Writing Prompt: "Say Cheese!"

“Say Cheese!”  And that’s when all hell broke loose!

Prologue

“Say cheese!” the photographer before clicking the shuttle button to take the photo of my fiancé, Stephan, and I for our engagement photo.

Just when the photographer hit the shuttle button, all hell broke loose.  Stephan was shot in the chest with a bullet that came flying from the camera.

As I watched my fiancé go down, I held him in my arms until First Responders arrived to tend to Stephan.

Thoughts of who could do this rushed through my mind, as I begged to go in the ambulance with Stephan.   But I had to wait in the waiting room while they took Stephan into the ER to examine his injuries. 

The wait was unbearable.  10 minutes turned into an eternity until the doctor came out to inform me Stephan was being taken into the OR for immediate surgery.  I was to call Stephan’s family.  What were they going to think when I told them what happened?

Stephan’s family—father, mother, and sister, Emilia, arrived at the hospital.  Stephan’s mother went into accusatory mode and immediately blamed me, while Stephan’s father comforted me, to the chagrin of his wife.  Emilia was her usual self as she sat on her phone and text her friends.

Two hours later, the doctor came out to give us the grim news…Stephan didn’t make it!

As Stephan’s mother laid blame on me…I left the hospital to investigate the murder of my fiancé!

And that’s how I became a P.I. …….