Here is chapter 29! So we left off with Hiroshi looking at the phone…Enjoy!


Zoe's eyes grew wide. "No, Takuya…" she thought as she remembered the small conversation she had with the boy earlier that afternoon.

-----Flashback

"Hey Takuya!" greeted Zoe.

"Hey Zoe, What's up? What was all that about?" he asked as he remembered when Zoe's aunt answered the phone earlier. "You know it's three AM here right?"

"Yeah, that's why I'm calling, I knew you were still awake," she said and laughed a bit. "Oh, and sorry about the whole thing with my aunt. She was right in front of me when you called, and I'm not really supposed to have a long contact list…"

"Man that sucks!" he said. "She fucking scared me!"

"Yeah me too, so how is it in Japan?" she asked.

"Oh, you know, we had the New year's party, and everyone came and all…but, it wasn't really the same," he said quietly

"Why wasn't it?" she asked curiously.

"Because you weren't here…" he said cherubically.

"I miss you," she said, "I miss you all…"

"I miss you, we all do, you should see Kelsi…" he said sympathetically.

"Oh, say hi to her for me when you see her!" she said.

"Yeah, so how's Italy?"

"ugh! It's only seven pm here, so we're just getting ready for dinner, which will only be the four of us, no one else,"

"Really? No one coming over, no friends?"

"Yeah, no friends-nothing! Just us and my aunt making me—" she was cut off by Constanza as she entered the room. Constanza motioned to her that her Aunt was coming. "Sorry Takuya, but my aunt is coming and I don't want her to see me."

"It's alright, I understand, I love you…I really miss you…"

"Me too, take care, gotta go! Bye!" Zoe quickly hung up and Auntie entered the room

-------End flashback

"Hello?" answered Hiroshi.

"Whoa?! Um…is this Zoe's uncle Tom, Thompson, or something?" asked the boy in the other line.

"Oh, my no! I'm just her murderer," said Hiroshi casually.

"Wait—what?!" said Takuya surprised.

In Japan, it was almost 8 Am. Takuya thought he had heard wrong because he had had little sleep. He went to sleep a little after he and Zoe had their conversation earlier.

"Yeah! I'm her murderer!" said Hiroshi.

"What do you mean? Who are you?!" yelled Takuya.

"You know, a person who kills, yeah, I'm the person who killed your precious little Zoe. Oh, and I didn't just kill her, but hit her, multiple times and very hard, tortured her, and of course, I raped her, I just had to. No wonder you were with her, such great company…"

"No you can't…you didn't—why Zoe?"

"Why I can't tell you boy! I'm actually glad you called. I just wanted to wish you a great and happy new year! Oh and you might want to find a new slut, your old one is dead. There might not be too much excitement in that!" laughed Hiroshi and hung up.

There was a moment of silence.

"You see Zoe, I told him that because I just wanted to give you a sneak peek of what will happen in the near future!" Hiroshi said as he laughed.

The second his laughter reached Zoe's ears, shivers went down her spine. "I can't believe he told Takuya that…" she said.

------In Japan

Takuya was speechless. "Zoe…dead...? It can't be, she can't be dead?!" he thought. "Who was that son of a bitch? He hurt her, raped her, killed her…he raped her!"

As Takuya was replaying the conversation in his head, the raven-haired twins walked into his room.

"Hey dude, thanks for letting us sleep over," said Kouichi as he walked towards Takuya.

"…The bastard killed her, he killed her. The motherfucker killed her…" said Takuya in a low voice.

"Whoa, what are you talking about?" asked Koji.

Takuya sat the twins down to explain to them what had happened.

"So…" began Kouichi recapping what was told to him, "…a random guy said he killed Zoe and raped her? What?"

"Yeah, and we have to do something, but what?" asked Takuya as he thought.

"Wait. So you and Zoe, you know…spent time together?" snickered Kouichi.

"No idiot! I never touched her!" exasperated Takuya.

"Takuya what can we do?" said Koji going back to the subject. "She's a million miles away, we can't just call up the Italian police and say 'Hey there was this dude I have no idea about who said that he killed and raped my friend.' You just can't do that. We're in Japan and she's in Italy. We don't even know where exactly she lives!"

