𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗢𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗟𝗶𝗲- cnco (on hoId)

𝘵𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦

MELINA

"You get any sleep last night?"
I turn behind me to see Roma.
"How did you get in?"
"Seems like none of you rich kids live with your parents"
She motions around the room at the mess that is Zabdiels house.
"How did you get in?"
I repeat.
"My sister and Christopher were in an accident"
This piece of news makes me freeze.
"What?"
"Did you have anything to do with it?"
"Me? I was fucking passed out!" I say.
I'm not lying. Zabdiel had to wake me up today before going to school.
I didn't go.
Someone drugged me in school.
Because I don't remember how the fuck I ended up in that closet, covered in blood.
It wasn't my blood, either, which freaks me out more.
"Know this, Miller" Roma leans close "If I find you guilty, I'm gonna make you fucking suffer"
"Trust me" I meet her gaze head on "Christopher is like my brother and I wouldn't dare hurt your sister"
"If that's what you say" She eyes me suspiciously.
"Want some coffee?" I ask "Considering you walked into my place like you own it?"
"Why aren't you at school?" She pauses "And isn't this Zabdiels place?"
"Why aren't you at school either?"
"My sister was in an accident and you think I'd care about the shithole we call school?" She scoffs.
"Fair enough"
There's a pregnant pause.
"I don't deal well with PTSD" I finally reveal "My parents are...were both alcoholics and abusive people and..."
The last bit chokes me up.
"My mother aborted the baby who was to be my little brother before she died"

This is why I didn't cry on the day I heard there was a plane crash and they were gone.
Because I couldn't give a rats ass about them after they'd stolen my sibling.
Hell, I didn't even attend their funeral.
But I promised myself to be a better mother than mine had ever been.
I was not going to ruin my kids life. Ever.

"I'm sorry" She says but with no emotion.
Good.
I don't need anyone's condolences because I'm sure my parents weren't missed at all.
"I should get going to check on her"
"I'll come with you" I offer and she nods.

She opens the door.
Big fucking mistake.
Someone's at the door.
Maxim.
But not alive.
His dead, bloody body falls on the floor.
Roma's eyes widen and I scream.
It's not because of his body.
It's because of the note beside it.

𝒘𝒉𝒐'𝒔 𝒏𝒆𝒙𝒕, 𝒊 𝒘𝒐𝒏𝒅𝒆𝒓?
𝒌𝒆𝒆𝒑 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒆𝒚𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏, 𝒃𝒊𝒕𝒄𝒉𝒆𝒔
𝒃𝒆𝒄𝒂𝒖𝒔𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖'𝒍𝒍 𝒏𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒔𝒆𝒆 𝒎𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒏𝒈
~ 𝑱

A/N ; the first murder 👀