Episode: 2 Here comes the Bride?

The extremely peculiar case.

I bet now you want me to tell you all about how I was feeling those couple weeks, and what I did to escape the unwanted wedding, and in short, I didn’t do anything, I know this must be a bit of a shock but like I said before, what could I do? That’s right absolutely nothing, so when the day finally came, and the guest were here from all over, I just went along with it, I felt totally numb, I just felt nothing while the luxurious and lavish wedding went on, I wish I could at least tell you what I felt but to be honest, I just felt empty, so after the wedding happened everyone was led to the massive Ball Room that I think was a bit much, I mean who needs two chandeliers, one fountain and golden walls? Now you’d expect the bride to get much attention, but on the contrary, no one spoke to me, not even a second look, so I decided to walk over to the garden outside, as I was about to turn one hedge I heard my aunt talking to some guest, I listened in and heard her talking about my mom and dad again, I was about to just turn around and ignore her like I usually did, but then I heard “I’m just happy she isn’t as useless as her parents were, I’m actually really glad they died in that house, only thing is that there hideous daughter survived, happy she could be of use though.” At that moment I finally felt something, nothing I had ever felt before, pure and raw anger.

At that moment I knew what I needed to do, and no one was going to stop me at all, when the party was over I went over I quickly ran over to my now husband former cousin and said that his mother needed him straightaway, she had fallen and couldn’t get back up, he asked where she was and I pointed to where I had heard her and the other guest talking, he got up and ran faster than I thought was humanly possible to where I pointed, that was my chance, my one and only chance I picked up my long dress and ran for the door and quickly got through the opened gate passing all the remaining guest,

And went to the only place I knew, an old coffee store in the middle of the woods, it was run down and had been abandoned for many years, spider webs in every single corner and there was no roof at all just small planks of wood barely covering anything, the furniture was torn up and put in random spots all around the place. people deemed the place haunted so no one wanted to go near the decrepit store, I didn’t believe them, but I knew many people did so I knew I was safe there, when I had finally gotten to the coffee store, I just sat on one of the torn chairs, and there I was, I did everything to avoid being in this situation but at the end of the day I guess I was always meant to end up here.

As I sat there thinking about how I had gotten here the only thing that could have stopped this was the fire, if it had never happened my family would have been alive and I would be at home happy, not a torn-up chair with rust on it, In an abandoned coffee store after running away from my own forced wedding to my own cousin, okay, now I left out one detail about my house, there was a basement which is where the fire started, but the thing about the basement was that it was pure dirt, no I mean it, pure dirt, the walls the floor, everything, the only thing that wasn’t dirt was the ceiling, that was held up by a few pilers, but that was made of stone. So, there was nothing flammable or dangerous there except for some potatoes we were growing, so now my question was, what really happened to the basement that started that fire? Was there something dangerous we didn’t know about down there? Or, maybe one of my parents or siblings left something down there on accident? my mind began to race thinking up all these different situations that could have happen, but one situation was stuck on my mind, maybe it wasn’t an accident, maybe it was planned, I mean it made sense like why only when I was gone, how did it even start? Why the most unlikely place fire could have stared? That’s when it hit me my family’s death maybe wasn’t such an accident, it could have been planned, and at that moment I knew what my next mission was. To find out how to get to my childhood home and find out the truth, the real truth, and I was ready to do whatever it took to solve this extremely peculiar case of the Mason house fire.

I made up a plan that night and went to sleep on the hard and very uncomfortable chair, and to make matters worse it started to rain, so I was stuck out on the most hard, nauseating and uncomfortable chair ever, now about to be sopping wet, just great, in the morning I started the plan, I got up from the hard chair half-way dry by that point, and headed straight for my aunt’s house, when I got to the gates I remembered a secret way into the house without being seen, it was a narrow little pathway built just in case family members needed to get inside the house, but the gate won’t open for whatever reason, I wasn’t even meant to know about the pathway into the house, but I followed my silly aunt without her knowing and she led me right to it, look whose dumb now, when I got to the end of the secret not so secret pathway I went to side of the “great house” and got the spare key to the house that was under a flower pot with black and white dots on it, funny thing is it was also meant to be a secret, but oh well,

