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Deshya has returned to the carriage where the two murders were committed looking more than just worried, but also pissed off. When Tessa returns to her side and asks if she's all right, she grabs her, begging her to find out who the murderer is. The train they're on continues to move forward, nearly 2 hours on the tracks and its final stop slowly approaching. No convincing leads have yet been found, so Deshya, Tessa and Annie can't help but feel horribly stressed, not understanding how the culprit can get away with this. Deshya starts running down the corridor, gnashing her teeth as she watches everyone, while Tessa stays put, Annie behind her. As she stares at Deshya, Minerva begins to speak without dosing her voice. When Deshya returns to Tessa's side and Tessa tries to comfort her, the sound of the flash of Minerva and Mista's selfies irritates Tessa. However, this is also what makes her understand—
- !!!!
The sound of the flash. That's what makes her understand. She runs into the car and stops right in front of a certain person. She jumps on him and there—
BAM.
The sound of a gun. Passengers start screaming and others hide, while Deshya suddenly turns around, now understanding what's going on. She understands their idiocy. Tessa, hit by the bullet, screams at Deshya:
- CATCH HIM!!!!
Deshya, with her ears ringing from the gunshot, struggles to run, even though she knows what to do in this moment, and Tessa screams again.
- STOP THIS PERSON RIGHT NOW!!!!
Annie is frozen in place, still not understanding where the gunshot came from. How did Tessa figure it out? Fortunately, however, Deshya starts running in the opposite direction to Tessa. She jumps on one of the seats and, before that person comes to shoot, she grabs him and a second shot rings out.
Annie turns to Deshya with a worried expression.
- D-Deshya!!!
Fortunately, the bullet hit the ceiling of the carriage. The person Deshya had caught began struggling, shouting at the teenager to let go.
- SHUT UP!!!" she screams.
Annie approaches Deshya and notices the woman beside her, trembling with fear. Her knees are on his torso and arms similarly, her fists clenched in front of her trembling mouth. The man continues to struggle, but Deshya holds him in a way that prevents him from escaping.
- At last we catch you, murderer!
The person below Deshya, the culprit in this story, is—
CHAPTER 12
⎾The Never-Stopping Train ; Part 7⏌
- Annie!
The doctor blinks, returning to her thoughts.
- Go and check on Tessa!" shouts Deshya.
- ... Sure.
She nods and Deshya asks the woman in front of her if she can help her make sure the man can't run away. The woman finally nods and helps Deshya, even if she's not very confident about what she's doing. Meanwhile, Annie runs to Tessa thinking she's lying on top of her, but she's already up and smiling.
- Don't move!" Annie told her.
- Eheh, lucky me.
She points to her arm, which is injured, but only slightly. Annie analyses it for a few moments before sighing.
- There's nothing wrong, as the bullet just grazed you…
The woman sighs in relief and Tessa nods before walking down the long wagon corridor, hands in pockets. Annie helps the woman to her feet, and she bursts into tears as she runs into Annie's arms. She clutches her like a child who has lost her mother, tears streaming down her flushed cheeks. Annie understands her: she has narrowly avoided death. If Tessa hadn't understood at the time, she would have been killed.
Trisha would have lost her life as the third victim of this wagon.
It was her, the woman Tessa saved by jumping on. By forcing her down, functioning like a shield, Tessa managed to prevent her from meeting the Reaper. Deshya also acted in time, jumping on the culprit and preventing him from firing a second shot, which would have seriously injured Tessa — or even killed her. The murder weapon fell to the seat and the man stopped struggling, grinding his teeth in frustration. The woman standing next to him, with her very special style of dress, pointed at him, trembling.
- W-W-What does that... m-m-m-m-mean...?
Tessa comes up to them and clicks her tongue as she gets in front of him. Annie returns and tells Deshya and the other woman to move over, before grabbing him in a very particular way and handcuffing him. He screams angrily as he struggles, but Annie tackles him to the floor, shouting at him not to move.
- So you were the criminal…
Deshya shakes her head as she stands up and grits her teeth, not believing it.
- Mista!!
The man with the strange clothes and the selfie stick. A man with a 2012-2013 look and a cheesy way of talking. He's sitting next to Minerva, a rather similar woman. He wasn't even on the list of suspects.
- H-How?!" cries Minerva.
She's still shaking, can't believe it. Tessa smiles as she watches Mista, still on the ground because the woman doctor is making sure he can't move.
- It's quite simple. The murder weapon is what he had in his hands at all times.
She grabs him and squeezes violently.
