Suicide Or Murder

Aarohee Rijal
While standing near the railing of the balcony with tea on her hand Char- lotte looked down with the sudden courage of jumping off. She had been through so much but couldn’t deal with that anymore. Before jumping she kept on thinking about how it would have helped her if she had told some- one about what she was going through.
Without any hesitation, Charlotte put the cup she was holding in the table near her and climbed to the railing. She was ready to end her life. As tears came running from her cheeks to her jaw she said her last words “goodbye world” and let her body fall from the balcony. The wind blew her hair as she was falling, the last thing she heard while in a lot of pain being conscious was people screaming and the siren of the ambulance. Unfortu- nately, it was too late for her; she took her last breath and closed her eyes forever. Charlotte wasn’t the type of person who would attempt suicide she was a happy jolly person she loved everyone around her and everyone treated her with respect and love. She was the type of person who was passionate about what she did.
Charlotte was studying to become a criminal lawyer and was also a part of a crime investigator . There was no way Charlotte could have at- tempted suicide. She was the type of person who loved her family and had separation anxiety, she shared everything with her parents and her friends. Noone had believed that Charlotte had ended her life. The police didn’t have evidence that it was a murder so they left the case as a suicide case but her parents and others knew it wasn’t a suicide but a murder or someone had forced her to do such thing. Everyone believed that there was something going on in Charlotte’s life and the fact that a person who loved her life and loved what she did could never attempt suicide. The police weren’t able to help in this case so Charlotte’s family took matters into their own hands.
Of course they had a funeral for their only daughter. Both her el- der brothers were devastated that their sister was no longer with them. They couldn’t believe what had just happened and no one could because she wasn’t the type of person to do that. That night after the funeral her family sat down with the hopes of giving their daughter justice. They didn’t know where to begin from.Of course the first step was going to be looking through her phone and her room. One of the things she loved was birds as it represented freedom to her so her mother immediately knew her devices’ password, her phone’s password was her birthday month and date and her computer password was ilovebirds (cringy password have to say). As her family sat down together looking through her devices her brother realized that she had been deleting messages He realized it because the text made no sense for example it would be like: Unknown: Yesterday
Charlotte: leave me alone I have a family I did what you said and just the dates too. Her mother realized that the emails had been deleted. As a protective mom she would always check who sent emails to Charlotte but she never opened it. She had specifically noticed an Unknown user would send Charlotte emails 3 times a day but Charlotte mom never opened the message for her daughter’s privacy. Those emails had now been deleted. Not only that on her phone notes there were very weirdly titled notes like can’t escape, need help, regression, betrayal etc but there were no notes inside it was just titles. They got really suspicious with all the activities. They all couldn’t sleep that night how could they, they knew that their daughter/ sister couldn’t do a thing like that or something may have happened that caused her to end her life. By the stuff that they had seen on Charlotte’s phone they were clueless of what to do so Charlotte’s mother decided to go to Charlotte’s room and look at her stuff. Charlotte had always been a book lover. Charlotte’s room was filled with books ,a small library with a swing so she could read her book peacefully.
Charlotte’s room had walls covered with newspaper or just pages of story she found interesting. Not only was Charlotte a criminal book lover she would try to solve cases that hadn’t been solved. She had a pin board in her room where she would keep the victim’s picture who had been murdered and all the evidence picture and daily news about the murder. Wall of her room also had fake ivy strings. Her room was as mysterious as she was. She had a corner where there were books or newspapers of cases that had been unsolved or solved. Then she had a corner where she had the cases’ picture news paper which she solved. Charlotte looked like an ordinary girl but she had the mind of an expert. She knew how the criminal may think while solving the cases. She was one of the most famous investigators of her town.
The way her mind worked was very impressive. She wasn’t a social bird but if someone would talk to her she always used to be very nice to them. Her mother went through Charlotte’s books where she had circled words. Her mom thought it was nothing and brushed it off. The text still was on everyone’s mind. Charlotte’s family went to an expert to track down the person’s location and luckily they found out where the person lived. They went to that place only to find pictures of Charlotte on the pinboard with darts thrown on her face. Not only that the pinboard had every single new paper of cases that Charlotte had solved. Lastly they saw a paper that had written the ways in which the person was going to kill Charlotte. Unfor- tunately there wasn’t anyone in the house. Well those things they had seen were enough to prove that Charlotte had been murdered. They showed the evidence to the police which was enough for them to work on the case of Charlotte. First the police discover who the house belonged to. It was a guy named Dylan.
