A Sad Murder

The Breaking News

Playlist~ Emma Bale - All I Want

Jay was still in shock when he saw his friend lying down there lifeless. Of all the worst things he might have expected, this was beyond expectations. His legs were wobbling and his body shuddered and his eyes were getting blurry with tears. His legs couldn't carry him to where Drake's body was lying.

While Brad on the other hand was trying to keep Nicole alive. "Jay call the emergency number!" Brad yelled but Jay wasn't even listening, his body was standing right there but his mind was out of this world. "Jay!" Brad yelled his name again and Jay head snaps up to him. "Call the police and tell them they've been an homicide!"

Jay stared at Brad like he didn't hear what he just said. Instead of doing what he was told, he staggers towards Drake's body and the blood smell hits his nostrils harder which caused him to puke out and he went on his knees holding his stomach.

"Jay! Damnit!" Brad cussed and lay Nicole on the floor while he dig out his phone from his pocket and dialled the emergency number. "Hello, there have been an homicide in Waterford Lismore close to Linton Garden block 12A...that's the little I know around here. Please hurry up" he rushed up his words and hung up the phone.

He carried Nicole in his arms again touching her face and her hair trying to get her to wake up. He glances up at his friend Jay and he saw how devastated he was looking. To say that the death of Drake didn't touch him like did his friends, he'll be lying, he's the most affected one here but he doesn't wants to show it yet until the police arrives with paramedics and confirm truly that his closest friend was death then he'll be convinced that this is all reality. But for the meantime, he's pretending to believe that his friend wasn't really death, he's in slumber just like Nicole was.

"Jay, you have to be strong, okay? We're not even sure if he's dead. Let the paramedics get here then we'll able to tell" he said to comfort Jay and make him feel calm.

"Drake is dead" Jay's voice sounded so cool and was almost inaudible.

"Don't conclude so fast yet. Let's wait until...."

"Drake is f*****g dead! What?! Are you pretending to be blind now?!" Jay yells cutting Brad off. "Drake is dead!" He muffles out in tears and bows his head sobbing.

Brad opens his mouth to say something but the words weren't coming out, it was as if his voice suddenly went missing. He felt warm liquid slide down his cheeks and his fingers traces it. It was his own tears, those tears he's been holding back is spilling out now, Jay has finally make him see that this is reality and no imaginations.

"No, Drake is not dead. He's just in a slumber just like Nicole is..." he was cut short when Nicole stirs up in his arms. His gaze fell down to her face and she flutters her eyes open. "Babe" he calls touching her face.

"It was all a dream right, Drake is alive and healthy right?" she asks locking gaze with him.

Brad glances away avoiding the sadness he was seeing in her eyes. His tears poured out more with that question in mind.

"Brad, say something" her voice came out soft and pleading.

"Babe" he reached out for her cheek and held it.

"It's real? Drake is really dead?" she asks again while the tears were forming up in her eyes. She sat up, her gaze was still fixed on his. "He's dead?" she asked for the umpteenth time and Brad nods slightly. She gasps and tears filled her eyes. She blinks it off to get off the blurriness away. "No!!!!" She screams out and held her boyfriend's shirt tight.

She sobs uncontrollably and her boyfriend wrapped his arms around her to comfort her, but he pushed him away and crawled towards Drake's body. "Drake wake up!" She cried out holding his foot while her boyfriend rushed up to draw her away from his body. "Let me go!" she screams holding on to Drake's leg.

"Babe, calm down" Brad begged holding her by the waist. Nicole pushed him away and Brad fell on the floor while she rushed up and embrace Drake's lifeless blood filled body and buried his face on his chest.

"Drake please don't die. Wake up and talk to me. I promise I won't cut your balls off anymore. I won't even tease you, you'll be the one to tease me all the time. Please don't die, wake up, please!" She cries out shaking his body.

Brad couldn't control his own sobs as he allowed it to pour down, but despite that, he crawled to his girlfriend and held her arms to comfort her. Jay has been crying the whole time all by himself but then the thought of Anna struck his mind and his head jerks up.

"Anna" he mumbles aloud and Nicole and Brad squint at him. "Where is Anna?" he asks and stood up to his feet. He rushed into the sitting room and then to her bedroom. No sight of Anna, he opened the bathroom door and peaks into it but no sight of her there. He glances around the bedroom and his gaze landed on the phones on the table.

His legs carried him to the table and he stared down at Drake and Anna's phones. "This was a murder case, none of the phones were taking" he thought aloud and picks up both phones and headed back to the kitchen.

"Did you find her?" Brad asks and Jay shook his head.

"I only found their phones. Do you think the killer must have taken her too?" Jay asks.