- This selfie stick.
- !!!
- S-Sorry?!
Some of the passengers start to react and shout. Those who have heard rise from their seats and look at Tessa and Deshya in surprise. Deshya shows it to Annie, who squints and asks if she's sure. Deshya nods with the slightest hesitation.
- How it works remains to be seen, but I suppose that pressing the button here at the bottom will fire a bullet into the little hole I see there... It's a rather strange selfie stick, I must say.
The part where the phone is attached is longer and great. Deshya hadn't paid much attention to these details, since she thought it was simply a special design. The force of the bullets shouldn't be as powerful as a normal pistol, but enough to kill a human being not too far away. Tessa squints.
- That's why he didn't use a silencer..." she thinks.
Annie forces the culprit to sit down, his hands now handcuffed. Tessa watches them without moving.
- So you had handcuffs..." she says.
- I always carry them in my suitcase just in case, and I equipped myself with them after the first murder in case the culprit was unmasked.
- You did the right thing.
Annie gives her a small smile, right next to the culprit.
- A teenage girl telling me that... Am I supposed to take it well...?" thinks the woman.
Deshya grabs the phone at the end of the selfie stick and plays with it in her hand. She blows it up and catches it again, performing this gesture several times in a row.
- The murder weapon was right under my nose…
Deshya felt ridiculous: the culprit was right in front of her, showing her photos he'd taken with the murder weapon. If only she'd known this object was suspicious... If only she'd thought a little longer... If only she hadn't been a complete idiot...! Deshya grits her teeth and stops playing with the phone before turning to Mista, the man responsible for both murders and probably for the bombs on the train.
- I couldn't believe you were the culprit..." said Deshya.
- Why?" asks a passenger listening in from his seat.
Deshya turns to him and, before answering, hands the phone to Annie.
- Our main suspects were Megure, Dera and Trisha, all of whom were standing next to the first victim. Ketty, the man with the dubious umbrella who moved places quite often, was also a suspect. When the second victim was killed, Trisha was no longer a real suspect, for good reason. One that meant Mista couldn't be on the list of suspects.
Deshya puts her hands in her sweater and looks up.
- Because they had their backs to the victims.
Tessa rests her back against the wall of the carriage, watching Deshya with boredom. What she's saying makes sense, but it pisses her off, because now that she's talking about it, Tessa thinks she's a total idiot.
- Mista couldn't see the victims from his seat, as his back was to them. He could have stood up and fired, but he would have been spotted straight away. What's more, I wouldn't have doubted that it was his selfie stick that was the murder weapon, since nobody noticed anything strange with it or any recoil that would have made it suspicious," continues Deshya.
- I didn't see any smoke coming out of it, or the slightest recoil..." confessed the woman opposite Mista and Minerva.
- I guess it's got a lot of power and the system means that not much smoke comes out... I'm not sure how this thing works and I don't really care.
Deshya glares at Mista, who smiles broadly, as if mocking her. She wants to shake him off and insult him, but she restrains herself. She sighs heavily before looking at Nikolas' corpse.
- When Annie told me the first names of the people on the trip, I realized that Dera couldn't be the culprit, though.
- A-Ah?
Deshya smiles and turns to the passengers.
- Nikolas Aidalro, Simon Baybook, Caroline Ushi, Dera Nomura and Trisha Keryun, the five who were on a trip to Tetazo. I couldn't understand how a member of this trip could come up with such a plan when there were so many simpler things to do. I could have been wrong, but it didn't seem so.
Deshya crosses her arms.
- However, Tessa seems to have understood before me…
The teenager in the fox sweater turns to her friend, who observes her with an almost amused smile.
- When he took photos, I understood. However, it wasn't the noise, but the gestures he was making.
- Gestures?" asks Annie.
Tessa nods and turns her gaze to the woman doctor.
- He was taking selfies with Minerva, but he seemed to be aiming at something. I was lucky, but since I knew the names of the travelers as well as Deshya, I knew straight away that Trisha was the one being targeted. Dera wasn't really visible and given the position of the camera, I thought it couldn't possibly be Caroline.
Tessa crosses her arms.
- He didn't move that much during the photos and seemed to take them all, trying to aim where Trisha was. Even if you could say I was just lucky, it looks like I was right.
- I see…
Annie looks at Mista and frowns.
- Why did you kill them?!
He doesn't answer directly. Trisha approaches Deshya and the latter looks at her. The woman watches Mista carefully, but she doesn't recognize him. She doesn't see why this man tried to kill her... She doesn't know who he is, so why...?
