Sarah walked into the living room of her house only to meet an unconscious Amanda on the sofa. Her laptop was open on the coffee table in front of her. She sighed. And looked at her watch.
"Amanda. Amanda. AMANDA!" She yelled
tossing a pillow into her face.
"What?" Amanda asked rolling over and meeting the hard wood
floor head on.
"Don't you have friends coming over?" Sarah made her way to the kitchen.
"Yeah."
"Then go get dressed. It's eleven thirty and we have to pick them up remember!"
"Okay, okay. Gees
calm down."
Amanda disappeared into her bedroom
*~*~*~*~*~*
Annie hopped down stairs to get some lunch. She walked into the kitchen and was greeted
by Molly and Jack.
"Hello everyone!" She said getting a glass.
"Some one's cheerful today." Molly observed.
"Yeah, I guess I'm just excited today." Annie said then
poured her self some soda.
"Hey Jack, where are Clu and Carey?"
"Clu is next door with Irene and Carey is in the TV room."
Molly said pointing out the door. Annie
left to go talk to Carey.
Carey looked up from his guitar.
"Hey Annie, what's up?" He was restringing his guitar.
"What do you think about Amanda?" Annie asked sitting across
from him.
"She's pretty cool. Why?"
"Just asking, how do you feel about going over to her house?"
"I want to go see the guitar she said she had. She said she was having trouble with
it. I want to see what's wrong with
it."
"What do you think Clu thinks about her?"
"He seems to like her. Why are you asking all these questions?" Carey looked at the blond for the first time.
"I don't know, last night Fi told me she had a weird feeling
from Amanda. I just wanted to know what
you thought of her."
"I like her, she's a lot of fun." He went back to stringing
his guitar.
"Hey Annie! Amanda's
here, ready to go?" Jack called from the front room.
"Yeah. Hang on!"
Annie grabbed her shoes and pulled them on to meet her friend.
"Where are Fi and Clu?" Amanda asked.
"Fi's up stairs I'll go get her." Annie said then ran up
stairs.
"Clu's next door I'll go get him." Jack said leaving Amanda and Carey alone. Carey looked at her. He took her in; she was really pretty
and…mysterious.
She looked around the room her eyes wandering curiously
around, oblivious to the fact that he was starring at her. Carey went over her in his mind. He thought of her figure; a full slender
body that seemed perfect.
"Hey guys! Ready to
go!" Fi said running down stairs followed by Annie.
"Yeah we're just waiting for Clu and Jack." Amanda said, she
seemed to finally notice Carey starring at her; she looked as if she blushed a
bit but waived it off.
"Where's Sarah?" Fi asked fixing her hair.
"She had to go out. So we're alone."
"Okay we're back." Jack said as Clu stepped up behind him.
"Okay let's go." Amanda said then led the way to her van.
Amanda opened the door to reveal a living room filled with
boxes.
"Sorry about that, you know how it is moving and all."
Amanda said as they all went in. Clu
jumped right in front of the TV.
"Sweet! A PS2! Is it hooked up?" He asked then picked up a
controller.
"Yeah, the games are in there." Amanda said pointing the
cupboard under the TV.
"Where'd you get all these games?" Jack asked pulling them
out.
"I bought them. I
used to work in the mall back in New York. It had good pay." She said from the kitchen getting some sodas
"Who wants a soda? We've got orange, root beer, and coke."
"I'll take and orange." Carey said looking at her games.
"Me too." Said Jack.
"Root beer." Said Fi then she screamed.
"What" Everyone asked in unison.
"She came out with a tiny badge cocker spaniel nipping at
her shoes.
"Nothing this little one scarred me."
"That's Scout. Sorry
she scarred you. She tends to do that."
"I'll take a root beer." Said Clu who had just put in a game
and was challenging Jack.
Amanda whistled and Scout went sliding toward her. She placed her dish with food on the floor.
"Drinks are up!" She said and five drinks were on the
counter. She moved to the sofa next to
Annie.
"Is this one of your stories?" Annie asked pointing to the computer
screen.
