INFERNO: The Fiery Inception

CHAPTER 4

The body was identified as aunt Marie's and I felt like a thousand knives were struck to the same part of my body, I cried again. I couldn't move, how can I live on with this, it was my fault. Something told me that it wasn't her who should've died. It was getting hard to breath, my breaths turning into short gasps as I tried to take in oxygen. My mind becoming a mess.

They say we cry when someone dies but eventually move on but I doubted if I can. Will I ever be able to move on from this? Can I forgive myself for not being here? Will I ever be able to forgive myself for not being able to something to safe an old lady from death because of my foolishness? My mom came and hugged me

"it's okay Charlie it's not your fault" she said but it wasn't true, it was my fault, only if I hadn't gone to the cafe. Only if I was here, I could have done something.

"I'm sorry mom for not asking your permission to go to the cafe, it is my fault. If i didn't have gone there..." I said.

"we'll talk about that later" she said. She kissed me on the forehead and held my face close to hers, her face was red by crying so was mine

"Don't blame yourself Charlie it's not like you did it intentionally you never thought something like this would happen, and even if you were here I'm afraid there wouldn't have been much that you could do, you could have gotten hurt yourself" she said and when I looked into her eyes they seemed guilty. A police officer approached me and mom and spoke to us.

"You need to come to police station" he was not wasting any time, he didn't even introduce himself.

"Why?" mom asked.

"To question you of course. You are her close family and the last one she called before her death." He said.

"Can Charlie not come with us, she's not in a state to come to a police station" dad asked He police officer. I only noticed him standing there when he spoke, he was standing next to mom he looked like he was crying too and it took a lot to hold it back now. Unlike me he was very close to aunt Marie, she was his mother's sister but since my dad's mom died she was like a mother to him. It felt very weird seeing dad cry and it hurt me to see him like that.

"I fear she has to come with you" the officer said. He looked like he didn't want me to be involved in all this, but it was his duty he had to question us, to question me. There was no other way around.

We went to police station in the officers car and not ours, why? I don't know. After we reached the station we went to his office and I was feeling scared, why again? I don't know again.

"Take a seat" he said. We all sat.

"Now Charlie tell me what happend" he was watching me.

"I don't know" I said.

"Then tell me what you know" he pressed further.

"I...today morning mom told me to go to aunt Maries house because her caretaker was not there because of some emergency. I was about to go when my friends called me for meeting up in a cafe. I thought I'll be back within a few minutes and it'll be okay but when I came back..." I told him everything, my voice breaking at the end.

"So your saying the house was already burning when you reached the site?" He asked me.

"y..yes" I stuttered. Tears were now freely rolling down from my eyes.

"What kind of emergency did the caretaker have to leave before Charlie reached there?" The officer asked mom.

"She said something about her mother, I'm not sure though" mom replied.