- Does this have anything to do with Nikolas Aidalro's corruption?" asks Deshya.
Mista opens her eyes wide and screams at the teenager.
- HOW DO YOU KNOW?!
- A simple search on the Internet and you'll find it right away.
- What corruption are you talking about?" asks Annie.
Deshya continues to stare at Mista with a disgruntled expression.
- Nikolas Aidalro is a lawyer who has been known to take money from the other side and do everything, even if his client is innocent, to make sure he's considered guilty. He was recently fired from his job and has to pay a hefty sum... but now that he's dead, I guess it's a different story from now on.
Trisha listens carefully before looking at Mista. This man... could he be...
- ...Mista Koinaru...?
Annie, Tessa and Deshya turn their faces towards the woman. She holds her hands and observes Mista attentively. He smiles broadly.
- Remember me, bitch?" he said.
- Do you know who he is?" asks Annie.
Trisha opens her mouth, but it's not her who answers. Mista's male voice is the first to sound.
- Hey, I'm not surprised she recognizes me this late.
He closes his eyes and his smile doesn't show its teeth anymore. He sighs.
- It's their fault... Without them, my father would never have…
- ... Mista…
- Shut up!
He shouts and stares angrily at Trisha.
- My father trusted you! You were his closest friend, someone he counted on so much!!! And you... And you!!!
Apart from the culprit's cries, silence now reigns in the carriage. Passengers listen to them without saying a word, and the crying has stopped.
- He trusted you, but when everything went wrong, you let him go!!! You left him behind and didn't answer him simply because you were too focused on your little husband... Your shitty husband!!!!
He starts to struggle, but with such handcuffs on his back and Annie preventing him from moving, there's nothing he can do but gesticulate wildly to prove his rage. To show her with sincerity how he feels about her.
The woman next to Annie, tears in her eyes, rises from her seat.
- B-But why kill them?!" cries Minerva.
Mista turns her gaze to her and smiles broadly.
- My father was falsely accused... and that son-of-a dog Nikolas let himself be bribed!!! He refused to help and
even pushed him down for nothing more than money!
- Just as I suspected..." thought Deshya.
When she saw the article on Nikolas Aidalro, she thought of this. She hadn't seen any names of his 'victims', but at first she'd thought the culprit had been one of them. However, it's now clear to her that the son of one of this corrupt lawyer's victims is the culprit…
- But why killing Simon?" asks Tessa.
She doesn't need the whole story to understand his need for revenge against Trisha, since she understands what Mista's father did, but she doesn't see the connection with Simon. The culprit grits his teeth.
- It's the same story as Trisha... He was his friend and his doctor, but when he was wrongly accused, when he needed support, this man told my father he didn't have time to take care of him…
- I suppose all the other people on this trip are in your sights?
Mista shakes his head.
- Only six of them... The other three are in the other cars.
Tessa sighs and approaches Mista's bag before searching him. Annie asks her what she's doing, since she has no right to do such a thing even if he is guilty, but Tessa doesn't seem to listen. She finally gets to her feet and waves something in front of Mista's face. He grits his teeth and Tessa smiles at him.
- Idiot.
She keeps the thing in her hands and turns to Deshya.
- You can say that the train can stop without any problem.
Deshya immediately understood what the object was: the remote control to detonate the bombs on the train. So they were right: the message sent was a real threat. If the station had believed it to be a joke, then perhaps the lives of some 250 people would have come to an end on that day, on that train itself. It was a wise decision. Deshya nods and runs out of the carriage, while Tessa looks at how the remote control works: she doesn't want to risk pressing it unintentionally and killing them all. It looks complex and has several buttons, probably for different bombs…
- This kind of toy should not be in the hands of people like you…
- No one.
Tessa blinks and looks at Annie. The woman shakes her head.
- No one should have access to such weapons. Whether it's this remote control…
Annie looks at the selfie stick with a saddened expression.
- Or even this gun.
Tessa watches Annie's face carefully. She looks so... sad. So... devastated. Tessa doesn't dare say anything, just looks at the remote control in her hand before sitting down opposite Mista. He bows his head and Trisha returns to her seat, crying.
- I miss my father..." says Mista.
- He killed himself after being let down by the people around him because they thought he was guilty in his case, I suppose?" asks Tessa, looking at him.
- I'm convinced he was innocent. The judges just didn't believe me because I'm his son, but he had an alibi…
- Corruption is a horrible thing, hm.
