Chapter seventeen

I wanted to sleep but my mind was deep on all I realized that day. I turned and turned a lot of times on the coach. I went to the couch tonight because Max needed it more.

I could not sleep even after giving myself an extended time to figure it out. I waited for Max to fall asleep, then I planned to leave to check up on Malie.

Honestly, it felt like I was spying on her but why wouldn't I do that when she was being creepy and found weird things that made me have suspicions about her. I wanted to feel safe, so I was disturbed.

I carefully opened the door, making sure it made no noise. I began by going down and drinking water—I wasn't in a big hurry anyways.

I wanted to knock and speak to her about my suspicions. I wasn't patient with the whole matter—I was aware.

I went to her door and I was about to knock, but I was hearing some voices. It seemed like she was talking to someone. We were only three in the house, it's it was and the doors and windows are locked. The keys are with me.

I had to take things slowly, she probably was talking with someone over the phone.

I place my ear slowly by the door frame. I did that carefully in such I way that I won't hit the door and I would be comfortable.

The conversation sounded extremely important.

I could also hear the unknown person, I didn't have a place to recognize the person.

"Please, I'm really tired of this task. It ain't going that well. I am throwing a lot of pretense over the phone.

"I don't wanna hear you complain, girl! You are being paid hugely for this. You have not even given me any valid information about those two ." a piece of valid information you think you are doing by pretending to care, or build something you don't want? You are gonna get paid. I don't need these trashy complaints' ' The unknown person replied. Honestly, that reply was too direct, and rude. It was like she was a slave.

I wasn't shocked about the 'getting of valid information from me and Max.' I knew she was spying on us already. But the information was half-baked, incomplete.

"Excuse me? I am inside their house like someone they know, while I'm not. I am impersonating my sister here. The way Alysa speaks to me, I feel I'm gonna mess up very soon." Malie said.

Wait, Malie?

"Jalie, you are gonna be paid hugely for your duties." The unknown person reassured her.

"I don't want to continue with this, I've gone too far."

"Even when we know Malie won't call Max and Alysa, she might try reaching out after everything has been settled over there," She said.

At this point, I felt like breaking in and asking her who she was. I felt like giving her a number of crazy slaps. She was really terrible. She did things that made me ask questions about her, right from the first day.

Damn!

Her name was Jalie and she was Malie's twin, oh my goodness.

I really wanted to leave my room, but I made sure I stayed till the end of the conversation.

I was in shock. I went closer to the door to get a closer and clearer audio.

It turned out that all this while, it wasn't Malie staying with us. It was her twin sister, Jalie impersonating her.

I started gathering lots of questions about her, who was she?

Why didn't Malie mention that she had an identical twin? I was swimming in my own confusion. I took deep breaths and confusion back to my room. What else could I do in the middle of the night? Create a hilarious drama scene? I just walked slowly back to my room. I opened the door slowly and got back to the couch. When I was going towards her room door, I thought I could handle the whole situation no matter how bad it would be. I thought I could bear the shock.

If Jalie was spying on me all this while, that means the reason she was standing by the door the other day was to submit some information to the unknown person. Who could this unknown person be? As long as I knew, Jeremy died. Could it be his brother?

"Shit!" I folded my hands as I whispered slowly to myself.

The shocked waded sleep into my eyes. I could still hear some of her revealing sentences in my head.

Oh no, Jalie…Why?

I'll just have to tell Max. Personally, I started being more confused. I didn't even know much about the person I stayed with. I was going to make findings about that too.