Chapter Three: The Next Day…
"And that's the latest on the fashion show! In other news, a family in Normal Valley was brutally murdered, with only a note left behind. It appears that a person named…Maestro wrote it," the reporter on the TV said. The minute she said those words, I stopped dusting the lamp table and paused. Romeo, who was helping me straighten out the room as well, stopped too. He looked at me, his eyes filled with sudden concern.
"Juliet, you went to go check on him last night, right? Did he act strangely to you?" he asked. I looked at him and nodded, fighting back tears. Romeo dropped the sofa pillow that he'd been holding and put his hands on me.
"Listen, if he did anything to you while you were up there, I want you to tell me right away. Did he do anything?" he added. I nodded, the tears finally pouring out.
"I went up to his room to check on him, and when I walked in, I saw pictures of the mayor attached to his walls. I also saw papers that said, 'KILL THE MAYOR', and then I heard a knife being scraped. I walked in that direction and realized that it was coming from his bathroom. Then I heard him say that the mayor would pay in blood or something like that, and when I questioned his motives, Maestro threatened to kill me. And it wasn't one of those I'm-messing-with-you kinds!" I exclaimed. Romeo looked at me with widened eyes, like he couldn't believe that Maestro would do such a thing. Not like I blamed him. I hadn't expected it either.
"And now he's murdered an innocent family here in our hometown," I said, sobbing into Romeo's transparent chest. He patted my head and then let me go, placing his hands on my shoulders.
"Juliet, you won't have to worry anymore. We'll leave tonight, okay? We'll leave and just haunt some other abandoned house. Maestro can't do anything to us if we just go," he assured me. I nodded, agreeing to that idea. Anything was better than living with that psychopath that I called "Maestro".