The girl slowly turned.
“Taylor,” Ian breathed with a sigh of relief. What he said was true. Taylor has the same hair colour similar to Ruby. But she doesn’t look like Ruby.
“What are you doing here?” Chloe asked. She can’t believe she has wrongly misunderstood the whole scenario.
“What am I? I came here to shop for some dress for my brother and me.” Taylor explained and her brother came behind her looking perplexed by Chloe’s expression.
“Sorry. It’s a misunderstanding. You can continue your work. We just came here to watch the movie,” Ian clarified.
“Fine. Do you have anything to share? because Chloe looks so pale...” Taylor trailed off.
“Nothing. I will take care of her” with that word Ian grabbed her arm and got out of the mall.
“Trust me, Ian. I know how Ruby looks. It seems like our Ruby. What’s happening here?” Chloe still trying to prove it.
“You need to calm down, Chloe. You still haven’t recovered from Ruby’s death incident.” Ian put both of his hands on her shoulder. “But what I saw was true. I know how Ruby looks,” Chloe muttered under her breath.
“Can I take you home?”
“It’s okay. I will take care of myself. Bye, Ian.” she sternly said and walked alone till she reached home. Inside her mind, she still has some doubt that it could be Ruby, even though she was there on Ruby’s death. She’s always good at predicting something and now this incident stays in her mind strongly. She’s having a strong sense that something happened wrong today.
She instantly changed her mind with some other thoughts. It’s a good thing that all the stores, the mall is near their house. Their house is selected and bought by Charlotte, Caroline. They did everything with their salary.
“Care!” Chloe shouted in the road seeing her sister.
“Hey, where have you been?”
“I just went with Ian to a movie,” she simply said, everything except misunderstanding Taylor for Ruby.
“Why are you late?” Chloe questioned care.
“I...I... just visited Daniel,” she stammered. She told about Daniel’s break-up and her visiting his mansion. The day went well for her than her sisters and brother.
.....
Till evening Daniel didn’t come to pick up care. He got a lot of works to finish.
“Get in the car, madam,” a bodyguard kindly asked Caroline. After some minutes, she reached the mansion. It’s so big and wonderful. She never lived or entered a place like this. All she did was earn on her own for their lives. She slowly walked into the large, well-maintained garden. It contains a fountain and a swimming pool. The maid opened the front door. They told her to wait in the hall for a few minutes. She was so nervous about being in a mansion. She sat on a couch which was soft and comfortable. She is anxious to meet Daniel again. He is her idol from her childhood. She never expected that one day she will visit him like this. On the other side, she is afraid of who might have sent the video.
“You can go now,” the maid showed a room. She opened the knob, entered the room quietly. The room is like his own personal office. There’s even a photo of him hanging on the wall. Daniel and an old man smiled in that photo.
“What are you staring at?” Daniel asked her, standing in full- black suit and jeans.
“Nothing” she laid her eyes on him. He’s looking so gorgeous in a black suit. She tried so hard to control herself to not look at him.
“That’s me and my dad,” Care nodded her head. Daniel sat in his office chair and motioned her to take a seat. After some silence, Daniel spoke, "thank you for sending the footage. You did a big help. I don’t how to thank you but can I know how took that video?"
“Um... you don’t need to thank me. Sorry, I can’t tell you who took it.” She firmly said. She acted like she was the one who sent it, but she needs to find who secretly touched her phone. Who could it be?
“Iam not going to publicize it. Just tell this one,”
“The person who took it has already died. I can’t talk about that,” she said sympathetically.
“They died? Iam sorry to hear that. But what happened?”
“It’s my brother’s girlfriend in Roshord high school. She died in a fire accident. Its important news in Roshord. Don’t you know that?” Care shouted; this time annoyed by this question.
“I don’t. I have been busy for a while. Today I broke up with Becca.”
“What?” Caroline's eyes widened.
“Yes. I did and Iam so stressed.” Daniel got up from his seat and paced back and forth in the room.
“Why? do you miss her?” Care asked curiously.
“Hell no, you don’t know about how we both met,” he said with disgust.
"Why don’t you explain it?" he looked at her for a minute. She doesn’t know what’s going on in his mind.
“Her father is the CEO of his enterprise. My father and her father are friends. They want us to be together. They have such a stupid wish. They are thinking we are a perfect match. But she isn’t my type.”
“You should have said no,” Care angrily suggested.
“Are you asking this out of care for me?” he came out of the topic and questioned her.
“No, just answer my question.” Daniel doesn’t like to be demanded, but something inside him doesn’t want to scold Caroline. She seems to be a different girl. She isn’t attracted to him like the others. That’s the reason he wanted to talk to her again.
“I can’t tell no. I accepted to be her boyfriend because all I have is my father and I will do anything for him. Iam not interested in Becca but now I can’t do something for a girl like her. Iam only worried about how to explain it to my dad. He blindly trusts his friend who is cruel, just like Becca.”
“That’s right. Their whole family will be like that. No doubt about it. You did a good job,” Care smirks.
“You are happy about that.” He leaned towards her, keeping his hands on the chair. Care swallowed hard and stared at him. She can’t handle seeing him closer to her. She tries hard to act like normal in front of him. Soon, he moved away from her.
