Justice for Julie

Chapter 7

Chapter 7

                He looked up and saw me. I tried to run away but he was at my side grabbing my arm. Screaming, I tried to break away but I couldn't.

                "You're hurting me," I gasped through tears.

                "Listen to me," He yelled and grabbed my shoulders and grabbed my shoulders tight then shook me. I tried pushing away from him but he slapped me. I fell to the floor. He reached for me but Jack jumped in his way and punched him in the nose.

                "LEAVE HER ALONE," He yelled and punched his nose again. Ryan grabbed his nose, screaming, and crumbled to the floor.

                Jack hauled me up and dragged me out of the house. We made it to the apartment complex and then I broke down crying again. Jack led me to my room.

                Heart hurting, mind racing, I realized the truth.

    "Ryan killed her," I croaked.

                Jack shook his head in frustration.

                    "He is a jerk," he announced, "But not a murderer."

                Jack got my some ice for the slap and bruises Ryan caused me and I fell asleep, tears in my eyes.

                It came to me through a dream. I was at a tattoo parlor getting a tattoo on my neck of a shark, in black ink. Then I woke up, it was not much of a dream but it was enough. I knew Julie sent that dream to me, I could feel her touching my heart. Jack was asleep in my desk chair so I decided to take a shower. By the time I was done he was awake.

                "We can locate the killer by the tattoo on his neck," I called from my closet were I was getting dressed.

     "We don't know what it looks like," He reminded.

                "It was a shark," I announced. I know it was stupid to trust on a dream I had but I trusted it was from Julie. Today was the day I would find my sister's murderer, I was sure of that.