Midnight
Sallerina started running to her front door. Police cars, an ambulance, and the neighbors were crowded all around her house. The front door was wide open, with most police man standing inside. She pushed everyone aside and gasped. Her sister lay on the carpet in a pool of blood and a noose around her neck. Her eyes stared into the distance and her chest was not lifting. Doctors and Police searched the house while she slumped to the floor. She had told Layla she couldn’t go to Bellum with her, and now she regretted not listening. A police woman crouched down beside her and asked some questions about who she was and where she was when the murder happened. She answered monotonously and then asked to go up to Layla’s room. She was not stopped. When she sat down on the bed, with Layla’s journal open to the most recent journals, the tears started flowing. She had documented why she was worried and assumed Sallerina would be mad if she said anything about Luke. She wished, so painfully, that she didn’t have to loose the last family she had. When Layla was four, she witnessed her parent’s murder from the stairway, and wrote the dreadful things once she received her journal. After that, she was bullied for being a cry baby at school, so no one would be a friend to her either. Layla’s best friend was only her sister, and now she had none herself. Sallerina was teased when she was in school, as well, so her best friend was gone, too. She had such a hard time believing that Luke could’ve done this, until she turned the page. There was blood splotches on the page, and very sloppy writing on the page. She held her breath as she read, “Thank you for leaving a small toy for me and my friend to dissect! She was a perfect body to have fun with! Would you like to know what we did with her?! Oh, we came in all sweet and nice, just to give her the benefit of the doubt, and then we pounced! My friend held her down as I prepared to have some fun! Oh….” She couldn’t read the rest. It was mortifying, disgusting, and a terrible thing to do to someone like Layla. She had to turn to the floor to puke when her eyes gazed on what they did after they killed her. Finally, reaching the end of the note, her tears ceased as she read, “I wondered what it was like to kill, and it was fun using your sister, Sallerina. As you can tell, you will never see me again, and I’m glad of it. You were boring anyway. Have fun being alone for the rest of your stupid life!” Now, Sallerina was very angry. She knew exactly where Luke was, and she wanted them arrested and through into Bellum Asylum! Their minds were too crazy for a normal prison. She rushed downstairs to show the Police the new evidence, tired of wasting precious time.
