Chapter 21: The Dream

‘‘Miss Madden, Mr. Bell, we finished the investigation into the fire. This is a standard procedure with all incidents like this.” The first police officer said. He opened the file, showing me the details of the evening. ‘‘Okay...” I said, waiting for more information. I looked at the file and saw different times, the time that the fire started, the time that different people got out of the building and what time the fire was extinguished. ‘‘This is a list of the times of the evening. Normally, the time that the fire alarm goes on will be added. Was it not for the fact that the fire alarm was disabled. And not just disabled, completely torn off the wall.” The second officer said. I looked at them with shock. ‘‘What are you saying? Did someone do this?” I asked, feeling panicked. ‘‘We looked into the camera tapes. Most of them were destroyed but the camera images were automatically backed up by the system. Luckily there was some footage left.” The police officer said. He hesitantly look