The four friends stood outside the shed in the backyard. "Make this quick, okay Relena?" Heero said, impatiently. Duo fiddled with the lock on the shed door. "Almost…there. It's open." Hilde stood behind him, clinging to Heero's arm. "Tell me again, why are we here again and not at home in our warm, safe beds?" Relena opened the door to the shed, "I just want to see…" She gasped. "Oh my god!" There, lying on the floor was a small skeleton, wearing a pink dress with flowers on it, just like the one that Sara had been wearing in the picture. After she got over the shock of seeing the skeleton, Relena slowly walked into the shed and knelt down beside it. The tiny fingers were clinging to a box. Relena carefully took the box from the skeleton's grasp, much to the surprise of her friends. She opened it up to reveal a golden watch. On the watch were the initials SMG. "I know who did it," She declared as she closed the box and put it back down on the floor, "I know who killed Sara."
"Who?" her friends asked in unison.
"It was her uncle. Her father had told Sara to go get a box of money he had hidden in the shed, but to make sure only she and her mom knew about it. He specifically said not to let her uncle know anything about it. Sara, after reading the letter, must have gone to the shed to retrieve the money, but forgot to hide the letter. Her uncle must have seen the letter and went to the shed to get the money, but when Sara was already there, he deiced to just take it from her. He probably took the money from her and locked her in the shed so she couldn't tell anyone that he stole it. The letter she got from her father was dated December, so it was probably January when she got it. The poor thing must have frozen to death." She finished her explanation. Dave, Harry, and Caitlin looked shocked.
"That's so sad," Hilde looked on the verge of tears.
"Yeah, poor little girl" Duo agreed, "what a horrible way to die." The four of them stood there for a while in silence, just thinking, until it started to get light out.
"We should get going," Heero said softly.
"Yeah," the others agreed. One by one they left the shed, Relena closing the door after she exited. She sighed and looked once more around at the old house before following the others back to their homes. Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a little girl in a pink dress, playing. She turned her head, but the girl was gone. She smiled and kept walking as the little girl's laughter disappeared with the wind.