Carson sighed. “I’ve tried to talk to her about it for months, man, and she refused to pay it all back. I told her that it was strictly business and nothing personal, and that because I didn’t get your approval on it to be able to let her and Erin in here for free and to give them all of these things for free, that she had to pay me back for it. I even told her that she could pay me in installments, but she wasn’t tryin’ to hear it, and she would always say some shit like, ‘I thought we were friends, Carson,’ and even threatened to ruin this establishment by spreading fake rumors about it being ran by illegal money and this was an illegal drug pit stop and shit like that!”
Carmine stared at him. “Has there been any rumors going around about this place?”
“Not that I know of,” Carson said.
Carmine looked at Jay.
“No, I haven’t seen any on social media or anywhere. Look, that bitch started a lot of shit, and I didn’t even know about what Carson just said because she never bragged to me about getting in here for free or getting free stuff from him,” Jay said.
“And that’s because I told her not to tell anyone about it because I didn’t want a ton of people contacting me here or on social media about getting in here free as well as about other free stuff,” Carson replied.
“But she just liked to ruin people, and now I hear what she threatened to do to a place that she always came to just because she was forced to reimburse y’all for all of the free fun she and Erin had here, as if she was entitled to it. Typical fuck girl,” Jay said.
Carson and Carmine nodded in agreement.
“And look at the shit she said about me? Calling me gay and shit and said that Stacia was a guy that I was dancing with here,” Jay told them.
“I heard about that,” Carmine said. “But look, you know what’s true about yourself and Stacia knows what’s true about herself. All I care about is that I stay in business, and no one fucks with my business. No one. So if something happened in this club that I don’t know about and I find out later about it, I’m gonna be really mad — I’m letting the two of you know that right now.”
Carson and Jay looked at each other.
“We understand, man. You know I tell you everything that goes on here, and if anyone put your business in jeopardy then I’ll take care of it,” Carson assured him.
Jay nodded with a slight smile. “Exactly. Oh and speaking about Stacia.”
Carson looked at him. “What about her, man?”
“Has she been here tonight?” Jay asked.
Carson and Carmine looked at each other.
“Not that I know of,” Carson said. “After all, I would know if she was here because she usually stands out from all of the other girls.”
“I heard that, man!” Jay said.
They high-fived each other; Carmine smiled.
“Well, I’m gonna go back to Lavish to see if I can get back in since those cops are gone,” Jay said.
Carson and Carmine laughed.
“I’ll text them and tell them you’ll be back over there; they’ll let you back in,” Carmine said.
Jay smiled big! “Thanks, man!”
Minutes later, Jay walked out of the club when he received a text from Stacia. We need to talk more about Felicity. Call me.
Chapter 27
Seals slightly laughed at the video of Audrey chasing Felicity down the hall at school that Audrey’s friend took, as she and Sherwood sat at a fast-food restaurant after their talk with Jay at Lavish. She received this video anonymously. “I know I shouldn’t be laughing at this, but this is just showing me that Felicity was truly one of the biggest fuck girls that I’ve ever seen. This girl — and it says in the description box that her name is Audrey Gold and she’s a senior as well — said that Felicity was the cause of her breakup with her boyfriend Reamer Miller, also a senior. There’s too many damn comments on here for me to read them all, but the comment that I keep seeing come up is one that’s saying that Reamer quit Audrey for Felicity after there was a picture of him and Felicity kissing each other while she stood outside of his car at a fast-food restaurant on Friday night two weeks ago.”
“Uh, oh!” Sherwood said with a slight grin. “Have you been able to locate that picture?”
“Looking for it now,” Seals said, as she did a search on social media for it. “Yep! Here it is! It’s under Reamer Miller’s social media page, in fact, it looks like he posted it on all of his social media pages, and why the hell would he do that if he wasn’t for sure that him and Felicity were gonna be together? He doesn’t post too many pictures, but he has one of him and Audrey kissing at school that was taken just a few days before, and then there’s one of him in his car as he kissed Felicity as she stood outside of his car just days later. I hope he’d already broken up with Audrey when he was kissing Felicity like this.”
Sherwood grinned. “I seriously doubt it. Looks like he’s a player, huh?”
“Um, well, not really. People are saying that him and Felicity never spoke to each other until this picturesque moment, and they’ve both been at the same school since freshman year.”
“Interesting,” Sherwood replied.
“It most definitely is,” Seals said, as she still read the comments. “The picture got a lot of likes on it — more than the one of him kissing Audrey — but people in the comments section are even saying that Felicity is a fuck girl and that Reamer needed to stay away from her. And it’s obvious that everyone found out that he quit Audrey for Felicity and are saying that Felicity told him to do it, but it’s like now she won’t talk to him and still wasn’t at the time she was assaulted. They’re making fun of him and everything on social media — saying shit like he got played by a fuck girl.”
“And with that alone can make someone very embarrassed, mad, depressed, and even suicidal, and as a result, he would want her dead because of what she did, and what she did was cause fuckery to him by forcing him to quit his girlfriend and then not talking to him after he did it, therefore, making him look like a fool,” Sherwood said.
