chapter 6

"Pistols, gunshots, gunfire, scattered blood, unjust and oppressed, these are the basics of crime."

Roxana breathed so hard she didn't expect her mother to be the killer ! She asked Matthew to deny what Annie had said but he confirmed it, took out his phone to show her the picture of the painting. What's all this blood? The painting depicted hilsey with a knife and Isabella sitting on the floor shackled to this fateful room, she felt that the world hated her, her mother killed her grandmother ! Matthew asked Annie to let Roxana stay for some time alone, but he bumped her down the stairs carrying her purse and saying,:

- The first strand of the sun won't shine until I catch that fucking criminal ! Pick up.

Matthew picked up the bag she threw, opened it and saw several guns in it ! He shocked her, looked at her with suspicious looks to explain to him:

- I won it in my teens. when we were playing poker. I didn't get rid of it because I thought I'd need it one day, but look! Here I am.

She paused for a moment before she was charged out to speak to Annie. :

Annie won't come with us.I won't risk you.

- I'll come. there's no discussion.

The two exchanged glances, Roxana looking back , and Annie looking down at this decision, Roxana sighed as she looked at her sharply and said,:

- Don't be stubborn and listen to me?.

Annie angrily raised her eyebrows and said, " I'll be stubborn and I'll go, it means as much to me as it means to you!".

Matthew felt that the atmosphere had ignited between the two girls, smiled with fear and said in a low voice:

- She won't get hurt.we'll protect her. Don't worry.

Roxana gave up and walked towards the car parked in front of the house, despite its old red paint and rickety doors but in Roxana's eyes it is the best car in the world! She threw in the front seat for Matthew to rest next to her, and Annie in the back seat, she started driving towards her mother's House, Helsey, she knew him well, her phone rang silent announcing a message had arrived, she flashed it with the tip of her eye to see Fez's name adorning the screen, she picked up the phone:

Guys, your theory is certainly true. Fez told me that the one who put the sword up for sale was Helsey, a week after my grandmother died.

Swallowed Matthew and Annie, and she smiled too, even though they feel for the class that will be acquaintances, after all, still loves her mother, she felt that she need no one to challenge him, I began to adapt and compete from the front mirror to the background, although their concentration in leadership, she brought up her past with accuracy:

- Listen to me, buddy. I was seven when my father died , I loved my father very much, I was attached to him because he was always my knight , he was sure of my mother's anger , when he died my grandmother lied to me and said that he went on a trip and he would come back, and I waited for him but he didn't come back, you know My mother raised me alone until I was seventeen years old, of course my mother was not the perfect mother or even close to her daughter, she could never replace my father, but she was bringing every night dozens of bottles of drink and young men to our house, not even these young men were good n, I was getting an abundant share of I locked myself in my room in fear every evening, I loved the dark, I adored it, it was more painful for me than my mother, yet I never hated it! I really loved her , but I just felt a little sad. ،

When she finished 17th and got her stuff out of me for her second marriage, her husband didn't want anyone with her to stay alone in that dark house. I couldn't sleep because of my sick fantasies, I was terrified not a hand holding me or a shoulder to cry on , but above all even my mother's phone calls were interrupted after she had my sister, I've only seen her twice, but look how stupid I am! I still regret my mother's arrest, but if you want to think, of course my grandmother was better than my mother throughout my life, I was spending all my time then, I thought of her as my mother, she was close to me and knew all my secrets and feelings, so I think that my sense of regret will soon be gone.

Matthew's silence and he didn't comment, but Annie's voice made him turn to her.:

- You know Roxanne ...True, I lived with both my parents for seven years, but after my mother died of cancer and she suffered for years .. Two years were hell .. My father abandoned me after her death. it shocked him .. I don't know why I'm the cause of her death. I don't know why you're running away from raising me . I feel guilty every time I remember that I was the reason my aunt was prevented from starting a family .. If I and the rest of my mother died alive, the better .

The silence returned to occupy the corners of the car, it was not the scary silence this time but the silence that will allow each of them to think about the circumstances of the other, Considering Matthew is the owner of the best conditions among the group, he does not know why he did not love his parents or rather he did not see them enough tenderness, when understand why? ! Why didn't her father love her? Was it a hindrance? What is the explanation? But in any case his conditions were much better than those of Roxana. Annie lives with her affectionate, loving aunt, and he felt the car stop in the middle of his deep thought, to say Roxana is looking at him.:

- Come on, Matthew. if you want to back off, no problem.

Matthew landed and did not discuss anything with her, and Annie landed with them. Roxana had already hidden the gun under her clothes, realizing that she would not need it, but who knows? She knocked on the door several ways, she had not seen her mother in three years, her features almost disappeared , there was no answer, she returned to knock on the door more forcefully, until she heard screaming from inside:

- Coming , coming! Who the hell is this?.

The door opened and Roxana's gaze met her mother's gaze, and without words Roxana entered the house and Annie followed her, while Matthew remained hesitant to enter, but with a sign from Helsey encouraging him to enter, the four became in the hall, and the silence was their fifth, but Roxana wanted to break this suffocating silence, and she:

- Why did you kill her?.

You killed Isabella. I painted a painting that you gave Richard before you killed her.

Halsey fired a little laugh, and Roxana followed at the same pace:

- Burn and throw ashes in the kitchen sink.