Amanda nodded.
"Yeah, I started it yesterday."
"Can I?" Annie asked.
Amanda nodded. She
turned her attention to the game the guys were playing. They had chosen wipeout.
"You know you can kill your other opponents." Amanda said
watching them with amusement.
"Cool!" Clu said.
"Hey Amanda where's your guitar?" Carey said standing up.
"Oh right, over here." She got up and left the room.
She walked down the hall. She spotted Fi in her room looking around. She was about to stop her but thought otherwise.
/She'll find out. / She got her guitar from the hall closet
causing Fi to run out of the room.
"Oh! Hi." Fi
stammered.
"Hi." Amanda said taking out her guitar case. "Looking for something?" She asked and
looked behind Fi.
"No, I just…"
"Hey Amanda what's Metal Gear Solid about?" Jack's voice
called from the living room. Fi felt
relieved.
Amanda left with her guitar leaving Fi.
Fi sighed at her close call and followed Amanda. But she couldn't shake the image of what she
saw before Amanda had startled her. Her
white shirt that she wore yesterday was blood stained and thrown in the corner
of the room. There was something under
it, she was going to see but then she heard the closet door open and she ran
out. Fi walked out and went to join the
others.
Annie was deeply interested in Amanda's laptop, Carey and
Amanda were talking about her guitar and Jack and Clue were looking at the new
game. Jack was telling Clu where to go
cause it only had one player.
Fi took a seat next to Annie. She saw Scout come around and start biting on Fi's shoes. She picked her up. She looked at the puppy she noticed something about her. The tips of her paws were dark red.
/Weird…/ She thought. She turned to Amanda who was laughing about something.
"Amanda."
"Yeah."
"Where's your bathroom?"
"Down the hall, first door on your left." She pointed in the
direction. Fi stood up and started
toward the bathroom.
Fi closed the door she turned something caught her eye in
the shower. She opened the curtain her
eyes opened wide. There were small
vertical lines of blood on the shower wall. Fi placed her hand on them. They
were finger marks.
*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
"Wow! This is
amazing. Your really talented." Annie
said finishing up the story she was reading.
"Thanks. My mother
was a writer, I guess I get it from her."
"Have you ever published any of your stories?"
"No. They don't seem
good enough they can always get better. Hey you know what…" Amanda got
up to leave. "Wait here."
Amanda walked into her room she took out a box. Fi stepped out of the bathroom hearing
Amanda in her room she decided to apologize for going into her room. But stopped at the doorway. She looked in Amanda was there. Looking through a box she picked out
something. She turned and walked over
to the corner of the room where her bloody shirt was. Fi looked in, she tossed the shirt in the closet and stuffed
something under her bed. She started to
walk out Fi ran to the restroom an acted as if she was going to walk out. They ran into each other and startled each
other they laughed.
They walked into the front room together. Amanda handed Annie a blue disk.
"What's this?" Annie said looking at it.
"That is one of my finished stories. Read it and tell me what you think."
"Thanks."
There was a knock at the door. Amanda answered it. She
was there for a few minutes then came back with a yellow envelope.
"What's that?" Fi asked looking at it. Amanda shrugged.
"It's for Sarah." She placed it on the counter.
They stayed for a couple hours, Fi started to enjoy her
self. It was pretty fun; she even
managed to beat Jack on one of Amanda's games. She did have fun but then it was time to go. Amanda drove them home.
As they were leaving the car Amanda called to Fi.
"Yeah?" Fi asked sitting in the passenger seat. Amanda handed Fi a red transparent
disk.
"I think what your looking for is in here. Don't show anyone." She said handing it to
her. Fi took it and nodded. She left saying good-bye.
Fi was in her room she looked at the disk. The word "Proof" was written in black
marker. Fi looked at the disk.
/What I'm looking for huh? / She thought then put the disk
in.
A window popped up. Files were displayed there titles were letters A through K. Fi clicked on the first one. A newspaper article showed it self, Fi read
it. Her curiosity grew…
*~*~*~*~*
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