Chapter Two: Revenge of the Teacher
"My client couldn't have possibly done it. He was on stage at the time of the attack." Melinda Chase, the defense attorney, said in the interrogation room.
"Your client could have easily attacked Charles Morton between his speech and getting his diploma. We're charging with man slaughter." Annabeth Gordon said as she stood up and collected her paperwork.
"Don't worry, the most you'll get is 4 years, with good behavior it will be 2. And if they had any good evidence they wouldn't be charging man slaughter, they would be charging murder."
"You'll see how much evidence we have in the courtroom." Everybody left the room and will went back to his cell.
The police officers forgot to take Will's cell phone and now it was going off. Will looked at the id thinking it might be Ellie, but it said Morton, Charles. He answered, confused out of his mind, "Hello."
"Hello, Mr. Wagner." It was a male voice. "Listen very closely. If you do as I say, your girlfriend won't get hurt."
"You're bluffing."
"Maybe I am, maybe I'm not."
"Just tell me what you want."
"Okay, here it is. You have to go into the interrogation room and act like you're insane. Make sure to smile into the camera."
"You're crazy. I'm going to do that."
"Fine, but I though you loved your girlfriend."
"You are so bluffing. There is now way you have Ellie."
"Will, do what he says." It was Ellie's voice. The guard finally realized that Will was on his phone and confiscated it.
A few days later, Will received a piece of mail. It was a letter with a picture. The letter only said these fou7r words: Remember to act crazy. The picture was a picture of Ellie tied to a chair. "I want to confess." Will went up to the bars and screamed.
"We have yo9ur client saying he wanted to confess on tape. If he does confess we'll cut his time in half."
"Arthur, you don't have to say anything. They don't have anything on you. That's why they were so eager to get you in here to confess."
"Oh no, I want to confess. I'm not confessing to the murder."
"Then what are you confessing to?"
"I'm confessing to the fact that I wasn't actually there at the moment he was attacked."
"How could you have not been there?"
After I made my speech, my friend, Lance Reynolds, and I went out the side door unnoticed."
"What were you doing outside?"
"Is it necessary for me to tell you that part?"
"If you don't how can we check out your alibi?"
"Okay, we were out there," his voice was getting softer and softer as he spoke, "with twp girls. I'm sorry I can't do this."
"You've gone this far. If you tell them, they will have a problem make a case against you."
"If you must know, Lance and I were smoking pot and making out with the girls."
"What are the names of these two girls?"
"I don't know, they were a couple of girls Lance knew from somewhere."
"Thank you for your time, Mr. Wagner. We'll look into your story and go from there."
"No wonders he didn't want to tell. It's one thing to admit to smoking pot, it's another to admit to cheating on your girlfriend." Annabeth's partner, Mandy Wellman, had watched the whole thing from the other side of the glass. "He has to be telling the truth, why else would he admit all this."
"I know you're probably right, but we can't rule him out until we check this alibi."
"I'm terribly sorry to bother you, sir. I'm Detective Hanson. I'm looking to speak with Lance Reynolds."
