Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 63

After that interrogation outside my hotel room, I have no choice buut to follow them back to our town, the WestHood town.

I am just sitting inside a car where Sergeant Gerald is the one who is driving. I am at the backseat of his car. I wasn't cuffed or anything, I am just sitting here, lonely, trying to process what Sergeant told me earlier. That Henry Caliesto is dead, and that he was murdered by probably no other than C.

That f*****g C who destroyed my life, and now he is trying to destroy everyone's life. And I have no idea why, I don't have any clues on what gives him an idea to commit this gracious crime. What gives him right to kill someone?

I cannot focus on the thoughts that is going inside of my head, all I can think right now is about Henry. How he died or how we ended up our relationship. I didn't expect this at all. We didin;t even fix our relationship before he died, we left things hanging between the two of us, and now, I don't think that the guilt of what happened to both of us will haunt me, because I felt like that guilt will live inside of me. And it will never go away.

He didin't even get a chance to get a chance to get back his 2 years of life that I stole from him, he didin't even complete his life, he didin't even got a chance to live again. He was just released in that junky jail after living and spending his life there for 2 years. And now? He is dead.

He was murdered.

Why?

Why does he have to be the enxt person who ended up dead? Why not Austin? Why didn't they just killed Austin since he is useless now since he wanted to end his life ever since of that attacked that he did to me, the reason why he is the hospital, the reason why he is laying down on that white bed. IIt is because he tried to end his life.

So why didin't they just kill him instead? Why does it have to be Henry?

"I just want to let you know that we are arresting you for the murder of Caliesto, but more likely to be questioned." Sergeant Gerald said while still driving, but I didin;t give him any response, I didin't gave jim my answer.

Because who the f**k wants my answer?

I don't care if I got arrested or not, because of this guilt that I have now, a guilt right inside of me, I don't think I can live anymore.

It's like I lost some part of me, because Henry is dead.

It is like I am responsible for his death, I felt like I ma the responsible one for his death.

Why do I have to feel like this?

Why do I felt like whoever the person doing these crimes, doing these killings, is because of me? Why do I felt like the person behind these everything want to send me a message? Isit a message that my life is going to end now? Is it a message that my life will be ruined now? That the perfect life, the dream life that I built for 2 years are going to eb a disaster now? Is it a message or a threat? I don't know anymore, I don't know what to think anymore.

First Chase Hudson, and now henry? Who is going to be enxt? Katharina?

If Katharina ever died, I will make sure that I will kill the person who will going to do that to her, and after that I will end myself too.

I stop over thinkning when the car breaks like Sergeant Avoided something.

I look around and I can see the rain, little by little pouring down on the streets from the ksy.

The shining sun above the sky is little bby little turning into a dark clouds.

"What happened?" I asks Sergeant why'd he stop. Did he hit someone? Did he run over to someone? Did someone tried to edn their lives by giving complications to others?

"I just saw a girl run in front of the car. But it is impossible, since I felt like she teleported." HE said looking around outside, trying to find the girl that he is describing.

Out of curiosity, something whispers in me, or just something telling me too look outside from the left window where you can see the forest that will lead you straight down behind my house. My old house where C burned.

I slowly turned my head, as I saw a girl in a bloddy white dress looking striahg tat me.

My hair stood up as it shivers down to my spine form my throat.

She was looking staright at me, her eyes are in grief and in pain, her hair is red, and her dress is white.

It is the same girl that's been haunting me for 2 years.

The same girl that I am seeing in my dream ever since my cousin Reynaldo died.

Ever since iw as poisoned, ever since they say that I was possessed by no other than the angry evil witch.

Lucy Sable.

"Lucy Sbale." I whispered her name when I got shock when Sergeant shouted at me, yells at me about the name I just whispered. "HAVEN'T YOU HEARD THE CURSE OF THAT WITCH WHEN YOU SPOKE HER NAME OUT LOUD?" That is what he shouted.

My eyes widened in shockness as I never knew that Sergeant believes in witch, that he believes to Lucy Sable, that she exists.

By the way of his loks, by the way of how he interacts with everyone he wasn't that kind of person, or his looks wasn;t that kind of person who believes in witches and cursed.

He didin;t believe that C exists, but he believes in Lucy Sable that is a legend 137 years ago? I mena, it wasn't really a legend or a myth since Lucy Sable is one of the WestHood serial killer's victim 137 years ago, it's just the curse of Lucy sbale is the one that is not so believable.

"Lucy Sable doesn't exists Sergeant, Lucy Sable is not a witch, or in short, there are no really witch." I explained to him.

The thunder form the rain echoed all around us and the rain starts getting crazy, like a storm is coming.

