THE DARK SECRETS OF WEALTHY AND RICH

She clicked on the news article and started reading.

‘The Grey River is known as the romantic lake due to the

story of famous lover’s Adam and Renal. Many lovers young and old visit it frequently,

a proposal at Romantic River has became an upcoming popular trend for the

youth. One can see couples young and old at the river from morning to the evening,

has anybody visited the place in the night? The river area is rather far from

the main city and it is rather an underdeveloped space. There are only number

of houses nearby and nothing else. These aspects alone are to make the place

look haunted but what happened last night can bring the scariness to another

level.

When a Mr. X who lives in the Grey River area went to

the river at 7 in the morning for jogging like usual what he saw there wasn’t

usual at all.

Mr. X saw some traces of the blood on the path leading

towards the river. But he didn’t pay much mind to it thinking that it can be

blood of some animal or fishes. He started to move towards the river as he

jogged.  Everything was normal until he

reached to the other side of the river as soon as he decided to sit on the

bench near pine tree he saw a horrifying scene.

“There was a man lying down under the tree and he was

covered up in blood” were the words of Mr. X

Mr. X found the man dead and informed the police as a

responsible citizen. Police soon reached there and investigated the matter. There

was id proof with victim which proved his identity and Mr. X also claimed to

know the victim as his neighbor.

The victim is identified as Mr. William Bridgestone who

lived on 7th street near Grey River. He was brutally killed by a

knife which is still missing. William was attacked on his stomach many times

which caused his death. Apart from that there were also cuts on his feet which

lead to heavy blood lost.Forensic report stated the time of death to be around 2

to 2; 40 in the night. When police reached at victims home to inform his family

there was no one to be found. The deceased lived with his 17years old daughter Grace

Bridgestone and wife Anne Bridgestone. Both his wife and daughter seem to be

missing till now.

When police inquired about the murder in the

neighborhood everyone claim to hear or know nothing. There were number of

people who pointed their fingers at mother-daughter duo behind the murder.

Police is investigating the case officially. As for the

prime location of murder Grey River is sealed and is off limits for common

people for the time being.’

This was all the information she got from the article. There

were number of other articles regarding the murder. They had trashy titles like

‘Bad news for lovers’, ‘the haunted river’ and ‘legacy of Romantic River coming

to an end’. Their content was as trashy as the title suggested. There was exaggeration

about inconvenient due to lake being sealed and why should a murder happen on

the holy ground of lover’s.

April then tried to search for other related information

and who was the murderer in the end but there was no further information about

this case. When she checked on the national crime bureau with the details of

the case it showed the expected result ‘classified information’.

When read that she felt like her head will split into

two caused by the headache. She started to curse inwardly damn it! can’t anything

be easier just once , why everything can’t work out in her favor just once! What

wrong would have it done to national crime bureau if they haven’t classified

the case?

When she felt like going insane from anger and

frustration, she decided to leave it aside for the time being. She was staring

at the screen of laptop for almost two hours now, which was causing her eyes to

sting and itch.

She decided to relax for a while. Nothing can be better

than some music and twirling around when it came to mental relaxation. Dancing was

her passing by hobby since the elementary school. She was not a professional but

she can be considered better than average in the free style dancing. She never

bothered with the choreography if she was not performing at any function or

stage she liked to go with the flow and bounced around randomly.

She closed the windows and curtains before changing into

her little pink dress. Normally she dressed like a tomboy because of her father

and brother’s influence, but she secretly desired to be a girly girl sometimes.

If only her mother was here….

Her father took very good care of her but he was rather

busy between his job and doing the chore for us that he can’t pay mind to such

details. He always shopped for boy’s clothes for me as it was convenient and he

didn’t know any better. As she grew and started doing shopping on her own, by

that time she was used to the baggy and boyish clothes.

Now she does all the shopping for three of them but year’s

old preference can’t be changed that easily. She hardly had five dresses which

she bought for either dance performance or by persuasion of her best friend Tia.

Her most favorite among them was the knee-length pink

dress which she bought for her first high school performance. It still fitted

as she didn’t grew up much after that, physically….

She is only 5’ feet in height and has all the ordinary

features like dark hairs, brown eyes button nose etc… everything about her

shouted ordinary, other than her weight which was above 50 kg making her look

fatter compared to other’s.

She stopped train of her thought at that unpleasant point

and played slow music on her phone in order not to disturb her neighbors by

loud music. She started to move with the music she raised her hands and waived

them from up to downwards until her hands reached her waist while slightly

bending her legs from the knees. Then she moved her waist and in a half circle

forward, than she bent forward and held her hips with hands and she shacked her

legs very fast. Then she clapped her hands while she straightened her body……

She danced a little here and there for almost 20 minutes

when she got tired but felt awesome. She changed in her track pant and t-shirt

before doing her homework and researching topics of her assignment.

