Chapter 13

MYSTIC HOLLOW

(Homicide)

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BY NAOMI INNOCENT

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CHAPTER 13

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"Does your dad always come home this early? Its just past 6" Peter said to Alex as he stared at his writswatch.

"Sometimes. let's hide the journal, if he finds out, I'm gonna get into more trouble" he said as the knock continued while he took the journal to his room and wrapped it under his pillow and went back to the parlor.

"Let's stay calm ok?" He muttered to his friends and went to the door, he opened it as Bonnie pushed past him.

"Its about time you know? What were you doing here that you couldn't get the door and you had to waste so much time?" Bonnie blurted out as she walked inside the parlor, holding a pink mini bag as Fay walked beside her.

"Oh my Gosh! Peter" she said running to his arms smiling as Laura and Alex laughed at that.

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Sarah got home quivering, she was so scared. She walk past the guards outside their mansion and staggered inside.

"Welcome, Little Miss" Zoe said bowing before her and observed the mud under her shoes.

Sarah didn't give a damn but just went straight inside the house. Zoe had stopped accompanying Sarah after she had made it clear countless times, that she doesn't like it.

Her mom was at the living room, taking coffee as she read Mystic Hollow magazine, her dad wasn't around. Probably at the grill or shouting at the sheriff.

"Oh Sarah darling, you're home" her mom said smiling at her.

Without sparring her mom a look, she rushed to her room upstairs and banged the door.

Her mom shrug at that and continued what she was doing.

She took off her shoes and sat on her bed, placing her bag on the bed. She scratched her hair with her fingers as she breathed heavily.

She took off her clothes and walked to the shower, standing under the sprinter, the droplets of water sprayed on her nude body as she stared at the mirror and cried.

She finished bathing and tied a towel around her chest, after dressing up, she sat on her bed as she thought of writing what she felt at the moment.

Taking her bag, she started searching for her journal in it but couldn't find it. She stopped searching for it as she closed her eyes for some minute.

She opened them and walked towards her closet. She took a scissors from it using it to cut her left palm.

Black droplets of blood fell on the floor as she went back to sit on her bed. She took her pencil and drawing book as she started drawing.

She drew a house and her journal beside it. She took a piece of cloth from her closet, cutting it with the scissors, she used the clothe to tie round her wounded palm

She wore a pair of slipper as she rushed downstairs with the drawing book. She got to the living room and met her mom still engrossed in whatever she was reading.

She placed the drawing on the table her mom was sitting next to as her mom noticed her presence in the room.

"Sarah honey, is there anything that you need?" Her mom asked her as she just stared at the book on the table. Her mom traced her eye to what she was staring at.

Her mom picked the drawing book and stared at it.

"What do you want to do with it, it's a nice painting?" Her mom asked her as she pointed at the journal on the drawing. Her mom couldn't get what Sarah was trying to tell her so she had to call on Agent Zoe if she could interpret what Sarah was trying say.

"Agent Zoe, I need you in the parlor now" her mom said to a mini phone.

"Roger that ma'am" Zoe replied.

"What kind of paint is this" her mom said sniffing the drawing. In less than 3 minutes, Zoe was seen in the parlor.

"I don't know what Sarah is trying to say. Take a look at what she drew" her mom said as Zoe took the drawing from her hands

"Sarah, what do you want?" Agent Zoe asked Sarah as she pointed at the journal in the drawing, then pointed at the building.

"Ma'am, I think she lost her journal, and she thinks it is in this house" Agent Zoe said.

"Well how did she know it is in that house?" Mrs. Bellos asked as she dropped the magazine on the table, taking the drawing book from Zoe, she stared at the house.

"This is Detective Crane's house" Mrs. Bellos said as she handled the book back to Zoe who gave it back to Sarah

"Well, go get it for her. Since she needs it this bad that she has to ask for it. You know it's rare, Sarah doesn't do stuff like this" Mrs. Bellos said as Sarah led the way outside.

"And make sure you bring her back quickly, its getting late. Its 7pm already" Mrs. Bellos said staring at the gigantic clock on the wall

"Yes ma'am" Zoe said as she and Sarah finally went outside the house.

Accompanied by three other guards, Sarah entered her limo with Zoe driving, straight to the Cranes' home.

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"Wait wait wait, let me get this straight. You warned them about the meatloaves but they refused and insisted?" Bonnie asked Laura who was gisting her as she nodded her head in affirmation making Bonnie laugh.

"That is ridiculous!" Bonnie kept laughing as Alex rolled his eyes at her. He seriously does not find anything funny and he still could not tell why his sister refuse leaving Peter's side.

"The funniest part of it all was that, Elena puked!" Peter exclaimed as Bonnie laughed the more even though it doesn't sound funny to any of them.

