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Part 7
The group of cars
pulled into the driveway and up to the cub in front of a two-story
house. The paint was a little chipped. Kym took a deep breath
as she got out of her car. Everyone else followed her up to the door.
Kym shuddered as she looked through her keys for the one she needed.
Slowly, she unlocked the door and opened it. The group of rangers
followed Kym and Tommy into the stale air of the living room. Looking
around, Kym put a death grip on Tommy's arm.
"I haven't
been in here since I was little. I was here one time after everything
happened, just to get my things. You guys can go wherever you need.
I'll show you around, then the place is yours."
Kym showed
them the kitchen, laundry room, and her dad's office. Then she led
them upstairs. She walked to the far end of the hallway.
"That is
my parent's room," she pointed to the door on their right. "I don't
know if I can go in there."
"It's okay,"
Sydney put a hand on Kym's shoulder.
"My room
is there," she pointed to the left. My parent's bathroom is connected
to their room. And my brothers' room is down there on the same side
as mine." Kym pointed toward the direction they came from.
Walker
turned to Kym, "Do you think that you could reenact the morning you came
home?"
Kym took
a deep breath, "I can try."
They all
went downstairs to the front door. "I came in and hollered for anyone.
Then I ran up the stairs. I walked down this hall to my parent's
room and knocked," Kym stopped to gather her courage. "I went in
slowly to the bed. And found my parents."
Tears began
to stream down her face as she saw the blood stained bedding that was brown
from the years. It was still all tangled up and left where it had
been.
Now sobbing,
Kym continued, "I ran down the hallway to my brothers' room and jumped
on Austin's bed." She walked in and fell to her knees, her brothers' things
around her. Slowly, Kym. got up and walked downstairs, Tommy followed.
The rangers continued to look around upstairs.
Tommy sat
down on the couch next to Kym. "I'm sorry Kym."
She stood
up, her sobs slowing. On the wall hung pictures. One was of
Kym and her brothers when she was a baby. Another was taken when
Kym was four. There were also three individual photos of the kids.
Kym ran her hand over the pictures of Ben and Austin. It had been
so long since she had been in the house.
"You
know, when I left here last time, the only things I wanted to take were
my things. Pictures weren't important then. But now, I just
want to take everything with me," she sat back down on the couch and looked
around.
The
rangers came back downstairs and said that the visit may help. Kym
gave the house key to Walker.
"You
can come back if you ever need to , anytime."
"Thank-you.
This may take awhile, but we'll search every possible avenue that arises,"
Trivette said.
As
they all left, Kym took with her the pictures from the wall.