DIANA
“It was a long time ago, we were careless teenagers back then. He was my senior. We took drugs and partied but I was never addicted to taking drugs, I just took them in special occasions, to impress everyone around me” He took his sit and sat on it.
Shit! So Sylvester was right! Branden was really into drugs back then, I didn’t completely believe him but this confirms it.
“He gave me a very hard drug, one my body couldn’t take. It affected me for months, I spent nights in the hospital fighting to survive from the harmful drug. And guess what….. Branden slept with my girlfriend in college” He added. I could see pure regret in his eyes, Damn! Was Branden really that much of a bad person? But all this was in the past so what’s the use of judging him now?
“Is that why you hate Branden so much?” I gave him a not-so-impressed look. Which I’m pretty sure he understood.
“Well…. you won’t get it, you won’t understand my pain” he added. This must have happened 10-15 years ago, why is it so hard to let go? I can’t believe he’s been doing all this to revenge high school offences.
This was the least of my issues, I just needed to here whatever information he had in store for me, I didn’t come here to listen to a sob story.
“Learn to let go of the past, stop brewing hate for old offences. It’s more than 10 years ago, you’re not a baby” I chided him. It sounded offensive but I didn’t care. I was simply driving at the truth.
“Can we focus on more Important things now? I don’t have all night, if you have nothing to show me but a boring high school sob story then I’m leaving” I added.
“Miss Diana, you don’t have to be rude you know? I’m here to help you so let’s atleast get along” he replied.
“Get along? Why would I want to get along with you? All you’ve done is promoted havoc between Branden and I because of an old college offence. Grow the fuck up” I spat at him angrily, I could see his face carving out a frown but I ignored.
“Did you come here to insult me or you came here to get the information you need?”
“Can you just show me what you wanted to show me?” I said to him rudely. I don’t care if he is trying to help by giving me information, all that doesn’t change the fact that he once tried to kidnap me and that scary event still lives rent free in my head.
“Ok look….” he placed his hands on the keyboard in front of him and typed continuously, his taps were so loud.
“Now look at this, it’s Branden been convicted for a very harmful drug 11 years ago. Now this information is no longer available to the general public, the cops and others were paid to hide this record in a locked website. No one could access it but I hacked into it recently and saw something very fascinating” He revealed.
Jeez! I examined Branden’s younger image in an orange overall. He did look like a prisoner here, I felt very sad.
Although this pictures were old but they still made me feel sad seeing Branden in that condition, I hope he never goes back to it.
“You don’t seem surprised” Steven glanced at me. Quite surprised.
“That’s because I’m not, I know he was a drug dealer then” I said confidently.
“Well…. Did you also know your parents were investigating on Branden before they died?” he gave another shocking revelation.
My eyes widened in amazement, I was stunned and left in disbelieve. My parents investigated on Branden?
“Hoo… w how? how do you know my parents? ” I stuttered, still very much amazed at what my ears heard.
“I knew of your parents when I knew your surname, Branden introduced you to the whole world on one of his award nights in Italy, Remember?” he said. As a matter of fact, yes. I vividly remember, I knew it was a bad idea but Branden didn’t care.
“I did some research and found out that your parents are no more and they actually investigated on Branden back then. Now this is the worst part…..
Branden was arrested for a particular lethal drugs after the death of your parents, look here” He went deeper into the site and brought out a neatly documented information.
I veered my eyes and strained my eyes to read it.
Now see this particular drug? Branden was arrested for having this drug in his possession, one of the deadliest drugs around. It kills but slowly. If you are injected with this, you’ll be die after 24 hours”
“What’s your point?” I sat beside him, completely befuddled. The information was just too hard to digest. Was this the connection Branden had with my parents?
“Relax…. I’m getting there, I got information about Branden and his team members kidnapping the Wilburn Investigators, the gang knew the Wilburn’s were onto them so they decided to kidnap them and inject them with this drugs” He spilled the beans.
Wait what? Branden and his team members kidnapped my parents? How?
“Yes Diana, that’s the truth. I know it sounds unreal and impossible but that’s what happened”
“Wait, are you trying to say Branden killed my parents?” my stupefied self said. That’s impossible, my parents died in a car accident so how was Branden able to kill them. I can’t believe this shit, Branden doesn’t have the heart to kill.
It’s all a lie.
“Yes, he is your parents murderer” Steven uttered confidently.
“That’s a fucking lie! Branden would never do such a thing, How dare you accuse Branden for murdering my parents. They died in a car accident, I saw them die” I yelled at him furiously.
“You don’t know the full story, that’s exactly what they wanted you to know, they wanted you to believe that it was an accident but it wasn’t”
“Then explain the fucking car, I saw it crush them” I yelled out confidently.
“Diana don’t you get it? They were kidnapped and drugged. Forced not to speak or they’d die, but ofcourse they weren’t ready let your parents loose. The Wilburns caught them red handed, cooking up tobacco and storing up heroine. Branden and the others couldn’t let them go scot free so they kidnapped your parents and drugged them. That drug would eat their insides in 24 hours, after successfully injecting them, they were released.
When your parents were driving the next day, the drug took effect and that’s how they lost consciousness and crashed” He summarized.
Hell no! How am I supposed to believe all this,
“No no no all this is fake, it’s all fake” I uttered in disapproval.
“I knew you wouldn’t believe, take a look at this clip” he scrolled down and tapped on a video.
A video of four men in an abandoned warehouse and a couple sited together, they were tied to their seats.
“Now let’s get a closer look” he zoomed closer and captured the face of Branden, a much younger looking Branden.
My mouth fell at agape, I sat in front of the screen, dumbstruck and dumbfounded.
“That’s not all” he pivoted towards the couple sitting and zoomed on their faces. He wasn’t lying, they were really my parents.
Fuck!
“As you can see, I’m not lying. I just wanted you to see this truth for yourself but you have to understand that this was years ago”
“All this while, I thought my parents died from an accident, I didn’t know they were murdered. So Branden was behind my parents death?! He took everything away from me?!” for a minute I could hear my heart pounding inside my chest. My body quivered and my hands began to sweat.
I was almost passing out but I held onto the chair to support my balance. Branden is going to pay for everything he did to me, I’m make sure I make his life miserable too. A flow of anger and hate began to build up inside me.
“Are you ok?” Steven said.
“I’m fine” I forced myself to walk towards the entrance, I won’t let Branden go scot free.
I can’t believe I fell in love with my parents murderer, I’ve made the biggest mistake of my life.