Category : Books-Fiction

Sub Category : Suspense/Mystery

     After school was over, Analisa had to shake off her friends to see Clarissa. It wasn't an easy job since Melanie had always seemed to tell when something wasn't right. 
       "I see you actually came." Clarissa said ushering her to come inside her house. "At first I thought you wouldn't believe a word I'd say." Analisa sat her bookbag by the sofa. She looked around and observed Clarissa's nicely established home. 
       "My mom won't be home until after nine. So we could have some time together." Analisa looked at her. She  thought Clarissa was forgetting of her being there in the first place. "Clarissa, I didn't come here so we could just hang out together. I came here because you said you know exactly what happened to my Amanda and Lamees." Clarissa scowled in some disappointment. 
      "I did?" Analisa frowned and picked up her backpack. She was now regretting coming to the lair of a girl she despises. "Unbelievable." She said as she walked towards the door. "Wait! I was just kidding. Are you really that stubborn?" Analisa turned around and looked at her. Was she serious? Kidding about something that doesn't deserve a disgraceful laugh.
        "Clarissa, I didn't come here to play games. I want to know why my friends were murdered. And joking around like this isn't giving me much of a reason why." She walked towards her with a serious face. A face that no one should play around with. Clarissa looked around poking at her hair. Her worried face from earlier had come to take over. Now Analisa could tell she was becoming serious ...
       
   Michelle's house. 

"Where do you think Ana had to go afterwards?" Michelle asked Blaze. Melanie looked at the both of them. Something had been bothering her ever since Analisa parted from them when they left school hours ago.
      "She probably had to go somewhere with her mom." Blaze said. "But her mom doesn't leave work until midnight. Remember she works overtime at the office." Melanie said correcting. She kept thinking about lunch of the new things she just acknowledged from her friends. Now she's afraid that Nicole may as well be a witness and the fact that she wasn't interrogated by the police officer...
       "It must be really hard to work as the assistant of a CEO." Michelle just looked down at her teddy bear. "But I bet it's not as hard as working on every class and homework assignment before a due date." "I think so too. Especially since she has a sexy boss, too." "Blaze!" "What? It's better than being stuck in school. And besides I'm eighteen. If Miss Cortez decided to hook me up with him." 
      "Yeah, I'm pretty sure Miss Cortez wouldn't want to give up her relationship with her boss to an eighteen year old girl." Melanie said. 
      Blaze rolled her eyes. "So how was that Nicole's party?" Both Michelle and Blaze became uncomfortable. They knew they were supposed to tell each other everything. 
    
    Clarissa's house. 

    "You see the reason why Amanda and Lamees were at the party was because they were blackmailing Nicole." "Blackmailing? What would they know about Nicole and if they knew something I'm sure at least Lamees would tell us." Clarissa sighed heavily. "They had information about Nicole's boyfriend." Analisa and just about everyone else at school  knew Nicole had multiple boyfriends. "I'm pretty sure you have to be very specific about her past boyfriends." "The one she had in 2011." Analisa couldn't remember Nicole with a certain boyfriend. I mean she did have one boyfriend that she for the first time had actually liked. She had never caught his name and she rarely saw him. And the times she did see him she remembered him staring back at her with his green eyes and dark hair. Somehow he had a similar look to someone..
     "So he had green eyes?" Clarissa nodded. "Okay I have seen him a few times, but not at school. I only knew that they were dating and everyone else had talked about them all the time. Why?" Clarissa took one more breath. 
         "The reason why Amanda and Lamees were at the party because they knew her boyfriend was her cousin."