Bloody Valentine

Chapter 16

Lisa woke up in Ben’s arm, still on the sofa. Notting Hill hadn’t finished yet. She moved up out of Ben’s arms.

"Yay your awake at last," said Ben. Lisa smiled, "You fell asleep as soon as it started,"

"Oh right," replied Lisa.

"Anyway it’s just about to finish now,"

"Oh shame I missed it,"

"Yeah, but anyway what you wanna do now?"

"Erm...anything as long as it’s with you,"

"Erm...think I have an idea...but you have to come to my room first,"

"Oh sounds like fun," Ben took hold of Lisa’s hand and took her upstairs to his room. Hanne looked out of her room.

"God sake! Doesn’t anyone care or are they too busy shagging!" she snapped to herself. She walked into the bathroom and found Mark’s mobile in there.

"Why he take his phone in here?" she asked herself and then shrugged. Then Mark ran into the room wearing nothing but a towel around himself.

"Sorry...." he said.

"Why is your phone in here?" asked Hanne.

"Because erm...I was ringing someone in here," replied Mark.

"Oh right," Mark smiled and left. Hanne looked at herself in the mirror ‘Why had both of the people she loved been taken away’ she thought.

 

 

Paul laid awake in his cell, he couldn’t sleep, he knew he’d been set up and he thought he knew who’d done it. Paul knew full well that there wasn’t much chance that he’ll be let go.

"Hanne," He whispered, he couldn’t stop thinking of her and he wanted to know if Hanne still loved him.

"Marazzi!" called out the policewoman that had arrested him as she opened the cell door, "We need keys to your flat,"

"And?"

"Well you have them,"

"No I don’t! I didn’t have time to get them from Lisa’s because your bastards pushed me out too quick!"

"Lisa?"

"Yeah the girl that owns the house I was staying at,"

"Surname?"

"Brighton, and please stay the fuck away from her!"

"Paul we only want the keys to your flat from her,"

"OK fine....but you threaten her or anything shit like that then I’ll,"

"You’ll what?"

"Just please stay away from my mates,"

"So you do have manners then,"

"When I want and need to use them I do,"

"Well Paul you need to use them all the time here and in court,"

"Sorry,"

"We’re gonna go through your home later tomorrow morning and then we’ll see if you’ve got anything hidden," The policewoman left.

 

 

 

The next morning Lisa and Ben were both woken by the doorbell ringing. Ben jumped out of the bed and looked out the window.

"Shit! It’s the police again," he said. Lisa sat up trying not to stare too much at Ben.

"You better go and answer it babe," said Ben.

"Yeah," replied Lisa getting out of bed and quickly getting dressed. She ran downstairs and the doorbell rang again.

"OK, OK I’m coming," shouting Lisa and she opened the door.

"Your up late," said the policewoman.

"What’s it to you anyway?"

"Nothing just usually by 11:30am people are up,"

"Yeah well late night and on top of that can’t sleep ‘cause I ain’t got a clue what’s happening to Paul,"

"We need Paul’s keys to his flat,"

"Paul has them, they’re not here,"

"Could you check for us,"

"Well I’m sort of busy right now and you’ve already woken me up and I know Paul would of had them,"

"Paul says they’re here,"

"Well if Paul has left them here they’d be on there," Lisa pointed to a table next to the door and Ben walked downstairs.

"What’s the problem?" he asked.

"We need the keys to Paul Marazzi’s flat,"

"Paul has them,"

"He says Lisa has them,"

"Lisa don’t like she said!"

"Calm down Mr Adams,"

"Leave us alone then,"

"Sorry Mr Adams and Miss Brighton for disturbing you, but we really do need the keys to Paul’s flat,"

"Just knock the door down or something," replied Ben as he shut the door on the policewoman, "Fucking bitch!"

"Guess Paul hasn’t really got any chance of coming out now," said Hanne standing at the top of the stairs. Ben and Lisa looked up.

"We’ll get him out....don’t worry," said Ben. Mark and Zee appeared.

"What’s happened?" asked Zee.

"They just wanted Paul’s flat keys," replied Ben.

"Paul’s been set up I know it!" shouted Ben angry, "And the real bastard is gonna get away with it! Paul probably was near the scene of the crime and stuff but he didn’t do it and I think where it happened is actually on the way back from Paul’s flat anyway,"

"We all know Pauly didn’t do it Ben," said Zee. Mark looked guilty he knew who really did it, he knew Christian had set Paul up, all he had to do was tell the police, but that could put him in the frame and Christian could tell the police about what he used to do.

 

 

 

Lisa sat at the kitchen table alone until Mark entered, it was quite late and everyone else was in bed asleep.

"You OK?" asked Lisa.

"Not really,"

"Same, but I guess we’ll always be like it until Paul’s freed,"

"Lisa...are you good at keeping secrets?"

"Yeah I guess, I’m told I am anyway and I’ve never told anyone anyone’s else’s secret,"

"I have to tell someone this and I don’t want it to be Zee because I don’t want her to stop loving me, and it can’t be Hanne just because and I don’t wanna tell Ben ‘cause he’ll kill me probably," Lisa had a worried look appeared across her face.

"Go ahead then, what’s it about?"

"It’s a bout the whole Paul thing,"

"OK....go on,"

"You since A1 split me and Chris sort of went away and didn’t speak to Ben and Paul until well a little while ago and that’s just me,"

"Yeah course,"

"Well me and Chris went into the bad business of drugs and planning murders and stuff like that," Mark took a deep breath and Lisa looked shocked.

"Oh my god,"

"I know and I’m very ashamed of it now and I never did kill anyone or anything like that,"

"I know you wouldn’t seem the type, anyway go on," She took hold of Mark’s hand to make him feel more easy.

"When Paul first met Hanne again at the Good Charlotte party, he really wanted Hanne back and he wanted to get rid of Benji,"

"He went to you and Christian?"

"Yeah....me and Chris planned out the whole murder thing for Paul and gave him a knife and a gun to do it," Lisa looked more worried than ever and very shocked.

"Oh my god," She kept whispering it.

"Although after Paul had left me and Chris had a fight and that’s how I got out of that business,"

"Good....but does this mean Paul really did kill Benji?"

"No, no Christian set him up, he’s always hated Paul from when Paul left A1 because that meant an end to A1 and he didn’t get any money and shit like that,"

"How do you really know it was Chris or are you guessing?"

"I phoned Christian yesterday night in the bathroom and he told me then,"

"Oh my god, you gotta tell the police!"

"But how....I’ll go down too and so will Paul!"

"Good point....but there must be some way we can just get Christian in jail,"

"That’s why I had to tell someone....I need advice,"

"Let me sleep on it and think about it and we’ll come up with something," Lisa hugged Mark, "It’ll be OK don’t worry babe,"

"Thanks for listening and place don’t tell anyone,"

"I won’t tell anyone I promise,"