Skulls In Silk

Five

Jesse

It's been about 20 minutes since Gerald came and has been decrypting the drive. I was high key curious in what we would find on that thing. For all we know it could have information that could bankrupt the state or some nuclear codes or some shit. I shook those thoughts out of my head when I heard Gerald say something. I guess I should just be prepared for anything at this point.

"I'm in" he said rolling back from the desk and allowing me to take a look at the screen. One by one, what looked like hundreds of files and photos started popping up on the screen. Yeah, there was definitely potential to cause some damage here. It makes sense now why it was encrypted. "Damn, what is all that?" I asked thinking out loud. "Not sure, but from the looks of the few in front, these are old records of transactions, bank accounts, coordinates and other stuff that I have to take a look at. Where did you get this?" Gerald asked me sounding slightly amused. Since he was gonna be the one to help me figure this shit out, and has been helping me for a minute now, I figured I should just tell him.

"Few days ago, some guy dropped a box off at Ry's crib, and when we opened it, there was a newspaper clipping, a weird key, a recorder, and this drive. The guy said that it was supposedly our parents' and they wanted him to have it. So, we decided to split the items in half and see what we can come up with. So far, Ry found and abandoned warehouse that he said had mad shit in there, but I haven't had the chance to go see it yet. I may go later today, you can tag along cause I think he said there were computers in there." I said sitting on my desk. Gerald looked like he was speechless. "Wow... I- just wow" was all he could say and I chuckled at him.

"Yeah nigga, this shit is crazy. Mom and dad were def into some next shit and the more we dig, the more interesting things get. I just hope we don't run into the wrong people and get killed or something" I said running my hand over my waves. "Aight then well we got some work to do. What you wanna look at first?" he asked as I moved out of his way so that he can go back to the desk. "Honestly, I have no clue. There's so many things on here.." I trailed off staring at the screen. Then it hit me. "See if you can find anything with the name "R. Brown" on any of these files. The newspaper clipping was an article about the crash, but it was different from the initial headliner, and that name was written down as the author. I don't know why the guy put that in the box, but maybe that person either had something to do with the crash or know who did." I said walking to the other side of my office and grabbing a chair to pull up next to him.

"Alright, let me see what I can find" he said dramatically cracking his knuckles before starting to type excessively like they do on tv. "Nigga you crazy" I laughed and he laughed along with me. While he was doing his digging, I scrolled through my IG. I had damn near 1 million followers because of the people I worked with, the parties I threw and attended and also because I'm always in the media when I do my 'fixing' for my clients. And I'm fine as hell, if I do say so myself, so I show up on the discover page quite often. I was trying to find that shorty from the party. I still kick myself that I was so busy conversing and missed my chance to talk to her. I was on a mission to find this girl. I feel like her beauty would be the death of me. Goddamn..

"Found something" Gerald said as I put my phone down. "What's that?" I asked leaning forward to take a closer look. "It looks like a newspaper article of the crash, but there's two of them...I think one is the real one and the fake one" he said reading it closely. I reached in my drawer and pulled out the newspaper clipping and held it up to the screen. It was a match. "Okay, why are there two articles? I don't get it" I said highly confused.

We read along more, and it turns out that the article we had was the one that was printed first, but for some reason it didn't make it to the headlines but the other one did. "So, the one you have says that the crash was planned, basically ruling it a homicide. The engines and controls were tampered with and the pilots were basically like soldiers who wanted to die to take themselves out of misery, so they agreed to the plan. And the other article just says that the engines failed and the pilots contacted the towers for assistance but it was too late. Since it was a private jet, when the engine failed it caught on fire, taking out the entire sides of the jet causing it to go down immediately." Gerald said without taking his eyes off the screen.