Who Killed Lana?// Ryland Storms

• m e m o r i a l •

6th November 2021

"It's been a month." said Jaden. We are in Lana's memorial.

"A month without her light." said Mads. "I'm really missing her. I'm missing my sister." She said the last sentence looking at me.

I started to talking. "Lana was the purest soul I've ever met, she was extremely kind and she was a light for our world." I heard Cynthia, Nessa and Lauren talking and laughing. "Purest soul, what? She must be fucking with Satan in the hell." I turned to them. "Can you please leave?"

"What?" said Cynthia. "Addison I get it, you're sad but don't mess with us. We are trying to do our last duty to our beloved friend Lana."

"Saying bad words about her?" I said. "Anyways, I don't want any problem. Let's turn back to my speech. My heart is hurting because of lost of a beautiful soul like my sister, Lana." I heard them talking again. "She doesn't want problem. Bitch, there is always a problem if we are talking about Lana." said Nessa.

"Get the fuck of my sister's memorial." I said. "You three." I pointed Cynthia, Nessa and Lauren. "Get the fuck out."

"Excuse me." said Mads. "Addison, now you're the one who is ruining her memorial. Can you please finish your speech or...." I interrupted her. "Or what Mads? She is my sister, not yours. Stop saying that."

"Don't be jealous. I was a better sister to her than you." she said.

"Oh, you think so? So tell me where were you when she was dying? You supposed be her bridesmaid but where were you?" I yelled.

"Where were you Addison?" she yelled back. Jaden hold her.

"She didn't ask me to be her bridesmaid, she asked you. You supposed to be with her." I said.

"Exactly." said Mads. "She didn't even ask you. I guess we see how was your relationship."

I had no answer to this. I saw Ryland drinking the bottle of wine and he threw it on the floor. "Fuck both of you." He left there.

Kio came near me and he took me from the lectern.

"Are you happy now?" asked Noah. "You two ruined her memorial." he pointed me and Mads.

"Noah it's not the right time." said Kio. "Come Adds, let's leave here."

We went away from the crowd. "You can be right about Mads." he said. "She is acting different, I don't wanna say that but she might be killer and ahe might be trying to cover it."

"Yes." I said. "I'll kill this bitch with my hands."

"No, Addison, we are not sure. I'm just saying that she been acting weird. This might be just about her grief, maybe we are overreacting." he said. "Anyways, I'll leave you here, crying. Go and talk with Noah and I will say him I can't find you. When he came talk with him, remember this is your last chance. You're really talkative, actually you should have been friends with him till now."

"Thank you for everything, Kio." I said. "You're way more supportive than Ryland."

"Don't be so hard on him." he said. "It's not easy to see your wife laying on the floor with a bridal dress full of blood. Actually me and Jaden, we talked with him and suggested him to see a psychiatrist but he didn't want. He is literally a walking dead, I don't remember if I see him sober after Lana's death."

"I didn't see either." I said. "Kio how you can be so nice? I mean you're caring about Ryland, man, he is the one who stole your girl, he is your big love Lana's husband."

"So what?" he looked at me. " Lana was happy with him, why would I hate him for making the girl I love happy? I care about everyone Lana loved. Anyways, I'm leaving, stay here and cry."

He left, I was sitting and crying. What would Ryland do when he finds out I told Kio about plan? Probably he will send me to my sister. I laughed thinking of that, then Noah came into my sight and I started to cry again.

"Oh God, Addison you are here." he said hugging me. "I worried about you."

"Why?" I asked.

"Mads and you fought and I was a bit rude to you, you just walked away with Kio. Then Kio came and said 'She left and I couldn't find her, she was saying I'm a burden, wish Lana was here and I was dead instead of her. Everyone is right, maybe I should just kill myself.' Is it right? Do you really think like that?"

"Yes." I said admiring Kio's skills about lying. "Noah she deserves being alive more than me."

He hugged me tighter. "No, don't think like that."
He put his hands on my cheek. "I'm sorry about what I said. You didn't ruin her memorial, you're her sister and I understand that you love her so much and probably you're a bit angry to yourself for all this times you didn't talk with Lana but I'm sure she forgave you. Don't be mad at yourself, you know her, she must be forgave you."

  "Noah I'm angry to myself not be with her on her wedding day. If I was there maybe I could stop her from killing herself." I stopped and looked into Noah's eyes. "Unless it's a murder."

"What?" said Noah. "Do you think this could be a murder?"

"Yeah, I mean Lana was happy with Ryland, why would she kill herself before wedding?" I said.

"Because she wasn't really happy with Ryland and you guys didn't see how sad she is. She has bipolar, she was in manic for a while, she acted happy and you thought it's because of Ryland but then she get in depressed side of bipolar and she ended her life. Did you ever talk with her? Did she ever mention you how depressed she was? I saw her in her bad times. I was dating with her then." Why is he always lying? Noah, you are making me think of possibility of you being a killer.

"Noah the truth is I read her diary." I was about to say she always mentioned you as a friend and not more. So stop lying and confess you killed my sister but I stopped. "I knew that she's depressed but I didn't thought she could kill herself. You know her more than I do, if you think that's a suicide, maybe you're right."

"Of course I'm right." he said. "Let's turn back." He held out his hand. I hold it. "Thank you Noah."

"We are friends Addison, of course I would help you. By the way, promise me that you'll apologize to Mads. She is crying every night, she is feeling guilty because of not being with Lana on that day."
said Noah.

"Okay, I'll." I said.