Chapter 6
I could only follow Jennifer, never imagining I would witness her during an interrogation.
“Jennifer, how did your sister die?”
Two police officers sat ccross from her, questioning her.
“The gas tank at home exploded. My sister died trying to save me when the door fell on her. I’m truly sorry; if she hadn’t tried to save me, she wouldn’t have died.”
As she spoke, tears streamed down her face uncontrollably.
“It was a desperate situation. I wanted to save
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her, but I was knocked unconscious and woke
up in the hospital.”
“My parents told me she didn’t make it.”
“Every time I see these scars, I think of my sister. She sacrificed her life to save me, and I…”
My parents had arranged for her to have scar removal surgery, and I never thought those scars could serve as a reason for wanting to save me, yet feeling helpless.
No wonder she could win my parents‘ affection; if I had her speaking skill, perhaps I could win
their hearts too.
As Jennifer reminisced, her tears flowed more freely, filling the quiet room with the sound of
her sobs.
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If I weren’t a part of this, I might have believed
Jennifer’s words.
When she had locked me inside, I had struggled and begged her.
“Let me out, please. I promise I’ll do whatever you say.”
“Please, just let me out.”
“I’ll buy you beautiful clothes with my paycheck!”
My voice had grown hoarse, but all I received in response was Jennifer’s unrestrained laughter.
“We discovered a man with yellow hair entering your backyard based on video footage provided
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by concerned citizens. Do you know him?”
“I… know him,” Jennifer replied after a pause.
No matter the circumstances, I always admired Jennifer’s ability to lie.
She showed no signs of nervousness in front of the polygraph, remaining calm as she answered the police’s questions.
Most people would tremble when speaking to the police in an interrogation room, but her voice remained steady.
“He is my sister’s boyfriend and comes from a nearby village. My sister often brought me along to play with him.”
I almost lunged at her, wanting to slap her
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across the face. Even if my hand passed through her, it would still feel satisfying.
I was dead, and she acted as if I were mute, spreading rumors everywhere.
Jennifer had never returned to our hometown until this year when she came back with me.
This man was clearly a close friend of Jennifer’s and from a nearby village, yet I had no idea how she knew him.
Every time Jennifer went out with him, I insisted on going along.
He seemed like nothing but trouble, and I feared for Jennifer’s safety.
“Come on, sis, you’re overreacting. Everyone
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around here is his buddy; there’s nothing to be afraid of.”
That day, she refused to let me tag along, and as a result, she returned home with a bruised face.
My parents confronted me: “Why did you take your sister to hang out with those unsavory characters? Growing up in the countryside has clearly led you to corrupt her since you stepped into the city.”
“I didn’t know those people; it was my sister who introduced me to them.”
I knelt before my parents, gazing at my sister with pleading eyes, hoping she would speak up
for me.
But she cried and said, “My sister promised to
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take me out, but she didn’t go.”
Another beating followed, and I was punished by being made to kneel all night.
“I still have their photos on my phone. I don’t know why he sneakily climbed over the wall to enter the backyard.”
The police searched Jennifer’s phone.
In the photos, Tom and I were together, looking intimate in several shots.
It was clearly a case of inappropriate timing; I had been drunkenly urging Jennifer to take me home, never imagining this would happen along the way.
