Chapter 12 - Diary

The investigation team had migrated to Miles Anderson's house hoping to find evidence related to the case. The last investigation in ward 7 had only given them the 'infect' tag, but this seemed to bear no relation to Miles' death whatsoever - it only cleared Nicholas Black's name of another murder. Clarissa White was also a part of this investigation with permission from the chief of detectives.

Looking through Miles' desk, Clarissa could only find a few objects of vague interest in the mountain of clutter that was strewn across it. Pencils, action figures, empty bottles... How often did this guy clean out his room...?

A beaten-up notebook fell onto the floor as Clarissa was trying to excavate anything of interest from the desk. A detective looked around as she picked it up, but she hid it in her pocket until he went back to his search. Tentatively, she opened it up to look at the contents. It looked to be a diary kept since... 2nd June 2014?

"What an odd date to start a diary..." She skimmed through the pages, looking for anything of use. The diary ended on October 17th with what seemed like an unfinished entry:

"Everything I worked for is gone... Amber, Nick, they're both gone out of my life... Could you even call it a life when you're not truly living it? Amber, the love of my 'life', the one she claimed was mine and mine alone has gone off with Nick, my supposed 'closest friend'. It wasn't even either of them that told me. Nobody did - I only found out through a loud conversation between a large group as I walked past...

I could blame myself. I could, but I've already done that for years gone by. No, I think I'll take it out on someone else this time... Too long have I taken crap from everyone else only to punish myself for it.

Now, I only need to think of a-"

Clarissa stared at the pages. There was blood staining the space below the last line. Slowly, she shut the diary and returned it to her pocket. She would have to look at the other entries before she gave it to the forensics for testing.

End of chapter 12