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Chapter Thirteen: I've Got A Lot To Say To You

Davies/Carlin Residence

"Hey you guys, good morning."

"Heya Spence." Kyla replied.

"Same to you, Spencer." Lauren said, coming in after Kyla.

"Where's Ash?"

Kyla looked back at Lauren.

"Well, Lauren said that she wanted to stay at the lake for a while, and that she said for us to come home whenever, so we left."

Kyla held out the car keys in front of Spencer's face.

"Go check up on her, okay? Make sure she's not going crazy."

Spencer nodded and grabbed the keys, making her way over to the door to put her shoes on, and grab a jacket, considering she was only in her pajama pants and a tank top. Before she could walk any further, Lauren grabbed her wrist.

"She's perfectly fine, Spencer. Come on, let's go find Kasey…"

"I'll hang out with you guys later, I just wanna check up on her, and make sure she's okay."

"But…"

"No, I'm going. See you guys in a bit."

With that Spencer shut the door. Kyla and Lauren heard the car's engine turn over, and rumble away into the distance, in the direction of the lake. The expression on Lauren's face went from content, to absolutely panicked. Kyla noticed.

"Lauren, are you okay?"

"Y-yeah, I'm fine. See ya."

Lauren took off into another part of the apartment and left Kyla standing there by herself, but not for long.

"Heya Ky. Morning."

"Morning, Alice."

Alice smiled kindly and poured herself a cup of coffee, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes as she looked around the empty apartment.

"Where is everybody?"

"Well Ashley is at the lake, Spencer went to get Ashley, Lauren is in the back of the apartment, probably searching for Kasey for some reason. You just wake up?"

"Yeah."

"You sleep late."

"I tend to." Alice smiled, and sat at the table with her coffee.

After a couple of minutes of questionably tense silence, Alice broke it.

"So…how's school?"

The Lake

"Ashley!"

Spencer had been frantically yelling her girlfriend's name for the last ten minutes, being unable to find her anywhere. She began to walk the path to find an open bank on the lake. Maybe she'll be just ahead here…I know there's an open bank up ahead…

"Ash…"

Spencer spotted the brunette propped up against a tree, unconscious, and soaking wet. She noticed a large gash on her forehead. It looked bad. Flipping out her cell phone, she dialed a familiar number.

"Aiden?"

"Yeah?"

"It's Spencer."

"Are you okay, Spence? You sound frantic…"

"I'm fine, listen, Ashley's hurt, and I need your help…"

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"What is it now?"

"My plan has fallen apart. I've just been informed that the target went to 'check' on the girlfriend, which means, I just may be figured out."

"THIS IS NOT THE TIME FOR MISTAKES!"

"I understand, Sir."

"She had better be here by tomorrow night. I don't care how, but you'd better do it. Am I clear?"

"Crystal, Sir."

CLICK.

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Dennison Residence

Aiden carefully placed Ashley's unconscious form onto his couch, placing a pillow under her neck to keep it elevated.

"Spencer, we should've taken her to the hospital."

"I know who it is."

"She's gon…wait, what?"

"I know who it is."

"Yes, I heard you the first time. Who what is?"

"I've had the strangest feeling that someone has been watching me or something lately. I've been trying so hard to figure out who it was, and when I found Ashley by the lake, I figured it out."

"Okay, so who do you think it is?"

"Lauren."

"Just Lauren?"

"No, but I don't know who else she's working with, but there is one thing that I'm sure of."

"What's that?"

"They're both working for DuPonte."

"As in Alaric DuPonte? As in the psychopath who's been trying to kill you?"

"That's the one."

Aiden paused for a moment before letting himself fall, dumbfounded, into his recliner. He rubbed his temples, trying to put everything together. He looked up at Ashley's head, and then back to Spencer.

"What do we do now?"

Spencer walked over, and enveloped her best friend in a hug.

"Thank you."

"Always."

Aiden got out of his chair, and began to pace his living room.

"We have to think of a plan."

"I agree, but first, we need to find out who else is working with Lauren."

"Do you think it may be one of the other girls?"

"I don't know, that's the problem. I do have an idea though."

"What's that?"

"I'll go back to my apartment tonight, tell everyone that Ashley decided to stay over here for the night because…ooh, because she was overwhelmed with all the people around her…"

"Okay good start."

"I'll pretend to go to bed, and wait for everyone else to fall asleep. Than I have free roam of my apartment to search for clues. I need to find something that will lead us to Lauren's accomplice."

"Are you sure you want to do that alone?"

"I have to. Like I said, I'm gonna tell everyone that she's staying over here, so you very well can't come with."

"Tell Kyla then."

"That's not a bad idea. I just might do that."

"Good. As long as someone else can help you so you're not doing it all alone, cause you being alone right now? Yeah, not a good thing."

"I agree."

Spencer got up and kissed Ashley's cheek carefully. Then she walked over to Aiden, capturing him once more in another giant hug.

"Take care of her. I'll be back tomorrow morning, first thing."

"Okay. Please, Spence, be careful."

Spencer nodded, kissing him on the cheek. She took one last look at Ashley, then left Aiden's apartment to go back to her own, and initiate her plan.

Operation: Find A Killer, would be in full effect tonight.

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