Chapter 2: The next morning, body found and detective.

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Second chapter.


Kira's POV:

I wake up to see my mother in a bad mood as I come down for breakfast. I have school today.

"Mum is everything okay?" I ask her.

She slams the fridge door and turns to look at me. "Have you seen your older brother?"

I shake my head.

"No," I say worried. "Did he not come home last night?"

Its her turn to shake her head and I put a hand on her shoulder in comfort. She smiles slightly at me and then motions for me to sit down and eat my breakfast.

"Ethan come on!" I yell not wanting to be late for school.

Ethan comes down and mum asks him the same question she asked me. She also recieved the same answer. from him.

I have a bad feeling in my gut. But I don't want to worry my mother and younger brother. Out of the three of us I was close to both Ethan and Greg but my connection with Greg is special.

My mums temper seems to rise the longer Ethan and I are down here.

"You know," Ethan says placing his spoon down and I turn to see what he has to say. "He probably just stayed out over at somebody's house."

I nod but I still can't shake the feeling that something isn't right.

"He could have called," Mum points out to both of us.

"Maybe his phones broke," I say wanting to stick up for Greg as well.

"What are you two his lawyers?" She snaps. "When he gets home he's grounded for the rest of his life."

"Can I have his surfboards?" Ethan asks and I send a glare his way.

"Will you both go to school now?" She demands and I motion to Ethan to go.

Once she's gone I kiss mum on the cheek. "If I see him I'll tell him off."

She nods and tries to hide her smile.


We arrive at school and I see some of my friends.

"Hey guys," I say to them and they all wave. "You ready for today's test?"

They nod and we begin to head to class when we hear a loud range of screams. People are running forwards and grabbing each other.

"It's Greg!" I hear someone say and I go running forwards.

I head towards the gym where the chaos seems to be coming from. When I get closer people seem to be trying to stop me from entering the gym for some reason.

I force my way through and freeze.

My hand flies up to my mouth as I see my brother, Greg hanging by the neck to one of the basketball hoops.

HE'S DEAD!

I turn as I see Ethan enter. Both of us say nothing and tears fill my eyes.

A teacher enters and she comes towards Ethan and I while speaking to another teacher. "Call the police... Ethan, Kira."

We don't speak at first and then I decide to try and help my little brother.

"Ethan," I say swallowing hard as I turn away from Greg's body. "Come on... We can't stay here."

Ethan nods and we head with the teacher who takes us to the headmasters office.

We sit in there not saying anything to each other as we both have tears in our eyes. I keep an arm around my little brother as I try to figure out what happened. Greg wouldn't kill himself.

There was also bruises all over his face and what we could see of his body.

The headmaster doesn't seem to know what to say to either of us. He thinks he killed himself... I don't.

The door opens and Ethan and I look up as mum enters. We both get to our feet and hug her.

"I'm very, very sorry Mrs Keyes," the headmaster says from behind us.

Mum has Ethan on I on either side of her as we all head out of school. I cannot stay here right now.


Later I am in the bathroom trying to console myself when I hear a knock on the door. After a second I walk out the bathroom and meet Ethan outside. Then we head downstairs together.

Mum is with a man.

"Ethan, Kira," mum says when she sees us heading down. "This is detective Jacobs."

She motions to the sofa and we sit down either side of her.

"Look um I know this is a hard time for the three of you," he says looking like he doesn't want to have to do this right now. "But I have to ask you a few questions."

Mum nods for him to go ahead.

"Had Greg been depressed lately?" Jacobs asks.

"No!" I say immediately not liking where this conversation is going.

Mum places her hand on top of mine.

"Was there anything odd about his behaviour?" He continues.

Mum shakes her head, "He was a normal seventeen year old. He has his growing pains but he was far from suicidal."

"Did he use any drugs?" The man asks and I glare at the floor.

"No he didn't," I say to him.

"I don't think so," Mum says trying to be honest.

"No he didn't," Ethan agrees with me. "But I bet his scorpion friends do."

"Scorpions?" Detective Jacobs questions confused.

"Um," mum begins glancing at both me and Ethan. "They're a karate team. Greg has been spending a lot of time with them."

"They must know what happened to Greg," Ethan points out and I nod.

"Ethan's right," I continue. "I mean Greg said they were going scavenging when he left with them."

"Scavenging?" The detective repeats. "What do you mean by that?"

Ethan and I both shake our heads and I whisper. "I don't know."

"What do you think happened?" Jacobs asks my mother.

"I don't know what to think," mum replies shaking her own head as she tries to comfort both Ethan and I. "This is all so unreal. I just can't believe that he's gone."

Jacobs looks down as he says his next words. "I have to tell you. From everything I've seen... It looks like a suicide!"

I immediately get to my feet. "THATS BS! YOU DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MY BROTHER!"

I run outside and after yelling something coherent to me, Ethan follows.


Ethan and I are leaning against the detective's car as he comes outside.

"What about his bike?" Ethan asks.

"What bike?" Jacobs asks as he lights a fag for himself.

"He rode off on his bicycle," I say remembering how we all had to bike it yesterday.

"What about all the bruises on his body?" Ethan continues.

"Well he was a Karate buff wasn't he," Jacobs says.

I scoff. "Greg didn't get those bruises from practising he was the best."

"I'm sure he was a good brother," the detective says as he approaches us.

"He didn't kill himself," Ethan declares as detective Jacobs begins to get back into his car. "He was a fighter."

"We never give up!" I say with tears in my eyes.

Detective Jacobs sighs and I hope he understands.

"I'll do what I can," he says getting into his car. "Meanwhile you take it easy okay."

"No," both Ethan and I say as he drives off. "It's not okay."

We both head back inside. Mum is crying her eyes out so we both head into the kitchen and hug her. Its gonna take a while to feel better again.


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