Brandon looked at
Jeremy with one cruel look.
“It was just a bottle
of champagne! That’s not even shoplifting, how can it be murder?” Jeremy
whispered in a coarse voice. Brandon continued to hold his stare.
Meanwhile, the
officers had cuffed him and gotten him into a weird police truck and driven
off.
“He’s under
observation. We’ll keep you posted” This was the only thing the two big guys
spoke of. After they left, the receptionist scanned them and walked away. The
eleven of them looked at each other in silence. Out stepped Briana and put her
hands on her hips.
“Okay, spit it out. We
know Neil wouldn’t do such a thing. So who did?” she asked.
“Did what? That isn’t clear
to me in the first place.” Gary shook his head as a bee buzzed near his head.
“I’ll tell you.” They
all turned to look at Mackenzie who hadn’t spoken a word in this trip.
“An old rich guy was
found injured in the courtyard at 5 A.M this morning. He swears he saw someone
who looked like Neil try to strangle him during his early jog. And since we’re the ones who checked in last
night, we’re like default suspects.” She went back to chewing her bubble gum.
“And how do you know
all this?” asked Mark.
“I have my sources,
being nocturnal helps you know?”
Through the babble that followed
Mackenzie’s announcement, Jeremy and Brandon stood still. Here were all of
them, on an island, without Neil. Because he’d been arrested for some
modification of the crime Jeremy committed. Jeremy sighed.
“Okay. I have a
confession!” yelled Jeremy, hiding his face.
“You did it?” Fiona
pushed others aside.
“I what? No?! I just
stole a bottle of champagne in the corridor last night. That was all.” It just
flowed out like a rhyme.
“Aww Jeremy? Can’t you
keep your hands to yourself here at least?” Gary prayed to Jesus in silence.
“Give the damn thing
back, lets het Neil back.” said Brandon.
“We’ll check the
courtyard.” Mark, Gray, Mackenzie and a few others left to the scene of the
crime. Jeremy went in for the bottle and Brandon and Fiona were out talking.
“What complaint did this guy give
anyway?” asked Fiona.
“That Neil wanted his
money and we all plotted to murder him.”
“That doesn’t match.
We are all here by coincidence. He just stated us as accessory to ‘attempted
murder?’ He doesn’t have anything to prove that we did it.” Brandon finished.
Right at that time
Jeremy burst out the cottage door.
“I’ve searched
everywhere. I can’t find it. I’m doomed! We’re all doomed!” Jeremy was clearly
panicking.
“You won’t!” said Mark.
The other set had come back from the crime scene.
“Because it’s at the
crime scene behind those yellow barrier tapes…broken and covered in blood.”
“There’s your link to
the attempted murder” said Mackenzie.
They all stood shocked. Neil was
there without reason; taking the blame thinking it was for the dozen. They had
to get him out. But the evidence was against them, and time was ticking. They
majorly needed to get planning for a prison break… for Neil.
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