Unhinged

The Final Chapter

Chapter 28: The Final Chapter

Alexis was having trouble breathing as she pulled into her driveway. She looked at her house and took another unsteady breath as she exited her car. She was trying to process everything that Cammie had told her. She noticed her hand shaking as she unlocked her front door.

"Nicholas?" she called out. No one answered. She tried again, "Luke? Anybody home?"

The house remained quiet. Alexis looked at the staircase that led to all the bedrooms and began climbing the stairs.

She thought of Cammie's parting words, "I'm not lying to you Dr. Reyna. Be careful who you trust."

Alexis trusted many people. Chace, Nicholas, Luke, Gabby, and Mack. How could she think the worst of any of them?

She opened the door to the bedroom and peered in. It was empty so she stepped inside and looked around. The bedroom looked exactly as she had remembered it. A green and white comforter on the bed, a couple of boxes in the corner, and an empty bookshelf. She noticed a suitcase in the corner.

She looked around and rubbed her clammy palms on her pants before stepping over to it. She quickly unzipped it and saw...nothing.

"Why the hell am I listening to her anyway?" Alexis asked herself.

She looked over to the closet. It was a walk-in closet with double doors. She opened one of the doors and saw clothing on the floor.

"Messy," she whispered to herself and was about to leave, when she noticed a small pink box in the corner. She thought it was odd and decided to take a look at it. She carried it to the bed and opened it.

She could feel herself shaking in fear as she lifted the contents out of the box. An instruction manual for a high-tech baby monitor, red envelopes, and pictures. Pictures of Alexis taken from the baby monitor.

"Impossible," she whispered. "I don't believe it."

"Why are you looking though my things?" a familiar voice asked from the doorway.

Alexis spun around, "Nicholas!"

He looked past her to the pink box and frowned, "Who told you to go through my stuff Alexis?"

She seemed taken aback, "Don't you know what I found Nicholas?"

He shrugged, "Pictures of me and my old girlfriends?"

"Yeah right. I found this!" she held up the manual for the baby monitor.

"Why are you showing me that?" he asked, a confused expression on her face.

"I found it in your box Nicholas. Tell me why it was there!"

"I don't know what you're even talking about!" Nicholas shouted back.

"You're my brother Nicholas! How could you do this to me?"

"Do what to you?"

Alexis was near tears, "How could you do this to me and my friends? Deandra and Ivy!" It was at that moment that she realized she didn't have her cellphone.

"Alexis, I don't know what you're talking about," Nicholas said, his hands in front of him defensively. "

"Stop lying to me Nicholas! I met Cammie at the grocery store!"

Nicholas stopped moving forward, "Cammie? You met her? What did she tell you?"

"That you're a liar," Alexis hissed.

"What?"

"You heard me. I know everything Nicholas. She told me that you were her abusive boyfriend. You!"