Maxine's Second Trial

Deb opened the door before Amanda could reach the door.

"Oh my God!" David exclaimed.

"You scared the shit out of us" Amanda added.

"Who's this?" Nancy began, looking behind at David.

"Don't you know anybody?" David asked her.

"She's a cop" Jane answered and sat back down on the couch.

"A cop in Fosterland?" Maxine asked Jane.

"Uhmmm" Jane nodded.

"I didn't see her at the station" Maxine said, looking at Deborah.

"Oh..that. She was suspended for some months" Amanda added.

"Suspended? Such thing happens in police force?" Maxine asked.

"Why were you in the station?" Deb asked Maxine.

"Murder" Maxine replied her. Deb looked at Amanda and returned her eyes back to Maxine.

"You killed someone?"

"The masked killer, he killed my mate"

"Mate? Like sex mate or crime mate"

"School mate. I'm not a sex machine or something" Maxine replied and scoffed.

"Oh! You must be the kid I heard about that saw the face of the killer, right?" Deborah asked and got everybody staring at Maxine.

"What? Yeah I did saw her face, what's wrong with that?"

"You are in big trouble Maxine, very big trouble" David answered her.

"Don't stay out of sight" Amanda added.

"Are you guys kidding me? Y'all said that Jake is the serial killer and you-I mean we all knows Jake, which means that you all are in trouble too"

"That's why we are running babe. What do you think we came here to do? Practice Yoga with Nancy?" Jane replied.

"Fraser knew about Jake and Jake thought that he will expose him, that's why he killed him" David added.

"That's bullshit, Jake didn't kill Fraser" Jane defends.

"I know you were gonna say that" David hissed.

"This sounds crazy but we all need to be careful in whatever fucking shit we are doing? Please" Amanda added.

"Are you begging people to live right?" Jane chuckled.

"Why am I talking here? I'm supposed to be the one asking questions here while you freaks give me the right answers I need" Nancy said.

"You guys are freaking me out. How can a few friends I have and trust, come into my house with some junior student and a cop that was suspended and began to speak some freaky fantasy bullshit language into my tiny ears…and-and "

"Don't be freaked out young woman" Deb interrupted her.

"Don't tell me that ma'am, I'm fucking freaked out already, I'm losing my mind, I'm running out of thoughts" Nancy bawled.

"She's mean" Deb looked at Amanda and she nodded.

"You live alone?"

"Why you wanna know that"

"Come on Nancy, play along. Don't act smart and end up like Fraser"

"What?" Maxine said with force.

"You think Fraser died while playing smart? He was fucking murdered by the freak you assholes brought back to life. Y'all are to be blamed for Fraser's death and not his smartness" Maxine bawled.

"That's not what happened" Jane replied Maxine.

"That's what fucking happened. What? Are you gonna support Jake because he is your fuck mate huh!" Nancy joined.

"What did you say?"

"You heard what I fucking said Jane"

"Shit. I shouldn't have come here with this little bitch in the first" Jane groaned.

"Leave if you wanna leave. I don't give a fuck" Nancy replied.

"Are you guys quarreling now?" Amanda laughed.

"Fuck you all" Jane replied and relaxed more comfortably on the couch.

"Back to my question before the childish interrogation and disturbance, do you live? Ummm, what's your name again?"

"Yea…I live alone. I bought this house with my money alone" she replied.

"What about your boyfriend?"

"You mean Fraser? He's dead" Jane scoffed, David sighed heavily and Amanda cleared her throat.

"You heard her" Nancy replied.

"Amateurs" Deb sighed heavily.

"Amanda" Deb called and everybody looked at Deb.

"You didn't ask for the food? We discussed about it"

"Oh my God, I-where are your kids?" Amanda placed her left palm on her forehead slowly.

"Drooped them with their teacher" she replied.

"Where?"

"What?"

"Dropped them where?"

"At their teacher's home'

"Okay. Fine."

"What?"

"Off course they will be okay with their teacher. You should be worried about yourself" Amanda replied.

"Off course I'm worried about myself, I'm not talking about the kids, I'm talking about me. I thought we discussed about it Amanda" Deb winked at Amanda.

"Yeah we did, sorry I forgot" she replied and looked at Nancy.

"You have a kitchen and a fridge right?" she asked Nancy and Jane scoffed.

"That's the way to the kitchen, that's the way to the bathroom and that is the way out of the house" she said, pointing at the doors of the places she mentioned.

"Thank you" Deb greeted and headed towards the kitchen.

"You are welcome strangers. Y'all are like strangers to me now" Nancy grinned.

"I'm hungry too"

"Follow us to the kitchen then. Nobody is cooking for nobody" Amanda responded, following Deb.

"What about you Max?"

"I'll clean up in the toilet first and catch up later" she responded and headed towards the bathroom door.

Maxine opened the door and stepped into the clean white painted bathroom. She saw the white towel hanged on the iron bar nailed beside the door and began to unbutton the dull white shirt she was wearing slowly. She turned on the shower and multiple drops of water began to rain on her naked body. She took her right hand to her long white hair, combing her hair with her hand and splashing out the water on her hair as more water was dropping on them. She grabbed the soap in the plastic soap plate but as she was about to scrub the soap on her wet body, the soap slipped off her hand and fell on the floor. She looked at the position where the soap fell and bent down to pick it up. The moment she bent down for the soap, the tap went off the shower stopped pouring water. When she realized what happened, she rose immediately without the soap and looked around. After seeing nobody, she bent down again to pick the soap and the tap turned active and the shower started pouring again. When the water poured on Maxine's body, the soap she picked fell off her hand again after she panicked. She turned off the tap and grabbed the towel immediately and threw it round her body, covering her nakedness. Attempting to escape the bathroom that exact moment, she stepped her right feet on the soap and it slipped her. She fell immediately and hit her head on the on the floor. She lost conscience immediately.