“Yeah, and now we have another suspect. Damn! Just how many suspects are we gonna have when it comes to this case?”
Sherwood sighed. “I don’t even wanna think about it!”
Seals laughed. “And neither do I! Well, let’s see if I can contact Reamer,” she said. She sent him a private message on one of his social media pages. No more than a minute later, he responded! “I don’t believe this!”
“What?” Sherwood asked, as he put down his cheeseburger.
“Reamer Miller just responded to me!” Seals said with excitement.
“I don’t believe it, either!” Sherwood replied. “What did he say?”
“He’s agreed to meet with us to talk about her,” Seals informed him.
“Damn, that was painless! When did he wanna meet?” Sherwood asked.
Seals wrote him back to ask him this. Reamer responded seconds later. “He said right now at his home!”
“Are you serious?!” Sherwood said, somewhat in a disbelief.
“Yeah, I am! He even gave me his address, see!” Seals said, and gave her phone to him so he could see that she wasn’t making this up.
“Let’s go,” Sherwood said.
They got up and left the restaurant.
“Oh, did you tell him who we wanted to talk to him about?” Sherwood asked, as they got into the car.
“No, I didn’t. He’s got two choices on who he wants to talk about — either Audrey or Felicity, but Audrey’s not the one laying up in the hospital,” Seals replied.
“Exactly, so he’s gotta know that you wanna talk about Felicity.”
“Yeah, exactly, unless he wants to tell me something about Audrey that we don’t know about and it has to do with what happened to Felicity.”
“Good point. And that would make Audrey another suspect, which unbeknownst to her, she is,” Sherwood replied, and then started the car and headed to Reamer’s house.
About fifteen m
inutes later, they arrived at Reamer’s house to him standing in the driveway. It was obvious that he was waiting for them.
Sherwood and Seals got out of the car.
“Reamer Miller?” Seals asked.
“Yeah, I’m Reamer,” Reamer replied.
“I’m Detective Genevieve Seals and this is my partner Detective Roland Sherwood,” Seals said, and showed him her badge; Sherwood did the same. “I’m the one who sent you a private message on your social media page.”
Reamer looked a little intimidated when he saw their badges, and knew right away how serious this was that he agreed to talk to them. “Okay.”
“Is there anyone else here besides you?” Sherwood asked.
“No, I’m here alone,” Reamer replied.
“Can we go inside and talk?” Seals asked.
“Yeah, of course. Come on in,” Reamer said, and led them up the driveway and inside the house.
They all settled in the family room area and all sat on the same couch. Reamer turned off the TV.
“First of all, thanks for agreeing to meet with us on such short notice,” Seals said.
“No problem,” Reamer replied.
“So, since you know why we’re here, can you tell us what kind of relationship you had with Felicity Gains?” Sherwood asked.
Reamer sighed. “Well, I really like her and I know she liked me; she just didn’t wanna show it that much because I don’t think she was really over Sloan — she seemed really confused about her true feelings for him.”
“So her being confused about him meant what to you?” Seals asked.
“Well, I think it meant that she would say one thing to me and then say something else to him. I think she was torn between the two of us, and didn’t know how to tell Sloan that she didn’t want anything to do with him,” Reamer replied.
“How long have you and Felicity been seeing each other?” Sherwood asked.
“For just a few weeks,” Reamer lied.
Sherwood and Sloan looked at each other.
“Were you seeing her when you were still with Audrey Gold?” Seals asked.
Reamer sighed. “Yeah, I was, and Felicity gave me an ultimatum. She told me to quit Audrey or she didn’t wanna see me ever again,” he lied.
“So you did what she told you to do, we take it?” Seals asked.
“Yeah, I did, because I didn’t wanna lose her since she wasn’t with Sloan anymore and I didn’t want her to go back to him or to someone else. I had a chance of being with her and I wasn’t gonna blow that chance. Felicity and I had something special, despite people saying that she was a fuck girl; I just said that she was misunderstood.”
“How was she misunderstood?” Sherwood asked.
“She’s overconfident and people see that as being conceited. She likes to have fun and loves attention, and who am I to say anything about it? She’s young and beautiful — people are just haters. I saw Felicity different from how most see her and I don’t feel bad about that,” Reamer said.
“And how do you feel about what people are saying about you on social media? Because they’re saying that you were a fool for quitting Audrey for her and that she totally played you by not talking to you after you did,” Seals said.
Reamer sighed as he looked down at the floor. “People are always gonna talk shit because like I said before, they’re haters. Felicity wanted me to quit Audrey so I did, but now because of what happened to her happened, she’ll probably never be my girlfriend.”
Sherwood and Seals looked at each other, as they tried to determine whether or not he was showing legitimate grief.
“Reamer, were you ever sexually involved with Felicity?” Seals asked.
Reamer looked at her. “Why do you ask?”
