Chapter 2

Coral's POV

After the police officers asked me a few questions. Mostly it was like "Do you know if your parents have any enemy's?" and "Did you see anything strong or out of place when you left your house this morning?" There was a bunch of other questions but I can't remember what they were but most of my answer's were mostly no or maybe.

Right know we were heading to my Uncle Roberts house. I didn't really talk to anyone in the car.

When we arrived at the house my Uncle told me that the whole family was coming over to see me and have dinner.

Over the next 2 hours the whole family was there. Almost all my cousins were there. All my aunts and all my uncles were there.

Everyone came and said hello and tried to cheer me up. It was wired because all my aunt's seemed to want to cry and looked worried that I wasn't talking. My Uncles just checked up on me now and then. Most of my cousins were sad but not to broken up about the accident but they were all older then me by a few years, so they could handle it.

My Cousins were all sitting with me. They were playing a game of monopoly when the doorbell rang again. I was wondering who it was. So I looked to see if everyone was here and realized that my eldest cousin mark and his family weren't here.

When I heard the door close in came my last cousin with his family. I felt a little tug on my shirt so I looked down and found my cousins kid. He was so cute. He put his arms up telling me that he wanted to get up on the couch with me. So I picked him up.

I remembered that I still didn't know his name so I whispered to him. "Hey, what's your name?" I was quiet enough that he was the only one that could hear what I had said.

"Gwayson" He said. But he couldn't say the 'R' in Grayson. "What youw name?" He asked.

"Coral" Still in a quiet voice.

Uncle Richard's POV

When Mark arrived with his wife Kelly and son Grayson. We were talking about what we should do about the situation. Until I saw Grayson sitting on Corals lap on the couch it seemed that they were talking.

"Guy's look" I pointed to Coral and Grayson in the living room.

"That's cute," said Kelly

"It looks like Grayson is getting Coral to talk" Said Rider in a surprised voice that is not commonly heard.

"She hasn't spoken since the police officers finished asking her questions," said Robert

"Maybe it is because Grayson is not treating hear like he is sorry for what happens," said Kelly.

Cara's POV

I had just finished my homework and decided to call Coral.

"Hello" Coral said when she picked up the phone.

"Hey Coral, it's Cara" I said, " What's up?"

"Not much. You?"

"Just finished my homework and wanted to ask you why you got sent to the principal's office?" I said

"Oh, well when I left the class he told me to get my things to go home and then go to his office" I could tell that she was sad because of the way she was talking, "when I got there I found all my uncles there along with 2 police officers."

"Wait your uncles. I thought that your family didn't talk to them a lot and police officers?"

"Ya, when I was sitting down they told me…" She hesitated. I could hear her sniffling like she was about to cry.

"Coral, What happened? You can tell me." I was worried for my friend because she never cry's. Even when she broke her arm she didn't cry.

"They t-told m-me that my had been murdered." When she said the last word she started crying.

"Hey don't cry it will be alright. You can get through this. You're strong. Heck you're the strongest person that I know." I said. It was hard to comfort her when we were on the phone but I tried my best.

"Ya, I know it will be fine. It's just hard."

"Ya, I know. But you can handle it"

"Thanks, you're a great friend" she had stopped crying and was just sniffling now.

"Of courses I am. But I have one question for you what do you want me to tell the people at school if they ask where you are?" I had to ask because I didn't want to just tell people what happened with out her consent.

"Only tell my close friends. If someone asks tell them but make them swear not to tell anyone. I don't want the hole school knowing."

"Ok" I said, "I will call soon ok"

"Ya that would be fine. I should probably go. I sort of left to take your call in the middle of dinner"

"Ya , ok bye . And remember that it you need anything just call."

"Ok, bye" She said and hung up.

When Coral hung up I felt really bad for her. She was such a nice person. She was nice to everyone, and stud up to bullies even if she didn't know the person that was getting bullied well. On top of that she was mega beautiful with her turquoise eyes, long dark, dark brown hair that was almost black that fell in waves to her mid back, and to top that of she had the perfect figure that wasn't muscular, with curves in just the right places. Every guy had a crush on her but when one asked her out she would turn him down. I kept wondering how this could have happened to her?

Coral's POV

It had been 5 days since I found out. I hadn't gone to school and I haven't talked to a lot of my friends. I was getting ready to go to the funeral. I was wearing a black knee length dress with tiets, black boots, and a black sweater.

When we arrived I was silent. I felt if I talked that I was going to cry. We were having a 2-hour visitation period so people could pay their respects. We were then going to have the actual ceremony before we went to the cemetery.

People kept coming up to me telling me that they were sorry for my loss. I would say 'thanks' and then fall silent again. I didn't say or do anything during the ceremony or at the cemetery. I was pretty much silent the whole time.

After everything was done the family (aunts, uncles, cousins) and close family friends were invited for a late lunch at my Uncle Robert's house. I still didn't talk to a lot of people. So I went to the room that I was staying in.