The small interrogation room had no effect on Jordan Scott at all. Her hands rested calmly on front of her on the cold metal desk, her gorgeous eyes just remained fixed on the same section of the two part mirror.
Outside Scotty and Lily stood leaning against the mirror, discussing her. "She's cold."
"Being calm and cold doesn't make her our killer, Lily." Scotty whispered looking over at her. "She's probably doesn't realise what's happening."
"She's not a child anymore." Lily argued before walking into the small room and smiling at Jordan. "Hello Jordan. How are you doing?"
"I'd be fine if I wasn't stuck in the small room. I do have a lot of work to get on with."
"We do apologise Mrs Scott but we're trying to do our job." Lily said sitting down, opening the small folder and pretending to read over past statements. "So, we know about your discussion with Hallie all those years ago."
"Oh, be more general officer. Me and Hallie had a lot of discussions, we were close as we grew up."
"Oh, I'm sorry. The one where you told Hallie and Candice that you wished Daniel Hunt dead."
Jordan laughed at that before shaking her head. "What you don't realise was I was angry back then. Really angry."
"Why?"
"I was a spoilt child. There was a big age gap between me and my brother. My parents were divorced. Both wealthy. Louise and Hallie were a lot poorer than me. A lot poorer. I got whatever I asked for whereas they had to work for it. I had everything except for the one thing I really wanted."
"Daniel."
"Daniel." Jordan parroted in a whisper, her eyes suddenly fading as she looked down at her hands. "What did he see in Louise? I was rich. I could give him whatever wanted yet he chose boring Louise."
"Why was Louise boring?"
"Hallie used to tease her all the time about being as boring as watching paint dry. Hallie was just teasing. I actually felt like she was boring. Hallie wanted to be an actress. She had voices. Could make anything exciting. She was amazing. However there was something about Louise, the moment she started talking it was almost as if you wanted to fall asleep. She didn't illustrate anything as well as Hallie did. Hallie made her stories come alive!"
"You appear to be the kind of cousin who makes favourites and makes the cousins fight to win that spot."
"Hallie and Louise never went for all that though. Hallie couldn't take me. Too much of an age gap. She only hung out with us when we were all over at the grandparents house. It was only ever Louise who paid me much attention."
"Did you ever talk to Louise about your thing with Daniel?"
"Oh yeah." Jordan said laughing.
The two girls laid on the bed. A bottle of black nail varnish laid open on one of Hallie's books as they did make up, knowing that Hallie would go ape at the fact there was a splodge of black on the book. "Hallie told me something so strange the other day." Louise whispered as she blew on her nails to help them dry.
"Hallie says a lot of strange things."
"You had a thing with Daniel." The nail varnish bottle was tipped over, the thick liquid completely hiding the title of the book. "Oh shit, not one of her Stephen King's... She'll kill us."
"What did she tell you?" Jordan spat not caring about the book knowing that Hallie would gocrazy at them as she loved her books.
"That you'd slept with him and that he'd coldly thrown you to the side." Louise closely studied Jordan's face noticing how it didn't change. "Is it true?"
"Louise... Listen to me... It was long before you and him even started to think about going out."
"How could he date me after screwing my younger cousin!" She spat angrily rubbing her hands over her tired face. "Why didn't you tell me how he treated you?"
"Would you have believed me?"
"What do you mean?"
"Come on, Lou. I'm the spoilt little cousin that always wants your attention. I sound like a spoilt little brat who is desperate for the attention I've lost!"
"Are you?"
"Excuse me?"
"Are you lying to get back the attention?" Louise screamed at her feeling close to murder her.
There was a long moment of silence before Jordan shook her head. "No. I am not lying." She whispered her eyes filled with tears before moving down to look at the destroyed book.
"Get out." Louise whispered opening the bedroom door and just standing tall as her cousin walked past, tears falling down her cheeks before she slammed the door shut.
"Uncle Joe wasn't too happy that a guy had caused a rift between me and the cousins."
"Uncle Joe knew?"
"He wasn't deaf. No matter how much he told Hallie and Louise he was." Jordan said laughing as she picked at her nail varnish. Lily noticed it was black.
