Dear Readers:

We are very sorry about the wait. Unfourtunatley our beta got hit by a car and was in the hospital for a month. Then after that when half the chapter was finished, we had midterm, you know the tests from hell. Once again, we are sorry for the wait.

Yours,

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And Now Onto The Story:

Anna's funeral was held at St. Mary's Cemetary in East Congers. People got out of their cars and crossed the walkway into the church. When they walked into it, at the altar was a black casket. Once everyone was the seated Danielle got up out of her seat to do the eulogy. "Anna Southerlyn was my best friend. . . . ."

After the eulogy, they let the people pay their respects. Some put flowers on the casket, while others put pictures and other keepsakes on it. When they were done they told all their respects to the family. Danielle and Serena were standing up, talking to people, but it was obvious to those people who were close to them that they were close to breaking. Finally at the end of the day when everyone was gone and Serena and Danielle were still in the church, they fell into the chairs and started crying. They were crying for their best friend and sister who was ripped from their family before even starting her own.

"Mr. Anders"

" Andrew, please"

" Okay, Andrew, do you know anyone who had a grudge, maybe a reason to hurt her?"

" I honestly don't know," he sighed and moved across the room to sit on her couch, "She was going down to the police station recently. I also know one of her friends were going with her as well. I don't know her name." He stopped and put his face in his hands. " I really liked her, I was going to ask her out on a date for this weekend." He looked back up, distraught, " Catch the person who did this will you?"

" I'll try," Olivia turned to leave, at the last minute she turned, " Do you know what police station she went to? Any siblings, friends?"

" No. I don't know what station. But, i do know some friends, umm Serena, her sister, Hayden Ridley, Danielle Ashner, Jayson Novak, and Casey Novak.

" Thanks. Goodbye." She turned and walked herself out of Andrew Anders office, Anna's business partner. On her way back to the station, Olivia started wondering what police station it was, whether her friends knew about it. She called Elliot and asked for Jayson Novak address. When she hung up Elliot was heading towars Anna's appartment and Olivia to Jayson Novak's.

Olivia knocked on the door to Jayson Novak's apartment 3 times. She knew that someone was there when she heard the rustling, so she leaned against the tan wall across from the door.

"Who is it?" A man's voice came through the door.

" I'm Detective Olivia Benson." The door opened a little bit, enough to see a tall man, Short messy red hair, dark blue eyes, and black glasses. She showed him her badge and he opened the door.

"Are you here to talk about Anna?" He asked while showing her in. He waked her through the hall and she saw pictures. A few caught her eye, one had Casey, Serena, Danielle, and Anna all sleeping on the couch or on the floor with New Years hats strewn on the floor. Another had a frame saying : My 2 Favorite Nieces, Kaitlin and Kimberly. The last one she saw right near the kitchen door was a picture of what she assumed to be his daughter, a baby no less than 2 years old with brown eyes and short red hair, the frame saying : My Lovely Baby Girl. She arrived in the kitchen, which she noticed was full of warm colors and an island in the middle. Jayson came over to her with a glass of water.

"Thank you."

"Your Welcome, so you wanted to talk about Anna. Right?"

"Yeah, Did Anna have any enemies that you know of." She asked after taking a sip of water.

"Not that I knew of, As far as I knew, everyone seemed to love her." He said while leaning his elbow against the island counter.

"Anna was heading to to a police station lately, do you have any idea what that was about?"

"She was?" He voice was full of surprise and stood up straight, "I never knew about it, I don't know why either."

Olivia heard the door open and 3 voices come in through the hallway. One sounded very young, the other a little older and the last was distinctly familiar. " Daddy, Daddy!" A little girl around 3 years old came running out of the hallway and into the kitchen. Olivia noticed that she was the little baby girl from the picture in the hallway.

"Hey sweetie," He gave her a hug, "why don't you go play in your room for a little while." She nodded her head and ran to her room. She turned to watch the girl and saw a very familiar face coming out of the main hallway. "Casey!" Olivia exclaimed, surprised to see Casey there. "Olivia. Asking about Anna?"

"Yeah I am and I believe that I'm finished here now, Thank you for your help Mr. Novak." She set the glass down on the counter and walked herself to the entry to the apartment. On the endtable near the door, she left her card. Before she closed the apartment door she heard a small but clear, "Is she asking about Anna? What did you tell her?"
After hearing this Olivia shut the door and dicided that she was going to ask Casey about it within the next two days.

Back in the apartment Casey was asking Jayson and Brianna a question, " Hey what are you guys doing tonight?" Jayson shook and Riley walked in " We're not doing anything. Why?" Casey turned to look at the red haired nineteen year old, "Serena and Hayden are going to be at my apartment, do you guys want to come over for dinner?" Brianna came running in and hugged Casey all the while jumping up and down screaming "yeah, yeah," Casey just picked her up and looked at Jayson, who replied, " Sure we'll be there." Casey nodded and picked her bag up off the floor, " See you at 7, Bye Bri" She gave Riley a hug and said goodbye and left.

" Serena," Casey yelled while cooking with Danielle," Go get the door!" Serena sighed and got up off the couch to walk to door, which kept getting banged on. She opened the door and Jayson, Riley and Brianna came in. Although Brianna it seemed ran in and straight to the kitchen, "Auntie Casey!" Serena gave Riley a hug and then kissed Jayson on the cheek. " Glad you guys came, Casey and Danielle are making spaghettios (see bottom) and Hayden's in the den." After she said this Serena went with Riley into the tv room and started playing videogames. Jayson looked around the small area he was in and decided to talk to Hayden. Jasyon walked down the hallway past the kitchen to the den, looking at the photos on the wall. There were a few that caught his eye, some before the incident, some after. One that really caught his eye was one of everyone except Riley. They were at the beach when they were still in their teens: Casey and Hayden were cuddling together; Casey in a bikini and Hayden in shorts, Serena and Jayson were playing tug-a-war with a volleyball and Danielle was burying Anna in the sand and making a castle on top of her. The next one that caught his was the last picture by the den. It was larger than the others: Casey was in her teens and was sleeping on the couch spread out, Riley was halfway on top of her, Riley looked to be around 4 in the picture. Jayson smiled at the picture and went into the den.

" Hayden," Hayden looked up at the voice at the door, " How've you been?" Jayson walked in and sat down. " I've been good. I'm here branching out the music shop. Staying at Casey's for a while." "That's good," Jayson replied while sitting in the chair near Casey's huge bookcase full of law book, the other side had others, such as mystery, crime, drama and some comedies.

" I heard you have a little girl" Hayden said while looking up from his music sheets. " Yeah, she's three years old. She's turning four next month."

" Who's the mother?" Hayden asked though he did have a idea of who it was. "Marina." Jayson looked a little down when he said this.

" Is she here?" Hayden asked. He didn't know what happened to her. "Marina's dead. She died from complications during the birth of Brianna." " I'm sorry." " It's alright, it's been three years."

" ALRIGHT GUYS DINNER!" Serena screamed from the other room. Hayden and Jayson got up and walked towards kitchen. Hayden asked, "What's for dinner," as he was sitting down, " I'm starving." As he sid this Casey and Serena brought in 2 huge bowl of spaghettios.

We decided to make spagettios do to the fact that I unfortunatley cannot spell spagetti