Through it all
*Selena's POV*
I sighed as I handed Sam a file of the last client of the day.
"What's wrong with you? You've been acting weird all week," she noted opening a filing cabinet to put it in it's proper place.
"You have to swear on your life not to tell a soul," I sighed. I couldn't keep this huge weight on myself. I needed to tell someone and I'm top of that I trusted Sam.
"Of course," she said looking at me intensely. She knew it was important.
"So Justin," I said not really sure how to start. "You remember he came here originally cause he was dealing with the death of his wife right?"
"Yeah," she nodded.
"Well, the police filed the murder as a cold case because they couldn't find anything they could use but they did tell justin they guy who killed her had a tattoo. There in a pyramid shape on his shoulder. But he couldn't remember if it were circles or stars. Well you know Carter. He hangs out with a lot of tattoo artist and stuff so I figured I'd ask him. So we are talking and I ask him if he knew anyone with the tattoo and he rolls up his shirt to show me the exact tattoo. He said all his friends have them just with different shapes. His is stars. His best friends is circles. So at this point I'm freaking out. And then justin called and remembers it's stars. I think my brother killed Justin wife. I don't know what to do," I said whispering at the end.
She opened her mouth but nothing came out. It was as if there was an absence of noise in the whole world.
"I really, really hate to be the one to say this but you have to tell someone. First you need to talk to Carter and then tell someone. Brother or not he took an innocent person's life. She had a career, husband, kids. She had her whole life ahead of her and now it's all gone. He messed up the lives of a whole family."
I lowered my head in utter defeat and simply nodded.
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"Two times in one week?" Carter laughed as soon as I walked into the restaurant we used to come to as kids. "Is it my birthday?"
I let a small smile dance on my face but it was anything but genuine. "Hey Cart."
I let him babble whatever he wanted while I looked at the window trying to figure out to even say what I was going to say.
'Hey have you killed anyone in the last year?' Seemed a little too forward and harsh not to mention very very accusing. Heck for all I know it very well could be a huge misunderstanding and just a coincidence.
I would be more likely to understand if I believed in coincidences...
*Justin's POV*
I finally finished doing all the dishes from dinner when Kayden wondered into the kitchen and sat down on the bar stool.
"What's up buddy?" I asked getting a cloth and cleaner to clean off the sticky counter.
"I don't want to do baseball anymore," he stated folding his tiny arms on top of the counter.
I left the rag on the counter turning around to face him. "What?" I asked in complete shock. Kayden had always loved going to tee ball and baseball.
"I don't want to do it," he stated again looking at me with saddened eyes. I could tell there was way more to the story than he was telling me.
"What happened Kay?" I asked sitting next to him on the other stool.
Slowly, he shrugged his shoulders and let out a little sigh. "Baseball was my thing with mommy. It doesn't feel right doing it without her."
I sighed in defeat placing my hands over my face, trying to take it all in. "Kayden, I know it's hard without mommy, believe me buddy. I miss her more than anyone. But, she would want you to do what you love and I- we both know that you loved baseball. However, it is off season so if you want to just take a while and think about it and when it comes time to register you still don't want to then we won't okay? I just want you to be happy. If you want we can even try different sports."
"Like what?" he asked looking over at me.
"Well, I used to play hockey, or you could play soccer or there swimming or basketball. There's lots of things. But also remember if you don't even want to do sports you don't have to. I don't want to force you into doing something you are going to hate. I want you to love what you are doing."
"Thank you," he said reaching over to give me a hug.
I gave his small body a little squeeze. "I love you Kade."
"Love you dad," he smiled before hopping off the stool and heading back towards the stairs to go up to his room to get ready for bed.
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Days has passed since I had last talked to Selena. I had called her a million times and texted her bunches but she always dodged my phone called and almost never texted back. If she did all she would ever say is 'busy sorry'.
Maybe talking to her about trying to find Aubrey's killer freaked her out more than she was willing to let on.
At this point, I kind of just wanted my best friend back. It had been getting pretty lonely around the house without Selena. Even Skylar would ask about her every now and then. Also with having Jen away it was hard not having another adult to talk to.
Selena, I know this is probably messages 1 billion and I know you're probably busy but I miss you. I realized you probably think I'm crazy after the whole Aubrey thing and that's understandable. We don't ever have to talk about it again if you don't want to. I'm sorry. I just want to you.
- XOXO Justin.
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Hello followers/people who ready my story! Victoria here! I know you probably hate me!! I haven't posted in like 2+ weeks which is insane for me!!! 😬😬😬 You probably want an explanation so here it is: 1) I just started school again so you can imagine how that is. There's was a mess up with my schedule and this being my senior year I needed everything to be easy as can be. Which leads me to number two
2) I am taking college classes just like I did last year and this summer and not that they are hard they just take up a lot of time! Some of you may know, maybe not but I used to have 1 hour and 30 minutes between then end of high school classes and when college started and that's when I would write most if my stories but this year I only have about 30 which is still a while but somehow I'm too nice to tell people no and I got roped into taking this girl from my high school to the college with me so subtopic a) I have no time to think in my car on my drive there like I used to b) I'm obligated to hang out with her before classes start so that's a drag. May seem mean but if you know me at all I really really really like my alone time.
3) I also work. I work sometimes during the week and every weekend!!! Which is completely frustrating. But I'm not even going to get into that.
4) my fathers cancer is still a huge concern. He will be having tons of doctors appointments and everything from chemo to radiation to surgery and I need to be there for him.
5) I couldn't really find anything to write about that was good enough. I had many ideas I just sometimes don't know how to get them across. But I finally thought of an idea that should carry me to the next few parts so that's good.
On another note: I know that Last year I posted a part just about every single day, but I'm sorry at least for right now that's not realistic. I'm not going to say I'll post Tuesday and Fridays because I don't want to restrict myself and then end up giving you a part that's like the worse thing ever because y'all deserve more than that. So I'll try and get better at writing and posting as much as I can.
Thank you for reading. (:
Victoria
