After our conversation with her we looked up the case there was only one article about it written by a college student written after the students started to die. it was out of place ,how come all the newspapers refused to write about it.
This whole case is pretty confusing outside of the curse perspective. We took turns reading the two paragraph written with high speculation of connectivity of the murder in the house and the murder with the students.
"So he is saying someone must have killed them pointing at direction of the survivor but was put off due to her alibi at two of the murder time." Zuv concluded.
"There's not much about the original problem. and we have no clue about that knife." Nora speaks glancing at crystal's phone zooming in on the detective name.
"Should we ask about it to your old pal? Becky or something." Zuv asked his eyes closing in and out.
"No, that's a bad idea. " Allan drives faster.
"why not? we don't actually have time you know." Zuv asks persistently.
"I know, it's just that she knew everything about what happened to my mom and all the dangers in the town. she is sick and twisted . she should be our last resort." Allan grips the starring tight.
"Here I thought we were at the edge of the cliff." Zuv speaks.
"I think I know who wrote it." Crystal spoke.
"who? the detective?" asked Nora.
"No, the reporter. He is my friend's brother. I used to play at their house and I remember seeing this initials. D.L.C . We used to play games in his computer and he was also really smart guy." Crystal became more confident about her statement.
"Wouldn't it be better if we contacted the police who investigated ?" Allan asked.
"or we can do both." Zuv spoke supporting Crystal with a cute mean face.
"Turn left here. it's just up ahead." Crystal directed the way.
The house was next a café, Crystal and Zuv went to the house and Nora and Allan went to the café to get food.
the house next to the vibrant light and the crowd made it look rather dull.
"Is anyone home?" Crystal asked.
they waited for couple of minutes. Then someone did answer.
"Hi, I'm crystal." Crystal didn't know how to start the conversation, how much to share. she looked at Zuv, who looked like he could pass out any minute.
"Are you looking for Grayson? I didn't recognize you for a second. He is working the café next door." he replied.
"Do you recognize me?" Crystal asked.
"Of course. you and my brother would turn the whole room upside down, how could i forget." he spoke laughing.
"Sorry about that." Crystal smiled awkwardly.
"come on in. Is that your friend." he asked looked at Zuv.
"no, yeah. Listen I came here to talk to you about something. We are in a hurry so ." Crystal asks.
"with me?" he was surprised.
"yeah, did you ever write articles for college?" Crystal asked as she walked in.
"yes, I did. In my early days I was aspiring to become journalist uncovering the truths of this town. it's all in the past now. I write kids novel now." He spoke a light pride as he spoke of the past.
"Did you write this article.?" she showed him the picture.
"yes." he looked at it for a while.
"Can we know more about it? Our friends are in cafe, if you don't mind could you talk to us? It's important really." Crystal asked.
"yeah sure. give me a few minutes. I must have kept the draft. I'm sure I had researched a lot more than a two para." He gave the phone back.
"OK then I will be waiting there." Crystal stepped out and Zuv followed.
"I'm so hungry." Zuv yawed.
They sat in the visible table. Crystal started to speak to her friend. Tall handsome and always smiling reminds me of Allan a bit, the old one who kept following me and spoke non stop with a bright smile. Not the one who is sitting next me yet not a single word from him. Silence and unwanted calmness which never stopped hurting.
"Stop starring at that poor guy." Nora spoke as she looked at Zuv.
"They look awfully close. He is handsome at top of that." Zuv exclaimed chowing down his food.
"Is that the guy we are meeting?" Allan asked.
"Yes," Zuv waved and went up to Crystal. They all walked back together.
"This is Fred, the one who wrote the article." Crystal spoke.
"Hi" they all smiled at each other hiding the knife to their throat.
"Did you find anything?" Crystal asked.
"Yes" Fred opened the small book with lots of paper.
"We were not allowed publish every truth. I could only convince them to publish this article by saying a lot of people think the survivor did it, and my article proves it wrong." Fred spoke laying out some notes.
"why that peculiar?" Allan asked.
"Well you see, There was a lot going on at that time. Uxur, this town was supposed to be untouched by people and tied with lot of negative rumors. Since the town had already bad reputation, news of murder and any bad things were kept very quietly to help the development of the town. At those days only three kinds of people came here from the old town. The businessman who didn't care about the rumors' and saw it as a an opportunity, or the poor ones who had tough time in the old town, they paid well here almost double due to the risks involving. And at last people who carried darkness." Fred spoke making this whole conversation more spookier.
"Are you saying the people lived in that house were bad ones?" Nora asked.
"As far as I know that's a lie, a cover up." Fred spoke with certainty.
"What do you mean? We actually don't know much about that case." Crystal asked.
"The family indeed not there for a business or quick money. The head of the family was here took look for something some kind of cursed object which was here. The guy was very spiritual and saw it in one of his dream, and after that he started obsessing over it. His details of the cursed object was similar to the murder weapon. I don't believe in curses and ghost. My guess someone killed him and his entire family. Before all this, this man had a good reputation and was backed up by the town to be their leader." Fred spoke.
They looked at each other hesitating.
"We have something we like to show, before that can we know how you knew about all these." Zuv asked.
"My uncle used to handle this case, I was curious about 4 students dying. It got me curious. Uncle was one of those free spirits, the department had closed the case but he felt something was not right, he always said he was sure it's not a curse alone did that. I can confirm you that the house is not cursed at all. I have been there a lot of times and I'm still alive." Fred made a shocking statement.
"what?" all of them spoke at once.
"that's not possible. the curse is true." Nora speaks in panic.
"Relax guys. Why do you think it's true. The police didn't have all the information, I got to know by reading the diary he wrote, it's till in his study room with all the details about the knife." Fred aks.
"You mean this?" Zuv shows the knife. Fred looked confused and took a close look at it.
"Yea, this does look like it. how did you find it. what is going on?" Fred asked in panic.
"We were staying near the house and I followed someone and ended up in the house. Apparently I was trying to kill myself, but they found me before that. after that It keeps trying to kill me right after I drift to sleep. It's like am hypnotized. knife appears out of nowhere, sometimes I try to kill myself -I have to be watched all the time" Nora speaks as her dark circles became her prominent feature.
"The girl who survived , we met her. she said same thing happened to her friends. one after the other they started to die. they died before they could find another way. Apparently she survived -she suspects that her bond with her childhood friend who was killed saved her. or it only takes 4 lives just like the old story. It that's true we don't have much time. we all entered the house." Zuv explains.
"Why didn't it work on me. If I'm correct the knife has only limited power and it does not act on it's own. These type of objects only amplify or do other's bidding." Fred speaks.
"So someone is controlling them and it's not the family who are dead." Allan asked.
"Wouldn't they be too old by now." Nora asks. Fred flips his pages and and finds about the details.
"It's here- Knife is dangerous as it gives power to negative thoughts and work under same command until the master dies. Knife should be kept without direct contact. Burn it in the earth pit." reads out loud.
"Earth pit as in spiritual ground in Easter church?" Crystal asked.
"I think so. Maybe he found the knife and wanted to go back and take care of it before someone became it's master. That poor man was trying to save the people and now he is the devil." Fred was still in shock.
"Then we need to go there as soon as possible.. The days are ticking." Zuv spoke.
"Yes, thanks so much Fred." Crystal spoke.
"If that doesn't work let me know, I will take a look at this case again." Fred asked.
"Yes." Crystal and other bowed and left in a hurry.