CHAPTER 2: The Dead Neighbor

"Oh my god…." I could not say anything else to such a view

"What is it?" my mom asked

"That man over there….. He's dead"

"What?! How do you know?"

"He's been hanged….I can see the rope go from the roof to his neck"

My mom got up and saw him. He looked to be 50 years old; wearing a sleeping gown, blood dripping from his toe, and his eyes were white as his gown.

"We got to call the police" said my mom "Liam, take your little sister downstairs"

"Ok…." I stretched my arms towards May and she started crying "Hey it's going to be ok, you can have my room where you can see the pool and the backyard yeah" I smiled at her while she was washing her tears of her face.

"Thanks big brother" she put her head on my shoulder and I took her downstairs. My father was calling the cops.

"The cops are on their way"

I put May on the stool, went up to my dad and said

"Dad are we really staying here? The house is a mess and there is a 50 year old man hanging from a rope."

"Sorry son, but this is where we are going to be for the next two years."

"WHAT!!!" I screamed "May is not going to be able to sleep!"

"Look son I'll buy her a new toy and she'll forget everything"

"OH! That's good parenting!"

I walked away from my dad and tried my best to cheer up May but…It wasn't working, she just kept looking down, it was a crushing sight.

I accepted the fact that we were going to live here, so I helped my mom with moving in the furniture.

"Mom how can you just make it seem like nothing happened?"

"Look Liam, I know you're worried about May, so am I, but, there's nothing we can do, we have no money to go someplace else."

"I get that, but, I don't want to see May like that anymore"

"Me neither Liam"

We finished moving all of May's things into my room and saw that the cops were here, two hours since the call.

An Officer who was the height of my dad and had a beard came out of the police car.

"Good Evening Sir, I'm Officer Carl"

"Good Evening officer" My dad said shaking the officer's hand

"So what happened here?"

"Well, we are new in the neighborhood, and as soon as we get here, my little daughter, May, over there saw an old man that hung himself"

"Can you show me the place where the senior was seen?"

"Yes officer, Liam take him"

"Sure" I responded

I took him up the stairs into my room and tell him to look out the window.

"Oh my god…"

"Officer Can you go in there and get the man?"

"Yeah" he pulled out his transmitter and spoke to operator asking for backup

"Cops will be here shortly"

"He committed suicide right?"

"Of course! You think someone killed that man?"

He laughed at me, but I knew you could not rule out the possibility of a murder

"Well I got to ask you and your little sister some question about what you saw so can you come downstairs"

The officer asked three questions, name, age, and what we saw. It took a lot longer than we thought, Carl was a slow writer.

"So Liam and May Dawson, are you sure that is all you saw?"

"Yeah" I said for both of us

"Ok well thank you for cooperation, I'm going to go see what the team found out"

I was extremely curious to see what the "team" found. I went to the white-ish gray looking house, and saw three dead bodies.

As I walked into the house, I noticed that the house nothing of furniture. I looked at one body and noticed that he had a scar drawn in scabs on his wrists and that he was in the center of a star on the floor that was drawn in blood.

The other bodies were the same way, star drawn on the floor with blood, star on their wrist, and they were placed in a triangle form.

I the looked at the old man and saw that his blood was already dried and that he had a knife stuck on his back.

I was sickened of all the blood stains on the walls, floor, and roof. I did not want to look upstairs, but my curiosity took control of my body. As I nimbly walked up the steps, I froze. I saw something at the top of the stairs; it was a woman, who had been stabbed 36 times…