't know but it's a possibility right? It makes sense. She totally just crashed and fell off  of her chair. I don't think she was expecting that. And the alcohol lead to her having a seizure which caused more and more. Somebody tried to kill her! Don't you see?" Emma yells. She goes towards the doctor grabbing her shoulders and shaking them with every ounce of strength that small girl has.

I look to Vereena, she gives me a look like 'help her for christ's sake'. Although who do I help? She couldn't have killed herself, and I think she knows her restrictions on alcohol. What if Emma isn't actually crazy?

I run up to her and pull Emma away. Emma gives me this look that nobody can ignore. It's a beg for help and cry for someone to hear her out. She so close to my face that her eyes are just looking into my soul,

"I'm not crazy Josh ... somebody must have killed her. I'm sure of it!" she whispers but Dr. Orozco overhears.

"Emma dear, if what you're telling me is true. I can get in touch with law enforcement," she calms Emma down. All of us including me look at her, there's no way. It could be true but I didn't think she'd actually listen to her.

Emma has a light of hope in her eyes but darkness follows along with it as she goes into a deeper thought ...

Could she know who did this?

...

Emma Pov:

My brain can't seem to focus on anything but the big white mansion in front of my patio. Trevor walks out with his mother holding his hand on her back, the way he looks down at her. Like his strength overpowers her and he can do anything he wants. Simply push her down the stairs she's so slowly walking down.

How soft could his hands have been when he broke into my house, quietly opened a liquor bottle, and Roofied my now dead mother?

He catches my glare and we make eye contact. It's a heavy stare, the more and more I look in, I get captured. What is in there?

It looks like he moves closer to me but a black car pulls up covering him from my view. Kio.

The same time the car pulls up, my front door opens and Vereena comes out carrying two cups of coffee. She hands me mine and looks out to the black car before she takes a seat.

Kio, the perfect suspect. He knows his ways inside my household, and he almost killed me. Why would he want to kill my mother but not me? Well, for power, it makes so much sense. He loves being the dominant. The way his soul is hidden behind those terrifying black shades. He can be an innocent smile to the passenger by day, but is truly a demon by night. 

Why wouldn't he kill her? That's not a question to be answered because simply it can't be, he's as evil as I've thought he ever was. But if my heart can't escape right now ...

I don't think I'll ever get out.

Kio comes closer and places his hand on my neck, just then I get a flash of what happened just a few days ago.

The way he pushed me under the water, I didn't see death. I saw a light, my way out. I could make it out .. if I stayed under the water and swam to that very light. So I didn't fight. Instead, I used every muscle to swim to my gate out of hell. But I couldn't, he kept me captive in my hell. When he held a hand on my neck like he's doing right now. The gate is nowhere to be seen though. That's a sign of my hope gone. I'm gone.

"Is Josh home?" Kio asks.

"No, he's at a friends house I think," I tell him lowly.

"K well I'm gonna go chill, let's go babe," he says grabbing my hand, I shiver a little bit then take it.

He takes me upstairs into my dark room. I flop onto my bed looking at the ceiling. He joins me, our heads right beside each other.

"When my dad left, my mom was like my best friend. We did everything together. And yesterday, I asked myself what if she did want to leave? She didn't have me, I disappeared a long time ago. She had nobody, she was alone. What if she doesn't want me to look for her? She got out of her hell, and I shouldn't fuck that up should I?" I say laughing a little but also feeling drizzles of tears.

"How could you say that Emma? She loved you, there's no way she'd make you feel that much grief. The only grief you're feeling could be punishment for her actions and now you're paying for it. Or simply .. mother damn nature," Kio replies back while lightly trailing his hand on mine making little shapes. His last sentence throws me off and causes me to leave a ringing silence in the room.

"You're all I have, you know?" I whisper so lightly I could barely hear myself. He squeezes my hand,

"And I'm not leaving any time soon."

He's not, but I have to.

"Can you promise me something?" I ask, "if you leave me .. don't say goodbye."

"We didn't exactly say hi at first considering we bumped into each other's lives. So ... yes Emma White Alcantara I promise," he whispers back.

"Me too," I reply softly.

"I have an idea to cheer us up, there's a party tonight," he says.

I laugh a little before responding, "oh come on, you know those never end up well for me."

"You need to smile at least once today, come on it'll be fun, let's just go."

"Okayy," I oblige.

"Okay?"

"Yea, let's have some fun," I smile.

Please don't punish me earth.