Koji's words pierced Takuya in the heart. He felt an uneasy pain as the words registered in his mind.

Takuya was unable to hold back his tears for they were slowly rolling down his face. "I-I feel so h-helpless…" he managed to say.

The twins glanced at each other sympathetically.

-----In Italy: January 1

"Happy New Year! Happy New year!" cheered Hiroshi.

Every time Hiroshi spoke, Zoe grew more impatient. "Okay, I can't take it anymore, I have to confront him."

"What Zoe?! No!" said Constanza standing to stop the girl.

"No I have to. I need to find out more about my parents' death. I'm going downstairs armed though, just in case," reassured Zoe.

"But what if he goes after you?" asked Constanza.

"Well, I'll just have to run away I guess," said Zoe as she looked away.

Zoe thought for a moment. "What can I do…?" she asked herself. After a while she came up with something.

"I know!" she said. "Which are the exits to the backyard?"

"Um, well, one's in the kitchen, the other through the living room and another through the basement. Why?"

"Well, doesn't the other staircase take you to the kitchen?"

"Yeah…Zoe where are you going with this?"

"I can just run away from the living room through the kitchen and through the backyard! I'll go around the pool and run through the woods, maybe then you can take care of the other maids downstairs and escape."

"But what about you?"

"Hopefully if I get away, he'll want to stop and go back and you can call the police or something…I'm not sure, but we have to get away!"

"I guess…"

"Yeah, I'll just take some materials and see what I can do with them. Also, you have a clear view from here of the backyard," said Zoe pointing to the window. "When you see me running away and Hiroshi following you should go," she said and grabbed rope, a gun, and a knife.

"Alright…" said Constanza hersitantly. "Good luck…"

Zoe nodded and headed towards the other staircase that headed towards the kitchen. Mostly only the maids used those. The other staircase, more fancy-looking, led to the living room.

"Alright Zoe, you can do this…" she said to herself as motivation.

"So Zoe?" said Hiroshi after a while of silence. "Are you surprised that you have lived for so long?"

Zoe ignored the remarks as she entered the kitchen. She looked at her surroundings. There was the glass door that led to the backyard, and in the other side was the entrance to the corridor that led to the living room. There was little light coming from the living room. There was also some light coming from the midnight moon. Some of the moonlight reflected from the pool outside and into the kitchen.

When Zoe looked at the corridor entrance to the living room, she noticed pipes that ran through the perimeter of the entrance. She looked at the rope in her hands. "….Interesting…" she thought.

"So let's see…" began Hiroshi. "I just killed three people, then I have these two old maids here, and last, but not least, little Zoe. That will be six people I get to kill tonight. What a way to celebrate New Years!"

Because Zoe was now closer to Hiroshi, his sharp voice made Zoe flinch even more. But she kept going. Zoe had tied the rope around the pipes.

"…So if I show myself to him vaguely, and he attacks I guess I can just run and make sure to not trip over my own trap. He might trip and it'll buy me some time to run away," said Zoe quietly.

Zoe took a minute to prepare herself. She then started to walk slowly into the corridor towards the living room.

"Zoe, are you coming down or not?" asked Hiroshi impatiently. "If not I'll kill these two that are left!"

"Man do you talk so much. It's becoming very annoying," came a soft feminine voice. It was slightly shaky.

"Who was that?" asked Hiroshi slightly concerned. His grip on his gun tightened.

The shaky voice talked again. "The one you want to kill. Zoe."

"Oh, so you finally decided to show up. But I can't see you," quipped Hiroshi.

"Oh I'm here. Why did you kill my parents?" she demanded.

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Whoa! She actually talked to Hiroshi! I personally would have gone through the kitchen door and ran, very very far away! But then again, I am the author of the story! ^_^

So I hope you enjoyed it! You still have a few more chapters before the end, but we are reaching the last chapters… I really don't have much to say…. (Oh and happy valentine's day!)

Ya me aburri (Okay, I'm bored), Esta fue Utsukushii!