Sophia
I was right. I was damn right. That feeling I had, I had mentally prepared myself for the worst after my intuition told me that something bad was bound to happen, but this is beyond what I could've even expected. Ethan dead. How is one supposed to even mentally prepare themselves for something like that? It is never easy.
When I'd come out of the washroom my heart broke as I saw Liam crying, he was crying. In all these years I've known him, I've barely ever seen him cry. It isn't that he hides his feelings from me, but he's just like me. We're both always so optimistic, so positive. We always see a situation from the angle of what positive came out of it.
I felt like crying as soon as I saw him crying. The tears were already forming in my eyes and my eyes could barely hold them anymore.
I looked up. Blinked them back. I couldn't cry. Not now. Not when Liam needed me.
He never cried in front of me.
This time, this time even Liam couldn't stay positive, not that I expected him to. I mean, that's Ethan, his childhood friend who passed away, or rather his friend who was brutally murdered.
I wrapped my arms around him, stroking his back, trying my best to make it even just a little better.
Thankfully, he fell asleep soon enough
I tried to sleep, with Liam close to me but I just couldn't.
I couldn't help feeling that this was just the beginning. That there was so much worse ahead of us. There's one thing that I don't understand though. This island is a secluded one. There's no one but us here. This only meant one thing...could it be? No, no that's not possible. I shrugged off the doubt that lingered in my mind for a split second, still not completely gone. Is it possible that it's not just us here? That there's someone else, hiding somewhere nearby. It was probably that. I mean, no one out of us could've done it. No, that isn't possible. I tried shaking the thought away. As all these thoughts consumed me, I glanced at the time on my phone's screen, which I'd set on the side table. 6 am. It was already 6 am, yet I didn't even crack a yawn. I sighed as I turned my face back to a sleeping Liam. At Least he was peaceful now.
Another 2 hours passed and I didn't even sleep for a split second in all of this. I got off the bed, sighing, thinking about everything that had happened yet again. It was like I'd seen a movie and was forced to replay it like a million times even though I really didn't want to. Like a nightmare I wasn't able to escape. Gosh, my heart aches for iris. Lord, why is it always her? How much more is she going to go through? I sighed.
I entered the washroom, did my morning routine and took a hot water bath to somewhat calm my nerves. It felt good while it lasted but otherwise it didn't really change how I felt at the very moment.
I had changed into a casual set of clothes as thoughts of Iris flooded me once again. I really can't imagine how she was feeling right now. I know that she wasn't as calm as she appeared to be. She is really good at guarding her feelings but 9 times out of 10 I could tell how she felt most of the time which was something that put me at ease.
I made my way down the stairs and into the kitchen to make myself something. I found a packet of bread and some other things kept on the kitchen counter. I made myself a cheese sandwich which was basically just 2 slices of bread with a slice of cheese between them. As I finished the cheese sandwich, I went out and sat on a couch in the hall. I drifted off in my thoughts which was interrupted by the sound of the doorbell ringing. I glanced towards the door and slowly made my way to it, opening it.
When I opened the door, I wasn't surprised to see the officer back, for the investigation, I presume. I greeted him and he entered inside.
"I hope the evidence wasn't tampered with?" He looked at me and I didn't quite hear him
"sorry?"
"No one went into the room where the incident took place, right?"
I nodded
"No one went in, officer" He nodded and then declared that he was going to go to the room.
"I didn't check the room thoroughly yesterday, so I'll go check it now" I nodded as he went upstairs.
"I don't know if you all should be hearing about this, but I found something you should know about '' The officer said, facing Iris, with all of us gathered in the hall. "What is it?" Iris asked in a somewhat low voice. Nothing too drastic but noticeable. Atleast to someone who knows her enough.
"I found some texts between Ethan and some person, who was texting him from the past 2 days and was threatening and blackmailing him."
Iris's eyes widened, clearly shocked by the discovery.
"We went through his call records and some other things too." The officer said and took a pause but then parted his lips again to continue.
"He was cheating on you, Ms Adams" He said and Iris looked sad but not exactly surprised. Had she known? Or did she see it coming?
"There's more. We don't know what it is yet. But it's pretty obvious that there's more to it. It might be something crucial to this case." He said looking back at Iris.
"The details of this case aren't very clear, but there's one thing I suspect. I'm pretty sure that the person who killed him is the same one that was texting him, blackmailing and threatening him. But sadly, I don't have solid proof."
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