Tessa sighs and finally relaxes on the seat. She looks out of the window, where the landscape continues to unfold. At last, they'll all be able to get out... It's been more than two hours since the train last stopped…
And it's after 2h09 of travel that the train finally stops.
The police arrive on the scene immediately, and the helicopter gets a little closer to the ground. On some TV channels, you can see [LIVE] the passengers running, crying or calmly exiting the train, even though their hearts are pounding in their chests. A certain policeman waits with his arms folded in front of the doors of the second carriage, another policeman at his side. Passengers exit one by one, being questioned by the police or running into the arms of family and friends. The person who finally emerges from the car is—
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- Annie.
The woman doctor approaches the policeman and others come to catch the culprit. Mista yells at them not to hurt him and Minerva follows with a saddened look on her face. Annie settles down next to the red-haired policeman and undoes her own scarf to better place it around his neck.
- I asked Minerva, the culprit's friend, to follow him and offer her story to the police.
Annie turns her face to the man and smiles.
- Your daughter is impressive, Gatito.
The policeman sighs and scratches his hair.
- First she witnesses an explosion and solves the case, and now she's on the same train as a murderer who's planted bombs on it…
Annie giggles and looks at the wagon, where Deshya is going out with Tessa and their two friends.
- This girl impressed me too... She understood in time and was able to save the third victim without hesitating to sacrifice herself. Fortunately, she was not seriously injured.
- Young people these days…
- But can you imagine? They managed to hear that a second shot had been fired directly after the first, and Tessa knew that the shot had come from a certain column of passengers just by looking at the angle, which was nonetheless very shallow.
- …
- Besides, your daughter understood that the second shot was provoked because of Minerva.
Gatito squints.
- What do you mean?
- In the photos taken between the two of them, Minerva was holding Mista's arm. When she heard the second shot, she jumped up and pulled Mista's arm, who pulled a second time without meaning to.
Annie and Gatito both look at Deshya, who has just answered. Tessa places her hand on her friend's hood and smiles.
- She's also the one who created an opportunity for me to understand," admits Tessa.
- What do you mean?" asks Amora, behind them.
Tessa puts both hands behind her head and looks at Amora, turning her head.
- As she started to lose her mind and ran into the carriage, I think the culprit thought he had free rein and wouldn't be noticed when he shot the third victim. However, that was when I was most aware of my surroundings, so I figured it out pretty quickly," explains Tessa.
- Eeeh…
Frie grabs Deshya's sleeve and she turns towards her.
- Is it because of what I told you...?" asks Frie, worried.
Deshya stares at her with an open mouth, but eventually closes it with a smile
- Who knows?
- Deshya…
Gatito grabs Deshya and pulls her towards her forcefully. The teenager cries out in surprise, but falls silent when she sees that her father—
- P-Papa?*
— had taken her in his arms.
- Silly.
- … Sorry.
(*: “Papa” means ‘Dad’ in french. We decide to keep it for a reason.)
Tessa smiles as she looks at them, and Annie does the same. Amora and Frie look at each other for a few seconds before giggling.
- Amoraaaa!!!
A female voice sounds a little further away. Amora turns towards the source and opens her mouth wide, a magnificent smile on her face.
- Mom!!!
- Mom?
Tessa turns her face and sees a woman running towards Amora... and Amora runs into her mother's arms. They give each other a big hug as a man comes running up behind, exhausted. Tessa watches them and Gatito lets Deshya go from his arms, hiding as best he can what he's feeling right now; however, Annie knows him well enough to know how fast his heart must have been beating, bathed in worry in his chest. She doesn't need to see his face redden or hear him yell at Deshya to understand it; so she smiles as she watches him. Amora lets go of her mother and hugs her father, who has just arrived, and Frie, Tessa and Deshya approach them.
- I was so scared..." admits Fran, Amora's father.
- I thought my heart was going to explode!" admits Fay, Amora's mother.
The woman with the long blond hair notices the three teenagers and takes Deshya's hands.
- Deshya!!! I'm glad to see you're doing well too!!!!
Deshya notices that her cheeks are a little red: she must have been crying on the way. She can understand, since Amora must have told her parents they were coming by message. Noticing that her daughter still wasn't there, she sent her a message and Amora either told her the truth or saw the TV... In any case, Deshya has no doubt that the mother of the two children is still there.
of Amora must have felt very bad... The same goes for her father, who is currently cuddling his daughter.
- I'm glad we all came through without injury," admits Deshya with a smile.
Fay nods as she feels the tears welling up. Tessa turns and watches the policeman, Deshya's father, approach them.
