PART FOURTEEN: Family Affair
As soon as Grace stepped into the kitchen she realized she had interrupted something. Even though they were trying to act normal as ever the look on their faces gave them away easily.
"So, I called Lindsey and she's gonna visit me in LA... as soon as I'm finished here. And she's going to help me find an apartment." she tried to sound as she hadn't noticed her mother's red cheeks.
"What?!" Catherine stood in her place starring at her daughter as she tried to process what she had just heard.
"I'm moving out of the dorm. I've decided to get myself a little apartment. And my sister, Lindsey, is going to help me find one and decorate it."
"Vartann." his cell phone rang interrupting Catherine's intention of speaking. Both girl stood starring at Lou trying to understand what was happening.
"Brass has someone in custody." said Lou after he hung up the phone. He knew that regardless of what he said Grace would go to the police station hoping to find answers.
"We will talk about this later." said Catherine to Grace as they were walking out the door.
"Where were you two nights ago?" asked Brass to the man sitting in front of him.
"At home. Alone." said the man.
"Is that right? Then why I've got up on tape at the Eclipse?" said Brass.
"I don't know. Maybe it's some dude that looks like me."
"Don't tell me, he's your long lost twin."
"Yes! See you know!"
"Stop the bullshit! We not only got you on tape. We also have a witness that puts you in the bar. Oh! We found your fingertips at the hotel room."
"That doesn't prove anything! Only that I was there. Maybe she invited me to her room."
"I forgot to mention one little thing, your fingertips were also in the murder weapon."
This time the young man didn't say a word. He just stared at Captain Brass knowing he had been caught there was no reason why he should kept lying anymore.
"But you know what I think? I think that you kill the wrong girl." he said as he put the pictures of Grace Willows, and her friend, Kelly Gomez, side by side. "They look alike, don't they? They both have curly dark hair, brown eyes. They're both about 5'5''. And they were even wearing similar dresses. But you made one mistake, you spilled the drink on the wrong girl. So the wrong girl went to change dresses. And when you noticed it wasn't Grace Willows you freaked out."
"You got that one right. And I bet you wanna know why I wanted to kill that little bitch since you're so close the her 'adorable' momma?" all of suddenly his eyes went dark. "Six years ago my brother, Joe Hirschoff, lost everything he had because he got in business with the one and only, Sam Braun. He lost all his fucking money. And Robert, his partner? He shot his brains out! And when my brother was shot to dead I lost everything. Her scumbag mother and her had to suffer like I did."
On the side of the glass stood Detective Louis Vartann. He heard every word the man had said. He heard the hate and sickness for vengeance present in every word he said. Vartann had to control himself from getting into the interrogation room and throw that man against the wall. But most of all he feared Grace's reaction to the news.
As soon as Vartann delivered the news Grace started walking fast to interrogation room. When she saw Brass walking out of the interrogation room with a man, with his hands cuffed behind his back, she ran into their direction.
"Drugging my mom and kidnapping my sister wasn't good enough!?" everyone that was walking by the hall stopped and stared at her. "Your brother killed my grandpa, isn't that enough?! Why did you have to go and kill Kel too?" Grace tried to beat him but her actions were stopped by her mother.
"C'mon, honey, let's go. It's over. It's over, honey."