“Since you came here, you should have dinner,” He asked with expectations. He always gets what he wants, and he did not doubt that.
Care followed him out of the room. There’s a large table arranged with many dishes. She doesn’t know why he arranged it for just two people.
“Will your father be joining here?”
“No, he has some works. Are you coming or not?”
“I got some works at home. I should go home,” she politely rejected him.
A few minutes later, Scott stopped breathing. He’s dead for real.“That’s enough, Ruby. Give me the knife.” Caleb snatched it away from her. It almost has cut his palm in the force.“First of all, how did you even get a knife?”“I found a lot of knives in this room. I got one before Scott came here.” Ruby replied. On the other side, Charlotte was crying so hard.“Please, don’t leave me, Jason. You don’t deserve to die.” She sobbed, hugging him. Jason is too weak to reply to her.“Call 911. Jason’s dying.” Charlotte ordered her siblings. Caleb heard her and took his phone. Will it be too late?“What are we going to do with the body? Should be hidden this murder too?” Caroline asked with fear.“No. The game’s over. There’s no point in repeating the same mistakes again and again.” Ruby said wisely.“Then what are you suggesting, Ruby?” Chloe asked.
Ruby went down the stairs as Charlotte and Chloe followed her. Without having much of a choice, Caleb, Caroline, and Jason followed them. They all ended up in a single room full of many monitors, full black suits in a closet, some electronics like laptops, tabs, cables etc... Caroline stepped carefully without getting trapped in the cables.“Is this Scott’s place to monitor us?” Caroline asked.“What the fuck are you talking about?” Charlotte asked, in complete shock. Her sister hasn’t told the truth yet.“Scott is the threatener, Char. We are sure of it.” Caleb said, without a doubt.“Wow, a teacher is capable of all these things. His death is coming closer.” Ruby surely said. At the same moment, the large monitor in the middle of the room lightened up.“Congratulations, Caleb. You are right. It’s me, Scott. All this time. By the way, I’m not the one who’s going to die. It’s going to be you,
“Scott? Charlotte’s best friend. The one who came to see her in the court.” Caleb asked for clarification.“Yeah, it’s him. How is he related to Becca? What’s his relationship with her? If Char knows something, she would have told us,” Care wondered and saw someone standing alone on the road.“Is it Jason? Am I right? Can you stop the car, Cal?” she asked as her brother did what she said.“Hey, what are you doing here? Is there any problem?” she asked from the window.“Um...yes...no. I’m not in any trouble. I was just lost in thoughts. I was about to reach home. What are you doing here? You both can’t wander anywhere while the threatener can be anywhere.”“We know. We...” Care turned to her brother. “Can we get help from him in searching all this evidence?”“Do you think it’s a good idea? We can’t get him in any trouble again.”“Yeah. I don’t know but I feel like we sho
“So, what are we doing now?” Chloe asked while keenly entering all the rooms in their house and looking for cameras.“We are going to Becca’s house. How many times do I have to say this?”Caleb let out a sign and made his way out of their house.“Without a plan?” Care questioned.“We will figure it out on the way,” He replied. Everyone joined him in the car except Chloe.“Hey, aren’t you coming?” Char asked.“No. We really have to find the secret basement and the cameras. I can’t take my mind off it since Ruby said it.”“But we can’t leave you here all alone. Come with us,” Care said. But Chloe is stubborn this time.“I guess someone has to be with her. It’s time for a split-up,” Charlotte said, getting out of the car.They all agreed. Care and Caleb are on their way to Ruby’s house.“So, what’s your plan? Do you have one?”
I couldn’t believe. That the threatener had a secret basement in their own house. The siblings are ready to find the basement. First, they have to cross the first challenge. Trail in the court. It was pretty rough. All they got to have is hope. The undefeatable hope. The anxiety continues to rule in the court until the siblings heard the most important word ever. The one word that could make them feel happier after an eternity.“.... Not guilty,”The siblings almost yelled in happiness and hugged each other. The lawyer looked at them with satisfaction and he glanced back at Daniel. Who’s the reason for their happiness.Caroline broke into her hug with Char and approached Daniel. “Thank you so much. I will never forget this. Ever in my life. I thought everything’s over.... but then...” she got emotional.“Hey, it’s okay. Everything’s alright now. Hereafter, you all even get to be safe from the threatener.
“Stop your useless argument and warnings. No one’s going to do anything to anyone.” Care shouted from her throat.“Why would you think so less of me?” Char asked.“It’s not about that. Right now, this is not the right conversation.”“I will get to the point. We need help from you, Ruby. And you won’t be saying ‘no’ to that. I’m sure of it,” Care added.“Really? What’s your request? Let me hear it.”“We four of us will be out of prison after the trial in the court. Since the killer is standing right in front of me, we will be free in some weeks. Plus, what Charlotte did was self-defence and we will even get extra protection in our house to protect us from the threatener. The detective is searching for him without sleep...”“Okay. Stop it. Come to the point. I don’t want to hear all your advantages,” Ruby interrupted her.“Fine. Tell me everything you know about MW. Tell