When she was done it was five in the evening. She tidied

up her room before going downstairs. She turned on the tv and was flipping

through channels when the doorbell rang. She watched the time on the clock

beside the tv on the wall it showed time 5; 20. She opened the door and it was

Rowan outside the door to her surprise.

“Did the sun rise from west today?” she asked her

brother while raising her eyebrows in confusion.

“It’s not a big deal I just came a hour earlier today,

and it was because dad was worried if certain pig would be alone at home!”

“Right, you are a big lazy pig and a sister of a pig can

only be a pig, even if she is cute, little and so well behaved.” April sneered

at Rowan as she finished saying.’

Rowan’s face fell as he saw April replying so tactfully.

“Can you move out of the door I want to go inside but a little piggy is

blocking the entire 7 feet wide door”

April’s face became red with anger when she listened to

Rowan’s sarcasm “are you calling me fat Rowan?” she asked as she glared at him.

Rowan laughed when he finally succeeded in angering

April” Finally you came to self realization! April at last you have became   smarter

if not taller. Congratulations!”

April was too shocked and angry to speak for a while.

Rowan took the opportunity and went inside the house while smacking his fist on

April’s head.

April became increasingly irritated and angry by the

every passing second. When did this brat became so sharp tongued and witty? She

slammed the door hard while closing it and shouted at Rowan who was already on

the couch by now, ”you shameless, hopeless ,idiotic fool how dare you!”

Rowan laughed with joy” what did I said wrong pigs are

short, fat and pink, and you just meet the criteria perfectly.”

April was red from the anger by now and wanted to beat

him badly” Pigs are super lazy which fits you perfectly well and I am not fat

it is called being plum okay, and I am most definitely fair skinned !”

“You are all red right now and you almost look like a

madly running pig” he smiled smugly and made the sound of pig to tease her

further,” oink, oink…”

April completely lost control of her anger and shouted as

she moved towards him” you lazy donkey, you hunch backed camel I will kill you

today once and for all.” As she lunched onto him on full attacking mode and

started to tickle him nonstop.

“ahha ..ha..ha please stop I was wrong! Beat me if you

want to just stop tickling me.”Rowan was already crying while laughing as he

squirmed his body around to move away from her.

“I am a pig, right?” April knew that she can’t beat him

as he has grown taller and stronger than her. He was a little rabbit and then he

suddenly grew bigger than a pig in just couple of years as Rowan became a

teenager.

“No sister! You are my most cute most beautiful and

smart sister” it was then only April was satisfied with his answer and let go

of him” see that is why you shouldn’t cross paths with me! You weren’t even

born when I was beating all the other kids.”

Rowan was still recovering from the attack earlier when

he snorted” Hey stop acting snub you are only three years older than me, and

you are already bragging like a granny, and what kids you were beating! Only kid

you have bitten is our frail cousin sis, who was frail enough to be knocked by

the wind. It’s just that I am not in the mood to beat you today.”

April scoffed at him” What do you know huh I just went

easy on you do you want to taste my fist or perhaps my sharp nails?” she said

while grinning and moving her hands towards him.

“You just stop there! I am tired okay.” When April heard

him she instantly became gentle and in a soft tone asked him,“ How was your

football practice today?”

“It was okay I guess!” Rowan continued with sullen expression,“

Can’t they make the practice a little late? I was so sleepy and wasn’t at my

best.”

“Nothing can be done, you have school all day long where

can they fit it in the tight schedules of all the students if not in the

morning?”

Rowan’s eyes shined suddenly as he remembered something”

I remembered from the schedule that my idol has a scheduled interview today

with ABC tv. I need to watch it.”

April picked up the remote from the tv stand and handed

it to him” Here, I’ll go make you some sandwiches.”

“Okay!” replied Rowan half heartedly as all his focus

was already on the tv.

As April entered the kitchen Rowan raised volume of the

tv, and all the different noises can be heard. When April was almost done and

bringing the snacks out she realized that the voice coming from the tv was

somewhat familiar, maybe she had heard this voice somewhere, but where she

couldn’t pin point it.

It was only when she came out and saw a somewhat

familiar face on the tv that she got it all. He then asked Rowan” Rowan is that

man your idol”

Rowan nodded” cool right!”

“Is he that rich?” April asked as the host on the show

was going on and on about his net worth.

“Yeah, he is not only rich, he is loaded!” Rowan

continued with sparkles in the eyes” He only played football only for 8 short

years so many people don’t know about it but before being a business tycoon he

was a player and great one at that.”

April smirked evilly,” Good, very good I love digging

deep and dark secrets of the wealthy and rich!” she looked at the man on the tv

mining fully as she was looking at some prey.

Rowan was too focused on the screen and didn’t realized this

change he only asked while still looking at the tv” did you said something.

“Nothing” April said while carefully observing every

single move of the man in tv………..

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