"Elena, what do we do?" Frank was frantic pacing up and down the room. "We will cover it up as suicide." Elena said , "you shot him point black on his left side of the head and it can look like a suicide.". Frank stood there shaking trying to grasp the situation .He wanted so badly for this to be a nightmare and he would open his eyes and everything would be good back to the days he and Elena were crazily happy .He was too cute to go to jail and he was not going to let that happen he started thinking of how to cover their bases.
"What will be the reason for his suicide? " Frank quietly asked." It has to be good so that no one can doubt it .".Elena's mind was swirling with thoughts and she knew exactly what they had to do .She thanked God she had watched every season of criminal minds and CSI .She was going to help Frank get away with murder .It was the least she could do given her part in his dilemma.
"Get those wipes on the table and wipe any surface you may have touched ." she ordered Frank. "I am going upstairs to pack my clothes and set the stage ,it should not be so over thought but not too clumsy either .Frank didn't understand what she meant exactly but he got to the work given to him silently ,honestly he was just glad that she was going to get them out of this ,she was always the smart one anyway. It took a few minutes and everything was set, a suitcase lay carelessly on the stairs ,some clothes strewn all over .Frank had wiped his fingerprints off the gun and placed it tightly in Henry's right hand.
Frank had left immediately after Elena had made a strange desperate call to 911.She was one hell of an actress, she could pass for an Oscar award any day ,she already had that Hollywood superstar look ,as he left he wondered what the future will hold for them .He didn't know he had made the wrong choice in loving Elena so truly and passionately. He had been a fool just like Henry and he was a victim too .He was being crushed with guilt but he tried to cast it away. Deep down he knew what he was a criminal, a murderer ... he willed his mind to stop.
Meanwhile Elena was crying her eyes out, narrating her story to a cop who was comforting her, he was saddened that the young beautiful whose life had been traumatized by the death of her boyfriend after a stupid big fight. He felt sorry she will have that image of Henry's brains scattered over that beautiful mahogany table, if only he knew! Elena had told the police that she had planned to tell Henry of her pregnancy when she had called him that afternoon but he had been a tad occupied. He had asked her to dinner promising her that they will talk then. She had learnt from various crimes -related films she had seen and books she had read that it was always better to open up about little facts so that the police won't find anything new when they investigate. She had told them that a week after starting her relationship with Henry she had found out that she was two months pregnant by her ex. She had to turn down Henry's proposal and he had been distraught especially she had started packing her clothes .She was half way down the stair when she heard the gunshot.
On his way out Frank could hear the sirens from far but what worried him was the loud wailing from inside the house. He couldn't forget the sight of Elena throwing herself on Henry's cold stiff body calling his name, urging him to wake up and placing his head on her lap mourning as a woman would for the lost soul of her greatest love. He turned and quickly disappeared into the dark woods surrounding the mansion. He knew life will never be the same again. He wasn't sure he could live with the turmoil his inner demons were stirring in him. It was the price he was doomed to pay for loving a treacherous woman.
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