He went to the same middle school and high school as Charlotte. They tried to track him down but his last location was at his house. The po- lice also did the search but couldn’t find him. No one knew where this person had gone. Police investigated the people Charlotte was friends with in mid- dle school and high school. They asked her friends about Dylan too and all of them told him that Dylan was a crazy dude. He was in love with Charlotte when she didn’t even like him. She did everything to avoid him but he kept on sticking towards Charlotte. Why would a lover boy kill his crush? Everyone thought. But then one best friend of Charlotte contacted the police after finding out what had happened to her best friend. She told them that after school Dylan went to the same college as Charlotte and kept manipulating Charlotte to be in a relationship with him. She was so fed up with him that she actually gave the relationship a try but she hated it. She wasn’t happy, she hadn’t even been with him for 2 days and he had already planned for their future so she broke up with him.
Even after breaking up with him, he didn’t leave Charlotte alone; he just kept on following her. He stalked her and found the location of their house. He watched Charlotte go everywhere; who she met and just everything. One time Charlotte was hanging out with one of her guy friends and Dylan got jealous. Later after Charlotte left, Dylan approached the guy bestfriend and threatened him to not be seen with Charlotte. After Charlotte found out what happened she got mad,really mad, and she screamed at him to get out of her life and not to be seen ever near her but he didn’t care he was so obsessed with her. When she finished college the path between Dylan and Charlotte got different. She told everyone she was applying for a medical college when she was actually applying for criminology so that Dylan would leave her alone and it worked (she thought that).In her criminology classes she met a boy named Cole,they shared a lot in common and had the same interests.
One day as Charlotte was walking home she thought someone was behind her following her but as she turned there was noone. She brushed the situation off her head and went to meet Cole. They went to a coffee shop. In the middle of their date Charlotte saw a person watching them from a tree. It was Dylan, Dylan was the one who was following her. She told Cole everything about what had happened and Cole actually suggested her to
go to the cops but Charlotte didn’t do that. Cole walked Charlotte home. Later that day she started receiving death threats from Dylan. That’s the only thing Charlotte’s best friend knew . The police now were sure that Dylan had done something to Charlotte that made her end her life. But where Dylan was, that still was the question. His phone location was still at his house and his car was also in his house. The police were confused about where Dylan could be. They tried to contact Cole and they later found out that he had been missing for 2 weeks and that his family hadn’t filed a missing person’s report. The search for Cole had started. At this point the police took this case really seriously. After 5 days of Charlotte’s death, a body had been discovered
They identified the body as Cole. Cole had been found in a jungle behind a huge tree. He had been murdered but in a strange way that there were no marks of stabbing or shooting or just anything. The only thing that may have caused Cole’s death would be poison. and yes the forensic report said that Cole had been starved for 2 days and then had been poisoned. They knew that behind this murder was Dylan. The search for Dylan also began. Where was he hiding? Everyone was so confused. He couldn’t have left the city or the country as the police had already checked the people who had left the city/country.
In Charlotte’s house her mother was still in disbelief of everything. She had to help the police. and at that time she remembered the books, the books had words underlined and circled that may have something. She called her husband and both the sons and they all started writing the circled words and underlined words on different papers. Later, they put the pieces together which read “Cole was murdered and I will be next, he is in his houseso find him. I don’t know where he is but he is somewhere in his house. If I don’t jump off the building or someone from my family will get killed I need to sacrifice my life to save my family.
My hints are this. I hope someone finds it and if you did thank you please put an end to this story and punish Dylan for everything.”With this they rushed to the police station to show the cops what they had found. The cops decided to look through Dylan’s house, not only did the cops but also most of the people in town were on a mission to find Dylan. The searchbegan in Dylan’s house. They couldn’t find anything, not a hidden door or not a hiding spot. When they were about to give up a person came running to the cops. He was taking deep breaths while telling the cops about what he had found in the backyard. In the backyard behind the bushes then was an underground place. The person didn’t go inside there, he just let the cops know about what he saw. Now at this point the cops knew that it was the last place Dylan could have been. When the cops got to the backyard behind the bushes one by one the cops started jumping under. Surprisingly Dylan was there he had no expression on his face, he was not sad, not happy he didn’t even try to run away from the cops. He started whistling and walking to a table with a gun. He quickly grabbed the gun and shot himself before the cops could do anything