Life is Strange 2: Falling Into Place
Chapter 14 of my Life is Strange 2 story, the drama continues.
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Chapter 14
Jamie bit his lip, confused, wondering what was going on. He had been home with his parents that night, waiting for Lyla to call, knowing she'd be distraught after what she had to do. Instead the call never came and then suddenly, there were police officers at his door. They said they needed him and his parents to come with them and so they were taken out to the police car and driven away. Jamie shifted in his seat, confused, he absently dusted off his blue pants, white T-shirt and stared down at his black sneakers, wondering what this was about and still fretting about Lyla not yet calling. But then, a sudden feeling of dread began to fill him as the police car pulled up, alongside several others, outside Lyla's home. Following the officers, Jamie entered the house and instantly heard his name.
"Jamie, you too?"
He turned and saw it was Sean who had greeted him, Cassidy alongside him. Both were dressed casually, Sean in jeans, a yellow T-shirt with his blue Squad hoodie and white running shoes, Cassidy in black ripped pants, a purple T-shirt and, surprisingly, purple flats.
"The police just picked you guys up too?" He wondered.
"And us."
He turned again and saw it was Kyle, clad in brown pants, a dark green hoodie and white sneakers, and Jenn, wearing dark skinny jeans, an orange, cream and white coloured sweater and black flats.
"All our families too." Jenn continued. "My parents, brother...Kyle's mom."
Cassidy nodded as Sean then added. "Dad and Daniel too."
Now Jamie couldn't deny, he was even more confused than ever.
However soon they were all assembled, along with a distraught looking Yu-jin Park and the officer who seemed to be in charge began to explain.
"We've had to take you all into protective custody, as we can't be sure any of you won't be targeted. Lyla Park has gone missing and we have every reason to believe her father has kidnapped her." He explained.
"WHAT!?" Jamie cried, almost leaping to his feet.
Everybody else was clearly shocked too.
The officer nodded sadly. "We responded to word of shots fired at an abandoned building, inside we found a known drug dealer...whom we believe has previously sold marijuana to Miss Park before?"
He looked to Yu-jin who nodded, still distraught.
"He was found dead, along with two colleagues of his, all three had been shot." The officer continued. "There was also discarded clothing found at the scene and a bragging note from Steven Park, pretty much confessing to killing the three men and abducting his daughter."
Kyle frowned. "That doesn't make sense, why leave a note like that?"
"He's that confident he won't be caught, he's taunting us." The officer replied.
Yu-jin let out a whimper, tears spilling from her eyes. "I can't believe this, what was Lyla even doing there, with, with him and, and..."
Jamie glowered, despite her distress, knowing exactly why Lyla had been there, he was in no mood to be friendly to Mrs. Park.
Instead he simply snapped, anger colouring his tone.
"Maybe because she was forced to go there and give those three slime balls a strip show, in order to pay off her debt." He spat. "Since someone took the money she was going to use to pay them."
Yu-jin flinched, letting out a choking noise. "You...you dare, you're blaming me, you-"
"Of course I am, if you hadn't taken that money from her, none of this would've happened!" Jamie yelled.
"Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa!" Cassidy suddenly cut in. "Enough, both of you."
"Who are you to-" Yu-jin began.
Cassidy cut her off. "I'm Lyla's friend and I'm worried about her too, but maybe instead of blaming each other, we should be trying to figure out how to help her!?"
An uncomfortable silence followed that as both Jamie and Yu-jin realized the wisdom in those words. This was much bigger now than an unpaid drug debt and who was to blame for Lyla being where she was. What mattered was saving Lyla from her father, that was what they had to focus on now. There was on thing nagging at them however.
Kyle voiced that concern. "Why are all of us here?"
The officer sighed. "Because, we've also found proof, that all those incident that have been happening to you recently...the pictures being spread online..."
They all tensed, remembering that, Kyle, Jenn, Sean and Cassidy all blushed furiously at the reminder of their intimate moments being made public.
Looking directly at Jenn and Kyle, the officer added. "Also, the two of you being run off the room some weeks ago."
They nodded and he finally continued.
"We have proof, that he was behind all of those incidents and was doing it to get to Lyla, through all of you...trying to break you all down, to leave her vulnerable."
They froze at that, eyes wide with disbelief as suddenly everything fell into place and they realized now what sort of lunatic they were dealing with. Now they were even more worried about Lyla than ever before.
End of chapter, next up, we reach the main climax, read and review please.