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Hi again! Only two reviews on this chapter... oh well... I thought more of y'all were reading it! Anyway, here go the special thanks shoutouts!
miszmccartneyx3: Hey, I'm so excited to see you on here!! Thank you so much for reading and reviewing this!! Awesome! I'm so glad you love it and of course I was right! ;-) Jk, but seriously glad you like it!! Hope I don't dissapoint with the ending! Only 2 chapters to go!
Chris Grace: Ah, I see you logged in this time! ;-) Awe, just for saying please you get one! He, he... I know, cried writing it! Killing Bradin was SO hard for me to do considering I love Jesse so it was kinda like killing him!!! Eek! lol! Anyway, thanks so much for the review!!
Ok, I have just one more thing to say.
froggy2045 & kbg17223: I know y'all were reading my other story A Living Hell but then I changed the name to On The Edge Of Sanity and nobody has read it since!! (Er, reviewed anyway) So I was just wondering if you two were still reading it? You were the only ones I knew of who were reading both. Let me know please, I don't need to continue that one if it's not getting reviewed. Thank you.
Ok, sorry 'bout me rambling on... READ!!!
5.
The Truth Made Known
"Oh my God! You guys come here, look at this!" Susannah yelled to Ava and Johnny. They were all in Jay's room, it had been 3 weeks since he killed himself. They'd been at his funeral only hours before and were now trying to clean up his room and figure out what to do with everything. Erica was staying with them until everything got cleared up and she was out on the beach with Nikki, Derrick, Cameron and Martha to get their, herself included, minds off of all the sadness that was happening.
"What is it?" Ava and Johnny exclaimed coming over to her.
"Here," she handed Ava the envelope she was holding.
"Jay wrote this?" Ava said, more as a statement than a question.
"Apparently..."
"Well open it!" Johnny spoke suddenly.
"No, we better not open it until everyone that it says it's to is present, don't you think?" Ava asked.
"Maybe so... well let's gather everyone up!" Johnny said.
"No, let's just wait for the kids to come back that way we won't have to interuppt them... you know how all this is already upsetting Derrick..." Ava said.
"You're right, well let's get back to what we were doing I guess." Johnny agreed.
"Right." Susannah agreed with Ava and Johnny.
Four hours later, Ava, Johnny, Susannah, Nikki, Derrick, Erica and officers Jonathan Kent and Marcus Burt were seated in the Gregory living room to read the note Jay had addressed to them.
On the outside of the envelope it said:
Ava, Nikki, Derrick, Johnny, Susannah,
Erica and whoever is assigned to Bradin's case,
this should clear everything up.
Ava opened it but then handed it to Johnny afraid her voice would betray her emotions if she tried to read it, Johnny was better at controlling himself.
Johnny took the envelope and pulled out a 7 neatly folded pieces of paper held together by a paperclip. He unfolded them and began to read the first one, aloud;
"Ava,
I cannot began to express my regrets for what I have done to you and your family. I want only for you to know that I really had no intentions of doing what I did until the very moment I found myself doing it... I meant only to beat him for trying to take away my girl, which I realize now, was just as stupid of a thing to do. He was only 16 years old, an innocent young life taken away from his family and those who loved and cared for him by a man who lost his mind in a moment of anger.
I believed, for that moment, that he had cruel intentions towards Erica, but how could I believe that he really had cruel intentions? I have no idea how I could believe that. I know only that I am sorry for believing it and letting it make me crazy.
I wish that it could have been Bradin who killed me instead. Not for him to have killed me and gotten in trouble for it, but for him to have killed me in self defense and because I deserved to die, not him. If I could take back what I did, I would, but I can't.
I can't and I am sorry for that. May I get what I deserve in my 'afterlife.'
If you want anything to do with me or my memory after I killed your nephew I don't know but you may do whatever you please with what I leave to you.
My mother's silver necklace is yours as a token of how you treated me. Thank you for that. Also, I leave you a small puzzle, if you figure it out you'll find a special treasure which you can do whatever you want with. Here are the instructions on where to find it: Go down to Spanish Cove, when you get there, go into the smallest cave, you should have to crawl, and about seven feet into the cave dig down four feet and you'll find a blue 'firebox.' In it is a note and a 'treasure.' Now, for fear that you won't even seek the box out because it belonged to me, I have to tell you this: the box was mine, the note and the 'treasure' were Bradin's.
Goodbye now,
Jay Robertson"
Nothing was said as Johnny turned to the next note and skimmed over it before reading it aloud.
"Nikki,
Had I known just how much your brother meant to you I would have killed myself as soon as I realized I'd killed him! That very second! But I didn't, so the only condolence I can offer you is that I am killing myself now and that you'll never have to look at the face who killed your brother again.
I leave you, if you want it, a small token of what you meant to me and how happy you made me feel to be around. You are an uplifting soul, Nikki, and you're headstrong, girl! Use these qualities wisely and you'll go far in life, very far indeed! But as I was saying, I leave you my only sister's (late) gold necklace with a heart locket. Inside is a picture of you and one of Erica. The two most precious young ladies I have ever met. (And symbolizing your friendship, which is strong. Keep it that way!)
I know you must hate me, but I believe I truly lost my sanity during the time I killed your brother because the instant I realized he was dead I felt a sadness no words can describe. I am sorry, but I know that will never be enough.
Goodbye now,
Jay Robertson"
Again, nothing was said as the rest of the notes, all similar to the ones just read, beginning with "So and so" and ending with "Goodbye now, Jay Robertson," were read in order. Finally Johnny came to the one addressed to the police.
"Whoever is working on the case of Bradin Westerly's death.
First of all, it was a murder. I, Jay Robertson, killed Bradin Westerly in cold blood at Spanish Cove between the hours of 2:00pm and 3:00pm on November the 20th, 2006. I slammed his head into a rock about 3 or 4 times and then I held him down in the shallow water until he gradually stopped moving drowned. I killed him, yes, that's right. I had no real reason except that I thought he was trying to sleep with my girlfriend, Erica Spalding, but have realized that was not true, not true at all. He was only trying to help her because he cared about her and I didn't see that until it was too late.
I am killing myself because of the guilt I feel from having killed an innocent 16 year old boy. I hope that I have cleared up the mystery of what happened to Bradin Westerly. I drowned him then pushed the body out into the water enough that the tide carried it away but then back to the shore later. I also threw his surfboard in the water and left his bag on the beach to make it look like an innocent surfing accident...
I believe that clears everything up so I will go now,
Jay Robertson"
The police asked to see the note and Johnny handed it to them.
"Well, I guess that's that..." Kent stated, "this should close the case."
"Yeah, I guess it will." Brut agreed, "Thank you for all your help, Miss Gregory, we will be getting in touch with you soon."
Ava nodded as one tear silently escaped her eye...
There it is!! The next chapter will be the last... I'm sad that it's almost over but I still wanna know what y'all think!! So review!! Thank you so much, you really don't know how much it means to me:-)
Anna Christie AKA SecondStarToTheRight15