Suicide

"Again it's a rainy day. It's been a week since it started to rain, just when will it stop." William murmured while he was sitting inside his study- room.

After 2 days...

"Aghh what is dad doing in his study- room all this time. He hasn't came down for 2 days." Eva murmured.

She slowly went towards the door.

Click! [The door opens]

"Aagghhh!" She shouted as she saw her father's body hanging with the ceiling.

***

At the funeral...

"No...why did you left us behind..ahhuhaa..." Eva and her mom shouted while crying as William was being buried in his grave.

Everyone was sad. Jason was shocked to see William die, but also curious as to why he died right after a week he told him to do the investigation.

Thomas asked Jason while tears were pouring down his eyes,"Hey, Mr Jason..."

"Just call me Jason, no need for honorifics."

"Then, Jason why do you think William committed suicide even when you were trying your best to catch the culprit. Shouldn't he should've been happy, why did he die."

"I don't think I can answer this."

"Looks like I'll have to go even deeper." Jason thought to himself.

Thomas replied,"Jason don't you think this is strange."

"What do you mean by that?" He replied

"You see William committing suicide, I just can't digest this. It's like he was threatened to kill himself or someone murdered him and made it look like a suicide."

"This man." He thought.

"What makes you think that?" He replied.

"It's just a hunch that I'm feeling that William was doing some things behind our back and didn't tell us anything about it. So, I'd like you to search around his house if there are any suspicious papers or something like letters."

Jason jumped in shock and turned towards Thomas who was sobbing.

He thought,"How does he know about the letters that William got, did he tell him about it? No, it can't be, William is not stupid enough to tell anyone something so private."

After the funeral everyone left including Thomas, but Jason remained there for sometime and soon left.

William's wife and daughter moved to another house left by William in his will.

The next day Jason came to the house. He started to closely investigate the outside surroundings. He went inside, to William's study–room. He started to check the drawers and books from the shelves to find any paper or letter and soon enough...

"Huh what's this?" He found a piece of paper folded many times and scribbled away. But the letters are somewhat still visible. He read the letter and it said,

"Check the drawer at the top of the left book– shelf."

It was as if someone was watching him just like what happened with William when his daughter was kidnapped. He looked at the left book–shelf and found the drawer. He quickly brought–down the drawer.

Creak! [The drawer opens]

There he found an envelope. He slowly opened the envelope and found some letters and documents. But one letter that caught his most attention was written by Thomas Frederickson to William Autumns in 21 January 2022...

It said,

Dear,

William Autumns

How are you and your family doing? I hope you are doing good. I am currently at South Korea. You know I've been very worried about you lately, as your friend I just want to make sure you are safe and doing just fine. About your story I liked it very much. Though I'm still not sure why the man committed suicide, I guess it was because he was pressured and scared as to what will happen. Anyways I'm also thinking of writing a story. It's called 'A Distant Wish'. I hope you'll like it.

Yours friendly,

Thomas Frederickson

After reading this Jason knew what he was searching for and why William died. All of his puzzles were becoming one whole picture. But by the time he realized it was already too late. He rushed to their new home but sadly he was too late.

The moon was shining brightly on the starry night. As the moonlight fell upon the dead bodies of William's family, everything came to Jason's mind as to why he wasn't able to take action while the culprit was right in front of him. He thought to himself,

"Thomas Frederickson, the man behind this whole case. When I first met him, he just seemed to be a good friend who worries about others a lot. A good person with a beautiful smile and way of talking. Who'd have thought that he'd be the one behind this. A man far too good."

As he was thinking about everything that happened so far, he became very confused,

"Wait, if Thomas is the one behind this, then why did he visit to the funeral and why did he help me find these evidences. Also the bodies are still fresh, killed like an hour ago with a gun. The bullet is 9mm and was shot many times on the head. "

He quickly looked on his phone and saw a notification. It was the notification of Thomas's YouTube channel. He had been streaming for 3 hours.

As he slowly called the cops, he looked back towards the wall and as the moonlight shone upon it, he could clearly see what was written with the blood of the victims.

"THEY WERE MONSTERS."...