Thorns of Roses

Fall of October

Song for this Chapter:

Yellow-Coldplay

CHAPTER 13

CORINNE

“I will investigate the death of Gian Montgomery.”

Blaze’s words kept repeating over and over my head. Even if I don’t want to, it made me feel relieve. This is the first time someone had said that they will investigate her death, even our local police turn a blind eye on her. Even her parents kept their mouth shut after her death.

I didn’t expect that I would hear those words from someone who killed her, or should I say, someone I suspect.

If he’s too ready to investigate her death, maybe he wasn’t that guilty like I made him to be.

Or maybe he’s just too confident that he can twist the investigation because he knows he is too powerful to do just that.

But I don’t know. I guess I just have to wait till he laid out his investigation on me, by then I will decide if I should do something about it.

I owe this to Gian.

The night of her death, she calls me several times and I was too late to answer.

I kept wondering what if I answered her call? Maybe she’s with me still.

FALL OF OCTOBER LAST YEAR

My phone kept blasting for the last three hours but I didn’t answer it because I know it was Gian.

I was so mad at her because she’s starting to failed all her classes because she chose to be with Blaze Mayhem all the time.

She once told me that she and Blaze have a thing. But I didn’t see them getting together on school or on public, I even asked her why’s that? And she said, Blaze wants to keep it private.

Gian Montgomery is blind.

She can’t walk around without her walking stick, but she’s beautiful with her red hair and freckles on her fine innocent face.

Blaze is her first boyfriend and her first time. I can see why blaze liked in her because she has this insanely unique beauty that will capture everyone.

She’s my first friend here in Riverdale since I came here. Gian and Diesel is all I have.

Then her cousin Hannah, came along. The rest is history.

That night was pouring hard outside my bedroom, I am glad my Father wasn’t here and decide to be in the Cosa Nostra’s hideout for the night.

When thirteen minutes has passed without my phone blasting, I decides to hear her voicemail, I know it was full of apologies and funny remarks and promise.

I hit the button and what I hear is far from what I expected, she’s sobbing, really hard.

“C, I need your help. I can’t believe this is happening to me. I am sitting on my bathroom and I don’t know who else I can turn to.” A long sob. “C, I am pregnant with Blaze’s. I don’t know what to do.”

I stood still, just looking at my phone, why is this happening? Off course, it tends to happen when two people decides to have s*x without even wearing a f*****g protection.

Fuck Gian.

Another voicemail “C, I texted Blaze about my pregnancy and he didn’t even reply. It’s been two hours now since I texted and called him. I feel like he’s dodging my calls—” sob. “I know you’re mad Corinne, but please I need you.”

I was about to get changed when I heard another beep, another voicemail “C, I am heading to the Cosa Nostra’s hideout. I heard he’s there. I need to talk to him about our baby.”

I can still hear her opening the car door and the rain pattering outside. f**k Gian, what were you thinking?

I fished my phone out and tried to call her, but it went through her voicemail straight away.

A sudden creep tingles all over my body, and I don’t know why.

I checked if she’s still left me some unheard voicemail and there is one more of it. “Corinne—” This time she sounds so weak, like struggling, I think. “He—He stabbed me.”

I froze.

He stabbed her?

“He—He wants to kill me, I managed to run—but I am bleeding so much and the rain is so cold. Help—me, C.”

I didn’t think twice after that, I borrowed my Father’s SUV and sped off out of the house towards the Cosa Nostra’s hideout wearing nothing but my sleepwear, but I don’t care. Every second passed that Gian was bleeding is crucial. The voicemail came to me thirty minutes ago, and I have to drive fast to get there in time.

My tears fell all over my eyes as guilt and fear consumes me, what if I answered her call, I would have made her calmed down and not to go to the lion’s den, but I didn’t. I let my pride and my anger took over me.

“Please let her be okay.” I kept repeating as I had my way through the ocean docks.

That is where the Cosa Nostra’s business facility resides.

They have this huge building and a ship, literally for shipping purposes. I know this because they are being transparent to our family and trusted us like they’re own, in their own f*****g words.