- Don't you have a conscience?.

Annie screamed, and her face looked indignant, saying hilsey carelessly.:

- The failure of my social and emotional relationships and the break-up of Isabella between me and Emilia was enough for me to hate her, imagine I am the legitimate daughter and Emilia is her illegitimate daughter ! But even though I loved her more than I did, you know, my mind always told me to be more mature and more sensible than the thoughts my heart gave me, but my heart stood still and wanted revenge! So listen to him, yes, who says the heart is dragging us to death ? He had lived what I had, but let me be honest, I still have no regrets, so every time I remember the scene of her burning her body and locking her in that room for a whole month, it almost makes me happy!

Annie can no longer handle so much evil. she yelled at Helsey.:

- What are you saying? Anyone take pleasure in killing his mother ? Come on!.

- Yes you brat, I enjoyed it a lot, and for luring my mother wasn't easy.

Matthew said and the signs of disgust fly out of his eyes:You were born and the seed of evil, born in your heart. You lived with your mother and did not abandon you, but you did not, simply fate chose you to be an evil woman.

Halsey laughed to look at Matthew and say,:

- Baby, your expression is so beautiful!.

Roxana looked at her mother and said after her long silence: we did not come to laugh with you, we came to catch you Helsey.

Halsey said, attaching her words with a smile: in your pink dreams my little one.

Roxana was shocked by her mother's words. how are you gonna stop her?. Halsey got up off the couch and said,:

I'm not going to let you destroy what I've planned for years. do you think I'll smile at you and lead you to prison amid tears of regret and sadness? I'm not this woman.

- You're not this woman, and I'm not the daughter of the woman who eventually regrets no matter how much you hate my dear mother, there's something of your demonic genes inside me.

Hilsey raised her eyebrows with disapproval, mockery and mockery for Roxana to take out the gun to put it in her mother's head, hilsey was very surprised by her daughter's act ! Matthew took his phone out of his pocket and looked like he was making a call, Roxana told her mother:

- Tell the details of your crime. we have some time to chat with each other before the cops come.

Halsey smiled and said, her eyes fixed with her daughter's eyes.:

Roxana sharpened her gaze and began to pull on her mother's head with the muzzle of the gun, and Halsey smiled and said:

- All right, calm down, you lunatic ! I don't know why you care about it? But as I said, We have some time. I simply intensified my visits to your grandmother so hard, I tried to get her to regain her trust in me, and I honestly succeeded but it was hard, and then one time I asked her to go up with me to the attic to look for a hammer, she told me that there was no way she would be there but she came, I told her to wait for me, My father secretly designed it to be a bunker for me and my toys, extra space, that's what he said. ،

Unfortunately his expectations were not in place, I locked her there, she managed to escape several times, but I was returning her every time by threatening to kill you or kill Matthew, she agreed to return, and then I felt it was time to get rid of her after I tortured her as I craved myself, I made her drink a glass of juice that contained poison and she simply died, kitchen sink.

Roxana was disgusted with her mother, really how did she do all this? I looked at Annie and she was crying really. She wanted to invest the rest of her time to say more seriously.:

- The sword?.

- I need the money for Yuri.

She threw out her last question and said, " Why did you come home that day?".

Halsey smiled and said,:

- I need some money, I wanted to see what works for sale.

A few minutes later, Matthew came and hung up.:

Halsey smiled, raised her head as if she was refusing to take it down, whatever the reason , to say to Roxana . :

- You know what? You beat me, but you beat me in this war and not in every battle, be sure there will be other encounters for us.

Roxana didn't pay attention to that.any criminal who says what her mother said would pay for his loss.

She was sitting alone in the cafe that she used to go to whenever she wanted to visit the area here, she would occasionally look at her watch with discomfort and look bad on her face as she waited for him to come. But one thing changed, after studying the investigation she became more energetic , at least she found her passion in life, she saw him coming towards her and he was running to know him late, she indicated to him with her hand that she would definitely kill him, he ran as fast as he could and lay on the chair in front of her,:

- I apologize to Roxanne.

- You're used to being late, Matthew, the big deal. you impressed us with your last play, man ! What is all this creativity ? It's true that I helped you with it, but damn it, it's amazing!.

- Yeah, you know the successes came after I wrote a play in 2012 .

With a sarcastic smile, he said: I was wrong when I confessed to you that I derived the character of the heroine from you!.

The two laughed, felt someone pull out a chair and sit down and say, " sorry.":

- Guys, you won't imagine what happened!.

Roxana smiled and said cheerfully:

- And what happened to Naughty Annie?.

Annie looked and tried to hide her laughter and joy by joking.:

- Darren agreed to finally get married.

Roxana jumped in to hug Annie, who is seventeen, she is young, and let's say she wants to play, after a quarter of an hour Richard had joined them, after remembering the majority of the events that brought him together with Isabella, her collar became indistinguishable from his neck. Matthew and Roxana exchange the joyful glances of this happy ending, both have not given up one of his qualities, even if it is wrong, both have succeeded in their working lives, but they are still failed by romantic relationships and will remain.

After all, he had completed each other, and otherwise meeting, which takes much you still in a pit of failure that, in the pit of depression and unhappiness, the old man was right, that day changed their lives.

The end.....