Stone Cold

5

A knock sounds on the bathroom door as I wrap a towel around myself.

"Come in!" I call and the door opens.

"Hey." I mumble picking my stuff up as Shane walks in.

"You ok?" He asks and I nod throwing my clothes into the dump. There's no way to clean off Briard blood.

"Yeah, I'm ok." I say slowly walking by him. We walk down the hall to my room and he shuts the door behind him.

"You said he didn't do it." Shane says as I walk into my closet and pull on an oversized sweater and underwear.

"Because he didn't." I say walking out and shutting the door.

"What do you mean?" He asks

"I don't know how to explain it without sounding crazy. I just know ok?" I ask and he crosses his arms.

"Ok, are you going to tell me what's really going on Neveah?" He asks sitting down on my bed as I walk over to my wall and start writing stuff down.

"Nothing's going on."

"I'm your partner, I'm also your Connection, you can't lie to me." He says and I shake my head.

"I'm not lying." I mumble jotting down everything I know.

"Great. Well when you decide to tell me what's truly going on with you and this case, I'll be in my room."

"Shane don't go." I say turning to face him.

"Why? All you're doing is dodging me and lying." He says

"Shane-

"I'll be in my room." He mutters then leaves. I lean back against the wall and rub my face.

Even if I wanted to tell him, how would I and where would I even start?

I shake my head turning back to my wall and continuing on. I'm going to figure this out. Shane'll just have to suck it up.

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