1. Who are You?

The loud sound of thunder surrounded the sky, it was raining heavily. The only light in the dark was the strick of lightning.

"Who are you?"

Lim was pale as a plain white sheet, the whole world was sinking in front of her eyes.

"I am you."

She saw herself standing in front of her, with a creepy smile.

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Last week when Lim was at work she got a call from the police station.

" Is this Lim we're talking to?"

" Yes it's Lim speaking."

" We are the police and we wanted to ask you a few questions."

Lim was nervous and scared, she wondered why the police were calling her. Is it because her neighbour complained about her? Or because she was speed driving to work? Or some other problems? All this thoughts just won't stop.

"Do you know Max Touchely?"

"Yes Sir, I know her, she's my friend. Did something happen?"

" We wanted you to know that Max was found dead by the Stonehead river bank. We are not sure of how this happened, we are in the process of investigating it now. We want you to come to the police station tomorrow around 10:30 am. We want to ask some questions regarding Max."

"Sir, I don't think I understand what your trying to tell -."

Lim was trembling and was about to bust out in tears.

Max, who was her whole world is dead?

"Yes we have confirmed it's Max Touchely. We will be expecting you tomorrow at the police station."

All this news was too much for Lim little heart to handle, her whole world seemed to crumble down. She crushed to the ground crying and screaming.

After a long sleepless night, the next morning Lim rushed to the police station where there was a police officer waiting for her by the entrance.

"Lim please follow me."

She was taken by the officer to a small room where there was a table on the center and two chairs facing eachother. A small room with no windows but a small ventilation on top of the right wall and a big mirror on the left wall.

" Take a seat on the right chair."

She nervously took a seat on the chair knowing she was about to be interrogated. The officer took a seat on the opposite chair, he was tall, big builded, had sharp eyes and look like he was around his late 30s.

" Nice to meet you, I'm officer Nolan. I'll be asking some questions and I want you to answer them honestly."

"Yes, I understand Sir."

"Then let's proceed "

Lim was nervous and scared, it was her fist time in an interrogating room.

" What was the relationship between you and Max?"

" She is like my sister and friend. We knew each other from when we were in nursery, we literally grew up together. "

" We were going through the data of Max's phone when we found that you were the last person that Max contacted before she disappeared. We would like to know what the two of you talked about during that last call."

Lim was nervous about that question, she knew Max and her talked some really private girl matters.

"We usually talk about private matters, It may be inconvenient for you officer but i can't really talk about it."

The pressure in her heart; the guilt of not telling the officer an important information when it maybe the answer to her dead friend made she all sweaty. She could feel the sweat dripping from her forehead to her cheeks, she felt stiff and her heart was beating really fast. In the silent small room the only thing heard was her loud heart beat.

" It seemed you really don't wanna tell anything about what the two of you talked about - uh?"

With one sharp look from the officer, she was ready to tell all the smallest things Max and her talked about.

" I understand, girls likes to talk alot about their private matters and don't want anyone to know about it, so what about telling me the people who Max knew?"

She nodded ready to go all in_

" Max had a boyfriend who's name was Alex. Um- a yoga teacher name Rose and her co-workers Juli, Dom, Louis, Luther and Marry. I think that's all I can remember of."

" Tell me more about this boyfriend and their relationship."

Lim hesitated for sometime, Max had always wanted the relationship between them to be a secret.

" Alex is a plastic surgeon at Loyalty's Beauty Clinic. They were a really sweet couple like the perfect combination of a chocolate and a marshmallow. They have been together since high school so they were high school sweet hearts. He resides at District 1 gate 19; it's his new appartment. He wanted Max to move in with him but it seemed she denied him so many times. I think that's all I can think of- wait i just remembered the last call where Max mentioned her having a fight with Alex ."

" Do you know what they fought about?"

" I'm not really sure about it too. When talking about it she said she'd come over to personally talk about it, she mentioned she was in a rush to go somewhere."

"Do you know where she was heading to? Or who called her?"

Lim looked up trying to remember the conversation she had with Max, trying to replay them one by one.

" She didn't mention about who she was meeting with or where she was going."

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After a long day Lim was back at her apartment, after a long warm shower she laid on bed looking at the ceiling.

The investigation showed that it was not suicide but a murder .Before she was thrown into the water, she seemingly was strangled.

Who could have been so cruel to have such intentions?

" What a crule world we live in."