Fay had left already. And they were so engrossed in their conversations that they had forgotten the journal at Alex's room.

Suddenly, the door bell was jingled as they stared at each other with confusion written all over their faces.

Alex's dad just called that he wouldn't be coming home today because he would be on patrol with detective mansion, so who the hell was at the door?

"Are you expecting any visitor?" Peter asked Alex who shook his head negatively.

"I guess it's Fay, maybe she forgot something and she had to come back" Bonnie said racing to the door as Alex tried to stop her. Reaching the door, she opened it seeing a man and a lady on black suit.

"Bonnie, you can't just rush to get the door like that" Alex said going to meet her at the door as he met the strange people too.

"May we come in?" Zoe asked as Alex who was speechless nodded his head and left the path for them while he held on tight to his sister.

"What the..." Peter said as they all stare at the strange people who sat on the couch opposite them.

"Hey kids, you all need not to quiver. In fact, we came in peace. I am Agent Zoe and this is my colleague Xander. We are looking for this journal, we were directed here that it might be here" Zoe said showing them the drawing on the drawing book.

The Freaks stared at it as they swallowed hard and gave each other a weird look.

"So has by chance any of you come across it? The journal belongs to Sarah Bells and... " Zoe didn't finish his speech as Laura cut her.

"We saw a journal that looks like that at the cemetery today, but we didn't know the owner so we took it home hoping to find its owner" Laura lied as Zoe nodded.

"May I see this journal?" She said as Alex who was sitting next to Elena whispered something to her. She nodded and stood up, heading straight to his room upstairs.

"The person that drew this is damn good" Alex said purposely trying to start up a conversation.

"Yh, Sarah drew it. You guys know her right?" Zoe asked as Peter smiled.

"Who doesn't know Sarah Bellos the Mayor's daughter? And apart from that, she's our classmate too and is always late to school" Peter said as Zoe gave a small laugh.

Alex and Laura secretly glare at him.

They were beginning to wonder what was taking Elena so long.

"I'll go check on her" Alex said standing up only to see Elena climbing down the stairs now.

"Oh, here she comes" Peter said as Alex sat down back and was surprised to see Bonnie fast asleep already on the couch as he adjusted her to balance on the couch. (This story is written by Naomi Innocent)

Elena got to where they were sitted and handled the journal to Zoe who took it and observed.

"I think this is it. It perfectly fit in to what she drew. Thanks a lot kids. We really appreciate" she said standing up.

"We seriously do not know why that kid is so obsessed and found of this old journal" Agent Xander stood up too. They shook hands with the kids and Alex and his friends followed them outside.

They saw Sarah inside the limo who was staring at them seriously.

Oh wait, she wasn't staring at them, she was actually staring at Elena again.

Bonnie remained inside the house because she fell asleep on the couch when the uninvited guests came.

They waved them bye as the limo drove off.

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AT SCHOOL THE NEXT DAY

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They were having sports as Elena lay down flat on the field.

Mr. Fabian, their sport master had been making them run round the field and they were exhausted already.

Sport was over and it was lunch break, they went to have their shower after which they gathered round their normal table. Sarah wasn't at the cafe this time around, and they had nothing to talk about her except they were still looking for ways to draw closer to her.

Elena pressed an iceberg against her forehead because she was feeling headache after the sport.

They had cheese for lunch as Laura told them of how Edward is now crushing on Elena. But Elena wasn't listening to her because she was engrossed with the photo she was staring at on her phone screen.

"Guys!" She said interrupting them as Laura stopped talking and they all adverted their attention towards her.

"Check these writings" She said showing them as they observed.

"These are Latin language" Laura said as she swallowed the cheese in her mouth that had been chewed already.

"They look odd and antedeluvian" Peter confessed as they stared at the strange writings.

"Yh, this is a picture of some part of Sarah's journal I took" Elena said as her friends gasped.

"When I was sent to go bring the journal, I couldn't just let go of it without seeing what was written inside. I took some pictures if it with the hope that we would check it out later" Elena expounded.

"Nice job Lena" Alex commented.

"But her journal is encrypted in Latin, how are we going to decipher it?" Laura asked no one in particular.

"And I'm having this feeling that, the kid that wrote in Latin that your grandpa was taking care of her psychological issues was Sarah Bellos" Peter said to Laura.

"Yh, me too" Alex seconded.

"Seriously, we really need to decipher these part of the journal I snapped" Elena said bitting her fingers.

"Yh true. But how are we gonna do that? None of us here understands Latin" Peter said with a shrug as they kept mute for a while.

"I think I know someone that writes in Latin" Laura said smiling as she, Elena and Peter stared at Alex.

Alex was still confuse why they were staring at him, then it dawned on him immediately.

"No no no no, we are not involving my little sister in this. She is only a kid!" Alex said as they kept staring at him.

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TBC