UNCOMPREHENDIBLE

The next morning, Lisa came to their house to see how Anika was doing. By then Mr. Johnson was taking the policemen to where they kept the security camera footage.

Lisa went up to Anika's room where she found that Anika had finished a whole bottle of alcohol and she looked like she hadn't slept all through the night.

"You don't need this Anika," Lisa said taking the bottle from her hand and put it in a corner of her room, then she sat next to Anika on her bed. Anika leaned her head on Lisa's shoulder.

"I don't understand, we came home almost at the same time, at least we entered the house at the same time. I went to change, he went to the kitchen, how could he possibly....why would he want to...," Then she burst into tears.

"It's ok, everything's going to be alright, ok? Stop crying, I need you to sit up, I want to tell you something I haven't told anyone."

Anika sat up and wiped her face thinking what would Lisa want to tell her at this point in time.

"Ok, so you know there were last occupants of this house, right?"

"Yeah, what's up with that?"

"They owned a dog too that looks just like Jake and I was friends with their daughter, Rebecca, well she ran away after her parents were murdered. Rumours have it that they disappeared but that's not it, they were killed by....by.....by- "

"By what?"

"One day I came into the house looking for Rebecca and I found her under her bed, tied up, I untied her the only thing she could say was, 'the dog, the dog, the dog,' and she ran straight to the basement to find both her parents tied to a chair stone cold, dead. No dog, no blood, no weapons, there and then I found out that the dog wasn't ordinary. Now that all this is happening, I know that Jake has to be the dog."

"What you said sounds very similar to a book I read but I still can't believe it. No, no, no, or could it be, I haven't seen the dog since yesterday and Isy's been acting strange. Isy even told us one day that Jake could talk but none of us believed of course, could it be that- " she was interrupted by a shout.

"What, it can't be, something's wrong somewhere, my son couldn't kill an insect."

Anika immediately recognised her mother's voice then she and Lisa went out of her room to her parents' room. Lo and behold when they took a look at the footage they saw Daniel come out of the kitchen with a knife then enter the nanny's room, they heard the nanny's shout in the dark then Daniel came out and went back to the kitchen.

"This can't be, I need to be careful, there's something wrong," Anika said with her eyes closed. She would have cried but she had cried all the water in her body out.

"It's going to be ok, I'll be with you throughout this whole drama. But, you just need to pretend like you know nothing of what's going on, and for now you need to be careful around Isabella, don't tell Isabella- "

"Don't tell Isabella what?"

Anika and Lisa turned around to see Isabella looking so naive, bending her head to the side.

"Lisa, you said she shouldn't tell me what?"

"Nothing, nothing important," Anika quickly answered.

"You sure, Lisa?"

"I'm very sure Isabella, very, very sure."

"Ok I'm gonna go downstairs now, mom's there, bye," as she turned she smiled and her eyes twinkled with mockery but Anika and Lisa didn't notice.

Mr. Johnson was talking with the police at the front porch. Mrs. Johnson was in the living room, she ran her two hands over her hair and sat down . Isabella walked in and sat next to her mother.

"Mom, are you ok?"

"I'm fine just go to your room."

By this time she had her faced down in between her hands.

"But mom I want- "

"You want nothing, go to your room."

"Mom- "

"GO TO YOUR ROOM."

Isabella walked out of the living room and went upstairs. Just then Mr. Johnson came into the living room.

"Honey, you didn't have to shout at her like that," he said as he sat down beside her and put an assuring hand over her shoulder.

"It's going to be ok."

"I'm trying to think it will be ok but it's NOT, it's not. I don't know what's going on with me but I do know that one of my babies is in a cell right now accused of murder and you're telling me it's going to be ok? I know he didn't do it, I just know."

"You have to calm down, all evidence points at him, you saw the footage, didn't you? The police even told me his fingerprints was on that knife.

"I can't BELIEVE YOU, so you think that our son is a murderer? I don't care how you want to do it but you NEED TO GET MY SON OUT OF THAT FREAKIN CELL!"

Then she walked out of the living room and went to her room.