Who Killed Lana?// Ryland Storms

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4th February 2022

I woke up and found myself cuddling with Kio. I wanted to stay like this forever but being close to him just make things worse for me.

I get up from the bed and went downstairs, saw Ryland sitting and talking, I guess he was crying too. I started to watch him behind. He was holding a picture of Lana.

  "No Lana, I'm not angry." he said. "I'm in pain and you brought me here. The person who supposed to love me more than anything."

"Morning idiot." said Bryce sitting on a couch, K kept watching them. "Are you high again? Why are you talking with my girlfriend's picture?"

"Shut the fuck up." said Ryland. "We are alone here, there is no one to impress, you don't have to lie." Then he wiped his tears. "Oh wait, you're trying to lie to yourself. Ah, you want to remember her as your girlfriend, huh? But she was my wife, bruh, and she will always be."

"No, you didn't get married. And I am the last person she kissed before she died." he said.

What? Did he just confess he killed Lana? I turned the recorder on.

  "What?" said Ryland. "You motherfucker, I always knew it was you." He get up and walked to Bryce.

  "Wait, what?" said Bryce. I saw something different in his eyes. An emotion that I never saw before in Bryce. Fear, I guess. Is it enough to be sure that Bryce is killer?

  "Don't play dumb, you killed Lana." Ryland put his hands on Bryce's neck. Should I go and stop them? Ryland we need the killer alive.

"How you can think something like this?" said Bryce. Ryland tightened his hands.

"Don't lie." he yelled.

"Let. Me. Explain." Bryce barely spoke.

Ryland took his hands off and looked at Bryce, "Speak!" he ordered.

"I don't know what you think but I meant the night before the wedding, remember I kissed her. I was stupid, I couldn't think I would sound like I killed...her." he put his hands on his eyes, wiped his tears, I guess.

"Ryland excuse my behavior, I was just so deeply in love with her and still can't believe she is gone. She killed herself and I don't even know why she did this. I know my speech after her death was so stupid and inappropriate but I was using drugs and you were right about lying to yourself thing. Yeah, I was lying to myself cause I always wanted her to love me..."

"Bullshit." said Ryland. "Don't think I believe this." Then he left, Bryce walked to his room.

  I went to Ryland's room. His door was locked and he didn't open it.

  "Ryland, please open the door." I said.

"Addison I don't wanna see you now." said Ryland. "So I'm gently asking you to fuck off."

  "Okay." I said sadly and went to living room. I started to thinking about what can I do for being sure that Bryce is killer.

  Noah is obsessed but he can't be a killer, at least his friends said that. Mads is in the therapy so I can't talk to her right now, Ryland tried Avani but apparently she is not killer, so our last option is Bryce.

  Would he do that?

  Am I know my ex boyfriend enough to say he wouldn't do that?

  When I was thinking, door opened and Noah came in, with Dixie and Charli.

  I wanted to get up and hug them but I didn't. They saw me sitting on the couch, everyone except me was in their room. Noah came and hugged me.

  "Hi bestie." he said.