Chapter 3
April 25th 2015 9:15 am
The family is clustered over the map, searching for anything that linked these murders.
"Sky was the first" muttered Will "then the older lady, it's like the chain started with Sky then expanded."
"But why?" Victor snapped, losing his patience finally, "Why Sky?, there was nothing to be gained from killing her."
Zed stifled a flinch at hearing her name and both boys turned to their brother muttering "sorry" under their breath.
"What if there was something to be gained?" Diamond's voice filtered into the conversation. The whole family looked at her in disbelief.
"Not a chance" Will said, "Dad and I would have felt the danger if she was in trouble in any way. We couldn't have missed something like that."
Diamond stepped forward, eyes on Victor. She looked determined. "Was anything recovered from Sky's car or her room?" Victor shifted uncomfortably "I know there was a duffel bag in her car but no one searched it, only a quick check but by that time they had pretty much wrapped up the case. No one searched her room."
"So we search her room, see what we find. Her parents left everything the same right?" Sally and Simon had been unable to pack up Sky's room so even though the entire house was empty, her room was the same as it had been a year ago.
No one had bought the house, the rumor was that Sky haunted it or something ridiculous like that. "Ok" Victor agreed. "Let me ask my boss for the bag and we can search that first and her room tomorrow."
As Victor left the entire family slumped back in their chairs. "This is impossible" moaned Phee, "there is no connection between them." Saul stood up suddenly, a thought having sprung to life in his mind.
"That's because there is no connection." "What?" The entire family exclaimed. "So we've been doing this for nothing" Will groaned. "No, it all started with Sky's death, something went wrong. They are just killing for sport, to send a message to someone. Someone who wants revenge for Sky's death."
"That's an interesting theory. But who aside from us would want revenge?" Everybody turned around and saw Victor standing with a duffel bag in his hand.
It was large and a rough faded dark blue color. "It's mostly clothes but who knows maybe we'll find something." He set it on the table and pulled out a leather jacket.
"That wasn't Sky's," Phee pulled out a pair of wicked looking heels "these either" she said with a frown. All of the clothes they pulled out were clothes they had never seen before, mostly tight dresses, combat boots, heels and leather jackets.
Not Sky's style. When Karla was shaking out a tight red dress, a wad of bills fell from between the folds. She grabbed flicking through the bills, "Why would Sky have ten thousand dollars?"
"Why would she have a fake passport?" Victor countered, holding up the small black boo. "Its a fake, its an extremely good fake but still a fake." Saul picked up the passport and scanned it.
It was a typical american passport and the only thing that showed that it was a fake was that the name besides Sky's face was Kara Grace Carson.
Aside from that it was perfect. "Money, a fake passport, drivers license and..." Victor pulled out a piece of paper and unfolded it. "Airplane tickets" he gasped.
Everybody's mouth dropped open in shock. "Look a seat for Kara Grace on a plane to Capetown, Africa." The entire table fell silent. "Was Sky running away from the people who killed her?"
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April 26th 2015 8:36 am
The car tore up the driveway to the house. Yves and Phee spilled out of it, running up to the door.
"Sorry we're late!" "It's all Phee's fault" Yves joked. Phee dug him in the ribs and laughed. Karla smiled affectionately at her son.
Only Karla, Saul, Victor, Trace, Xav and Crystal had showed up. Everyone else was busy but Zed had gotten home last night, shut himself in his room and refused to come out.
The duffel bag had been hard enough and no one was quite sure what it had meant. They had nothing definitive to go on just quite yet.
As soon as they crossed the threshold, all laughter stopped. The atmosphere in the house was somber. Everything was gone out of every other room except Sky's. It was like a ghost town, seeing this room made them reconsider the idea that Sky haunted the house.
It almost seemed as if any other second she would skip around the corner, and wrap her arms around Zed. Yves could almost hear her laugh echoing through the house. It felt wrong just being here.
It almost felt like the house was refusing to let them in and view its secrets. They climbed the stairs in silence, up to her room. Yves took a drop breath and pushed the door open.
It looked exactly the same as it always had, turquoise walls and all. "Where should we start?"
...
"Nothing. Just a fat load of nothing!" Victor exclaimed.
They had been searching for the past 3 hours and they hadn't found anything of use. Crystal looked up from where she had been rummaging through the nightstand. Books, sheets of music and lip gloss covered the floor.
She shrugged and went back to running her fingers over the bottom drawer. "Maybe we should just give up, there nothing here" Xav suggested, he looked extremely bored. They were all frustrated, looking for this long with no results was frustrating.
"Wait" Crystal was turning the drawer over in her hands. "What?" "The bottom is different, almost like there's a..." Crystal threw the drawer on the ground and stomped on it hard.
It fractured and the entire family came and stood around the drawer. Yves picked up the wood and 3 objects fell out of it. Karla and Victor bent to pick them up. Karla held 2 books, which she leafed through. "They are diaries!" She exclaimed. She passed them around. "It gets better," they spun around and looked at Victor who held a black piece of metal.
"If Sky didn't know someone was out to get her than why would she have this?" He held out the piece of metal and once the light fell on it, it was obvious what it was.
Sky had a gun hidden in her room.
...
The shadows cast a flickering effect around the church.
The tall figure pulled a sweater around his frame as he moved up the aisle. He was carrying a lit candle and a slim figure moved after him.
They were both eerily graceful, you couldn't even hear their footsteps. They halted when they reached the altar and the boy let out a low whistle. 5 other figures melted out of the darkness.
"Hey Maggie" one boy broke the silence laughing. The tiny figure laughed and skipped forward to be even with the boy.
Their hands brushed and pinkies intertwined. The other two slight figures which compared to the boys made them look miniature, walked up to the girl. They almost appeared to be communicating with no words.
The boy coughed, "as much as I hate to break up the sister/ triplet bonding thingy, we do have actual work to do." One of them told him quite colourfully what she thought of that idea.
Their laughter echoed through the still space. "Alright, you guys took care of them last week right?" "Yup" the slim girl pulled a lollipop out of her pocket and started to unwrap it.
"Must you?" The boy asked her as she popped the candy in her mouth. She stuck her tongue out in response.
"They're looking for you still. They went through the room." One of the girls tossed her hair over her shoulder "So?" "We need the contacts. We need there help."
The girl rolled her eyes. "All in favor." All hands went up except hers. They all looked at her expectantly.
"All right" she groaned, "Its off to Wrickenridge we go!"
Authors note
Sorry this is later than I expected. Wait for it though because in the next few chapter stuff is about to happen! This next chapter may take me a few days but I promise another update by Sunday at least lol. Anyway I know that the two parts seem to have very little connection together but in a few chapters I will connect them. Just chill a moment with me. Anyways review, follow and favorite please! It will make me really happy and happy author person= much faster updates!
Hint for next chapter
*Diaries are read!*