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~Fading Footprints.
"There are two sides to every person, one we show the world, and the other we keep hidden."
Kristen grabbed her Macbook Air off of her bed, and jabbed the USB drive into her computers socket. The screen went black, and then she saw Massie sitting right in front of her eyes. Kristen began to wonder why Massie had sent her this, and she hit the play button as soon as she was ready to deal with what was going to come next.
"If you are watching this then, it means that I am dead. I know that the police would love to say I committed "suicide", but I had so much to live for." Kristen paused the video, she didn't ever think that what happened to Massie could have been murder. She blamed herself for not seeing the so called "signs" of suicide, but if Massie is confessing that she was murder...well going to be murder then no one could have prevented her fate. "I am so sorry that I couldn't be there for you guys during my death, but I am afraid that I am huge trouble. You see, I found something out that I shouldn't have. I can't tell you, but you need to solve the mystery so I can have justice for my death. You will need to go back to Westchester, and if you don't do this, I will haunt you. I will torture you until you bring me justice."
The screen faded black, and Kristen sat there for what seemed like a hour without moving, as she tried to make sense of what Massie had just said. Kristen didn't know if the other girls had figured out how to find the USB drive and if they had then they hadn't talked to her about it. She didn't know if it was worth bothering her former friends with the claims of the dead Massie Block. She finally stood up and threw the USB drive into the trash can not bothering to call the girls about the message.
Two months later:
"So Kristen, I heard that you spent a night in jail, is that true?" Audrey the soccer captain asked the dirty blonde about her dirty secret.
Kristen had no idea how Audrey could have found about her night in jail, because there was only one person who had known and it was Massie. Kristen had gotten herself in jail for breaking into the soccer coaches house as a dare for her senior year at BOCD High School. She used her one phone call to call Massie to bail her out, and Massie also made sure no one would ever find out about the incident.
"Audrey, don't you have anything better to do than pick on me? Like, I don't know practice on improving your foot work?" Kristen stabbed back. She didn't bother to play Audrey's stupid little game.
"Listen, I don't care about you, but I just want the others to know about a thief in case their stuff starts to go missing." Audrey said as she slammed her locker shut and walked out of the locker room.
Kristen knows that Audrey would never stop with bullying her, and the more dirt Audrey finds the worse it will be for Kristen. If they find out about her past in Westchester, her scholarship could be gone along with dignity, because who she was back then isn't something she is proud of.
"So Alicia your last name is Rivera, isn't it?" Hannah an annoying blond-haired girl in Alicia's ballet class asked. Hannah hasn't been very open to Alicia, because she doesn't think Alicia belongs at Julliard.
"Yes, that is my last name."
"Funny, because I heard that it actually is Rivers." Hannah said with a smirk plastered on her face.
"Who told you, my last name is Rivers?" Alicia asked shocked Hannah had known the truth behind her lineage.
"It doesn't matter, but what does matter is that you are a liar."
Alicia rushed out of ballet class before the tears could fall down her face, how had someone as dumb as Hannah find out about her family's secret? The only person clever enough to have known was Massie. There is no way Hannah could have asked Massie for the dirt on Alicia, because Massie is dead. Hopefully, this is all Hannah has on Alicia, because the rest of her dirty laundry is much worse than her fake last name.
Dylan Marvil has been beyond "scared" for the past two months, because she keeps thinking she has seen Massie around campus. She almost had stopped going to her classes because of this, but Sophia had pushed her to keep going. She never told Sophia why she didn't want to go to class, and Sophia never really asked, because Sophia had assumed it was because Dylan got overwhelmed with college.
"Why did you lie to me?" Sophia asked Dylan intently one morning when they were getting dressed for class.
"What do you mean?" Dylan asked wondering what Sophia was talking about, and she hoped she didn't figure out about her past in Westchester.
"Well when I asked you where you were from, you said here," Sophia paused as she grabbed her backpack off the ground. "I know you are from New York so why did you lie?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Dylan said coldly as she grabbed her backpack, and ran out of the dorm.
She wasn't ready to face her past, and she didn't want Sophia to know about all the reasons why Westchester isn't a place you want to say you are from.
"Claire, I want you to know that next semester, I will no longer be your roommate, because I have requested a transfer." Melissa told Claire one morning as Claire prepared to go to class. Claire had no idea why Melissa would want a transfer, because it seemed like they got along pretty well.
"May I ask why?" Claire asked to know the reason.
"Well, I heard about your sexuality, and with my upbringing I am not comfortable with having a gay roommate." Melissa said dropping the bomb on Claire, that she knew about Claire's secret.
"Who told you?" Claire asked angrily, because she didn't want her religious roommate to find about it from someone else other than her.
"It really doesn't matter, but I thought you should know before next semester." Melissa said as she left for her class.
Claire sat there at her desk in disbelief that someone had spilled her deepest secret, and how someone found out here is beyond her. The only person who had known was Massie, because of a truth or dare game they played between them. Massie had dared Claire to kiss her, and Claire had but Massie meant a playful kiss not a french kiss. After that Massie swore to not tell anyone about her secret until she was ready to come out.
"Hey, I know that we haven't talked in a long time but I think that Massie is messing with me." Claire said as she talked to the former PC over Skype.
"I've seen her around campus, and I know it is crazy but I think she is haunting me." Dylan said spilling her secret sightings.
"She sent me a package but I threw it away, so now I think she is getting back at me by telling everyone my last name is Rivera." Alicia confessed to receiving a package only to throw it away.
"I got the same one, but I opened it and found a secret compartment with a USB drive," Kristen paused to catch her breath, she was nervous talking about Massie like this, "There was a video of Massie talking to us, and in it, she demanded we go back to Westchester to solve the mystery of her death."
"Do you think she was murder?" Claire asked.
"It's a possibility." Kristen said.
"We need to go back." Dylan said, because she is afraid that if they don't, it will only get worse.
"We will go back on Christmas break, and solve this so she can stop haunting us. We need to find out what happened to her." Claire said, and they girls nodded their heads in agreement.
They said their goodbyes, and planned to begin investigating on Massie's death during Christmas break, but Claire needed more answers than what she has. She needed to call Cam Fisher to find out if he knew anything about Massie's unusual death. The only problem is she didn't have his number, and she had no idea where he had gone to school for college. However, maybe Derrick would know considering he was friends with Cam before any of the PC was. It's time to give Derrick a blast from the past.
"When everything you love has been stolen from you, sometimes all you have left is revenge."
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