Episode 17
"234, what is the state of your emergency?"
With shaking hands and an unsteady breath, he held the phone tightly, pushing back the scene he saw, and said, stuttering "Help, Camille!" he stuttered, searching for the right word to say.
"You have to calm down okay, take a deep breath, now breathe out!" the police officer said on the phone. He took in a sharp deep breath and breathed out as the cop had told him to.
"Okay, now tell us the state of your emergency so we could send you help" the cop started.
"Camille is dead, someone killed her at the party"
"Okay, now can you tell me what party?" The cop asked and he felt as his heart dropped in his stomach, his anxiety increased and heart beating fast, he is dead, and he knew it!
"A birthday party" he answered after he had hesitated for a while whether to the cop or not
"Okay, now can you tell me your name, age and address?" the police officer said, operating her computer.
"My name is, my name is Mike, Mike Gibson, I'm 17" he stuttered hoping he hasn't got into trouble.
"Okay, stay calm, and tell me your address"
"No 34, Lawson street" he answered as he rubs his sweaty hands on his pants.
After a few seconds the cop lady said "Got it, now stay calm and move away from the crime scene probably go wait outside, help is on their way,"
"Okay, please be fast" he urge
"We will" she dropped the call.
"Guys I think we have a big issue on the ground, this is the third person calling '234' for the murder of one Camille, at one Lawson street" she said to her fellow mate as soon as she dropped the call
"Me too, dispatch has already been sent to the said address" her colleagues said to her, and she nodded her head waiting for another call.
Mike dropped the phone while his friends who had been pacing up and down anxiously while waiting for him to end his call with 234 stopped their pacing to look at him.
"What did 234 say?" They asked simultaneously
"They said we should go wait for them outside, and help has been sent," he said as he plopped on the couch. They are currently in his room, the party was held in his living room, his parents have gone on a business trip so he makes use of the opportunity to hold a 'fake' birthday party in an attempt to show off his father's new gigantic mansion, now his plan has been twisted because the body of his girlfriend is lying lifelessly in his dad's living room and if his parents hear about the party talk less of the death, he is dead a meat.
They carefully descend from the staircase to the living room. There is no single person Left in the living room. They probably fled as soon as the incident happened, who wouldn't? They kicked away the plastic cups used in serving the alcohol they all had, to create a clear path for them to walk through and walk out of the door to wait for the cops, the living room reek of alcohol.
Chloe retraced her steps as soon as she saw the dead body of Camille, she was the one that connered on Friday to give them the invitation letter to the party while they were going home, and now she is lying lifelessly on the cold marble floor with an horrified view. She covered her mouth as she ran away from the scene with tears sticky on her face with the other students that attended the party rushing out of the living room used for the party to go to their various homes.
She spotted Cassie who was also rushing to leave, she waved at her to wait for her. and again she start to have an another episode, the high-pitched ringing sound in her ear, she buried her ear with her hands and closed her eyes tightly as she stood transfixed on the ground, she slowly went down and curled to a ball with sweat dripping from her face as she finds it hard to breathe. She found herself in a shopping mall. The high pitched sound began severely as she heard the voice "Mum!" she looked around and people walked past her, not seeing her, all minding their business, she involuntarily looked for where the voice came from "Mum!" She heard again and a small girl ran past her, probably age 8 or 9. She involuntarily followed the little girl as she kept running up and down in the hall. She probably lost her mother in the mall, where they were shopping, maybe she wandered off to another section without her mum's knowledge, as she was following the little kid she heard another voice.
"Laura!" She instinctively looked at the direction where the voice came from, and returned her gaze to where it was initially, at the girl she was following, but she wasn't longer there.
"Laura!" She heard again and instantly followed the voice. A woman walked past her with her shopping cart, wandering around looking for something in between the sections in the mall, she might be probably looking for the product she wanted to buy.
But, "Laura!" The woman called searching worriedly, a loud cry could be heard in the Mall. The high-pitched ringing sound became really really severe as she clasped her ears tightly trying to push away the sound and groaned in pain, she felt like her head was going to explode from the banging headaches.
She instinctively ran to the direction where the screams could be heard leaving the woman that has been calling 'Laura' behind.
As soon as she got to the scene she met the woman calling for Laura seconds ago crying as she kneels on the ground crying heavily as she held her girl clothes,
"Laura, my daughter!" She said in tears.
"Wake up Laura, I will buy you the teddy, I promise, just wake up" the woman wailed. The girl running around a few seconds ago is Laura and this woman is her mother.
She groaned in pain and clasped her eyes tightly as she came back to reality, curled beside the gigantic living room couch close to the door.
"Chloe! Chloe!" She could hear faintly as the high-pitched ringing tone started dropping and she felt hands on her shoulder shaking her vigorously to probably wake her up, the high-pitched sound keeps dropping, once the ringing stopped she was deaf for some seconds she opened her eyes to find Cassie's mouth moving, but she couldn't hear not comprehend what she was saying and her hands on her shoulder. She stopped shaking her when she realized she had opened her eyes and she removed her hands from her ear at the same time.
"Are you okay?" Cassie asked, she heard faintly, staring at Chloe worriedly as tears started rushing down her face.
"It's alright, you will be fine, but we have to leave, okay!" Cassie said coaxing her so they can leave
She felt a tickling liquid running on her shoulder and neck beside her ear. She raised her hand to touch the liquid and brought it to her face to see blood on her hands, She freaks out!.
Tbc...