the parallel dimension

A clue??

The next morning, I woke I felt........ wrong.?

Why do I feel so awful?

The accident...

Mom...

Principles words. ....

I got up and threw up whatever was left in my stomach.

I was hungry. Because last night I hadn't eaten anything and when I was alone I had finally let myself cry.

I let myself wash my face and then allowed my mind to tell me all the horrible thing.

My mom is dead.

There's no one left for me.

I am an orphan now.

Orphan. The word felt like a blow to my whole body.

I let myself take a shower then I left my room.

My phone in my hand. And of course there's no call from my friends.

They know how much I hate those ' I feel bad for you' shits.

I was about to close my room's door when I heard voices.

The smallest part of my brain expected it to be mom arguing with selene or someone.

I choked back the tears and moved further to saw someone was standing at the door clearly trying to get inside. And other was my grandma.

"Look ma'am, it's urgent we need to get inside. "

"She needs some time alone".my grandma firmly replied.

I recognised the voice. Riley.

" No she fu-" Sebastian started to say but Riley punched him in the ribs
"...foolishly don't " He corrected himself rubbing his rubs.

"Grandma let them" I heard myself say and inwardly cringed at how raw it sounded.

Sebastian and Riley both looked at me and smiled and then completed the distance and hugged me.

We just stayed like that then Sebastian said"come, we are going somewhere".

But he didn't waited for me to answer.
He just took my hand and followed to his car.

"But she has a funeral to attend" My grandma was shouting.

"It's okay if she misses, she can attend yours" Sebastian shouted back.

And despite myself I laughed.

"SEBASTIAN!!!! " Riley said, but I saw she was laughing too.

Soon my house was out of sight.

"Where are we going? " I asked.

"License". Sebastian said with a mischievous grin on his face.

" But I am not-". I was going to say 16 yet, then I realise today is my birthday.

I have forgotten.

"Here open this" Riley said giving me a gift wrapped rectangular box.

I opened it and found a book.

On its first page was written " If we can't do it, we'll do it anyways"

It was quote I had said two or three years ago, now it's our motto.

I was too emotional to even say anything.

"Where's Aaron? " I asked.

"He couldn't make it" Riley told me.

I nodded. Aaron family is strict and he hardly talks about them. So I am not surprised he hadn't came.

After 2 hours we were sitting at a restaurant, when my grandma called me to come back and get ready for the funeral.

"You don't have to go, Amren if you don't want to" Riley said, giving me a side hug.

"Yeah, we can make it to two funeral. " Sebastian said.

I laughed.

Riley slapped him on the head "what has she ever done to you".

Riley and Sebastian dropped me at my home.

When I entered my home I didn't realised how much I was expecting to see mom preparing cake for me.

But only person present was my
Grandma, who was talking on her phone.
She was dressed in black.

I shook my head. She don't even know her daughter hated black.

I was outside my room when the door beside my room opened and Selene walked out.

Her eyes were red. She quickly looked away.

Whatever she said I know she misses her as much as I do.

I feel awful that I hadn't even thought about her when I left.

I got into my room and dressed myself in clothes as much colorful as possible.

After funeral, inspector Simon approached me

" Hello Amren"

"Hello Simon" I said.

And yes We are on first name basis because I have known Simon since I had started walking. He was a close friend of my Dad.

"I have something to show you" He took out a paper from his pocket" Read this".

It was  a crumbled paper but I recognised the handwriting.

"Is it-" I asked looking at him.

He nodded. "It was in her hand when she uh.. "

Died. I added silently.

I started reading it-

The one supposed to be dead
Is alive
The one to blame
Is innocent.
Illus-

The word was incomplete. Thats when she crashed.

"Why was she writing a riddle? " I had meant to ask it as a question but it came out angrily.

Why wasn't she concentrating at driving??

"I don't know. We are trying to find it out. But so far we haven't got any clue. Most are saying that it's just a riddle but I don't think that Amren. Your mother was a strong woman. She won't do anything stupid. Just think about it when you are not angry. "

" I am not angry! "
I said........ Angrily?

Simon just chuckled and left.

"Everything okay? " Riley asked.

I shook my head. Because nothing is okay.

"Where is selene? " I asked.

"She left with your grandma. " Sebastian said.

"Aaron still hasn't come? "

They shook their head sadly.

They have started talking about something but mind was having a war about whether I should show them the letter or not.

At last I let out a breath and said, " Guys I think my mom was murdered"

~end of ch 3~

what do you think about the riddle??
Is it some silly riddle or..... Is it some type of clue??