"It looks like it. Now we don't even know if he took her death or alive" Brad sighs exasperatingly and Nicole sobs. "Babe please don't cry" he whispers and pulled her to his chest.

"The cops are taking too long to...." Jay's sentence was cut short when they heard a siren closer to the house. "They finally made it" he scoffed and went to open up the door.

A female cop and four male cops alighted from the car. The EMS also arrived with the cops with an ambulance. Two females and one male paramedics alighted from the ambulance with a wheel stretcher in hand following the cops behind. Two of the cops stood halfway to the stairs leading to Anna's doorstep. While the female cop and two of the other cops and the paramedics walked up to Anna's doorstep where Jay was already waiting up for them.

"Hello, I'm sergeant Alice and these are my colleagues Liam and Jack, we got an emergency call around this neighborhood, are we at the right place?" Alice asks staring up at Jay.

"Yes, my friend was murdered right in this house, come see for yourself" Jay replies and led the cops inside the house to the kitchen where Drake's body was.

Alice gasps at the sight of Drake's body. "OMG! This was a heartless murder. Several merciless stabs on his stomach. Jeez!" she exclaims. She then diverted her gaze to Jay and Co.

The EMS rushed up to Drake's body and examines it. "Officer, this incident happened hours ago. From my experience, it must have happened early hours of this morning, let's say 11-12 hours ago" the female nurse said.

"What? Does that mean they were attacked in the middle of the night?" Brad asks.

"90% positive" she replied.

"Damnit! Such an evil monster!" Jay cussed.

"Please take his body to the morgue" Alice instructed the paramedics and assigned Jack to go with them.

"You over there" Alice called Brad's attention and he gazed up at her. "You mentioned 'they' when you made a comment, was it more than one person that was murdered?".

"I don't know if the second person was murdered or not. The second person I'm referring to is the deceased girlfriend and she's the owner of this house" Brad answered.

"Where is she then?" Alice asks.

"We don't f*****g know! Ain't you paying attention to what he was saying? It's your duty to find her, stop wasting time and go find her!" Nicole yells angrily. The anger and pain that was inside of her has now been transferred to the cop who is asking questions in order for her to carryout her job.

"Babe calm down" Brad whispers beside her holding her shoulders.

"You have to calm down and restrain yourself from certain words, ma'am. By the way I haven't introduced myself to you two. I'm Sergeant Alice together with my colleagues Liam and Jack. I'll like to take your names and your statements" Alice said.

"I'm Brad and she's Nicole" Brad introduced.

"Brad she doesn't get it, Drake is dead and Anna is missing! Her life might be in danger right now, now isn't the right time for silly introductions!" Nicole said in panic.

"If I don't get information from you guys, how do you expect me to find your missing friend?" Alice encountered back.

"What would you like to know to help you find her and the murderer who did this?" Jay asks.

"Every possible information that connects us to finding the murderer" she replies.

"But we don't know anything about who he is, we got here this afternoon to find one of our friends dead and the other missing. We're still in shock right now, asking us questions we know nothing about will lead you to nowhere" Brad said.

"Do you guys have a clue on who might have killed your friend here and kidnap the other? I mean, was there any funny incidents you might have witnessed or your friends must have told you before this incident?" Alice asks.

"Not at all" Jay replied.

"What about you two?" Alice asks staring directly at Nicole and Brad.

"I don't think so..." Nicole answers with uncertainty in her tone of voice.

"There was" Brad replied and all heads snaps up at him.

"There was?" Alice asks again to be sure she heard right.

"Yes" Brad answered while Nicole stared at him with wide eyes.

"Okay, tell us what occured before today" Alice said and brought out a notepad.

"Yesterday morning at the coffee shop, we were all having a cup of coffee when Anna said she has something to tell us. Then when we asked what it was, she said someone was stalking her..."

"Stalking her?" Alice asks with furrowed brows and Brad nods.

"Yes. We didn't believe her when she told us that, we made fun of her that she was hallucinating and needed to see a therapist not knowing it was a real thing. Because we didn't believe her and made fun of her, she left us that morning and never hangout with us throughout school hours" Brad narrated.

"Did her boyfriend believed her?" Alice inquired.

"Not really. But during our conversation, he said Anna has told him about someone stalking her and he has even witness her screaming on one occasion here in her house, but he never found anyone that was stalking her" Jay answered.

"If Anna was mad at you guys yesterday, then what was her boyfriend, what's his name again-?" Alice pause for answer

"Drake" Brad answered.

"Yeah Drake, what was Drake doing at her house in the middle of the night?" Alice asks and Nicole rolled her eyes.

"Drake was at Anna's place before midnight. He went over to apologize to Anna and set things right with her. I believe things turnout so well that's why he spent the night with her and then this tragic thing happened" Nicole explains and began sobbing. "How I wish we had believed her then none of this would have happened" she muffles out and Brad hugged her.

