“I need to confess something.. I did it. Now, can you pass the wine?”

Julius’s voice shakes me out of my thoughts as I look up from my food. Does he even realize what he just said?

“Julius. D—do you know what you just said?” I speak up, everyone else sitting at the table is clearly also surprised. “You basically admitted you committed the crime! You murdered Sadie!”

Julius’s expression doesn’t falter though. There’s nothing in his eyes that I can read, no guilt, no satisfaction on what he had done.

“I know. That’s why I said I did it.” Julius mutters out as he chews on a piece of steak.

No one moved to grab their phone and call the cops. The documentary on how Sadie died was too gruesome, Julius could easily murder us now if we tried to do something.

“Why? I don’t understand.” Emma speaks and her voice shakes, “You—you sick bastard! You took away my best friends life. I hope you rot in hell once you get caught.”

Emma glances at me, her eyes are full of anger and tears build up in her eyes. Her eyes are telling me to stand up with her and call the police, she knows I’m the only one who would help her.

‘Not now.’ I mouth to her.

Emma opens her mouth to argue back, but she closes it quickly and stays silent holding back.

“Are you going to hurt us?” Julie whispers in a quiet voice, but the table could still hear _her_.

“If you tell anyone, yes.”

“You just told us you murdered Sadie. Did you really think we were going to be silent?” Emma yells at Julius.

“Oh my days. Guys. Are you being serious?” Julius brushes his hair out of the way. “How do you not know I’m joking? We’ve been studying this case for, like, five months and you guys actually believed me that I said I murdered her!”

“Julius. This isn’t the time to joke about that though. What if it’s true and you’re trying to defend yourself?” I tell him.

“I never even met Sadie.” Julius says. “All of you guys know that, she was only close with Emma.”

“Are you trying to say… I killed her, you bastard?” Emma slams her hands on the table as she stands up, anger evident in her voice.