A Call That Changed Her Entire Life

Emily did not know how she ended up there. She knelt beside the corpses. Her heart was beating hard in her chest. Her parents were lying down on the cold floor of the room. Their dead-pale faces staring in the emptiness. Emily felt something in her throat that prevented her from breathing.

"Dad, mom, what was wrong with you two..." Emily said those trembling words with a sense of tremendous sadness. It was like the voice of someone that just realized to have lost everything, "I promise that I will never argue with you again, and I will be a good daughter, Okay? Just came back, please... Wake up please. Don't scare me. Wake up..."

"The victims were shot in a cold blood, Miss Bai; and in your apartment, we found a gun with your fingerprints on it..." The doctor was clearly used to seeing life and death. She didn't show any emotions or regard towards Emily's feelings. Emily thought when in life you face death you should at least show some respect, then she heard the doctor continued, "So you are the first suspect... Yes, for the law you are the most likely murderer."

But Emily was immersed in her own world. She couldn't hear any sound apart from her heart howling in agony. It was too difficult to realize that yesterday her parents were perfectly healthy and now they were gone, "Dad, mom, please wake up... I will do whatever you asked me to... Look at me please. Look at me!" These last words came out loud from her mouth, but their pale faces didn't move.

She put her arms around the dead body of her mother and tried to shake it, but she was quickly stopped by the doctor.

"Take her to the headquarters for interrogation, and bring the corpses as well," said a policeman nearby.

Emily burst out, "No, I won't come with you! My mom is still sleeping. We will wait for her to awake!" The policeman and the doctor exchanged a meaningful look, then the policeman said, "Miss Bai, you need to face reality that your parents are dead! And I remind you that you are now the primary suspect for this homicide."

Nothing, Emily heard nothing. Instead, she started crying on her parents' dead bodies.

So the policeman who had lost his little patience escorted Emily into the police car and drove her to the police station.

In the car, the situation was tense. Emily started punching her seats and the car's roof compulsively. Almost as if she was on the verge of collapsing. When they arrived at the police station, the man had to handcuff her to prevent Emily from hurting herself and others. But still, she kept moving, fighting and yelling.

"SPLASH" a policewoman threw on her face an entire cup of cold tea, "Miss Emily, are you with us now?"

Emily remained still for half a second, then she wiped off the tea from her face. Her eyes turned red and then her voice came out low and slow, "Are they really dead..."

The policewoman continued absently, "The bullet pierced one of the main arteries and they died because of the blood losses. One of our officers found a gun in your apartment that coincides with the one of the murder. Hence

was forced to face the reality, "... I don't have guns," she said, clenching her teeth.

how come that there are your fingerprints

"I don't know..."

you have had some problems with the two deceased

to explain myself." She didn't want to tell the officer her story. It was the last

you argued about something related to your birth. They reported that the two deceased had accused you

this again, so she waited silently for the officer to get to her point.

moment, then talked in a lower voice, "According to our researches, you are the biological daughter of the Taos, but at your birth, your cradle was substituted with that of the Bais daughter by your deceased mom. She took you away from the life that everyone in this town envies, but eventually, that privilege was taken by another girl in your place... Once you found that

"No, I don't..."

officer stared at Emily directly looking into her empty eyes and said, "You were arguing with the Bais, plus, the Taos didn't seem to take you back. You were taken away from one of the richest families of the country and left to live

not like

killed brutally the parents who raised you for so

me!" Emily widened her wet eyes and answered, "I

"You cannot prove that."

that you found a gun in my apartment because

not credible that you didn't possess a gun." The policewoman

She knew who she was, and she was not a murderer. "It's not me! I haven't done it!

the police station was probably sure

escape! I

to help you escape!