When I had finally gotten inside, I knew exactly where to go, I made a bee line to the study room with the unnecessarily huge blood red chair and began to look for the vault that held all of the money they ever made, I was able to get inside the study room unnoticed and began to look everywhere for the vault, but couldn’t find it until I looked up the tall book shelfs and saw it, at the highest point there it was a huge black meatal vault, my first thought was “these people are insane” I started to look for a way up and as I looked around I saw a huge ladder that I bet would have touched the sky if it were any longer and started to go towards it, I was one foot on the ladder when I heard someone coming down the hallway into the room I was in. I felt my heart leap out of my chest as I tried to find a place to hide, the door was halfway opened when I had finally found a place,

I quickly ran over to the unnecessarily huge blood red chair and dunked behind it waiting for my unavoidable doom, the door opened all the way and footsteps began to walk near to where I was hiding, and before I was sure that whoever it was had caught me, the pair of footsteps stopped and then someone had sat down on the huge chair, I exhaled a silent sigh of relief and tried to see who it was but I couldn’t see behind the chair, so I just tried listened closely to see if I could find out who it was by the sound of their voice. After a couple minutes another pair of footsteps came into the room and sat at the chair right in front, not forgetting to cross their legs in the process.

A couple of seconds went by in silence, until the person who I was crouching behind spoke “Well, you decided to call me here on such short notice, what is it you need? And aren’t you busy from the wedding your son just had yesterday?” he sounded very unpleased by the judge of his tone, then the person Infront of him finally spoke “Yes, I did invite you here on such short notice but last I’d checked business wasn’t going so well, so I figured, I needed you’re help, you clearly weren’t busy, so I called you here.” The women said with such a smug tone I knew exactly who it was, my horrid aunt, the man made a small grunt and my aunt continued “my son’s wife has run away, and I need your help” the man said in an annoyed tone “you know that I only execute people right” placing his elbow on the side of the chairs arm “exactly, I need you go and find her, then kill her” after saying that she then placed a photo on the big round table,

the person picked it up and said, “why do you want me to kill her?” my aunt uncrossed her legs and began “I housed that witch; I fed her for years! All I asked for was to not leave the house, do her chores and don’t ever embarrass this family! But instead of just going along with it for her family members who cared for her for so long and never said a bad word about her, she goes and does this just to spite us.” “Hump” the man said “okay then now my question is why her? Why not another woman?” my aunt laughed “why not her, she was useless and this was something she could have actually done that was helpful, plus he is the eldest and I want to keep the family blood line in the family and she was sadly family so she was somewhat perfect, but she had to ruin it and destroy our reputation. guest saw her running away, as if she was forced to live with us all these years, but anyway enough with this chitchat, what is your answer?” My heart stopped as he said “done”. I hate to admit it, but at that moment I had no idea what to do, so I just was there, crouching behind the huge chair, scared out of my mind, my aunt then cackled and began to say “good, I want conformation when you are done, just in case you start getting too soft a heart for the girl’” with that the man nodded and my aunt got up and left the room,

the man started to get up, but as soon as he touched the doorknob, he stopped and paused for a second before taking his hand off the doorknob and he started calling out my name, saying he knew I was there. But I stayed quiet, I mean, really, what else could I do? Just get out of my hiding spot, put my hands up and say “oh hi, I know you’re the person who is getting paid to execute me, but please let me go, although that will not benefit you in any way”.

but anyway, like I was saying, I stayed put like any sane person who didn’t want to die would, and it actually worked, the man made a small grunt but eventually left the room, but just to make sure he was truly gone, I stayed for a couple seconds, even after I had the door had closed.

And it really paid off, after sitting there and waiting for a second, I was about to get up and leave my hiding spot, until I heard the door open again and my aunt coming inside, with an upset look on her face. “What do you think you’re doing?

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