The Café Rosé - The blossoming of old secrets

˚₊‧☆‧₊˚5.Arthur a good friend (Eleonore)˚₊‧☆‧₊˚

Today me and Arthur had arranged to meet, or rather he had begged for it. As I've mentioned before, I don't like other people, Arthur is an exception, he's not that annoying. My friend went to the university opposite, the Sorbonne, and the courses he studied were history and philosophy. I would have thought he was an extremely inquisitive person. 

Now I was sitting relaxed in a beautiful park. It was full of flowers of different colours, trees in bloom and a beautiful fountain that gave the park its own sparkle. I had to draw it, I took my sketchbook and sketched it. 

After a while, Arthur appeared and spoke sadly: "I'm sorry..." "What's wrong?" I asked as nicely as I could. He smiled sadly. "Well, I'm sorry but In...", he saved himself thankfully and didn't promise. "I just wanted to say that we haven't been inline skating for a very long time?" "When did we go skating?" I asked thoughtfully. He just laughed and said: "Never! But we could sometime." I didn't know what to say, so I laughed along with him. 

A short time later, the same guy who knew my name turned up. It seemed like he and Arthur were good friends. The guy greeted me in a friendly way: "Hi, I'm Ben, we go to the same university." It all made sense now, he knew me because of the university. I had greeted him too. To be honest, Ben seemed very strange to me at first. 

The two of them mumbled something and then Arthur spoke casually: "Why don't we go for dinner?" I nodded in agreement. We went out to eat in a luxury restaurant. The two of them were dressed elegantly and I was only wearing a damn dress that wasn't elegant. Everyone stared at me when we went in, everyone there was dressed nicely except me. It was terribly embarrassing. We sat down at a table. 

After a while, the waiter came and politely asked, "What can I get you?" We said what we wanted. I can't remember exactly, but the waiter brought the food. I looked around and a somewhat sombre atmosphere came from the table opposite. The man had black eyes that looked to me like the eyes of a demon. I almost choked on my juice and I saw him looking at me now as if he had me in his sights. Full of fear, I turned my gaze away from him. 

"Eleonore, are you all right?" Ben asked anxiously, offering me a napkin. 

I could feel the man's piercing gaze and I couldn't shake the feeling that something bad was about to happen. 

"And Leo, how are things going at university?" Arthur looked at me with interest. "Nothing special, just some Ines ruined my sketchpad by spilling coffee on it. Your friend probably remembers that," I said without making a face. Ben apologised: 'I'm very sorry. I didn't mean it like that. I just wanted to continue reading my book in peace." "What book were you reading?" "Lord of the Rings. It's my favourite book," he replied. We chatted and after an eternity the food arrived.

Shortly afterwards, the man and the woman sitting at the table started talking loudly. It didn't seem like an argument, but it wasn't a normal conversation either. The man took off his hat, and only then did I realise that he had a gun hidden on his black hard hat. He took the gun in his hand and shot the woman in cold blood, starting to shoot around him. At first I was frozen with fear. I couldn't believe what had happened. Her head had exploded like a bomb and there were pieces of her brain all over the wall. It was disgusting. It all happened too fast for me. 

Ben took me by the hand and we hid under the table. He said carefree: 'Everything will be fine. We'll just have to wait here for a moment and then you'll run away quickly." "But what about you?" I asked worriedly. He just waved me off and whispered that I should run away now.

I ran away and couldn't see how many people died. I waited for them outside. I felt so sick. Just the thought of the poor woman being dead. A few minutes later, the two of them rushed out the back door. 

Once Arthur, Ben and I were outside, we called the police. "What happened to the man?" I asked anxiously with tears in my eyes. The two of them looked at me in shock because I never cry or care about anyone but a few people. Arthur tried not to get upset. He said coldly, "It's nothing important. Let's get out of here quickly." Ben said he had things to do. So it was just the two of us running away.

I went with Arthur to Green Lake. We sat and relaxed. It was already night. Arthur looked sad. But why? What's wrong with him? I asked nicely, "Is everything all right?" He just nodded. Suddenly he shouted, "Leo... is that a... lei...?" I didn't know what he meant. But then he pointed to a woman lying on the bank. She looked dead. I went over to her and put my hand in front of her nose to see if she was dead. She was dead! I didn't know what to do. I said calmly, although I was terrified: "We mustn't touch the body, otherwise our DNA will be on it. We'll be suspects. Do you understand? We'll just walk away as if we'd never seen the body. He nodded frantically. Someone had shot Arthur with a gun....