38. She Didn't Deserve to Die

I arrived at Anthony's house first. My hair was wet and didn't have time to dry it. As I climbed the stairs, Natalie's voice greeted me, "Hi Edel, where have you been? El was looking for you earlier and now he's gone."

She walked down the stairs passing me. "Oh, I went somewhere and got lost—" I said.

"And your hair is wet, have you been caught in the rain, but it's not the rainy season."

"Um, this is because someone threw water and it hit me. Therefore, I changed clothes and—"

My conversation was stopped when the sound of the house door opening and closing loudly. Natalie's eyes looked sharply at Anthony and then at me. Is she suspicious, I'm playing with her husband.

"You just came home, which is unusual."

"Um, sorry, I'll go to my room first," I said, avoiding their argument which might get heated.

"And you don't usually ask what time I come home."

"And it's very coincidental that you and Edel only took a short time to enter the house."

My feet stopped walking, my body turn