Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 17

Time is running, every minutes, every seconds is important, but today, I felt like any of those doesn't exist, I felt like, I don't exist.

Nothing is real, nothing is existing, time is golden, but it lies, the truth is, there's really no time, just day and night.

"Jackson." He called my name so I look to him with confuse face. "Did you kill him?' He asks again. "Why? Is he dead?" I lied. This is the only thing that I cans ay right now, the only words I can say protect my self. "No. But Joseph said they saw a body inside your cabinet that has been locked forever before they passed out." The detective said.

Joseph? Does that means that Joseph and Reynaldo both saw the body... Then why did C only killed Reynaldo?

"A body? In my cabinet?" I ask him innocently. "That's impossible, I never opened that cabinet since I don't have a key to it... And a body.." I added. "We want to search your house for some confirmation about what your cousin saw. This is the warranty search." He said while giving to me a piece of folder with a warranty paper in it. "Sure, but now?" I ask him. Detective Portman smiled. "They already searching your house at this moment." He said. "What? But you just gave me the warrant. How's that legal?" I ask him. "It is not illegal since you approved our search warrant. It's just the warranty is late." He said.

As far as I know, that's against the law.

"So we can make sure that you're not hiding something." He said. "Like what?" I ask him. "Like the dead body of Chase Carter." He added. "How many times Do I have to tell you that I didn't kill Chase? If I did... I'm gonna leave his body and not bringing him home." I shouted. "I'm sorry. I just can't belive that my cousin is dead..." I added.

To be honest, I am not confident about them not finding any evidence that I left when I killed Chase, because this is so unprepared. What if C lied? What if he never hid the body? What if...

"is this your phone?" Detective ask and slid my phone inside a zip bag. I look to him..

Now what lies I am going to say to make myself innocent?

"What the hell. Where did you find this?" I ask him. "So this is yours?" He ask me back. I nodded. "Yes, It was missing since the game night last week..." I said.

I remember it... That is the dumbest fail that happened last week. My phone fell inside Chase car while I am pushing it on the end of the cliff.

"It was inside Chase car. It was broken and crack into pieces so we couldn't open it and fix it. " He explains. "No wonder why I couldn't track it anymore..."

He looks to me, like he is examining my whole personality, my whole soul, my whole mind. Like he was trying to get an answer by just looking at me. He is a detective, he is good at observing, what if he can tell that I am lying?

"You are lying." He said..

Oh s**t, I knew it, I should confess every sins of mine.

"It is broken and crack, but we can still open it. There's no tracking device or app inside your phone. That's why you can never track it... So why did you lie?"

My god.

He got me there. How many tricks is he going to put to me for me to give up and confess about me killing Chase?

"Fine. I was with Chase before he went missing. I left my phone in his car and only realize it after I shower. I don't have another phone so I went to Henry's house to borrow his phone to call mine but Henry is still not home so I waited until morning. But we couldn't contact my phone..." I lied again.

"Why are you with Chase?"

"He broke his leg just before the game so I offered him a ride home but he said that he can still drive and that his leg is not really that broken, that he can still move it so he told me that I should get home so I drove to my house and when we arrive their he exchange his sits and he drove away."

"What time is it?"

Shit.

I don't know the time. I should have an alibi...

HENRY!

Henry could be my alibi since we're the one who help each other to put Henry away.

I remember checking the time on my phone when I called Henry after I killed chase. It was around 9:30. The game starts at 6 end time is 8. We went to my house that time, to get my jacket it was around quarter to 8...

Now I have an Idea...

"We arrive at my house around 8 in the evening."

"Do you have an alibi?"

"Henry? I don't know if someone saw us that time, there's no cctv camera that time, maybe you should ask Henry's mom."

I said it because I went to Henry when we arrive my house before I get my jacket to find Henry, so it is okay.

"You called Henry six times from 9:30 to 9:51."

"Did I?" I ask in confusion.

I maybe not smiling outside, but my soul is smiling, because I'm a genius. I knew time is very important alibi. I am thankful that I am good at mathematics not like Henry.

"Maybe Chase called him? I mean, it's obvious that Chase called him cause I don't have my phone that time, only Chase. Maybe he called Henry to tell that I left my phone at his car? I don't really know detective..."

Detective nodded and he closes his folder.

"I'm going to check your alibi and ask Henry about this. But for now, you're a suspect to Chase case." He said. But before he get up he ask me one last question. "How did Chase broke his leg?"

I took a deep breath and closes my eyes.

I'm sorry Henry.

"I saw Henry and Chase fighting just before the game. Maybe Henry broke his leg.." I said.

Detective Portman nodded and he smiled. "You can get home now. My buddy just texted me that there's no evidence of you killing Chase inside your house, and there's no body in every close door." He said.

Now I feel relieve. I hope I escape this nervousness.

I hope I get away of murder.

"Wait. How about my cousins murder?" I ask him. He look back at me and he took a deep breath. "Who ever killed Chase, killed your cousin. He was obviously protecting the body, looks like he has a plan." He answered and he left the room, left me standing here all alone, thinking why. He obviously has a plan, but, is his plan to kill my cousin too? This is absurd.

I went outside and didn't found my uncle and Aunt. They probably went straight to the hospital where my cousins are.

My mind is a mess. I don't know what to do next, I have no idea what to say next and what actions I'm going to give. I have no idea if I'm going back home, or going to the hospital to stay with them, because I felt like if I didn't go to the hospital I am being disrespectful, but I can feel that they hate me now, that they do not want to see me, that it's all my fault.

I mean, it is my fault.

If I just let chase go that time and did not follow him, maybe his neck wasn't broken, maybe he's still alive, and my life is normal, my life is just normal like before. But now, I am stuck here in between darkness with nothing. Nothing but guilt, nothing but fear.

I have a choice,, but I didn't listen, I jhave an option, but I am wrong, I have an answer, but It was incorrect, I have a promise but it is broken.

I have a life, but now I have nothing.