Summary: The story is in the future-almost 20 years-and takes place after the events of S2. The rest, well read and find out. Reviews are necessarry since this is my first attempt at VM fanfic.
Author's Note: So yeah, I haven't updated in awhile. Hope someone is still reading. But this new job and moving once again has hit me. BUT...I have a lot of updates waiting and ready to be put up and the story should be done before October. I NEED REVIEWS...please. Oh and I am beside myself at the cancellation of VM...I don't know how I will carry on...
Neptune High
Fourth Period Study Hall
Ahhh, the art of study hall. Four hundred years from now the school system will still fail to realize the "study hall" is anything but what it defers to or intends for the students. Great students don't catch up on homework- they get ahead. Good students attempt to do the homework before the home part catches them. Okay students start with the best intentions of doing homework but will fail to do anything of the sort as they text on their cell phones, read magazines, or as Allyson Gant is so expertly doing- painting her nails.
What do I do?
I tap into the school resource system and pull up the files of all of the missing girls. This requires "nudging" my way into the Neptune High School database. Thankfully and most graciously Alex helped- all with one little flash drive. It's a cute flash drive too. He painted blue and pink stars on it with a Sharpie- like the stars I drew on his bag in my room the other day when I was bored.
I stop a moment and think of Isa and Alex. I have friends here. Wow, did I just like think that? I miss Lalie and George, but I haven't exactly kept in constant contact with them either. I was worried. I thought I would become this pathetic girl who worshipped kittens and ate loads of chocolate frosting and drew unicorns everywhere after a week here. At the very worst, I was worried you see me…shopping.
Oh dear God!
But no, I was sitting in a room with them-talking, eating, (When mom brought "Snack Cakes" to my study friends… not that she totally approves of them, but it's a start...) and laughing. We were having fun and I wasn't so worried my incarceration would be detrimental to my health or worse my career. They promised to follow leads, keep me informed, and stay by my side.
I had friends.
And friends, well friends could sneak you into the school Resource System and allow you access to student, teacher, and faculty files. God bless friends!
I pulled up the first name I had:
MICHELLE OVERPERE
239 Ariel Circle
Neptune, CA
Age: 17 years old
Parents/Guardians: Mr. Jesse and Mrs. Rachel Overpere
Emergency Contact: Mr. Jesse Overpere (Father)
Neptune Elementary School- 1st Grade
555-7908
Mrs. Rachel Overpere
Neptune Sheriff's Department
555-9111 or 555-1234
G.P.A.: 3.8
Activities: National Honor Society, Neptune Cheerleading Varsity, Neptune Students Against Drunk Driving
Attendance: STATUS NOT AVAILABLE
Notes: NONE
KAMI PETERSON
4512 Oceanside Dr.
Apt. #45
Neptune, CA
Age: 15 years old
Parents/Guardians: Ms. Grace Manning-Peterson
Emergency Contact: Ms. Grace Manning-Peterson
Neptune Memorial Hospital- Maternity Ward
555-3475 ext #24
G.P.A.: 3.4
Activities: Neptune Cheerleading- Junior Varsity, Neptune Gymnastics Team
Attendance: STATUS NOT AVAILABLE
Notes: Kami has an irregular heart murmur and takes a medication to correct it. She is free to use the medication as needed. Father is deceased. He passed away when Kami and Kara, identical twins, were 12 years old.
KARA PETERSON
4512 Oceanside Dr.
Apt. #45
Neptune, CA
Age: 15 years old
Parents/Guardians: Ms. Grace Manning-Peterson
Emergency Contact: Ms. Grace Manning-Peterson
Neptune Memorial Hospital- Maternity Ward
555-3475 ext #24
G.P.A.: 3.0
Activities: Neptune Cheerleading- Junior Varsity, Neptune Gymnastic Team, Neptune Navigator Anchor
Attendance: STATUS NOT AVAILABLE
Notes: Kara suffers from asthma and must use an inhaler as necessary. Father is deceased. He passed away when Kami and Kara, identical twins, were 12 years old.
So there they were. The three girls missing from Neptune; all of them were cheerleaders and all of them were not '09ers. The name Manning rang over my head like a blue light special- why did that name sound so familiar? And another point, if Kami and Kara were Alex's cousins then it was through the maternal side.
Is it terribly wrong to search your friends' files? I mean it's not like I don't trust them but what part do they play? What's their side to this story?
No January- that is crossing the line. You just made good with them why would you screw it up? My inner voice began chastising me.
Darn that internal voice. My fingers lingered over the keys and before I knew it- before I could control myself- I was typing away.
ISABELLA MONDE'
238 Ariel Circle
Neptune, CA
Age: 16 years old
Parents/Guardians: Mr. Jon' and Mrs. Gabriella Monde'
Emergency Contact: Mrs. Gabriella Monde'
About The Town- Manager
555-9147
Mr. Jon' Monde'
Neptune District School Offices
555-9642 ext #349
G.P.A.: 3.9
Attendance: PERFECT
Activities: National Honor Society, Neptune Navigator Reporter, Neptune French Club-President, Neptune F.B.L.A., Neptune Students Against Drunk Driving, Pirates Art Club-Secretary
Notes: NONE
ALEXANDER GUAN
21212 Diver Lane
Neptune, CA
Age: 16 years old
Parents/Guardians: Mr. Henry and Mrs. Lizzie Guan
Emergency Contact: Ms. Grace Manning-Peterson (Aunt)
Neptune Memorial Hospital- Maternity Ward
555-3475 ext #24
G.P.A.: 4.0
Activities: National Honor Society, Neptune Navigator Reporter, Neptune Students Against Drunk Driving, Neptune Computer Club, and Neptune F.B.L.A.
Notes: Alex's mother and father travel often for business. If they cannot be reached, the person should contact his aunt.
WAIT! Alex's mom is Lizzie Manning. Lizzie and Grace were sisters to Meg Manning. Meg was in the Neptune Bus Crash and the only one to survive; only to linger in a coma, wake for a few days, and die. Meg Manning was Hannah Kane's biological mother. Meg's daughter disappeared with Duncan Kane and wasn't seen till Duncan returned to Neptune. This means Hannah and Alex are cousins. And I'm thinking that Duncan didn't disappear on his own- who better to help him than his ex-girlfriend and daughter of a P.I. who specialized in bond jumpers and people disappearances, Veronica Mars.
I shouldn't have snooped. The wave of…guilt- is it guilt- has flooded me. I feel like I've done something I shouldn't have- which of course I did.
I close down my computer and remove my flash drive. The school files could tell me very little I couldn't probably unearth with the help of my friend Google. What I have done is gone deeper into the mystery of the Mars family and why exactly people hate them. I'm guessing Keith knows the correlation between the Kanes and the Mannings but a little visit to see if he can give me more can't hurt anything either.
Besides, my next class is Coach Casablancas and I'm sure he'll be happy to have a Grant-free day as much as I will enjoy missing running laps because he hates me. Everybody wins.