Forever Changed - By Jamie Gibson Page 0,41

here, but I have yet made a decision on staying,” Landon said while crushing me into a million pieces.

“Well you knocked out most of my questions for me,” Officer Benton chuckled. “But I still have a few more questions for Elizabeth and then I will get out of your hair.”

This police officer was easy going and laid back. He made himself comfortable while sitting in the chair. He was slouched back a little bit and had his left foot resting on his right knee. He looked to be in his late twenties and was built as an athlete. He wore, not the usual officer uniform, but relaxed jeans and a button up polio shirt. He of course, had a holster attached to his right hip on his belt, which carried his gun. His badge was attached to his left hip. He wore his blond hair messy and he had beautiful green eyes. He also was wearing a wedding ring on his finger, which told me he was married. His tone, told me, that he was a pretty easy guy to get along with.

“Elizabeth, how long had you been dating Lucas?” Officer Benton eyed me suspiciously.

“We were not really dating. He had made it look like we were because he was trying to help me.” I replied showing a little fake sadness on my face.

“Why was he trying to help you?”

“Because I was not the most popular girl in school. Lucas was a very popular kid and we had known each other for a while. I didn’t have any friends and he thought that making it out as if we had been dating, would help me out in the friend department.” It was so easy to lie to this officer that it was scary.

“Did he owe you a favor?” Officer Benton asked quietly.

“I guess you can say that, well in his mind he was probably thinking that. I few days before we put on the ‘play’ he had knocked me down playing with his guy friends, in the hallway, causing me to drop my books and papers. He didn’t help me pick them up and I guess he felt like he owed me. I miss him though. He was a really nice guy.” I didn’t want Lucas to look like a total douche, even though that was exactly what he was. He was an awful person. He only knew how to torture and humiliate people, all while only thinking about himself.

“Did he say what he was going to do, when you dropped him off at home?” Officer Benton asked me this, with a look of pity in his eyes. That was what I was waiting for and I breathed a little better. I baited him, hooked, and now had him. He felt sorry for me which means he really thought I was telling the truth.

“The only thing he told me was that since no one was home, at his house that he would go for a run or take a hike in the woods. I haven’t heard from him since and I have been worried. I went hiking through the woods a couple of days ago, to maybe see if I couldn’t find him. I never did.” I said pain dripping with each word. “I even had sent him messages and called his phone hoping, maybe he would reply, but still haven’t received anything back.” I finished smoothly and I was not lying on that last part.

I made it a point, every day to send Lucas at least a few messages and phone calls, that away if his phone was safe when they found it, they could see that I was worried. Even pulling the phone records, they would see who called, even if they couldn’t recover his phone. I had made sure that I would be just as innocent, even though I was guilty as hell!

“Why were you not at school today, Elizabeth?” Officer Benton asked while raising an eyebrow. “The school said you have been absent for a week.”

“I have come down with the flu. I haven’t felt like going to school. I graduate this year, but my grades are so high that I could have graduated last year. I didn’t though because I wanted to graduate with everyone I went through each grade with. I could be sick, miss school, and it not hurt me.” I said with a weak smile.

From healing my father I looked like shit. I was pale, with dark circles under my eyes. So