Once I am in front of the huge security gates, I can almost see armed men all over the hidden city.

I tried to calm myself down and took a deep breath as I managed to put my windows down. “I am here for my Father, Marcus Lewis.”

“What do you want from Mister Lewis inside?” The suspicious guard asked. And I can feel his eyes lingers on what I wear.

I swallowed hard, I need to be a b***h “Are you really questioning me? I am his daughter or you didn’t like your job after all.”

I can see in his eyes that he faltered as he lowers his gun. And chuckle “Aright. Go on”

“And next time stop eye f*****g me or I will scoop your eyes out of your filthy head, fucker.” I drove away as I heard his co-security laughing at him.

I stopped the car on where my Father wouldn’t see it and decides to just walk whilst I find Gian anywhere. From what I heard she’s outside given she even said that the rain is cold on her skin. I just have to look hard on this dark place.

As soon as I stepped out of my car, the raindrops pour on me that made my skin shiver.

I took deep and deeper on that alleyway and find a lifeless body on the end.

A lifeless bloodied body of my friend, Gian Montgomery.

I walked slowly to scared to get near her, shaking with fear. “Gian?”

The place is dark and all I can see is her face that glows in the dark. She’s too white, too pale.

I kneel in front of her and feel her pulse, and she was far long gone. I sob “Gian, please don’t do this.” I see that her neck was slashed brutally whilst she has another knife stab on her belly.

Whoever did this, he wants her dead.

I see my hands getting her blood as I heard someone behind me, my head snap back towards him and all I can see is a very huge man with a red bandanna on his mouth to cover his identity. I couldn’t even see him in this dark place but he just grazed his knife on my arms and took off.

I felt the sting pain but all I can think about is Gian.

A hand push through my mouth “Sssh, it’s me your Father.”

I looked at him “Dad, Gi—Gian.” I pointed to her “He—He killed her, Dad.”

“Who killed her?”

“Blaze—Blaze Mayhem killed her, Dad.” I sob.

“Why would he kill her?”

“Because she’s f*****g pregnant with his child.” I snap. “Please, Dad let us take her to the hospital. Please.”

“You better leave this alone, Corinne. Or else—”

“Or else what, Dad?”

“You’re going to be the one lying like that in that same place.”

A shiver run down my spine as my own father said that.

“What do you mean?”

“If what you’re saying is true. The Mayhems can kill you. You need to keep your eyes and mouth shut on this, Corinne.” He warns. “You don’t want the Mayhems to be your enemies.”

“But what—” I sob “What are we going to do with her, we can’t just leave her like that. She’s my friend, Dad.”

He fished his phone out and dialed some number “Hi, yes Colonel. I might need a favor from you.” He chuckles like there wasn’t a dead body in front of him. “Thank you.” He put his phone on his pocket “We need to leave.”

“How about Gian?”

“I just called someone who will take care of her and take care of your fingerprints on her on some way for you to be not in here. No one should know you’re in here.”

Dad took me away from Gian’s lifeless body and I let him, all because I am afraid of something like that might happen to me.

The next morning, I came into the Montgomery’s house and I see her parents mourning as they held an urn with Gian’s. I hugged them and share my sympathy with them knowing that I am half of the responsibility on why did this happen to their daughter.

Police closed the investigation and ruling it as a robbery gone wrong with rape.

And they informed the Montgomery’s that Gian was found at the back of the city’s library, the one Gian used to go with because it has a book with braille.

It was so scary for them to twist the story and truth in their favor, especially when all the authority and even the politician they held them by their necks and tail.

It is so scary that how much power the Mayhems can have.

But as the months of sleepless nights passed, anger and madness took control over me.

I am no longer afraid of him.

I wanted him to share the same faith like Gian and her stillborn child.

He needs to stop living his life to the fullest and seeing him so happy like he didn’t just kill someone with a great future ahead of her, and her only guilt is just by loving this wickedly evil and vile man in smiling in front of everyone.

That’s what droves me to smashed my car on him with a giant oak tree behind his back.

But that’s another story for another day.