- Deshya.
- Yes, dad?
- When we get home, you'll have to go to the police station for the reports," he says.
She nodded.
- And... even though it was dangerous, you saved a woman's life and probably those of everyone else on the train. Thank you.
Deshya and Tessa look at each other and smile, but Deshya gently pushes Tessa forward.
- We have her to thank," admits Deshya.
Gatito looks at her and Deshya puts her hands in the pockets of her sweater.
- She saved Trisha and it was she who first realized who the culprit was. I was slow and overwhelmed,
but…
She looks up at her father with a smile.
- I was scared, honestly. If Tessa hadn't been there, I don't think this trip would have had such a happy ending.
- Deshya…
Frie looks at Deshya with wide eyes, similar to the expression Tessa possesses. Gatito smiles and touches the long-haired purple teenager's left shoulder, nodding in agreement.
- You saved the lives of over 200 passengers. I don't know how to thank you.
- ... Hm.
Tessa turns to Deshya and hugs her, smiling.
- Thank your daughter most of all. I don't need such praise.
Tessa lets go of Deshya and winks at Gatito.
- But if I can have a big fox plush for myself, I might be willing to be thanked!
Gatito starts to giggle and Tessa goes to greet the parents of Amora, leaving a flushed Deshya behind. The policeman approaches his daughter with a smile.
- She's a strange girl, all the same..." he admits.
- H-Hm, y-yes…
Gatito asks Deshya if she's all right, especially as he feels she's about to explode. She shakes both hands and stutters, blurting out incomprehensible words. Deshya hides her face behind her hood and runs to Annie, thanking her for everything and returning to her father's side.
- Would you like to eat with us as planned?" asks Fay.
- Come on!" her daughter shouts, jumping up and down.
Deshya looks at her father and asks him if she has the right just by looking at him, and he nods.
- But you have to come—
- I don't forget! I'll be back after dinner and I'll come straight to the station!
Deshya gives her a kiss on the cheek before joining Amora, Tessa, Frie, Fay and Fran. She shakes her hand to greet her father and Annie and chats with Amora, her fox tail wagging in all directions behind her. Gatito smiles with a little sigh and Annie takes her place next to him.
- Your daughter does look like you, though," admits the lady.
- Hm.
Gatito stops smiling, but continues to watch Deshya go off into the distance.
- She's a girl who thinks she's invincible and can solve anything with just her brain. A real idiot.
- It reminds me of someone.
- Huh?
- Hehe, nothing!
Annie nudges him with her elbow and they both start laughing.
The car journey is pleasant and doesn't take too long. After barely an hour, they arrive at Amora's house and Tessa whistles as she gets out of the car.
- What a beautiful house!" she said.
- I have to admit, she's really beautiful..." says Frie as she leaves the room.
Amora grabs Deshya's hand and gets out of the car with her. Fay gets out too, and Fran parks the car in the garage before opening the front door to let them inside. He lets them pass with a big smile and the four friends thank him, followed by Amora's mother. They arrive inside and Tessa clears off her shoes, observing the corridor.
- Even the interior is beautiful..." she remarks.
- Riiiight?!
From the energy in her voice, you'd have thought it was Amora who answered, but in fact it was Fay who started fidgeting.
- We worked too hard to get a house like this!" she said.
The father sighs and crosses his arms, so Frie thinks he's going to tell her to calm down, but the truth quickly sinks in:
- I'm tooooo happy too!
The bride and groom start cuddling, giggling and wiggling. Tessa blinks and Deshya sighs, lowering her head, though she smiles.
- You know where Amora's personality comes from..." said Deshya.
- I should have known..." said Tessa, watching the two parents run down the corridor, followed by their daughter.
Frie comes up beside them when she has cleared away her shoes and smiles.
- At least they look friendly... We'll be able to think of something else!
Deshya returns her smile and nods, while Tessa puts her hands in her trouser pockets and shrugs.
- I'm not traumatized, I don't need to think about anything else."
Tessa moves forward first and Frie pouts at her before grabbing Deshya's arm.
- Look at her acting cool..." says Frie.
Deshya smiled as she watched Tessa, not immediately answering Frie's question. Seeing her walk like that, like the scum you see in the movies, leaving without being able to assume what she really felt…
- Idiot, I saw it…
Deshya turns to Frie and flashes her beautiful smile.
- Shall we go too?" asks Deshya.
- I hope we eat well!" says Frie.
- I don't doubt it!
