Lu Xun 2,069 Posted July 15, 2014 (edited) Chapter I - Unexpected news It was around midnight. Maybe I shouldn’t have stayed awake until that hour – or maybe it was meant to be – I can’t really explain. It was just another Friday night – well, not any Friday night, but the last day of my 11th grade. I had waited so much for vacation, but now that it came, my life seemed duller than ever. So, as I was saying, I had nothing left to do for a long while now, so I decided to turn on the TV and look up for something that could catch my attention until I fell asleep. The soap-opera I usually watch had finished two hours ago – what would I do now? Well, I’ve always enjoyed watching news on the TV, so I decided to move on to the first channel I could find that talked about any news at all. After a minute or two of switching from channel 001 to 125, I finally found something to watch; on channel 126. It was about a murder that happened at that exact Friday. It had been one hour ago, and the strangest part – it was very close to my home – about twenty minutes by car. “Just a coincidence,” I thought to myself. How very wrong I was. Not too long after I found that channel, my father arrived home. He behaved strangely – couldn’t spell a word correctly and kept talking faster than I could understand. Something was wrong – I could feel it. This proved to be correct when I spotted a red liquid on his fingers. “Is that blood? What have you—“ I asked as directly as I could. “It’s nothi…” he replied nervously, his fingers trembling (just like the rest of his body). After an answer like that, I had no courage left to ask any other question. What was my father hiding? Why would his fingers be covered in blood? Would the police come over and arrest him? I could not help but think of all the possibilities that would explain all of this. Still, the one that kept knocking on my head was that my father had just murdered the guy that I saw on the TV. Thirty minutes passed since I asked father about the blood. One hour. More twenty minutes. I could no longer wait for a divine answer; I had to find out an explication to all of this coincidence. But before I had gathered enough courage to approach dad one more time, mother arrived home. Not very different from father, she was acting different from her usual way. She barely said a word to me. She headed straight to father’s room and closed the door. Locked it would explain it better. I know this because I tried to open the door, with no success. Attempt to listen to what they were saying was the last thing left for me now. “You don’t think they—“ “Can’t say…” “We have to…” “Leave right away.” This was all I managed to listen behind the door. But as I heard the word ‘leave’, mom opened the door and told me to get a few clothes and be ready to leave in fifteen minutes. This was the proof I needed to convince myself that my parents had just killed someone and were trying to flee from the police. I could not think well after that. I had so many questions in my head that trying to speculate an answer just brought more and more questions. I can’t remember much about that night after that. The biggest surprises were still yet to come in the next few days. Edited July 18, 2014 by Lu Xun 5 Aqua7KH, Hazimie, Kirie and 2 others reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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Lu Xun 2,069 Posted July 18, 2014 (edited) Chapter II - Looking at the bigger picture I guess I need to write about the past if I'm to try to understand last night's incident. I'm named Joseph Falenn, sixteen-years old. I have straight black hair, brown eyes and a nose bigger than I wanted it to be. My father's name is Mike, he is fourty-two years old. People say I'm the spitting image of him, but personally I don't think we look so much alike. Keila is my mother, a thirty-nine years old blonde lady. She is the most beautiful woman I've ever met, and also very intelligent. Our life had been peaceful until a month before that night. Father had just been fired and mom couldn't handle everything alone; she needed father to find a job as son as possible. So he went looking out for a new one. But it turned out that his previous boss had told every company in the city that my father had stolen his company, which he claimed to be the reason for which he fired my dad. As expected, father told me another version of the story. According to him, dad found out about how the company was acting illegally, and confronted his boss right away. When dad told him that he'd open his mouth and destroy the company, his boss fired him. And to prevent anyone from believing dad's story, he started to badmouth him, accusing him of stealing money from the company. If you ask me which version is true, I cannot say. I trust dad -- I really do -- but he's not the purest person in the world. I knew he was involved with people he should not be, but I was powerless. As a teenager, what could I do? Ask him to get away from them? I would probably get punched if I did that. And in the end, I didn't tell him anything. But I wish I had -- who knows, maybe he would change his mind and think about his family? Mom, on the other side, was