I knocked on the door a few times then glanced to Carlos who was looking very unamused by my comment-or still mad by the fact this his 'precious' car had gotten keyed, or both. "Sierra! Get the door!" I heard someone called.
"Coming!" The door was thrown open by a dark skinned girl, her hair dyed an atrocious purple color. "Hello. Can I help you?" she asked with a huge smile.
"Are you Sierra?" I asked.
"Yes I am." She replied.
"Well I'm Courtney. You neighbor Bridget sent me over to see if you recognized this girl." I said, showing her the other picture. "She said she'd seen her on Facenook and you might able to tell me who she is." I told her.
"Oh, I can find anyone. And on a social network like Facenook it'll be too easy. Come on inside." Sierra said, grabbing my hand and pulled me in.
"Who was it, Sierra?" A lady's voice called from somewhere in the house.
"A friend of Bridget's. She needs my help." Sierra called back then turned to me. "That's my mom. She would come out to say hi but she likes to spend most of her time in the Chris McLean shrine. You know who that is right?" she asked as she lead me upstairs.
"Um, yeah. He's on TV right?" The name sounded familiar but I didn't watch much TV so I wouldn't be able to say who it was.
"Not just on TV! He's like the best TV host in the world!" She gushed, still pulling me along into a room that was decorated with lots of pictures of some guy. Boyfriend maybe? "Oh, I see you took notice of my pictures. Yeah, that's my boyfriend...well more than a friend Cody. He lives down the street. I've known him for a few years and I think our relationship might be going somewhere soon!" She squealed and hopped onto her bed, patting the spot next to her then reached in under the bed and pulled out a laptop.
"So on Facenook right?" She asked and I nodded. She immediately started typing up a storm, looking at the picture once before clicking around a few times. "Done!" she said, smiling brightly at me. That was quick. I sat next to her and looked at the girl on the screen. Her name was LeShawna, she was seventeen, and according to the profile she lived about twenty miles from here but it didn't say where.
"Could you possibly find out where she lives besides in the 'hood'?" I asked, noting that instead of an actual place she had just 'The hood'.
"Sure," Opening up another page she started clicking around again, putting LeShawna's name in a few different search engines. "Here we go." she said, showing me the full screen. I looked around for a moment before looking down as Sierra handed me a pen and paper.
"Thanks," I said, writing the address down.
"So, why do you need to find this girl?" Sierra asked, folding her legs underneath of her and looked at me with curiosity.
"Something happened recently, something really bad, and I think she might know something." I said, not wanting to give out too much information. Her eyes then widened and she leaned in closer.
"Like something illegal? Did she kill someone?" She questioned.
"Um, no. She didn't do something, someone else did. It was definitely illegal though." I said, standing up. "Thank you so much for your help, you don't know how much I appreciate this." I said.
"Oh, it was no problem. If someone did something illegal it was my pleasure to help you catch them. Maybe I'll get in the news! Oh! I have to start a new blog!" She squealed, typing again. "If you catch the perp-hehe, I've always wanted to say that-tell me! I would love to start a blog about it. I would feel like a cop! Or maybe a private I would be better." I stepped back as she blathered on.
"Well, it was...nice to meet you Sierra. And I'll make sure to have Bridget keep you informed." I said, showing my way out of the room and down the stairs. This girl seemed to have a few screws loose but at least she was helpful and didn't ask many questions.
"Wait! Courtney! There was another question I wanted to ask you!" Sierra called, running out of her room and after me. I sighed and turned around, catching her arm as she fell down the last few steps.
"Thanks," she said as I released her. "I was trying to remember who that guy was in the picture when I ran over this." she showed me the laptop that was tucked under her arm and pulled up a picture of Alejandro. "D'you know him?" she asked. I looked at the page for a moment, the page that I had seen millions of times, the page I had started that explained what had happened a few months ago and that if anyone had seen Alejandro or had any information on him they were to call me or the police.
