Chapter Sixteen

                                    

                                          
Renee

 Whenever there was an issue her mother never called her or her dad, she always called Carmen, but when her mother called her that she needed her urgently as much as she hated the thought of leaving Claudia she had to, she said her and Miranda were waiting so obviously it had to do with Ian.
 When she got home she saw Miranda sitting next to Carla, she hated her but she was genuinely sorry for her "yes mum", she sat on the couch across from them.
 "Have you spoken to Claudia recently?" Carla asked
 "Why?" Renee was so confused, she wondered what her mothers business with Claudia could be 
 "Its yes or no Renee" Carla sat up straight "so have you?"
 "Yes, I was just with her"
 "So did she tell you"
 "Tell me what?" Renee was still confused 
 "Did she tell you that she watched Ian die?" Miranda sat up straight. Renee was afraid of her mum, but she was terrified of Miranda, Miranda made her shiver every single time she spoke.
 "That's not possible, Claudia would've said something"
 "So Lucia is a liar then?" Carla squinted her eyes at her daughter, Renee was confused, her heart was racing so fast and she couldn't understand what they were talking about "I asked you, is your friend; Lucia a li-"
 Miranda put her hand on top of Carla's own and nodded at her, she smiled and turned to Renee "I went to see Lucia, she said Claudia was in the bathroom with Ian when they died and when she kept knocking or whatever she wouldn't open up" For the first time in her whole life she saw an expression, a genuine expression on Mirandas' face, she was smiling but it was so sad, you could see how weak and tired she looked and Renee's heart was melting in her chest
 "I'm sorry I didn't know that" Renee finally gathered her thoughts together, she wanted to cry as she clenched her fist, she felt like a fool, she laid next to Claudia in the hospital for hours and Claudia didn't say a word. All this time she thought Claudia spent a month grieving that almost killed her, but she was actually running from something.
 "Well something happened, I know it did and to answer your question from a month ago, no, Ian didn't die alone" Miranda walked toward Renee and sat next to her, she was so sad yet so beautiful but at the same time she maintained her confidence "I couldn't answer it then because I didn't know. I was told Ian died alone and I refused to believe it, your friends were there and I know I wasn't close to Ian the way I should've been but they were doing a bit better than the last time I saw them"
 "No one would speak to me, no one wanted to see me and I never knew why" Renee couldn't control her tears anymore and all of a sudden she remembered why she fought with Ian.
 Ian needed to speak with her and that day she was in an awful mood, work was irritating her more than it usually did that day, they had investors coming in which meant her parents were coming in as well, she had nothing to show for it because no one would ever let her do anything. Ian hadn't seen her in a while and wanted to, they kept saying it was urgent and they needed to talk but she couldn't stand anyone at that moment, Ian said no one ever listened to them and no one ever had their time, Renee got mad and they both exchanged words and that was it, she never called back, she never texted back. On their groups she and Ian would avoid each other, if she was being honest with herself Ian never spoke much or texted much on their groups either.
 During that period Ian didn't text at all but she did, so she was the one avoiding Ian this whole time. 
 She hated herself so much she couldn't stand how much pain she was in, she also hated Claudia, she hated Lucia for not saying anything to her and she hated Jose for shutting her out and if Lucia knew and she was there then so did Jose. 
 "I'm so sorry Miranda, I didn't know this, I tried reaching out" as she was trying to explain herself Miranda hugged her. The only thing she could think of was how much of a horrible person she was, her and all her friends but she needed to find out what happened to Ian.
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