Find

13th of October 2010, 3 am

"Do you even think he's alive?" Mason sighed as Ibrahim asked the question with torches. They trekked through the woods, as the moonlight barely penetrated the thick tree line. They wondered past a lake which gleamed and glimmered as they walked past.

"So, how did you know, he'd be in this area?" Mason looked tired and sad, "It's because the police haven't searched the forest." They stumbled and moved deeper into the forest and they came across a dusty, rundown shack. All wooden with a metal roof.

Ibrahim spoke first, "It's just a shack, it looks like a toilet even." Mason looked at him, "The hell kinda toilets you've been using?" Ibrahim chuckled as they opened the thin metal door which creeked open, loudly.

They shone their flashlight into the room to a sight that left that absolutely horrified and mournful. They dropped their torches abruptly as the body of Matthew Obede. A vile stretch forced its way into their nose.

His wrist was cut with his jaw hanging lovely with ribbons of his tendons, and flesh. His body had noticeable decayed with his blood dried up. How long had been there, days or weeks?

Ibrahim nearly threw up, digusted and hateful. As Mason started to cry. Hours passed and the police put tapes around shack. Mason was still nearby but Ibrahim stayed with the body of his best friend, it was what Ibrahim owed him for not being their for him.

"Why did you ignore the curfew?" Ibrahim could barely string together words as his voice kept breaking down, "You-di-di-didn't." He sniffed, "Sear-ch the-e-e f-f-for--est." The officer seeing he wasn't in a state to talk left as the clock didn't 5am.

Mason watched from the distance as a police car left, with Ibrahim in the back, not arrested or detained but needed to be questioned. Mason still crying wondered home as the sun wouldn't be up for another 2 hours.

"So, why did you break the curfew?" The officer, short, with a comically large mustache. His causal white button up and black trousers fit snuggly on him.

Ibrahim spoke his voice still shaky, "I just had a hunch that he was in the woods, somewhere." The police officer sighed, "And how did you get that idea?" Ibrahim sniffed, "It was the only place that you guys never searched for Matthew."

"So you went into the woods alone?" Ibrahim nodded as the officer stood up as he opened the door and walked out. Soon after a woman who was short with large breasts, her hair was black and tied up in a ponytail, her eyes were green. She had some muscles but barely any, but on the side of her belt a gun.

She was wearing a blue Button up shirt, black trousers, and a zipped down hoodie. She smiled before looking at Ibrahim, "Tell me everything start to end and you'll be cleared to go home."

She smiled again before Ibrahim spoke, "A month ago, after Matthew was declared missing, they searched the town, the party he was at before he went missing, everywhere but the woods."

He took a breath, "Using Google maps, we used the satellite view to see all structures in the forest. I went and I went structure to structure, until I came upon a shed, and I opened it and saw his body."

Tears started to roll down his cheeks and the detective walked over to him and hugged him to comfort him, "It's okay Ibrahim, it's okay..."

Soon after Ibrahim was cleared and the detective and the interrogator sat in the Captain's office. "So what did you guys found?" He was a man around 5'11, old with wrinkles on his face and balding.

He was wearing a suit, with a tie and on his breast was a badge that was attached to a hard material that was rectangular with various ribbons.

"His language made it seem like there's something he wasn't telling us." The detective spoke up, "He wasn't alone, he slipped up and accidently said 'we' despite saying he was alone. We know in his circle that there's Jackson, Joseph, Mason, Nathaniel, Luke, John, Jamal and Matthew."