The Star of Morcyth: The Morcyth Saga Book Five Read Online Free

suggested that I stay
home from school on Monday but I didn’t want to just stay at home
and dwell on things. I actually thought going to school would take
my mind off things. How wrong I was.”
    “I no sooner got to school the next day when
other students, kids I’ve grown up with come to me and begin
accusing me of being the killer. Can you believe that? Me? A couple
friends of Seth from the football team dragged me in the boy’s
bathroom and beat the crap out of me, at which time I was sent
home. I was suspended for fighting!”
    “A group of reporters were waiting for me
outside my home when I got back. They flew at me like a pack of
vultures and started asking me the most outlandish questions. Like,
‘Why did I kill my best friend?’ and ‘How does it feel to know
everyone thinks I’m a killer?’ stuff like that. I tried to bull my
way through but they were blocking my way. Finally my dad showed up
from work and shoved them aside. After we were inside and the door
was shut, I went straight to my room and closed the door.”
    “My life was beginning to spiral down into
the gutter. Not only do I have the worry of what happened to you,
but now everyone thinks I’m guilty. Even my parents were no longer
as supportive as they had been. Of course in my state of mind I may
have imagined that, but I knew I had to find out what happened to
you. And the only place to do that was back where I last saw
you.”
    “So later that night I sneaked out and
wearing that hat from Bakersfield that was always too big for me, I
was able to sneak to the bus stop before anyone recognized me. I
took the bus downtown and made it to the building on Commercial. A
cop was stationed in the lobby. I waited until he was distracted by
another person then hurried over to the elevator and got in. The
door closed before he had a chance to see me. I got off on the
twenty third floor and went down to room 2334.”
    “The doorway was covered in that yellow
police tape. I didn’t really expect to find anything there, after
all the police had gone through with a fine tooth comb and they
didn’t come up with anything. But I knew I had to do this. Removing
the tape, I opened the door and stepped within.”
    “That’s when I was hit from behind and fell
to the floor. I turned and saw Seth’s dad standing there. ‘I
thought you might come back here. The killer always returns to the
scene of the crime,’ he said. I then told him, ‘I did not kill
anyone!’ But he didn’t believe me.”
    “He came at me and I scooted away, knocking
over a table in my attempt to escape. He kept yelling at me to tell
him what happened to Seth and the others all the while trying to
reach me. I scrambled away, finally got back to my feet.”
    “I saw the blow coming and tried to block it
but it connected with my jaw and actually knocked me back off my
feet. I crashed into the wall and fell onto one of those small
tables that were there and knocked it over. Books and magazines
went flying. I felt a static shock from something before he grabbed
me and threw me across the room.”
    “Hurt and praying nothing was broken, I got
back up and looked into the eyes of a madman as he approached me. I
had to get out of there, all thoughts about finding out what
happened to you gone. I was now simply worried about my own
survival. He was between me and the door to the hallway outside. I
tried to make it around him but he caught me and after a quick two
blows to my stomach, threw me again across the room where I crashed
through a door and hit the floor.”
    “Groaning, I twisted to look at him coming
and the shock of what I saw, after all I’ve been through must’ve
been too much and I passed out.”
    “What did you see?” James asks.
    “When I came to, I was lying in a clearing.
Standing over me was this little creature, it had a weird hat and
some kind of vest or something. It frightened me and I got up and
ran away through the trees. I could hear it calling to me but