Mystery Novel

Chapter 2

Family history

Evangeline was now in her room unpacking her clothes on the bed. It was a big room with a

heavy bed made of newly polished rosewood and a floor that was carpeted with fine thread

bared rugs. Evangeline had been very young when she first came to this house with her

parents, she remembered playing hide and seek with her mother and those old town fables

that her father told her before bedtime.

It made her feel hollow and empty knowing that her family would never be together like that

again and that it was her fault. Evangeline was with her parents inside the car during the

accident she had been in the back seat of the car while her parents sat in the front. Her dad

was driving that day they had been arguing about something though Eve could hardly

remember what it was when she saw the truck coming their way.

She had shouted for her father to stop the car but before he could turn around and see the

truck it was too late, their car had turned upside down due to collision and Eve had gone

unconscious for nearly an hour and when she woke it was to find her parent's bodies dangling

upside down while blood dripped from them forming a puddle on the ground.

She had tried to shout for help, tried to jerk her parents awake but no matter what she did she

was stuck there to watch her parents bleeding to death until finally the ambulance and police

arrived on the scene. Even after five months she still woke up in the middle of the night in

cold sweat from nightmares filled with dead bodies, blood, and death.

She had started losing sleep and throwing up after waking up from nightmares and it was

only the medicines she and Jasmin's therapist suggested that she could now sleep better than

before and not have panic attacks while sitting in the back seat of a car.

Jasmine and the rest have done everything they can to help her including taking turns in

spending the night holding her and cuddling her when she had fits of fear and panic attacks.

Rossi came in from the door “Are you finished? Chris and Jazz are waiting in the library,

they want to get started right away.” said Rossi smiling at Eve.

“I wish I could share some of their enthusiasm. Don't you think we should fresh up first.” said

Eve trying hard not to show her grief with a fake smile. she should have known better, that

her friends would see right through it and so Rossi did. “We already have, you are the one

running late” she said with an understanding smile and walked up to Eve to give her a gentle

hug.

“You should know that all we want is for you to share some of our enthusiasm and stop

acting to be happy for our sake but be happy because you feel like it.” she said letting her go

“I am trying to.” said Eve. “I know.” replied Rossi.

“Let's go.” and with that, she took Eve's hand and they both went out the room toward the

library. They reached two heavy doors on the second floor of the house and entered through

the oak doors. “Well they are finally here.” said Christine looking up from one of the books

she and Jasmine had spread on the polished ivory table that was placed in the centre of the

room.