Deshya and Frie walk down the corridor together and join Tessa in the kitchen.
The four teenage girls leave the house three hours later, just after 10pm. After a good meal prepared by Fay and a game of 'Smash Bros' on Amora's console, Frie decides to go home, and Deshya and Tessa agree that they should too. Deshya will have to go to the police station to offer her version of events and then sleep in time to go to school... She shouldn't be too late. Amora accompanies them to the front seat of the car, still full of energy.
- Even though the train journey was awful, I'm still glad I had you home!!!" she blurts out, looking back.
Tessa attaches herself last, between Frie and Deshya. The latter nods.
- It was great to see your parents again. Thanks again for the meal, Fay!
- Hihi, you're welcome! I'm so glad I got to see you and meet Tessa and Frie!" replies the mother.
Before starting the car, the woman looks at her daughter, giggling.
- You have very pretty friends, all you need is a boyfriend!
- Mooooh, Mom!
- Hihi, I'm teasing you!
Deshya lowers her eyelids with an amused smile.
- But she says that every time..." she thinks.
- Let's go!
Fay starts the car and pulls out of the garage, opened by Fran. The father shakes his hand, saying goodbye to his wife, daughter and three friends.
Frie is the first to get out of the car and thanks Amora and Fay for the evening. She looks at Tessa and Deshya and smiles.
- Thanks for the evening and…
Frie bows to them.
- Thank you for saving our lives!
Frie closes the car door and runs off blushing, holding her bag in both hands. Tessa watches her go before smiling and Desha scratches her cheek, embarrassed.
- You could have let us tell her ‘you’re welcome’..." she says.
Tessa crosses her arms and nods.
- How rude, hehe.
Deshya laughs and Amora smiles at them.
Then it's Tessa's turn to be dropped off. She cracks her neck and bows gently to the car.
- Thank you for the ride, ma'am.
- Mooow, you're welcome, little Tessa!" the mother said, waving her right hand in front of her.
Tessa smiles and looks at Amora.
- Try to get a good night's rest, Amora.
- I promise! You too, Tessa!
She nods and grabs the back door of the car, looking at Deshya. The two stare into each other's irises for a few moments, before Tessa closes her eyes and bares her teeth, a small, amused sound coming from her mouth.
- Do I really need to tell you this for you to understand, genius?" blurts out Tessa.
Deshya smiles at her and winks.
- I'll sleep well... like a little fox.
- I'll believe you if you're back in shape tomorrow.
She closes the car door and thanks Fay and Amora again before walking away, returning to her house with her hands in her pockets. Deshya changes places and goes to the middle, watching her go. With a happy smile on her face and eyes that can only observe Tessa, she says nothing and doesn't even notice that her best friend is staring at her with an amused smile. Tessa rings her doorbell and a few moments later, the figure of a man comes to open the door. She takes one last look behind her, but doesn't make a hand gesture before entering. The door closes directly behind Tessa and Deshya sighs with an expression…
- Say, Deshyaaa?
The girl in the fox sweater blinks and turns her face to her best friend.
- Y-Yes?
Amora moves her head closer to make sure her mother can't hear her and whispers the following:
- That's when you confess... you know what?
Deshya stands still for a few moments before laughing. Amora puffs out her cheeks, but Deshya strokes her hair and part of her forehead, smiling broadly.
- Maybe someday, maybe never.
- You have to be honest about how you feel!" shouts Amora.
- About whaaaaat?" asked Fay.
- E-Eh! N-N-No-Nothing mom, let's go!!!
Amora gives an embarrassed laugh and her mother pouts at her, but she finally agrees and looks the other way, acting like a little girl bitching at her friend. Deshya laughs and hangs up her belt, taking one last look at Tessa's house.
- ...when I tell her, eh…
She murmurs her words before closing her eyes.
- My love for Tessa... Dare I ever admit it? Good question, Amora.
Fay takes to the road again and Tessa watches them go from her living-room window.
On this first day of September, the 247-passenger train making the loop between Tetazo and Lière managed to stop without exploding. After a few hours of searching, all the bombs were removed without the slightest problem, with the exception of the two Mista victims, no one was injured or killed. The second day of September arrives quickly and in the newspapers, everyone is talking about the two teenage girls who saved all the passengers on the train with the help of a female police doctor.
Deshya, Tessa, Annie.
Although school has only just started again and Deshya has been 16 for just three weeks, she's already making the headlines and her name is even more widespread than before.
And all the passengers on this unstoppable train rest without a care in the world, all saved from near tragedy.