Chapter 5: Love Comes By The Rain
CARL MOORE'S POV
The sky was dark, not a single star visible to my blurred vision. The camera flash troubled me, but nothing could stop those nosy journalists from trying to get their hands on what had happened.
"Mr. Carl! Is it true that you killed your own boss?"
"Mr. Carl! Why did you do this?"
"Mr. Carl!"
Hearing their questions felt like a torment. The policed tried to get them out of way, but Officer Morrison stayed behind to talk to them.
I tried to listen in on what he had the say, but the screeching tries of a car in the parking lot took my attention from the press.
I knew the car, it was Kim. As much as I was scared of her seeing me like that, a part of me still believed that she would trust me. That she would believe in me and make sure my innocence was proven.
She rushed towards me, tears streaming down her rosy cheeks.
"Carl? Please look me in the eye and tell me they are wrong, please, tell me this isn't true!"
Those eyes, I'd never seen so much pain in them before. She looked torn, her legs shaking as she looked at me.
I wanted to hold her, hug her and tell her the truth, but I just couldn't. I stared at her teary eyed and mouth quivering.
"No! No! No!" She covered her mouth, walking backwards. "H-How could you? How!"
I finally opened my mouth to talk but she ran to her car.
"Kim!"
She drove off in seconds without listening to anything I had to say and that was the last I saw of her.
After few days, the autopsy was done; all physical evidence extracted were examined - the whole crime scene was carefully scrutinized and all the results were pointing at me. I was named the murderer and charged with homicide.
How?
That was the exact question I asked myself then and I still do.
I was taken to court and I was incarcerated to spend ten years in prison for a crime someone else had committed.
Ten years of pain and agony. Ten years of shuttered dreams but the only thing that kept me strong through all of that was Kim.
I had lost her because she believed I killed her father. She even asked I'd be put away forever. She felt ten years wasn't enough punishment for what I had done.
She never visited me even once throughout the ten years. I spent everyday in prison hoping for the day I would get out and prove my innocence and hopefully get Kim back.
***
As I stood by the window reminiscing over the events of ten years ago, I saw something, or rather, someone.
It was the malicious figure of Kim. I gulped then glanced at the approaching figure. My face lit up.
She looked more beautiful than before. It'd been ten years and she still had her beauty intact and still looking younger.
She walked gracefully under a black umbrella towards my door.
"Could this be the beginning of something good? Could this be when all I have been dreaming about for the part ten years come true?'
I thought and like a groom waiting on a bride, I headed for the door.
At this point, all I could think of was to hear from her that she really didn't believe I was capable of killing her father.
I needed her to believe in my innocence.
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