Decoy;; Chapter One.
''Delilah! Delilah, look
over here!'' screamed one of the reporters standing outside
the Police Station.
"Do you have any messages to give to the public?" asked
another. I stopped walking and looked toward all the flashing
lights and news' cameras. Before saying anything, I stopped to
think what should I say. That I was the number one suspect
right now? That I knew nothing about what had happened? Casey was
dead and I had nothing to give them. I held my breath and covered
my face as the officers pushed past the reporters. Pushing off my
hood from my sweater away from my face, I let the cold air from the
new air conditioners blow into my face in the police station.
Officers were staring at me, I could only imagine what they were
thinking.
I wonder what she did with the body, I wonder how she killed
her.
Why'd she kill her?
Confused and terrified faces lurked in the corner of my eye.
I got pushed into a room with one of those two-way mirrors, a dusty
table and two chairs. Looking down from the corner of the room, I
saw a tape-recorder taped underneath the table. The detective
looked at me and with his deep voice and heavy accent, he yelled at
me.
"Sit down and answer my questions"
I was only sixteen and he was accusing me of murder. The murder of
my best friend.
I looked at him and narrowed my eyes at him.
"You think I killed Casey?"
It was a simple question, he nodded and replied with
"How'd you kill her Delilah? Where'd you put her
body?"
They had only found enough blood to conclude that she had died
outside her home, in the woods behind her house. The only thing
they found was a necklace, hers.
It was a silver chain, with half a broken heart that said
'best'. I had given it to her on her 10th birthday. She
never took it off. I had the exact same one, the other piece of the
heart, except mine had said "friends"
Best friends forever.
I sat down and repeated the same thing that I had first told the
cops almost over 4 months ago.
"I had slept over her house the previous night, we were making
smores outside. When we were done, her and I went back inside to
take a shower. When I had come out of mine, she was gone. I
didn't kill her."
"How long is an average shower for you, Mrs.
Brigham?"
"30, 40 minutes. She was in her room when I was taking the
shower. Add another 5 minutes because I had to get
dressed."
"So you want me to believe in a matter of 30 to 45
minutes, Casey was kidnapped and murdered? Is that
it?"
"I guess".
He had seemed to be getting frustrated, and he kept furrowing his
brow, staring at me.
I could hear the faint tick-tock of the clock outside the room.
Detective Morrison was his name, it had said so on the paperwork he
had laid down on the table, along with a few pictures of the crime
scene. I stared at the picture of the concrete floor with blood
spatter on it, and then a pool of Casey's blood right next to
it. I zoned off into that night.
Laughing, Casey screamed.
"My marshmallow! It's on fire!" she kept giggling
soon after.
"Hey Case?"
"Yeah, Delilah?"
"You got some white stuff on your face!" I laughed.
I fast forward to the part I got out of the shower, in desperate
search of Casey.
I went downstairs and came across to a cold wind, coming from the
backdoor being open. I walked outside and looked down at the
ground, it being night time, I forgot to turn on the back yard
lights. So, I ran back in, turned on the lights and walked back
out. The neighbors had called 911 because of my scream. I screamed
because I saw blood, Casey's blood.