Someway, Somehow

I am the happiest I have ever been, Lauren came back to me. Lauren and baby Nora have come back in my life and they’re here to stay. Yesterday we went to the parade and it was the best thing ever. I didn’t even let the fact that Jimmy had killed our childhood best friend bother me.  I mean I did think about it when I saw him and his family enjoying the same parade as  Lauren and I. And the look he gave Celeste as she came up to talk to us disgusted me a little. Okay, I have to admit that Jimmy killing Dave did bother me… a lot.  I understand that he wanted to get his daughter’s killer but killing Dave was not the answer. And what makes it worse is that Dave didn’t kill Katie, he killed a child molester. And Jimmy’s excuse after he found out Dave didn’t kill Katie was even more damn disturbing. He admitted to me that once a person is molested as a child they turn into that same thing when they grow up. He said he was just saving a little child from that same thing happen to them as it did to Dave. That is ridiculous, Jimmy should have let me do my job and not take things into his own hands. Now I know he killed Dave and he thinks he got away with it. But I will prove it that he killed Dave... someway, somehow.

Dave.. A killer?

Could Dave possibly be capable of murdering someone? Especially Katie Marcus, the daughter of our childhood friend Jimmy? I just can’t imagine Dave doing this, but Whitey is so sure he is hiding something. Did getting abducted those many years ago have something to do with this? Did that whole experience change him into a monster that could kill someone? I just don’t see Dave Boyle, the kid who followed Jimmy around like a puppy, having the will power to brutally beat a 19-year-old girl he had known his whole life, and shoot her in the back of the head. I can’t seem to picture Dave chasing her around Penn Park with a stick feeling so much anger towards her. What would be his reason for killing her? He just thought she was pretty, tried talking to her and she just blew him off like the old man that he was? If he didn’t do it, what could he possibly be hiding? What would a guy like Dave Boyle, a normal guy with a normal wife and son with a normal life be hiding? Did he have a lady on the side? Or a Gambling problem? Nothing adds up... How is Dave involved?

Endless, Speechless Calls

Lauren was the best thing that had ever happened to me. And I still don’t know why she left. Actually I do know why she left, I drove her off. But she didn’t have to leave, I loved her with all my heart and I know she felt the same way. But why does she call and not say a damn word? My parents ask me how I know it’s her but I just know. I recognize her faint, quiet breathing on the other end of the line.  I talk to her though, sometimes a lot sometimes a little. But I do talk to her to let her know how I’m doing, what’s going on with work and everything. I often ask her where she is and how our daughter is. Why won’t she answer me and just tell me what our beautiful daughters name is? Even if the baby isn't mine, I’ll love her like she was my own. Whitey asked me why I still answer and talk to her.  I told him I do because I know that one day she’ll answer me and tell me all about where she is and about our beautiful daughter. But that day couldn’t come any slower...

Flashback

After seeing that the car was registered to Katie Marcus the flashbacks started up again. The flashbacks of that day that I had tried so hard to forget. The day Dave, Jimmy and I were hanging outside of my house, like any other day. The day that the mysterious car with two so called cops that had asked us where we lived. Why did Dave have to tell them where he lived? Why did they force him to get into their car? And when Dave finally escaped from wherever they had taken him and came home, he was never the same.  He always stayed in his house and rarely talked to Jimmy and me.  The way Dave acted after he had returned, scared and weak, made the reoccurring nightmares much, much worse. The nightmares finally stopped a year after Dave had finally come home, when one of the men had been found by the police. After seeing Katie Marcus was the driver of the abandoned car that was covered in blood, all I could think about was that damn day that happened so many years ago. About how Dave changed so much after he was abducted and how the three of us are no longer friends…