"I've informed the police, and they will be here soon," Claude says to everyone and sits down. "Thank god, who would do this to Dagger?" Ana whimpers, then she covers her face and begins to cry again.
Rose is in shock, and her eyes are watery. She hasn't spoken a word since the Dagger situation got mentioned.
There are seven other performers from the Circus here; it could be anyone. "How do we know she didn't kill him?" Henry says, glaring at me. He is a juggler.
"Excuse me? I was in the bathroom and came out to see him like that," I say, my eyes watering again.
"Why were you in his room?" Ana asks. "He and I had sex, and I went to the bathroom after it," I say.
Claude tenses beside me. "I'll keep my eyes on her. I'll keep her locked in her room and keep an eye on her until the police arrive."
"How do we know it wasn't you, Claude?" Fernando says.
"I was with Diego, helping him with a new idea for his tricks," Claude says. Diego nods.
I tense. "What about you, Rose?" Diego asks. "I was with Fernando, helping him with the beast," she says. "Ana?" I ask. "I've been making everyone dinner for the past hour," she says.
"Mia?" Anastasia asks. "I was with Declan, working on new stunts to perform in the ballroom," she says.
"Gwen and William?" Claude asks. "We weren't even inside, we were out in the garden," Gwen says.
"Xavier?" "I was asleep," he says.
"So the only one that seems fit to be suspect is Doll," Claude says. "But I will keep an eye on everyone here because there is no way one person could do that, especially with how weak Doll is. I don't think she was able to keep Dagger against the target on her own if she did it."
"Maybe Xavier helped her?" Rose says.
"You really think I did it?" My eyes water again. "I didn't do it."
"I don't know who it is, Doll, but you were the only one in the room." She gave me a sympathetic look.
"Where are the police?" Rose asks. "They should be here soon," Claude says.
"C'mon, it's getting late. I'll keep an eye on Doll, for now. No one is to leave the house under any circumstance unless it's because of the police," he says.
"Someone here could have gotten jealous of Dagger and Doll having sex, so they killed him," Fernando says.
"Was it you, Fernando?" Rose asks. "I am not the jealous type, and I'm also trying to come up with ways to think that Doll isn't the only suspect," he says.
"Why would Doll act like this if she was the killer?" Rose points out my trembling body; the tears won't stop coming.
"Rage mode could have made her kill him, and she didn't realize what she was doing until she was out of it," Claude says.
"I feel like I'm the only one not blaming anyone, but I guess I will suspect someone," I said.
"I was in the bathroom for two seconds when I first went in there. Dagger was waiting for me on his bed for me to go back in there, but when I came out, he was dead, and when I screamed, Claude opened the door almost instantly," I say.
"Claude was with me," Diego says. "Then why was he right outside the door? I saw the shadow of his feet outside the door before I even found Dagger," I say.
"Well, I'm not gonna deny anything because what's the use until there is proof. There isn't any proof that Doll didn't do it, but there also isn't much that she did do it," Claude says.
"We have to wait for the police to find out who it is," he says.
"How do we know it wasn't you two?" Ana points to the both of us.
"I didn't kill Dagger and never even thought about killing him. I had a great time with him, so whoever killed him was either jealous or wanted to kill him," I say.
"For all we know, the person has some secret obsession with Doll and killed Dagger for getting his hands on her," Claude says.
"Dagger's love for Doll was no secret, so who could it have been?"
"My love for Doll is also no secret," Fernando says with his strong accent.
"Claude?" Rose asks.
"I see Doll as part of our family. If I loved her like Dagger did, it wouldn't be a secret," he says.
Currently heartbroken right now. Why! This is a terrible situation to feel like that. "Diego?"
"I like dick," he raises a brow. "Shoot, I forgot," Ana says.
"We'll just keep an eye on each other. We will all go in groups of three: Ana, Mia, and Declan go together; Diego, Fernando, and Gwen, you guys go together. I'll go with William and Xavier... Henry, Claude, and Doll. If someone dies and we were with everyone in our group, we will just keep extra eyes on the other groups," she says.
I sigh. "So we need to grab things; that is what the groups are for. We need to grab mattresses to drag out here in the lounge room because I'm sure no one wants to sleep on tiled floors. Anyways, we need blankets, but we also need one group to go into the basement to grab the new sheets."
"Doll and I will go since you'll need at least four people to carry one of those mattresses each. So take Henry and someone else from a different group to go with another that is helping with the mattresses," Claude suggests.
"If she dies, I'll be locking you in the basement. Same goes for you, Doll, if he dies," Rose says, looking like she's about to freak out with it just being the two of us.
"And I thought Claude was bossy," I say.
"Okay, everyone stand and follow who you are supposed to be with," she looks at the time. "Everyone is to be back by nine; it is eight right now, so we have an hour exactly."
"So Henry is coming with us, and Declan is going with Fernando, Diego, and Gwen's group. That leaves two, two pairs: Claude and Doll, Ana and Mia," she says.
"Extra eyes on the smaller groups if someone dies unless someone from the bigger groups leaves and someone dies, well, that will be our target."