Oblivion

Chapter 12

"Hey! Wake up!" I hear a deep voice call.

I groan and slowly open my eyes and see big black boots on the carpet floor.

I follow the legs up till I see the face of a police officer. I jolt up and look to my left and see Paxton asleep. Then I remembered everything that happened, I must have fallen asleep on my Paxton's lap and of course, he fell asleep too.

"Paxton." I shook him.

He groaned and lifted his head up and looked at the police officer. His eyes grew big and he looked at me.

"Are you two hurt?" The officer asked.

"No." Paxton answered.

"All right, good. Go downstairs, we need to get some answers on what happened here." He stated, before walking out of the closet. I look at the missing door of the closet, they must have broken it down.

I looked at Paxton with fear.

"Do you think they know who we are?" He asked, he seemed just as scared as me.

"I don't think so." I answered.

Paxton sighed in relief.

"What time is it?" I asked.

Paxton pulled out his phone and pressed the on button.

"Dead." He said staring at the black screen.

"Great." I replied.

"Should we make a run for it?" He asked.

"No they'll get suspicious." I answered.

"So we go down there and answer their questions? And tell them that we snuck in to kill someone." He said.

"There's cops surrounding this place. There's no way we can escape." I answered.

Paxton sighed and got up. I got up with him and walked out the closet with Paxton behind me.

I looked around the bedroom, it all looked the same. The broken photo frame was still laying on the floor with broken glass around it.

I looked at the entrance of the bedroom door and saw cops walking past the room. I heard sounds of people talking coming from downstairs.

"Do you think he's dead?" Paxton questioned.

"Who?" I asked looking up at Paxton.

"Randy." He answered.

"I don't know." I replied.

We walked out of the room and down the hallway towards the stairs. I could feel my heart race as we got closer to the bottom of the stairs.

What if we got caught? What if they find out who we really are?

What if they kill us?

We reach the bottom of the stairs and I see the front door wide open.

"You two." I hear someone call.

I look behind us and see another officer looking at us.

"Go outside. Officer Royce is gonna ask you guys a few questions." He added.

I nodded.

I hesitantly started towards the door, until I was held back by Paxton.

"Wait."

He turned me around and made me look up at him.

"You okay?" He asked, placing his hands on my shoulders.

I slowly shook my head.

"It's gonna be okay. Nothings gonna happen to us. Trust me." He reassured me.

I looked at him, I hated that I actually trusted him.

I nodded and took a deep breath and released it.

Paxton took my hand into his and we walked outside where I was hit with a cold gust of wind and the sound of people's worried voices,and the bright sunlight shining into my eyes.

I looked around and saw small groups of people talking with one another or with an officer.

My eyes scanned the crowd to find Randy but didn't see him anywhere, instead I saw his worried wife holding the same two toddlers that were in the photo I saw earlier.The toddlers were wearing two party caps that said 'happy birthday'. Randy's wife was talking to an officer, her face filled with fear. Did something happen to Randy?

"Ivy." I hear Paxton's voice, breaking me away from my thoughts.

I pull my eyes away from Randy's family and to Paxton who was gently pulling at my hand.

"Come on." He pleaded.

I followed him towards the driveway of the house where the officer we saw earlier in the closet was standing.

We walked up to him and he gave us a half smile.

That's good right? He's smiling at us, which means he doesn't know who we are?
"Hello I'm Officer Royce." He introduced himself, putting his hand out to Paxton.

"Uh I'm Justin and this is my girlfriend Jennifer." Paxton replied, shaking the officer's hand.

Justin and Jennifer? Fake names. Smart Paxton.

The Officer looked at me and smiled, I smiled back.

"Nice to meet you two." He said.

Paxton nodded.

"Well, I'm sure you both know what happened here. So I was just gonna ask you a few questions if you don't mind." Officer Royce went on.

"We don't mind at all." I answered.

"Great. Well where were you two when the attack happened?" He questioned.

"We were upstairs in Randy's room. Justin needed to use the restroom but we got lost." I answered.

Officer Royce nodded and wrote it down oh his notepad.

"Did you guys know Randy?" He asked.

"We knew him, but we weren't super close." Paxton replied.

Officer Royce kept writing on his notepad in between different questions, until he finally stopped and looked up at us.

"Thank you for your time. We really appreciate it." He politely thanked us.

"Of course officer." Paxton replied.

"If you have any questions or concerns feel free to stop by the station." Officer Royce suggested, before nodding and turning around and walking away.

"Officer Royce!" I called as I runned up to him.

He turned around and looked down at me.

"Yes miss?" He asked.

"What happened to Randy?" I asked.

Officer Royce looked hesitant at first but gave in.

"He was shot. It looked like it was planned, since he was the only that was killed." He responded.

I looked at him in shock. None of this made sense.

"Oh okay." I answered.

"I'm sorry." He voiced before walking away.

I stood there trying to figure out what was happening.

Randy was killed? By who? Paxton and I were supposed to kill him. Did Dad and William know about this? What were Paxton and I supposed to do?