Chapter 20

"Wow slow down Mr happy feet, I know you are very excited I can feel it radiating off your body but if you break your foot in the process we will have unnecessary problems."

Alex was half walking and half running towards the truck. I could understand his excitement but at this rate, if he floundered and fell he would only hurt himself by me too since he was tightly holding onto me drugging me towards the truck.

He had this weird look in his eyes and a creepy smile on his face that wasn't sitting well with me. At this point, I had already figured out that I was dealing with a madman but just how mad was he, was something I had yet to determine.

"And another thing, could you stop with the crazed look?"

"Huh! what crazed look?"

"The one you have on right now, especially that creepy smile."

"Hahaha, dude what are you talking about, this is my happy face and if it's giving you the creeps you will just have to stomach it and get used to it." "At least for the SHORT TIME you will be around for."

Alex winked at me and went to his side of the car brushing his arm against mine as he walked past. It only took a few minutes for his words to register in my mind.

" Why did you emphasize the word short time? you are not planning on getting read of me once this is all over, Are you?"

" Just get in the car and drive Yan. You don't have to worry about that as long as I need you, which I do you are safe"

" which means that once I help you get rid of the dead girl's body I will be of no importance to you since you will have already accomplished your goal and I will be of no use, right?"

He looked at me from the passengers' side and sighed. I was still standing next to the car on the driver's side with my hand on the opened door. There was no way I was getting in the damn car without getting my answers and an assurance that I was still gonna be alive after all this.

"Chris, we ain't got no time for this I don't know what you want me to say so that you can trust the fact that I won't stab you in the back after this. But if you think about it well, once they report the girl missing the first people they will question are people in her ' friend ' group and I happen to be in it.

which means I will need someone to act as an alibi and that someone happens to be you. And before you start questioning how stupid can I be since you might decide to tell on me, I have thought it through and as risky as it could be you are my best option not that I have many"

Was he really expecting me to believe him? He is a smart guy am sure he could find a way to save himself from the cops if they came for him. He did do an excellent job cleaning the crime scene I highly don't they will find any evidence pointing to him.

"So what's the story behind our friendship or whatever this is in case they come asking?" I asked as I climbed into the drivers' side and started the ignition. What am I doing! I thought I was not going to believe him but now am even asking for the details in case I am questioned.

"I haven't come up with one yet but hopefully I will by the end of the day or by tomorrow. If we don't come up with one soon we will be in for it. She's the type of person who goes around often, so it won't take long for people to notice she's missing.

" Then why" I mean if she is someone who people will quickly notice if she goes missing then why did he choose her as his target? He would have been better off preying on someone who is always in the background and it would take some time before anyone knows they are missing.

" What do you me by then why?"

"Then why did you pick her of all people' if you knew that it was only a matter of time' before people start noticing she is missing? that's a bit reckless if you ask me"

"Then it's a good thing am not asking you so keep your opinion to yourself!" He snapped back and the whole car went silent. I was starting to get fed up with his temper but I knew better than to let both of us get angry. And to be honest I wasn't gonna be a bitch and play the victim saying I didn't deserve to get snapped at. I was at fault for judging him and calling him reckless without knowing what exactly happened. Maybe he was a victim defending himself, but I highly doubt that. He is not as big as I am but you could tell he is not someone you can just push around. I drove the car in the direction he told me and apart from that we barely spoke to each other.

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I know we promised not to snap at him but not even thirty minutes later we are already going back on our word. It was involuntary but still, we did. The fact that he dared to judge us and even go as far as calling us reckless without any real knowledge of what happened left us furious. Well he was not wrong either we too knew what we did was reckless and it frustrated us but what's done is done we have to deal with the consequences of our actions to avoid it from jeopardizing the rest of our mission.

Dragoshi" Are we just gonna sit in this awkward silence until we reach where we are going?"

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Dragoshi" So am also getting the silent treatment though it wasn't me who placed us in this situation we are in right now"

really dragoshi? you very well knew I didn't mean to snap at him. I just got pissed off with the way he was speaking and calling us reckless as if he could have done better in that situation.

Thanos" Whether you did it voluntarily or involuntarily doesn't matter coz you already did it, and Dragoshi doesn't be a drama queen and bear with the silence it's not that bad. We can use this time to think of a believable cover story of how we met Yan and what we were doing on the weekend."

It was great that the only people I would be trying to sell the story to was the authority because if I had to explain to my brothers who Yan was they wouldn't believe me and keep on pushing to know more. They never believe me when I tell the truth so I don't expect them to believe a lie that I made up. They would pester me until I let something slip because according to them am a loser who nobody wants to be friends with.

My parents would go with ' So he's the friend you usually hang around with after school, you should bring him over more often.' this will prevent them from seeming like parents who neglect their children and don't know a single thing about them or what they do which they in fact didn't.

My sister wouldn't be bothered, if it was not about sex or alcohol she was uninterested and wouldn't spare it even a second. With this, I knew I was covered in case my family was involved to confirm my location during the weekend. My brother for starters won't be around coz once they see the cops they vanish into thin air. My sister wouldn't give them the time of the day, even if she wanted to she would not be sober enough to cooperate with.

My parents on the other part would be a great help, all we need to do is invite Yan over when they are around like today or tomorrow if they come back and introduce him to them.

As I said before, my parents don't like being seen as irresponsible so in the case questioned they will claim to know Yan very well since he is a close friend to their dearest youngest son. All we have to do is tell them a bit about Yan like where he comes from and what does and they will use this information to make it seem as if they have known him for years. I didn't have to worry much about Yan, he is a grown grown-up who will not follow much n him after my parents put in a good word for him and as long as he doesn't have any criminal records. I should ask him if he has one so I can reconsider my choice for an alibi.