Page 124 of Take Your Breath Away

Tyler: Like, maybe half an hour or so later. Yeah.

Detective Hardy: Why’d you do that?

Tyler: It was Cam’s idea.

Detective Hardy: Your friend. So Cam told you to go back and kill Ms. DiCarlo?

Tyler: Fuck, no. He just said I should go back there and not leave until I got her to answer my questions. So that’s when I went back the second time.

Detective Hardy: And what happened then?

Tyler: I knocked on the door again and she didn’t answer. But her car was there, so I figured she was home and, like, ignoring me.

Detective Hardy: Then how did you get into the house, Tyler?

Tyler: I kinda … I tried the door to see if it was still locked, and it wasn’t. So I opened it.

Detective Hardy: Go on.

Tyler: And, like, as soon as I stepped in it felt weird in there.

Detective Hardy: Weird how?

Tyler: I don’t know. It was really quiet. The only noise was the fridge humming. I took another step in, to the kitchen, and then I saw her.

Detective Hardy: What did you see?

Tyler: She was on the floor, on her back, and at first I thought, shit, maybe she had a heart attack or some kind of seizure or something, and so I bent down real fast to check on her and didn’t even see all the blood. It got on my hands and my knees and …

Detective Hardy: And?

Tyler: I just need a second.

Detective Hardy: Take your time.

Tyler: I sort of freaked out. All this blood was coming from the back of her head.

Detective Hardy: Did you say anything?

Tyler: Like what?

Detective Hardy: Did you start shouting?

Tyler: I might have. I was in shock, I guess. I was totally freaked out. I’ve only ever seen one other dead person.

Detective Hardy: Who would that be?

Tyler: My dad. He had a heart attack shoveling snow.

Detective Hardy: So, is that when you called the police?

Tyler: What? I didn’t call the police.

Detective Hardy: I know. Why didn’t you?

Tyler: Well, I mean, she was … there wasn’t anything anybody could do. She was pretty obviously dead.

Detective Hardy: Still, just about anybody would have called 911. Get an ambulance there, just in case there was something they could do.

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