Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 15

Yeah, This place is not a s**t, this people are.

Whoever killed Reynaldo, will pay for their sins.

We're back again here in the hospital, but this time, not for me, but for my cousin. They are all crying, they are all in pain, I mean, I'm in pain too. This is just brutal. They killed Reynaldo by slicing his throat and by cutting his tongue out. Joseph and Cindy are safe, but they are unconscious. Reynaldo is the only one who's dead.

I can't cry, because something is bothering me.

The body is missing, Chase body.

What if, someone knows? Someone knows except for me, Henry and C? What if there are others? What if they tried to get an evidence, but instead they found Reynaldo...

No...

What if Reynaldo saw? And he was killed by no other than...

I get my phone when it vibrated. I knew it, I knew he will text me, because he did it.

'I did not know he is your cousin,

He was looking to the body so before he screams

I slit his throat slowly and cut his tongue so he can't tell

your secrets. I hid the body, don't worry.

But he died, because of your secret.

You see, I am not always a bad guy, I'm just a bad guy

When it comes to you. Wait I have a question...

How many people are there who will be dead next,

because of your secret?

-xoxo C '

The Summer of 1887

It seems like in this world where we are living, we cannot avoid death, because where ever we go, where ever we are, death follows us, death is always there. I thought at first, I am curse, because every year, I see death, I witness death, but the truth is, every one oof us is like me.

But the difference is that, that year, in that precious darkly moment of my life, I am the one who announce death, I am the one who gave death.

But we shouldn't be afraid of death. Because death is a new way to start a new life, not just in this world, but in the other world where much better than here. I am excited to die, I always tried to die, but it always failed, like the world after this don't want me there.

Tears can't stop by falling from our eyes. Tears did not stop from running. I couldn't believe it, he is gone, Reynaldo is gone. And the one who killed Reynaldo, is that fucker who is messing with me.

I don't know why he wanted me, I don't know why he want to mess with me. If he knows that I killed Chase, then why he didn't just turn me into thee police, why does he need to make me suffer, or worst, why is he protecting me?

I mean, he told me that Reynaldo found the body inside my closet so he killed Reynaldo and hide the body, where I don't know where is right now. See? I felt like he has a plan, a plan to destroy me. Because if you are in the right mind and have no intentions, you are going to confess that you witness a murder and confess to where the murderer hid the body, not hide it to protect the murderer.

I mean, that is so suspicious.

I have many names inside my head that can point out who is C. There are a lot of names that starts with C, I just need to find who is the right C.

"I am never going back here." I heard my uncle said while he is still crying. I look to them and they are hugging each other. "Why us? Why Reynaldo?" He continued to ask himself. Aunt Brenda tries to calm him down, but he just can't stop from crying and complaining.

I'm not gonna blame him, he just lost his son. I just lost my cousin.

"Mr and Mrs. Bernacio right?" I look up to see who is the man who's talking to my uncle. "We would like to talk about your son's death." He continued. They just talk about following them in the police station and they should not worry about Joseph and Cindy because the officers are guarding them.

"You too Mr. Hall, follow us." The detective said. So I have no choice but to follow them to the station. We're just quiet, no one tries to talk, no one tries to start a new conversation while the detective is driving us to the station. I am sitting beside the detective and my uncle and Aunt Brenda is from the passengers sit of this car.

I just listen to the radio, and of course, the news is about the murder of my cousin. They said that this is the first murder here in WestHood town for almost 133 years.

I remember the first murder here in WestHood town, it was year 1887. My dad told that story to me before, and I will never forget it because it haunts me that day, that young age of mine, until now.

My dad said that his family lives here before it became WestHood. My dad heirloom lives here since 1888, just after the 9 murders was committed by a serial killer called WestHood Killer.

"It is the summer of 1887 when the first murder was committed. The grandmother of my great great grandmother said, that before, this town has no name, except it was known as a town in the west. The town was shocked about the news that the very first murder happened here in this town. It was a young beautiful girl. Her hair is so red and her lips is so pink, but her skin is so pale when they found the body. The family of the victim didn't know why someone wants to kill their daughter, they said that she is so sweet and kind, she obeys her parents, but everyone changes their thoughts immediately, because after the autopsy of her body, they discovered that, that girl is pregnant without her parents knowing. So the people say that the girl is a curse, acting like innocent when the truth is, she's not. Even she is dead, people want her to disappear, people want her to be dead again, until her soul burned in hell. Her body was stolen, her poor dead body. They said that the other people who believe that she's a witch burned her body to the ground, but the other said that her body was dumped into a river with rocks inside her, so her body will never float again, but up until now, no one knows the truth about what happened to her body. And after her body was stolen, the police never tried to retrace her body, they never find her body again, with a reason of, 'she's already dead. The witch is already dead.'. But they didn't know that, that is just the beginning of the murder. My grandmother said that just after a few weeks, another person went missing for two weeks, and another one, and another one, and another one. There were six people who went missing every two weeks. And their body was never found that day. Until the death anniversary of the girl who they though is a witch. Six people were found tied up in a wood while their body is burning. The other one person who went missing, survive. She told to the police that she couldn't see the face of her kidnapper, but he is wearing a black hoodie. So people starts looking everywhere, and that survivor was found dead on her bed with her throat was sliced open, leaving her larynx seen. They keep looking and looking but the murders just starts to rise up. Until this last person, the last victim. He was the ninth victim of the serial killer, just after he killed the boy, the police caught him red handed, so they caught the killer and they immediately killed him by hanging him in front of a crowd. So from that day, this no name town from the West was named after the name of the serial killer, The WestHood Town."