"Um...yeah. That's...who we're looking for." I said and her black eyes widened.
"You started this page didn't you?" She asked excitedly. "This happened to you and OMG! You're looking for LeShawna because it happened to her too didn't it?"
"We don't know for sure if that's what happened to her but we want to find her and question her." I explained. There was no point in denying anything. She might have seemed a bit crazy but I could tell she wasn't stupid. My name wasn't even on the page yet she had made the connection.
"I can help!" She said, grabbing my hand again and pulled me over to the couch, sitting us both down. She then reached into her pocket and pulled out a wireless headset, putting the ear piece in and clicked the side of it. "Hey E-scope!" she greeted the other person on the line. "Look at this page!" she said, sending the page I had made to a private chat room. She nodded then smiled. "I knew it! Send it over!" she said. A link popped up on the chat room and Sierra opened it quickly. It was sort of blurry but I could easily identify it as Alejandro.
"Where did she get this from?" I asked, knowing my mouth was hanging open unattractively.
"Her dad has camera's everywhere, you know that kind that take pictures every minute. He must have passed by." Sierra explained as I looked to the date on the picture. It was only two weeks old!
"Where does your friend live?" I said, trying not to get too excited. Since that picture was two weeks old Alejandro could have moved on by now.
"Only a few blocks down," Sierra replied. That means Alejandro had been here to see Bridget only a few weeks ago. He could still be where LeShawna was! I stood up quickly-a little too quickly for my stomach started to roll around. I groaned and sat down, hating Alejandro even more right now. I hadn't eaten anything all day but because of him I still got sick, sometimes not even in the morning. "Thanks E-scope. Talk to you later." Sierra said, taking off her head piece then looked to me with concern. "Are you alright?" she asked.
"Fine..." I groaned, thankful that I didn't eat anything yet. "Just...a little water and I'll be fine." I panted, closing my eyes and laid my hands on my stomach.
'Why did you have to do this to me?' I thought, leaning back.
"Here you go," I opened my eyes and took the water that Sierra handed me, drinking it slowly. I could feel my stomach calm down and I sighed in relief.
"Thank you," I said, handing the cup back.
"No problem. So what are you going to name it?" She asked, looking at my stomach.
"I'm not too sure yet. I was thinking of something like Crystal for a girl. I'm not too sure about a boy though." I answered her, standing up more slowly this time. "Thanks again, Sierra. You've been very helpful." I told her, letting her walk me to the door.
"Anytime," She said. "I hope you catch Alejandro. I'll be rooting for you!" she said, smiling at me.
"I hope I catch him too. Bye Sierra." I said, going down the porch steps and back to Bridget's. Carlos and his car were gone so I suspected that he had went to get new tires.
"Hey, are you Courtney?" I looked around then down, spotting a little boy probably no older than seven years old.
"Yeah," I said, wondering what he could have wanted. He sniffled and wiped his nose on his arm then reached into his pocket and pulled out a piece of paper that had been folded many times and handed it to me.
"Some man told me to give this to you," He said and smiled at me, revealing a missing tooth. "He said I'd get a quarter." he said, looking at me with wide eyes. I cocked my head to the side but pulled out a quarter that I happened to have and gave it to him. "Thank you," he said and ran off.
"That was...strange." I said, opening the note up then froze as I read it. 'I knew you couldn't stay away.' I bit my lip, feeling sick again but swallowed it down. Alejandro...had been expecting me. He wasn't a step ahead of me...he was a mile.
A/N: He's such a creeper! How did he know? Even in the show you can tell Alejandro has the mind of a criminal, I just bring it out more. So...the next chapter will be more delayed than all the other ones because I am blanking on ideas. My mind doesn't seem to want to produce chapters anymore but I'll get through it! -Superhero pose- But anyways yeah, comment! Please! I need to know if I should even continue this thing or if I'm just wasting my time.