"She is real! I may not eb the person who looks like who believes in ghost story or in a curse or a wtich. But I do. And I have reasons."

FALL OF 1982

In fall of 1982, the town is normal. Everyone is having fun, everyone is talking to each other, everyone is crazy about their new job that they have, it is simply the happiest town in a small suburban in the west in 1982.

Children are playing outside, teenagers are having fun and being wild.

"Lucy Sable, Lucy Sable, a witch who's know as a hoe. He was lighted angel and turns to be dark, her skin becomes pale as she drowned in a pond. Lucy Sable, Lucy Sable, a quiet girl with a quiet life in the west, and everything turns, upside down, as she was flipped and killed by an unknown. Lucy Sable, Lucy Sable, we upon call your presence, show your senses, show your heart with it's braces." Teenagers singing the curse song for a curse lady who was murdered in late summer of 1800. Her story is so known as the ancestor of everyone that lives in this town when she was brutally killed was passed, generations by generations. "What are you guys doing?" A boy who is wearing a hat asks to his teenager friends.

They all stop singing as they look to the boy and laugh.

"What are you wearing Georgie? How many times do we have to tell you that you don't fit to be the man's soldier of our town. Because you are just like your father." A blonde girl said to the boy, who's name is Gerald, but everyone calls him Georgie, a nickname that his father gaves to him. "My father is a soldier! He just rested because of the fights and war that he's been through!" Gerald denied the truth about his father being kicked out in the team as they saw a pack of drugs to his father's belongings when he is on the army. "If he is resting, then why does it take a year? My mother told me that your father is a drug addict! That is why he was kicked out! He wasn't resting, he just doesn't have a job anymore, because he is an addict!" A tall brown headed boy said to Gerald.

Gerald didn't gave them a response because he doesn't want to argue anymore.

"Poor Georgie, he couldn't gave a s a response because everything we just said is true!" The tall boy added. "My father is right about their family. His dad is the very firs one in their family generations who destroyed their name as the family of soldiers and cops. He would probably end up like his father." The other blonde boy said.

And Gerald couldn't take it anymore.

So what he did is he pushed the blonde boy and curse him.

"I hope Lucy Sable will stole your stole and bring it to wherever she was." He said and he run away from them. "Come back here you little piece of s**t!" The blonde boy shouted as he was helping himself to get up. "A witch cannot take any mortal life with them, as long as she uses someone as a bait!" The blonde boy added.

As the night approaches, in the Benelisto house, someone knock at their house, more likely banging it.

Gerald's father, Sergeant Erick opens the door and the father of the blonde boy who Gerald pushes are outside.

"Mr. Cameron, what brings you here at this time?" Eric asks to the father, or let's just calls him Cameron Wood. "Where is your son? Where is he?" HE shouted to Eric. "My son is upstairs, he is studying. Why? What happened?" Eric asks. "Good for your son that he is studying! Look at mine! Your son pushes him and he hit his head on the ground!" Because of the shoutings that is happening between Eric Benelisto and Cameron Wood, Gerald and his mother look to what is happening. "What is happening dad?" Gerald asks. "You! Look what you've done to my boy! He hit his head when you pushed him earlier! You must be punished!" Cameron shouted and pointing at to Gerald and tried to attack Gerald when Eric stops him. "Cameron! Stop this non sense now! We can talk this out without any violence!" Eric said. "Without any Violence? Is that what you said to your boss when they found the drug in your bag? To talk you out of it? No wonder why your son acts like that! It is because of you! You don't desrve to be a father!" Cameron said.

Because of what he said, Eric punches him on the face.

"You can tell everything you want to say to me, but you will never ever include my son to your problem! If you have a problem with me, then face me and not throw it to my son!" Eric said and they both punches each other.

Geralds mother tried and shouting for help to any of their neighbour.

Gerald suddenly slide his eyes to the blonde boy, to Mason Wood who is smiling and laughing.

"You little piece oof slut!" Gerald shouted to Mason and attacked him. "What did you do Mason? You didin't hit your head when I pushed you! It is all to you! How dare you lie to your father just t hurt me and my father? Are you even a man? Ae you even a human?" Gerald shouted while pushing him back.

Gerald couldn't stop himself right now, he is full of angry and full of grief. He had enough of everything! He is done with others bullying him, he is done with people tapping them down, stepping at them. He is done with everything.

"Gerald. Can you calm down? You are scaring me. Gerald. Gerald!" Mason shouted now and beg for Gerald to stop. "Stop? Did you stop when I beg you to stop harassing me in school? Did you stop when you start bullying me? Did you stop everytime I beg you to stop because everything you are doing to me is too painful to handle? Huh? Did you stop? I am not going to stop until you are dead Mason Wood!" Gerald shouted and pushes him one last time.

