With Love, xxxx. by Varshitha Kancharla (trending books to read .TXT) 📖

Nina's question made Kathleen’s heart skip a beat. She looked at her with wide eyes.

“What the hell, Nina! Why would we kill? How can we kill?” Kathleen shouted. 

“I don’t know. Look! We don’t know what happened to us. And now they both were dead. I feel something wrong.” 

“Stop it Nina. We are not killers. It’s not us. Moreover, who said it’s a murder? It might be an accident.” 

They both kept racking their brains trying to remember what happened. Deep down, they feel doleful for Jack and Aaron’s death but the fear in them was dominating their sadness. They continued watching the news about their death. It looked like they both were beaten brutally. Jack’s head looked like it was hit with a hard stone many times. Their bodies were found in the woods near their guesthouse. 

Looking at their dead bodies on TV, Kathleen shut her eyes. 

“Look at them! Can we hit them like that?” Kathleen shouted. 

“Whatever Kat! I’m scared. We shouldn’t have gone to the party.” 

Kathleen gave her an angry glare and shouted “I asked you. But you said a very good phrase ‘Attending a single party doesn’t change anything’. Look at the news!” Kathleen hit her with the pillow. 

“It’s you who decided to go.” Nina hit her with another pillow. 

They both kept fighting and they were interrupted with the sound of doorbell. Nina strolled there and opened the door. There were two cops standing infront of her. She gulped looking at them. 

“Ms. Kathleen?” A cop asked. 

“Y-yes. No. I mean... I am Nina.” She shuddered. 

The cops looked at her with narrowed eyebrows. 

“Come in.” She said and they both entered in. 

Looking at them, Kathleen stood from her couch and looked at Nina.

“Ms. Kathleen?” A cop asked looking at Kathleen. 

“Yes.” She replied.

“We think you heard about your classmates death. We came to ask you few questions.” 

She nodded listening to him. 

“Jack and you are lovers?” A cop asked.

“What! No. I don’t love him.” 

“Could you tell us what happened between you both?” 

“He loved me. I mean he said so. He proposed me and I rejected.” 

“Then why did you go to his birthday party?”

“One day he said he wouldn’t disturb me anymore. Like he said he didn’t. He talked to me after many days. As a friendly gesture I went.” 

“What about you Ms. Nina?” The cop asked looking at Nina. 

“Me? What about me? Kathleen and I went together.” 

“Fine. We came here to take your statement.” 

He said and stood from the couch. 

“If we need anything, we will contact you again.” He said and started leaving. But his walk was interrupted by Kathleen’s voice.

“Officer! Can we know what happened to them?” asked Kathleen.

“We are investigating still. But it looks like both the boys fought and killed eachother. We didn’t get any fingerprints except the boys. We’ll inform. It takes time.”

Kathleen couldn’t believe what they said because she knew they were best friends and couldn’t kill eachother whatever happens.

As soon as the cops left, Nina and Kathleen became relieved. 

“Heard them? Jack and Aaron killed eachother. It’s really a ridiculous statement.” Kathleen said looking at Nina.

“We should thank god. The cops didn’t ask anything more that brings me a mini heart attack.” Nina said putting her hand on her chest. 

Few days later, Jack’s parents arranged his funeral. Nina and Kathleen went there. Kathleen saw Jack's mother crying. They went to her and expressed their condolences. 

“Kathleen, right?” Jack’s father asked looking at Kathleen.
She simply nodded to him. 

“I heard Jack disturbed you a lot. Behalf of him, I apologise.” 

“No. No sir. You shouldn’t. Let’s leave it. I came here as his classmate.” 

“I tried a lot to change him. But I didn’t succeed in it. His wrong deeds, misdoings took him away from us.” 

Looking at him, Kathleen felt so sad. His eyes became wet and she held his hand. She consoled him for a while. Then they left to Aaron’s funeral. Jack and Aaron’s funeral was at the same day at different places. They reached there and talked to his parents. 

Spending few minutes there, they left to their house. The cops didn’t get any evidence to proceed further. There were no proofs, no fingerprints near the place they found dead. All they found was a knife stabbed to Jack’s chest. The knife has Aaron’s fingerprints on them. And on Aaron’s body, Jack's fingerprints everywhere. So they closed the case informing they both fought for some known reason and killed eachother. All their classmates who were in the party relieved after that especially Nina and Kathleen.

Most of the people believed and convinced themselves what the cops said. But for Kathleen, it’s their story. It’s like a mystery. What’s the truth? What really happened to them?