[Casey walks in, out of breath]

Casey: What’s going on?

Mr Smith: Um these are my colleagues. We are here to search the house, in fact we are done. We have found something really interesting. Black roses.

Casey: (shouts] Shit!

Mr Smith: What are black roses doing in your room? And you know we found black roses at Alex’s apartment, maybe you can enlighten us on what is going on?

Casey: (tears fill her eyes) I don’t know, really I’m dead serious. Ask Layla, she knows we both found those roses in my room this morning. I was shocked too.

Mr Smith: The card at Alex’s apartment was written “you cheat you die”. Alex has cheated on you, didn’t you say that? I’m taking you to the station for proper questioning, you have a lot to answer to. I want nothing but answers, honest truth of why you killed him.

Casey: Dad, are you going to just stand there? Doing nothing? Your daughter is being wrongfully accused. Do something, tell them I’m innocent. (shouts and cries)

Mr Rogers: I wish there was something I could do.

[In the interrogation room Mr Smith is seated on top of the table asking Casey questions]

Casey: I didn’t do anything, I swear. I know I have done really bad things in my life, but this?

Mr Smith: Just answer my questions then you can go back home, it’s that easy. I want you to work with me here. I’m not saying you killed him, I’m doing my job. I’m not saying you are innocent either. Talk to me.

Casey: (sighs) OK, OK, what do you want to do detective?

Mr Smith: These questions are not really new. Where were you on the 11th of April 2017?

Casey: It was Saturday night when I decided to go to the club, yes I was at the club.

Mr Smith: Last time you said “you think” you were at your apartment, what has changed?

Casey: I remembered. I did not know this thing is serious, I was at the club.

Mr Smith: OK, so you called Alex the day before he was brutally killed around 22:16.

Casey: (shocked) How did you know that? Yes I did call him.

Mr Smith: I thought you said you never contacted him in the past two months. Am I correct?

Casey: (sobs) What do you want from me? Is it a crime to call an ex?

Mr Smith: You know very well. Why did you call him? You call the guy, the following day he dies. Does that make any sense?

Casey: In your eyes, Mr Smith, I’m an evil murderer, is that so?

Mr Smith: (laughs) I’m doing the questioning here not you. Why did you call him?

Casey: I missed him, I wanted to know how life is treating him, how are things with his new girlfriend. Happy now?

Mr Smith: Now tell me about the black roses. We found black roses in your room and at your apartment. And also at Alex’s apartment, there were black roses all over.

Casey: Stop right there. Are you blind? Can’t you see that someone is framing me?

Mr Smith: Story of every suspect. There was a note written “Black roses for this dying love” the other one “You broke my heart into pieces, now here is your special delivery”. (sighs) Alex broke your heart, I know. So you thought killing him was the solution.

Casey: (cries) No I didn’t kill him, believe me, I didn’t do it. She did it, yes. Selina did it.

Mr Smith: (stands up) For your information, the day Alex got killed Selina was waiting for him at the restaurant. They were going to have a double-date with their colleagues then Alex never showed up. We have people who saw and who were with Selina the time the poor guy was breathing his last breath. Now the question is, who were you with that night? We want people who will come forward and say ‘on the 11th of April we were with Casey Rogers’. We have a strong case against you. Prepare yourself for war. You might be going to spend your precious life behind bars.

Casey: Call the manager of the club, he will confirm I was there. In fact that night he drove me to my apartment because I was too drunk.

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