And when they both saw a car approaching to them, Mason look to Gerald and stop.

"I won't stop until you are dead too, witch." Mason said and he pulled Gerald's shirt towards him. "Mason! Get off of me! Stop pulling me!" HE shouted. "Dad!" Gerald shouted that make the two grownup dad and man stop punsching each other and turned their focus to their kid. "GERALD!"" Eric shouted his son's name.

"See? You are weak Gerald. You are very weak. You are only stuck between your own words, but you cannot make it happen." Mason mocks him one more time. "That is why you will never become a sergeant. A detective, a case worker, you will be nothing, while I will be everything." Mason said.

The car is approaching fast that it is hard to stop the car using the brake.

"I won't be dirty like you! So get off of me!" Gerald shouted and he hold both of Mason's hands and pulled it apart for him to stop holding his shirt, when suddenly, because of the strength that Gerald gave, Mason loses balance and he was hit by the car.

"MASON!"

Gerald coouldn't move as he saw mAson got hit by the car, right through his eyes, right on front of him.

"Mason Wood? As in Sara Wood's father?" I asks to Sergeant Gerald.

I couldn't believe his story. I didin't imagine that he was getting bullied before. I mean, people change after all.

"I don't understand how is this connected to Lucy Sable? Is it because of the curse song that you just said?" I asks again. "No. It just started that day."

"WHY DID YOU DO THAT? WHY DID YOU PUSH MASON RIGHT IN FRONT OF A CAR?" Eric is now mad and shouting to Gerald.

Gerald is crying because of what happened.

"BE thankful that mAson didn't die! If he did! I don'tt know what will happen to you ebcasue you will eb charged of murder!" Eric added. "It wasn't my fault! It was all a lie, an act! Mason didn't hit his head when I pushed him, and he is the one who tried to kill me! HE is the one who wants me to be the one who is going to be hit by a car! He pulled me and tried to pushed me! I just fight back and get my shirt back! I didn't pushed him! He just loses his balance! It is not my fault. It is his!" Gerald shouted trying to defend himself to what happened. "Whatever your explainatipn is doesn't matter to the Wood family! Look what happened? They went to America just to treat their son! Just to treat Mason! Because of what he experience is so sever and a life and death experience! What will happened if he is going to die while being ttransported ot America? Aren't you thinking of that? Why aren't you thinking of that?" Eric added.

Yes, the Wood family immediately fly to America when they saw how severe and how Mason's life is going to end in a second. Atleast in America, there are a lot of professional doctors there who can really treat and heal Mason.

That's why when mAson got hit by a car yesterday, they immediately book a flight to America and today isntheir flight.

Everyone couldn't believe on hwat happened.

The accident that happened between the Wood family and Benelisto family is a hot topic to their small little town in the west.

Everyone is talking about the incident, and the fight.

And everyone is mad to Gerald from what he did.

No one believes him, no one tries to listen to him. Everyone just believes to the one side of the story.

That Gerald pushes Mason to get hit by a running car.

They don;;t care about the truth, they don't listen ot the trurtth, no one tries to understand the real thing that happened that time. No one.

"Mom. I ppromise you I diidin't pushed him. Dad didn't listen to." Gerald is trying to convince her mom, trying to make her mom believes him, but just like his father, she did not listen.. "So? If your father didin't believe you, you think I ma going to believe you too? It doesn't mean that the other parent doesn't believe to what their child is saying, doesn't mean that the other parent is going to believe them." She said. "Everyone saw what you did, everyone saw that you pushed him in front of the car. No one is going to believe you what ever what really happened between your own eyes. People's eyes matter than a person''s eye who witnessed. Nothing can change of what they are going to think. Nothing and no one." She added.

Just before her mother leaves her, Gerald speaks with confidence.

"Then, they don't have to listen, they just have to believe. I did not start a thing. Dad did! If dad is not an addict and if he wasn't using drugs, then maybe my life is better, then maybe our family is being respected like grandpa's generation. Dad wasn't the one who is suffering. ME! I was bullied and got bullied because of him! If I can do anything, I wish them dead, everyone who makes me suffer and everyone who makes me who I am and who I will be."

He said but her mother didn't take it seriously, in fact she just ignored him and left him alone isnde his room.

Gerlad is so mad about himself, about everything, about what happened to Mason, about his aprents, about almost everything that is surrounding his world. HE is so mad that he wanted to take his own life, by hanging himself in a ceiling. He felt like his life doesn't have any purpose now, he felt like he has no life after what happened to Mason, he felt like what ever he is going to do, people will look a thim, remember him, as a murderer, even though Mason is not dead. HE has this huge feeling in him that he will be recognize as the first young murderer iin the west, except for the murderer who killed dozens of people back in 1887.

