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#9 The end

The day started with dark skies covering the Maitland. Bradley was slow to get up, per usual. He rolled over in his bed checking the time. Once he could collect himself enough he got up and dressed himself then headed down the hall to the stairs. Once he was outside, immediately he noticed the big commotion and was drawn to it. It was Edgar’s body. His stomach stirred, not because of the body itself, rather the photo lying next to it. He began having flashbacks of the night he was lying under the stars and his dream.
He could not keep his eyes off of it, how did he not know? Ether. Ether was the familiar man who he had seen during his peace. He must be the killer too, he thought to himself. His connections were disturbed with Victor’s hand touching his shoulder. Victor saw that something was unsettling him even more than Edgar could. He asked Bradley if he wanted to go out and eat to take his mind off a few things. “I just can’t believe it.” “What can’t you believe?” Victor replied “His own brother could do such a thing.” “W-what are you talking about?” Before he could continue Bradley cut him off “Don’t you see it? It’s so clear, all this time i’ve been trying to be a hero and solve this crime, but frankly I don’t have the time to waste. I’m sick Victor and I need to get out of here.” Victor couldn’t do anything to stop him so he watched as his best-friend disappeared back into his apartment building for what he didn’t know to be the last time.
Bradley couldn’t bear this town any longer; his job, the places and even the people all brought him back to his dark mind. That the world must be out to get him. Back to what he came here to forget. Bradley grabbed his favorite T shirt that his dad had left him and the rest of his cash that was on the kitchen counter and he set off to the greyhound bus. He did not know where he was going, but he anywhere was better than here.

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