Chapter One

Interrogation

Dani's sister's POV

My name is Jasmin. Most people call me Jaz. I like art, drawing, sketching, people mostly. I am someone who can keep a secret for a long time, like the one I kept about my father.

There are things about my father that should just not be spoken about. Dani is perhaps a little too much like him. He got violent when we were younger, drinking a lot and hitting us. Mom couldn't do anything about him. Dani got his addictive personality. She thinks people don't see that she is still addicted to things, but I see that she is addicted to sex, and its hard to watch her go into a downward spiral.

Dani is addicted to sex, and I know because I am her roomate...That is, when she is actually home. She and daddy have always been close, too close. I dont know if she can be trusted, but when she told me who her new partner was, I knew I had to start talking about the night that I saw my father do something so terrible...

So I came into work with Dani that morning. Danni wanted to know what I was doing, and I was set on destroying my father. He needed to pay for the crime, and a little extra, for Cruise.

So, I came in, sat down, and waited for Cruise to come. When he did, I knew who he was. I couldn't step forward any sooner than I had because before I had been a minor, under daddy's protection, but ever since I had turned 18, I was on my own. I was attending community college and living in an appartment with Dani, that was, when Dani was home!

I wanted to talk to Cruise, so I did. At first, it was casual, but then he started to interrogate me, and it got complicated.

Meanwhile, daddy somehow found out I was at the station and was about to come in and explode.

"You can ask Dani any question you want to!" He shouted at Cruise, "but don't ask Jasmin anything! She is my youngest!" He tried to get me out of that room.

"No!" I shouted at him. "I have kept your secret for far too long!"

"Fine! Betray your family. You are no longer my child." He left the station that day no longer my father.

Most people would have felt like they shouldn't talk after such a thing, but I still did, I needed to get it all out. "What did you see?" Cruise asked me.

"The man, the one that is now in prison, he was ordered by my father to shoot the family." I began. "My friend and I were hiding under her bed. We were so scared. Daddy had no idea mommy had left me at their house that night, not until I got home later that day and told him. She was appalled..." I spaced out for a second, remembering that night. "Daddy told me to forget it, to never speak of it, but now that I am an adult, he has no control over my life. Before they ever arrested the man who actually killed the family, I had drawn sketches of him, so detailed, I should have come forward sooner, but daddy was always saying how he would kick me out or disown me if I ever did, how I would no longer be apart of the family if I talked, so I just kept it all a secret. And now I am coming forward because I am an adult, because I can." I told him everything in five minutes, but Cruise seemed to think it was too simple.

Perhaps it was all too simple, maybe my father had a reason behind why he killed that family. Who knows? All I know is that I saw him order the man to kill them, and it hurt, and I felt like I was betraying one of my closest childhood friends by not talking about who killed her family for the past 12, almost 13 years. I want them to get justice, I want my father and all the people involved with him, to go to jail.

Dani was older when this whole mess happened, older, but she still lived at home. I have always wondered if she had anything to do with it, and now, I think Cruise will want to find out.

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