Weird Girl: UPDATING ON SCHEDULE LIKE A BOSS!

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Weird Girl: LIKE! A! BOSS! (Angwy face!)

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Chapter 3

"Okay, according to this newspaper," Sonika said as she pulled out today's newspaper, to show us what she had highlighted. We were having our regular group investigation meeting that takes place right after school, on the campus under a tree, "Twin teenagers stole a car yesterday and dove off and the police couldn't find them."

"Yeah? What's so special about that?" Piko asked as he sucked on a lollipop that Miki gave him. "That was on the local news."

"Well, look right here!" She pointed to the highlighted part. "This part wasn't on the news."

"'Twin, teen siblings (brother and sister), both fourteen years of age, high jacked a car and were able to drive away from the police.'" I read aloud.

"Read on! The next part is the part that wasn't on the news!" Sonika said as she tapped the sentence. I sighed and continued reading out loud.

"'But later around midnight, there were two screams...coming from the house that lies outside of our quiet town! Police followed the direction of the screams to that house. The stolen vehicle was parked outside the house. The police suspect that in their attempt to escape, the twins parked outside of the house and entered. Assuming that they would be afraid to enter, the police did not check the house. The two had lost their lives to the local murderer!"

"Now, what have you noticed about the times of the screams occur? No matter what time of day the person enters; even if they enter one o'clock in the morning?"

"...They all happen at midnight!" Miki stated.

"Exactly!" Sonika smiled.

I began thinking...if that's true...then..."But, if some walked into the house in the afternoon, then why don't we only hear them yelling and everything until midnight?" I asked.

"I...don't know..." Sonika sighed as she hung her head.

"...What if the Murderer lives there? And he catches them, muffles them, and waits until midnight where he takes his victims to the room with the windows open so he can let the rest of the town hear their screams!" Piko theorized. "Letting the town hear the screams to let them know that he will continue doing it...or to let our town continue to fear..."

"Possibly..." I said as I began to think about it.

"No..." Miki began. "We only hear people say it happens around midnight...but if it's at midnight, then nobody can really hear the screams, right? So it just happens at night in general...I say about from nine at night to two in the morning. I'm sure people either have active imaginations or a bad sense of time."

"Even so, doesn't that mean the murderer has to stay with in the house all this time to make sure if anyone comes in, they stay inside and not try to leave the house or anything?" I asked.

"Yeah but, the police investigated that place and they said they couldn't find a single person... Yet...some of their team became missing when they entered." Piko pointed out. "Only a few of the policemen were able to get out of the house, seeing how many people were sent there every day."

"True..." Sonika placed on a face that told us she was thinking. "Maybe I'll try to use twitter and see what other people know..."

"That twitter again?"

"What's wrong with twitter?" She gave us a sharp look.

"Nothing!" we replied in unison.

"Now, how could the police not find anyone in there... Yet...people still go missing and die...?" she asked.

"...Maybe when they split up and when they were looking...they secretly took the person out of the group or something?" I suggested.

"Not good enough." Miki responded.

We all continued to think of possibilities, but we were stumped for the rest of the meeting. We sighed as we got up and grabbed our bags.

"Same time tomorrow?" I asked as I began to walk my way home.

"Right." Sonika said. "Also, don't forget to dig up more information!"

"Right." the rest of us responded, then we went home.

On my way home, I continued to think. How is the murderer able to stay inside that house, yet, not be found by the police who investigated it? Why wait so long till it's late? And nobody ever saw someone leaving the house after entering. If the murderer stays in there all the time, then what do they do for food if they're alive? They would have to come out eventually, right? But yet, nobody comes out of the house... Also, if they do kill people in there or something, why don't we smell rotting bodies or see them being disposed of? Could it really be a monster that eats them? Or a ghost? A ghost would be explain why the cops couldn't find anyone when investigating-wait, what am I thinking? A ghost? That's stupid... Yes, the murderer has to be a person- well, human...

"Hello, Onii-chan!" Yuki greeted me as I walked through the door. Yuki's my little sister. Many people say we look alike, sharing same eye color, bit of the same nose structure and everything. The only difference is our hair color, mine being more of a dark brown instead of a black.

"Hello, Yuki-chan." I greeted her back. Ever since she told me about what happened with a friend of hers entering the house, I forbid her to go near it, although it makes me sound like a hypocrite. "How was your day at school?"

"Good!" she replied with a smile. "And yours?"

"Fine." I said as I went up to my room. I laid on my stomach on my bed as I began to work on my homework, chewing on the end of my pencil as I tried to think. A bad habit I have. As I continued to work, I felt my cell phone vibrate. I pulled my phone out of my pocket and looked at the text I received, it was from Sonika.

"I forgot it was the weekend tomorrow!" It read. "So! Instead of going to our usual school meeting place, we'll be meeting at our hangout that we go on weekends! -Sonika."

"...Huh..." I looked over at my... Pretty Flower Calendar (shut up, my little sister got me it for my birthday) and looked at today's date. "...Oh...Today is Friday...I wonder how the heck I forgot..." then I went back to work.

A/N: Please Review!

Editing by Kaitany, because I can and it's free.

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