Who Killed Lana?// Ryland Storms

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  "I hate this city." I said looking out of window. "Do they have to celebrate every Halloween big parties?"

  "It's normal Addison." said Jaden. "Life just stopped for us. The others keep living."

"Fuck them." said Ryland drinking whiskey.

"Ryland you should stop drinking." said Jaden. "You passed out this morning, at least for today, no more drugs no more alcohol. Or I will call someone from hospital to send you rehab."

  Ryland laughed. "You used to do this big brother protecting to Lana, now you're doing this for me."

  Jaden took the bottle and glass in Ryland's hand. "Lana was caring you a lot. If she cares, I care too. You're entrusted to me from her."

   Ryland looked at me. "Halloween was the favorite time of year for Lana."

   "Yes it was." I said. I looked at Ryland's and Jaden's face. "Do you wanna hear some Halloween memories from our childhood?"

  "Please." said Jaden with glossy eyes.

"We were 5 years old and Lana has no friends then. Everyone was thinking she was a weirdo. Anyways, I had a lot of friends and we decided to be Disney princesses for Halloween. I asked Lana to join us, she said okay but she wanted to be a devil. Seriously why a five year old girl wanted to be a devil? Mom and dad didn't let her but she did. She was a devil in Halloween."

Ryland laughed. "I guess she will cheat on me with devil in the hell till I go there."

"Probably." said Jaden. "Don't be surprised if you see her as the queen of hell."

We laughed and talked a while, then Jaden left the house and turned back to Sway.

"Why did you come?" asked Ryland. "In the 6 am."

"Me and mom, we had an argument. Anyways, thank God, I came. What if I didn't come at 6 am?"

"Nothing would happen." said Ryland. "It's not my first time. Actually I'm surprised you called Jaden, I thought you'd know what to do because of Lana."

"She overdosed once but I didn't see her. My mom and dad sent her to hospital, then rehab. I remember her first night when she came out of rehab. She was snorting cocaine again. When I saw her like this is her room I started to yelling at her. I said right now I'm gonna call my mom and she will send you to rehabilitation again. She looked at my face and smiled and said 'Did you really think I'd stay clean just because of I was sent to the rehab?' Then she kept using drugs, you already know how much of a addict she was."I said.

  He laughed.It was the saddest laugh I've ever heard. "Tell me more about her. I want to hear."

  I started to talking him about my childhood memories of Lana.

  "Addison, I heard there will be a huge halloween party in Hype House, I think we should go there." said Ryland.

  "It's been only 22 days since she's gone." I said. I don't want to party when she is unable to do.

  "Yes but Sway and Hype will be there. Avani too. We can go there and observe them. Also what we talked before? We need to act normal. We have to spend time with them and make them talk about Lana's death. Specially Mads, Avani, Bryce and Noah. This two motherfucker talked shit about my wife."

"They are lying, Bryce is definitely lying but to me Noah is lying too. Lana didn't even mentioned him in her diary." I said to calm Ryland down.

   "She wrote she started to seeing Noah, also she has a part for Noah in her suicide letter. She ended his part saying 'I love you.' I think they really dated." said Ryland. "Which makes a possibility of Noah being killer. Maybe they really dated but Lana  left him to be with me, that's why Noah was angry and he killed Lana on her wedding day. That makes a lot of sense."

  "Yeah, when you think like that, it's possible to him being a killer. But Bryce did the same too. Also he lied about their relationship after Lana's death. Maybe he was just jealous? Also Avani is literally went missing. Do you know where she is?" I asked.

  "No. I didn't see her since we broke up. By the way, I never loved her, I was just using her, she was using me too. What about Mads? She was with Lana every single day except her wedding. Isn't it suspicious? We are talking about a lot of money Addison.Lana was one of the richest woman in the world. She has more money than I can ever imagine. Doesn't matter how close friends you are, someone can kill the other for this money. It's a quit good reason. They said they donated the money but where? Or maybe they just donated a small size of money just to cover up their murder." said Ryland.

  "I don't want to see Jaden or Mads as a suspect." I said. "But thinking about the legacy that Lana gave to them, it's nearly 9 billion dollars, they can't be donated all the money."

"Yes, 9 billion dollars. I don't even know how many zeros in billion."

I laughed. "Nine Ryland. Was your math always this bad?"

"If I was good at math I would be an engineer not a drug addict low life Tiktoker." he said. "Mads was always crying lately. Jaden said she is crying because she didn't want to leave Lana. I don't know why but she was thinking Lana will leave them when we get married. It's so stupid, why would she cry about that, it's so stupid. I think she was crying because she didn't want to kill Lana but the legacy was so much. Also they knew that she thought about killing herself. They knew our passwords, they could get in our home everytime they wished. Jaden was out with me, he kept me away from home while Mads was killing Lana."

"Oh God." I said pulling my hair with my fingers. "How will I look them again without thinking about it? What if they are the killers? Jaden cried a lot in Lana's funeral, I don't want to believe he could plan her death."

Ryland looked at me. "We are not living in a fairy tale hunny, this is real world. You better believe everyone could be dangerous, everyone could be a killer. Just like Lana said in her song. 'You'd never knew the psychopath sitting next to you.' I don't even trust you. When this'll be done, we will go to our own ways.There was only one person I trust and I lost her."

"Ryland I will ask you a question and I want you to be honest. In the times that you cheated on her again and again, were you in love with her?" I asked.

"Yeah, she made me feel a different way but I don't know. I've been a fuckboy since the highschool. I was always fucking different girls in every night, that was a habit for me. I was in love with her but I still wanted to fuck another girls. I didn't treat her the way she deserved. This is my biggest regret." he said. "Anyways, it's late now. I think it would be better you turn to your house."

"And you?" I said. "What you'll do? Overdose again and try to kill yourself? No Ryland, I'll stay here."

"No one understand." he yelled. "No one." He looked at me into my eyes. "Getting high is the only way to reach to Lana. When I reach there, I can have a contact with Lana, that's only beautiful moments in my life, please don't take it from me."
He went to upstairs while I was leaving his house.