“Because it’s just something we need to know. Because a lot of the comments I’ve been looking at on social media that are talking about you and Felicity are saying that the two of you did more than just kiss out in that parking lot that night,” Seals informed him.
“Yeah, we had sex, but only once. I really haven’t been looking at the comments that much, so I really don’t know what they’ve been saying,” Reamer said.
“Well, some of the comments have been saying that she never had sex with you and that she insulted your size — and you know what I mean about that. Is that true?” Seals asked.
“Absolutely not!” Reamer replied with anger. He tried to calm himself down since he’d heard it for himself that this was in fact true when he was on a three-way call with Felicity and Sloan, unbeknownst to her, and he knew that the only way that this got to social media was through Sloan.
“Well, we know how mad that’ll make any guy to do the unthinkable, so we just wanted to see if you knew about it,” Sherwood said.
Reamer sat back on the couch as he stared at the turned-off TV.
“So, moving along, here. Where were you on Friday? Not today, of course, but last week Friday?” Seals asked.
“I was at Moves with Joe,” Reamer replied.
“What about last week Saturday?” Sherwood asked.
“At Joe’s. I remember it was raining really hard so we decided to just stay at his place,” Reamer replied.
“For the whole night?” Sherwood asked.
“Yeah, for the whole night,” Reamer let them know.
“Okay,” Sherwood replied. “Oh, how well do you know Sloan Avery, Felicity’s ex?”
“Not that well because we’re not friends, if that’s what you wanna know,” Reamer said.
“How much had you and Felicity talked before you two decided to see each other?” Seals asked.
“Once in a while. I don’t see her at school that much, but when we do see each other we would talk,” Reamer replied.
“I see,” Seals said. She wrote a few notes in her notepad and then closed it. She and Sherwood stood up. “Well, Reamer, thanks for seeing us on such short notice. Here’s our cards.” She gave her card to him as Sherwood did the same. “Please let us know if you hear anything around about what’s going on in Felicity’s case. We’ve talked to a lot of people and have a lot to sort out, so don’t be afraid to tell us anything that you might see or hear about her on social media.”
“I won’t,” Reamer said. “Is she gonna be okay?”
Sherwood and Seals looked at each other.
“We don’t know, Reamer, that’s why we need to find the person or persons responsible for what happened to her before it’s too late,” Sherwood replied.
Reamer nodded as he lowered his head.
Several minutes later, Sherwood and Seals drove down the street back to the station.
“You know that he’s the only one that’s asked about Felicity?” Seals said.
“I know. It shocked me, too,” Sherwood replied. “But do you think he was really seeing her?”
Seals sighed with a slight grin. “No.”
Sherwood chuckled. “Me neither. With all of the shit that people talk on social media and all, I believe a lot of it is true about certain people, and I believe that he was played for a fool by Felicity, he’s just too ashamed to admit it.”
“Most definitely, and not only that, but he wanted it to seem like he cares about her so much that there’s no way in this world that he would hurt her. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t believe Felicity told him to quit Audrey for her.”
Sherwood looked at her. “Really? Why not?”
“Reamer is a nice kid and also very nice looking, but you can tell that he’s not one of those popular kids, and he’s probably the type who has always had a weakness for girls like Felicity, despite her being a fuck girl and him knowing that she is. He’s really in denial about her, and him calling her misunderstood is one way of showing his denial. Felicity seemed to be like a dream girl to a guy like him, and when she gave him some attention that night by kissing him while he sat in his car, well, I think he just lost his mind — he was in love, despite still being with Audrey, and I have to believe that he was still wit
h her when that picture was taken of him and Felicity kissing. I just think he wants people to think Felicity told him to break up with Audrey for her because he wants people to believe that he was really wanted by a girl that he’s probably always liked but never liked him. The fuckery that he showed us in there was astounding, but I believe Felicity showed him the most fuckery!”
“It really was! Felicity was known for fucking with guys and not being serious about them, and he was just one who didn’t wanna believe that he was a victim of it. I think he thought that he could change her or something,” Sherwood said.
“There’s always one who thinks that they can, and I believe that he’s that one. He really tried very hard to make us believe that there’s no way in this world that he hurt her, but only he knows if did, because when I read that shit on social media about what she said about his dick size, I know he was nothing nice about that, even though he tried not to show it.”
“And as a man, no guy in his right mind would take someone insulting their size lightly!” Sherwood said, with a slight chuckle.
“I know y’all wouldn’t!” Seals said with a laugh.
Meanwhile, back inside Reamer’s house, he continued to sit on the couch and stare at the turned-off TV.
“Hey. How come you didn’t tell me that they were gone?” Joe said! He was up in Reamer’s bedroom the whole time while Seals and Sherwood spoke to Reamer.
Reamer shook his head. “Sorry, man. I was just thinking.”
“About what, dude?”
Reamer looked at him. “If anyone asks you where I was last week Saturday, say I was at your house, okay?”
Joe looked confused. “Okay, since you were over at my house. But why?”
Reamer looked at him, but refused to say another word.
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