23

Imagine my surprise and satisfaction when I saw that my laptop remained right where I had locked it. At least I know for sure that whoever has been sneaking into my room to use my stuff doesn’t know that I locked it. I should probably keep locking it from now on. As I pulled the laptop out of my drawer I thought about the possibility that it was Stark who had been coming into my room to use my laptop but Maggie had gotten one for her too and I know Stark well enough to know that she wouldn’t use my stuff without telling me. Besides whoever has been using my laptop has been checking stuff about school so that completely rules out any possibility that Stark is behind this. So I have come to one natural conclusion, someone snuck into my room. Whoever that person is is behind the chocolate chips cookies I found in my room and the same person used my computer to log into our class group chat. That person obviously has a grudge against Emerald.

Now that one is not a surprise.

Emerald has many enemies. Lindsay is one of them but she is definitely not the stalker.

Emerald’s friends, Lizzie and Jeannie, were other people of interest. Sure they were best friends but I haven’t missed the way Lizzie jumped in to fill Emerald’s place even before the confirmation of her death. It’s not unlikely that those girls envy the kind of life that Emerald has. Now the question is, would either or the both of them be the stalker? Could either or the both of them have thrown Emmy over the balcony? Even the thought of it sent shivers through my body and it was enough to make me not want to think about it anymore.

But I had to get to the bottom of this, I had to clear my name because in all this I stood out as the biggest suspect. If stupid Emerald had not sent that text to the group chat when I caught she and Parker having sex in the assembly hall then maybe I wouldn’t have been a prime suspect. And if Emerald hadn’t once again stupidly singled me out to be bullied in front of the whole school then maybe I wouldn’t have had a reason to hate her which means that once again I wouldn’t be a suspect in all of this. But I am the biggest suspect and the boy I have loved all my life, Leo, probably believes that I am evil enough to kill.

I know I am not a killer so I have to clear my name.i have one more suspect and honestly in my very short list of suspects this person seems more and more like the suspect.

Colin Peel.

Colin and Thomas Firth.

I know. Even saying it out loud makes me feel like an idiot. Why would the Vice Principal and student connive to kill a student? It didn’t make any sense. It further made zero sense because if they did try to kill her how come Colin didn’t know that she survived. Besides Thomas Firth had said that he told Emmy’s dad not to sue so that means he is on her side right?

Ugh Ginny think think think!

And just like that I knew what I had to do. I had to talk to Colin. The last time I tried to stalk him he had taken me by surprise but this time around I know that I should not underestimate him.He might look like the harmless redhead kid but he is anything but harmless. He has strange powers, I know that but what I don’t know is what he has been up to with those powers.

I thought about waiting until tomorrow to confront him again but it occurred to me that he would only try to avoid talking to me in a place where many people would easily see us and overhear our conversation.

I turned on my laptop then and searched for Colin on F******k again and there he was. Before sending the friend request that I knew would set everything in motion I took a deep breath and crossed the pros and cons mentally. When I was sure that the pros outweighed the cons, I hit send.

I was prepared to wait forever for him to accept my friend request but to my surprise I got a notification in nanoseconds that he accepted my friend request.

I cocked a brow. Creep.

I hit the message button and was directed to his private message.

“You creep,” I typed. “You knew I was going to message you. I need answers. We need to talk.” I hit send.

He read the message immediately and began to reply just as quickly. “You could not resist being nosey. Of course we need to talk. Glad you finally realize that.”

“What happened to Emerald?” I asked.

“Is that what you really want to know?”

I resisted the urge to reach through my laptop, grab him by the neck and squeeze the life out pf him. The reason I wanted to do that was because he was right.there were many things I wanted to know but finding out what happened to Emerald wasn’t the top on my list right now. So I sent a different message.

“Why are you keeping her being alive secret?”

“Not that it’s your business but it’s for her own good.”

“That is for the cops to decide. Who are you to decide that?”

His reply made no sense to me. “If I told you, you wouldn’t understand.”

I pursed my lips. “Try me.”

His next reply was just as cryptic. “The time is not yet right for you to know.”

I read the message over and over again and thought about what he had said at the library the other time. ‘The time is not right…’

“Colin, WHAT ARE YOU?” I typed, my fingers slammed my keys in my anger. “You know what I am. Somehow it was easy for you to guess that I am a wolf. That is an unusual thing for anyone to do. Even humans cannot accurately guess things like that. You are something supernatural. Tell me!”

When I hit send I expected him to reply immediately like he had been doing. I expected him to send the same ‘Time is not right’ messages he had been sending. I didn’t expect him to take so long to reply my message and when he did, I didn’t expect the message he sent.

“If you are free after school tomorrow I will take you somewhere. I cannot promise that it will answers all your questions but it is a start. There is so much that you don’t know even with all your strange powers Ginny. When the time is right you will know but for now let’s just start small.”

I read the message and my heart lifted. Finally some fucking answers.

“Where will we be going?” I typed. I wanted to know because I needed to know that this wasn’t a trick. Since I have known him, Colin has been a huge surprise. I never knew that I would be thrown into a life like this where there are so many surprises but here I am in a vortex of so many questions and so little answers.

Colin did not reply my message.

I waited for 5 minutes but he had logged off without telling me what to expect tomorrow. He didnteven read the message.

I slammed my laptop shut and reminded myself that tomorrow was another day and that starting tomorrow I would get answers.

I will clear my name. I will make peace with Leo.

And who knows? Maybe once Emmy returns to school and this whole shit blows over, I will become a sheep.