Love and Die by Illia Ryzhikov

Something strange happened last night
in the apartment of my neighbours. I knew this couple for two years and I supposed that they have some problems in relationships but as for me it was just simple marriage couple problems. Mike and Clara - a murderer and a victim now. I was on court when judge gave Mike seven years for killing his wife. It was terrible and horrifying that I was living near this monster last years.
When cops had found the body of Clara no one could believe that it was a body of a human. Bloody mess around kitchen- that’s where the body was found. I was able to speak with Mike after judge decision, but he just lost ability of speaking. He tried to show some gestures to me. His face looked like he saw the most horrible acts in the world. During the trial, he wrote on a piece of paper that it wasn’t he who killed his wife. In the process the investigation policemen found out that Clara had a colleague at work who used to drive her to her flat really often and Mike said that it irritated him a lot. But Mike’s lawyer was trying to convince judge that his client couldn’t have done such a murder. He said that, of course they had quarrels but it is common among young couples and her colleague cannot be the reason of crime.
Maybe this colleague could kill her? Who knows. The only thing that nobody knows about Mike except me it was the fact that he has a lover. She was even younger than Clara. I saw her a few times as Mike took her home rarely. Perhaps she might take his fingerprints and put it everywhere to substitute him.
In the end, Mike was jailed, Clara’s colleague was found not guilty and Mike’s lover wasn’t involved in the murder at all. And nobody still knows that I killed Clara because I loved her, but she didn’t reciprocate. It was hard to see her with Mike.