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Johnathan stood before a corkboard. All the evidence he could gather about his cousin’s disappearance led to murder and who was the murderer. He stood staring at the photo pinned in the middle of the corkboard. Although all the evidence pointed to him, Johnathan still couldn’t believe it. His best friend Henry Morris was the one to kill austin.
Suddenly from the top of the stairs he heard kyle yell “DADDY NATHANS HERE CAN HE PLAY INSIDE” Nathan and kyle were unseperable. Johnathan had some work to do and didn’t want anything to distract him so he responded “sorry Kyle but not today I have some work to do, play outside and be back before night” he heard a small sigh and kyle ran off.
He had just made a grave mistake
Henry has a soft spot for kids he got from dating austin. He would never kill anything infront of a kid. Nathan and kyle were no exeption. He was a great friend of Johnathan and kyle adored him because he talked rarely and was able to listen to kyles long crazy stories of fighting dragons on the trampoline with nathan.
Henry was supposed to go to Johnathans house for dinner. He was exited but also plotting to dispose of Johnathan. A few days earlier Johnathan had confronted henry about him possibly killing austin. Henry had denied it despite it being completely him. Johnathan seemed skeptical. Last time he was at his house he saw a corkboard with everything on austins disappearance and he was the only suspect Henry knew that Johnathan had figured it out. He sighed as he stood in his kitchen and thought “Johnathan has plenty of knifes and theres a shovel in the back seat of my car” as he was locking the door of his house. He was on his way to kill or get caught trying.
Henry had arrived at Johnathans house and pulled up into the driveway. To his right he saw kyle and nathan running in circles on the trampoline when they stopped and waved at henry. Henry gave a small wave back and they went back to slashing their swords made out of air. He got out of the car and went inside where Johnathan was talking with someone. He recognized the voice as mikes voice. Mike then greeted henry and asked if he was hungry. Henry answered with a quiet no.
A few hours had passed and mike went home. Kyle and nathan were down in the basement playing games while eating snacks. Johnathan was outside trying to plant things when Henry deemed now as a good time to make his move.
He went over to the kitchen and grabbed the sharpest knife he could find and placed it in his hoodie pocket.
He slid on his shoes and walked outside, there was about 3 inches of snow outside as he walked over to the backyard. He walked up to Johnathan and began to talk about work.
Johnathan could tell something was up with henry. He was talking about previous work projects. Johnathan decided to absent mindedly listen to him. He failed to notice henry inching closer to him. Then Henry made his move faster than Johnathan could react. There was a searing pain in his neck and he blacked out.
Henry looked at him with pride as a pool of deep red blood formed around Johnathan. Suddenly things went downhill as he realized what he had just done. He fell to the floor and began crying.
He had just killed his best friend. And he was in even deeper shit than before. Suddenly there was a large crack and he woke up.
He was sitting upright in bed breathing heavily. A hand touched his shoulder and he jumped, he looked to his right to see austins face staring at him. “Henry, you ok? You were twitching like crazy” austin asked concerned. Henry knew it was all a dream. Austin wasnt dead and he didn’t kill Johnathan. “It was just…a bad dream. Dont worry” he replied to austin. “Can we cuddle?” He asked soon after. Austin nodded yes. Then the sky lit up as lightning flashed and he could brieafly see that austin was smiling. Henry felt a comfortable feeling when he and austin snuggled up together and drifted off listening to the sound of rain hitting the roof of their apartment.