Chapter 10
They arrived at the Cat Woman's place and knocked on the door.
"Hello." Alice called out. "Cat Woman are you there?"
No one answered the door and Bella started to panic.
"What if something happened to her?" she asked. "What if James got here before we did?"
"James won't hurt her." Rosalie said. "The Cat Woman said so herself."
"Yes but that might have changed." Bella replied.
Alice started pounding on the door. "Hey! Cat Woman. It's us. Alice, Rosalie and Bella. We need to talk to you. Its urgent."
As she continued to pound the door suddenly opened by itself.
When they walked in they found dozens of dead cats lying on the ground.
"There dead." Rosalie whispered as she looked around. "All of her cats are dead. What happened here? The Cat Woman couldn't have done this. She loved her cats."
Bella suddenly gasped. "Guys look there she is!"
Alice and Rosalie turned to see the Cat Woman lying on the ground in a pool of her own blood with a knife in her chest.
"Who did this?" Alice asked as Rosalie walked over to the body.
"James." Rosalie said. "James did this. He killed his own mother."
"But James wouldn't hurt his own Mother." Bella said. "The Cat Woman said that he wouldn't hurt her the last time I was in here."
"It was James alright." Rosalie said.
"How do you know?" Alice asked.
Rosalie held up a bloody note and said. "Because he left this behind for us."
"What does it say?" Bella asked.
"Read it for yourself." Rosalie said as she handed the note over.
Bella ignored the blood as she read the note out loud.
'Hello girls.
If you got this note it means that you've found the body of the Cat Woman and know that I am alive by now.
Does it surprise you to learn that I am alive after I fell off from the edge of the cliff?
I think that it does.
She didn't really put up much of a fight when I came to the door.
She didn't even scream when I stabbed her in the chest with the knife.
I don't think she even expected that I'll attack her but times have changed.
Now you know that I mean business and that no one will be able to help you this time.
No one.
Now that the Cat Woman is dead no one can help you now.
You girls are all alone.
I'll see you very soon.
Remember what I told you.
There's no place where you can hide where I won't find you.
James.'
"He's making us feel like that we're all by ourselves." Alice said. "But we aren't. We have each other."
Rosalie nodded in agreement. "Yes we can get through this. We've done it before."
Bella gulped. "Well I'm not going back to school with him there."
"We have to Bella." Alice replied. "We have to act like nothing's wrong."
Bella sighed. "Fine let's head back."
When they got back to school it was already lunch.
"Can you see him?" Alice asked.
Bella and Rosalie shook their heads.
"No he's properly hiding." Bella said. "Waiting for us to be alone."
"Well we're going to stick together." Rosalie said. "He'll find it hard to split us a part."
"Guys it's me that his after." Bella said. "You shouldn't be involved in all this."
Alice shook her head. "Not anymore Bella. He's after all three of us now. We were always involved."