"It's okay babe" Brad whispers to her, patting her back soothingly.

"I'm so sorry for the lost. My team and I will do everything in our power to find your friend. For now, you need to exit this house, it's now a crime scene. Do you know if she's with her phone?" Alice asks.

"No, I saw both of their phones in her room" Jay responded.

"I guess the monster didn't allow her take anything along with her, I wonder where he/she must've taken her. Please I need the full name of both of your friends and most especially a picture of the missing one" Alice said.

"Anna Greg and Drake Lambert. Here's a picture of Anna" Nicole replies and handed her phone to Alice.

"Thank you. Which of you knows where the deceased parents live?" Alice asks.

"We all do but I'll go with you while my friends will stay behind" Jay said.

"Good. Liam will go with you right away to the deceased house while I get my team to do their job here and see if there's going to be a trace of the murderer" Alice said and Liam nods and led the way out. Jay glances back at his friends.

"Here's Anna phone, you know what to do with it. I'll see you guys later" Jay said handing Anna's phone to Nicole and she reluctantly collected it from him.

"We'll join you there soon. Please do all you can to comfort them especially his mom" Brad said and Jay nods and exited the house.

Alice excused herself and put a call through to the CSI in her department to get over here ASAP and she hung up afterwards. While Brad held Nicole's face in his palms trying to help calm her nerves.

"Babe, I know this is hard for you to cope with right now, but all I need is for you to be strong. Please be strong for me, if not for me, for Drake's mom and sisters. You can't break down in front of them, this was why Jay went ahead of us to prepare your mind before you meet them. Please babe" Brad pleaded and tears formed in her eyes.

"I can't, I'm so weak, heartbroken, bittered and so sad. This is just too much for me to bear, Brad. Why us? Why our friends? Why Drake of all people? He was so kind, sweet, loving, jovial, caring, hard-working, and the list goes on. He was too good to have left the world so soon. Why would anyone take such a cool-headed guy away from the Earth without even letting him enjoy the fruit of his labour, why Brad?" Nicole sobs and Brad was at the brim of tears as he watches his girlfriend weep.

"I know he's been such a good guy and my best friend too. He doesn't deserve to die, and even if he's to die, it should have been someday, not now, not anytime sooner either. But still, we have those we need to comfort, we can hide our tears and the pains while we're with them. They matter most right now than we do, imagine how they're going to cope now that their breadwinner is gone. How about the sick mother who is battling with her health for so long now? We need to give her hope to continue living" he said and took her hands and held it.

"She needs you most right now, Nicole. Please, don't give up all hope yet even though you're feeling that way" he continues and she nods and hugs him. "With God's help we'll get through this, I promise" he whispers to her.

"Guys, how are you doing?" Alice voice interrupted their moment of comfort and they let go of each other. "Losing a loved one is not always easy. I've passed through this stage before when death took my only sister, it was such a terrible experience. She was also murdered by a serial killer, after the incident I couldn't help but become a CSI to terminate anyone who calls himself a serial killer. So don't worry, I'll get to the bottom of this, I promise you. I'll get that bastard and make him pay dearly for taking your friend away".

"Please do. And please don't let her kill my friend Anna, if not, I don't know if I'll be to cope with two big loses" Nicole sniffles.

"I'll do my very best. You should give your friend's mother a call. Do they live in this city?" Alice asks and Nicole shook her head.

"No. Faraway from here, England precisely" Nicole answered.

"That's really far away. You should put a call through now to know if they can make it down here tonight" she said and Nicole nods and went through Anna call-logs.

Nicole saw 10missed calls from Anna's mom and 5missed calls from her dad. She gulped saliva down her dried throat and she inhale and exhale. "Breathe Nicole, breathe" she mumbles and then she glance at Brad who nods at her. She dialled Anna's mom number and she picked up on the second ring.

"My baby, where have you been, I've been sick worried of you. I called severally this morning and none of my calls did you pick. Are you okay?" Anna's mom asks sounding so worried.

Nicole gulped down saliva one more time and she exhales heavily. "Good afternoon ma'am, this is not Anna, it's her friend, Nicole".

There was silence on Anna's mom end and Nicole removed the phone from her ear to glance at it if the call is still ongoing. She placed the phone back to her ear, "ma'am are you there?".

"Ye..yeah. Why are you with Anna's phone? Where is Anna?" She asks trembling. Her heartbeat deviated from normal to abnormal. It was throbbing faster than it had been before she had picked up the call. She knew something was wrong, but she prays it isn't as bad as she dreaded.

"I'm afraid this is a bad news ma'am. Your daughter has gone missing. Your presence is required here" Nicole broke the news to her and a million gasps escapes from her mouth.