HOPE IT'S OVER 6

One of the officers, holding a tracking device in his right hand walked pass Steve and I and went in the direction of the blinking red light on the device. The officer went to his bedroom and brought out a small box. He handed the box to his superior who walked Steve out of the building. "We will like you to join us at the station as soon as possible." He said to me, politely.

"Yea." I nodded as though I was being forced to. I was still in shock and everything seemed like I was dreaming. I felt it must all have been a drama, a staged one. It made me remember some old movies, the tragedy that followed the collapse of the Titanic. How the mighty ship that connected lovers broke into pieces and got drown into the heart of the sea. Of course, such now is the goddamn fuck between my Juliet and his Romeo.

I left his house for mine to pick one or two things. Maybe I needed to fix some things before showing up at the elegant station. I could feel the terrible atmosphere at the police station the moment I stepped out of the cab.

"Why did you kill him? The DPO asked "why did you murder Gabriel?"

That was no more the Steve I used to know. Everything about him changed so quick and soon. I had only been seeing the good and innocent part of him, now I was set to know the real him.

"He deserved to die."

"I hope you got me right." The DPO said. "It's not for you to tell me if he deserved to die or not. Why did you kill him?"

I fixed my gaze on him, I thought it would be because Gabriel was trying to make out of me, turning me into his sex machine.

"I gave him an assignment to do."

"And what was that?"

"To sleep with her." He turned to me, sharply.

"Okay?"

"The thing is I learnt from someone that he had a video clip of her past sexual act which he used to blackmail her. Initially, he lost contact with her, unable to reach her, but I made them reconnect again."

"Having Gabriel to sleep with her, what did you plan to achieve?"

"I just needed her to think she was pregnant. I got a particular drug, Mgaline, from my doctor which when taken by a female will give pregnancy symptoms. Gabriel just had to sleep with her once. That would have been all, but he became stupid along the way, wanting to want more from her. He wanted to grab opportunity which could destroy my whole plan."

"So you took him out of the way by killing him in his house and taking the device which contained the video clip, right?

"Something like that." He gave a devilish smirk.

"But did you know Gabriel was Dr. Smith's son?"

"No, you wouldn't know too. He didn't have a good relationship with his parents. It was later after I baptized him in his blood that I saw a picture in his room."

"Back to her." The DPO shifted his gaze from him to me, and back to him. "Why did you want her pregnant?"

Steve continued to confess everything and I began to sob. I realized none of the test results was real. Everything was fake; the test results, the doctor's call, the abortion I had too was not real, I wasn't even pregnant at all. I was blinded all through. Dr. Smith was not on my side but on his, working for him, covering my eyes, making me think she was helping me out. That served them right. He killed her son.

"I planted a spy app on her phone, and from it, I got to know she was planning to leave the country. So I went to her house ..."

"and broke into her apartment, right? And you stole her travelling documents." The DPO cut in.

"Yes sir."

"But," the DPO turned to me. "you claimed it was diamond rings the thief stole."

"Why would she had said the truth when she also had an ugly secret? She thought her client killed Gabriel and since investigation was on, she would soon be discovered."

"Ughn!" The DPO exclaimed. "Is that true?"

I couldn't answer. Too bad a shame.

"This is getting interesting and complicated." The DPO admitted. "So tell me, why all these? Why?"

"She's not my primary target," he said. "but I need her to achieve my aim." I could notice the fearing part of him now. Tears forming on his scary face. "I wanted to use her to get back at her mother, her family and her ministry. All I want is revenge."

"Her mother?" The DPO rested his back on his swinging chair. He was confused just as I was. I wondered what my mother had got to do with Steve. Where could they have met?

Story by: MICHEALHADEN & TABITHA