He wanted to end everything, he wanted to make it all stop. So he look around to find a blanket or a rope to make the ending happen.

But instead, a girl with a red head appeared inside his room.

She is wearing a white dress with a blood stain on it.

Her face is so fresh and young, her face is so... Mesmerizing that when you look at her, you will forget everything. Like there is something strange about her. Something very strange about her. He could feel it. He could feel her energy.

"You wanted to take your life?" She said and Gerald couldn''t respond as he is ftoze to where he at. He couldn't process how did that happen, how this girl ended up in his bed room without even him noticing.

"Is that blood?" The first thing he asks to the girl instead of answering.

"Blood or not, it is not important. What is more important is the choices that you are going to make at this very exact moment of your life." She said. "Is it worth It? Taking your own life doesn''t solve any problem that you have, it will just leave a lot of problem than what you have right now." She added. "Who are oyu to tell me what I should be doing? I don't even know who you are, I don't even know how you get in here." Geral said to the girl and he stood up to continue looking for anything that can end his life. "Impossible for you to not know me. You just said my name two days ago, making a wish towards your me with my name on it. Do you really not know who I am ?"

And at that moment, Gerald stops and he slowly look to the girl, stared at her, trying to think who she was, trying to remember who she is.

"Lucy Sable?' He said and the girl smiled. "Thank you." She said.

Gerald froze as he was shock to what he is seeing. HE doesn't believe in witch, he doesn't believe in anything, he didin't even know if what he was seeing is real or not. But he knows one thing about the Sable family, about Lucy Sable.

They had red hair.

And this girl in front of him, this girl inside his room, has red hair. And it is in fac trare to have a red hair, specially in their town, since there are no foreigners living here. That's why he is so sure that this girl in front of him is no other than lUcy Sable, he doesn't have a proof, and he doesn't need one.

Because once you have the gut, once you have the feelinh, once you know, then you know.

You don't have to question it t have a proof.

"How is this even possible." Gerald asks to himself. "You called my name , so I come. You didin't know the curse that they put me isn't it? You didin;t know the legend story about the dead..." She said and Gerald agree with her by nodding. "Once you called a name that had passed, they will woke up from their graves and find that person who called them, and once they found the person, they will follow that person fro them to know what that person need. Some spirits are good, some spirits are bad, some of them, tend to stole the perosn's body by possessing it. But once a witch is called, that witch will follow you until your grave comes." She said. "But you are a witch." Gerald said. "I am a witch. That's what they say and that's what everybody believes. No one believes the truth, they just believe to what they see, to what the others spread, no one cares about the truth, they cared about the story."

And when she said that, Gerald felt so connected.

HE has the same exact feeling on what the girl just said.

"I was called a lot of times, I don'tt have a choice but to follow the one who really needs my calling. And I found you." She said. "I found you and that we have the same feeling that we are having right now. So... You need my calling, then I will give you my calling.... Just give me your hands, and trust to what I will do." She said and she slowly agve her hands to Gerald, waiting for him to accept it. "Let me help you Gerald, and I will promise you, I will give the peave you wanted, I will give what you wanted. Just take my hand, for an agreement." She said.

Gerald doesn't know, but he felt safe and felt attracted to the hands so no in a second, Gerald take her hand.

HE wanted everything to be fixed.

He may not know what Lucy will do, bu he knows, it is for better.

And in just a blink. The night turns into a day.

He look around and he found Lucy nowhere.

He explore the whole room to questions on what happened. To aks himself if he is dreaming or not. He doesn't really know.

He opens the door of his room for him to go look on what's happening, when he slowly heard a siren from outside their house.

Every step he makes downstairs, his heart beats starts racing like hell. He couldn't tell why, but he is so nervous as hell. Like he felt like something happened. He felt like something is going on. When he steps on the floor of their main ground, he doesn't know why but their door is widely open.

He slowly walk outside, when he saw his mother crying while a ploice officer is talking to her.

"Mom?" Gerald called her mother. HE rmother slowly truns around to look to his son.

"What is happening?" He aksks but no one dares to tell him the truth.

When he heard a disturbing news on the radio inside one of the cops car.

He slowly walk towards the cop car to listen on the news and his eyes widened as he finally realized one thing, or on what is happening.

"Two children were found hanged in a tree just outside the WestHood town. And the believing murderer was hanged too just beside the poor children. The mystery begins as a name of a witch was carved in a tree where they are hanged. Is this a murder, or is this a witch curse from a witch?"