the best person you could ever find in this world. Honest, generous -- she always accepted father's mistakes and forgave him -- just like a mother spoiling a chid, right? I don't know why she did that; maybe because she loved him so much and she couldn't let him go. She worked in the police office, helping her boss gather information about bad guys and planning how to catch them off guard. I guess that's why dad never had to answer for anything he did -- maybe she just managed to hide everything that concerned him. I guess that's all the background we need right now. So, as I should have mentioned earlier -- the guy who was murdered was my dad's ex-boss, Doctor Ryan. The crime was still a mystery -- no one knew who had killed him -- only that he was poisoned by something someone sent him during that day. A great crime -- I'd say. You poison someone without even having to confront them personally? Could only be the work of a brilliant mind. Although I suspected father, he wasn't the only one that disliked Ryan -- he had a lot of enemies. He was a very cruel and cold man -- I remember going into his office with dad, and he telling me not to touch anything and stay away from him. If he treated a child like that, I wonder how he treated people that depended on him to survive. So in the day after the murder, I woke up in a distant place from home --I was Rio de Janeiro, to be specific. Mother managed to find a job in the local police office and father started looking out for a job. I don't think father's reputation would be low here -- but it wasn't easy for him to find a job. Maybe this was because he had been working on that company since before I was born. I couldn't be silent forever; so I started questioning mom, after she came home from work during her 1st day. "Mom, I don't get it... Why are we living here?" I asked nervously, wondering what she would answer. "My dear, it's a long story... We had to get out of our previous home... Don't you like it here?" she said, taking some time to choose words. "Yes, it's a beautiful place. But you didn't answer me... Why did we HAVE to get out of there?" I asked one more question, hoping that this time she would not change the subject or come up with an answer that made no sense. "We... um... had been living there for a long time... eh... It was time for a change." she replied. Then I decided to stop asking her questions. But something intrigued me; how did we move to someplace so far away so easily? Was this all previously arranged? Questions like this popped out on my head every second. But it seemed like I would have to investigate everything by myself if I wanted to find any answers at all. Mom wouldn't answer anything -- to protect dad -- at least that's what I thought at first. Asking dad wouldn't be a good option either, as he still behaved stragenly even though we were very far away from the place he probably killed his boss. Without anything else to do, I turned on the TV. Coincidence or not, it was already in the police channel that showed me Ryan's murder yesterday. It was still talking about it; they were going to start investigating it. But it would take a while because one of the police's assistants had just quit and moved to Brazil -- my mom. But that wasn't all; they found another man dead at the entrance of the company. Different from Ryan, he had been violently attacked. They think that both murders are interconected -- and so did I. Father came home with his hands full of blood -- it couldn't have been a coincidence. And so I decided to seek out the answers by myself. If I managed to prove that dad was the one responsible for all of this, I'd confront him personally. I couldn't stand living with doubts about my parent's acts. I just... needed answers.... and swore to do anything to get a hold of them. Edited July 18, 2014 by Lu Xun 2 Hazimie and Kirie reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Kirie 3,489 Posted July 18, 2014 Wow I wonder whos the murderer. 2 The Transcendent Key and Lu Xun reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rikunobodyxiii 700 Posted July 18, 2014 Hmm. Intriguing. A straight forward set of events on the surface, but how twisted will the undercurrents be? Pretty good, so far. 1 Lu Xun reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Think Pink 1,967 Posted July 19, 2014 Good so far Lu 1 Lu Xun reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sora96 17,256 Posted July 19, 2014 Good job Lu Xun. 1 Lu Xun reacted to this Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lu Xun 2,069 Posted July 19, 2014 Wow I wonder whos the murderer. Good so far Lu Good job Lu Xun. Hmm. Intriguing. A straight forward set of events on the surface, but how twisted will the undercurrents be? Pretty good, so far. I like it. Thanks, everyone It's really nice to be writing once again, and even nicer to see that you guys liked it Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sora's Baby 729 Posted July 19, 2014 Thanks, everyone It's really nice to be writing once again, and even nicer to see that you guys liked it It's good so far,I really want to know if the fathers the killer. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites