"She was skipping class, her grades were slipping, and she was even skipping field hockey practice. That game was her life she'd never skip practice unless something was seriously wrong," Mark continued.
Flashback
Kiersten and Jen were in the locker room getting ready for a field hockey practice when the text came into their conversation.
"Hey Jen it looks like Emilie Vandaslut didn't show up for practice again," Kiersten commented as she was getting her cleats on.
"Don't you think we should lay off a little? I mean that was like a month ago. Don't you think it's getting a little old?" Jen said as she was getting ready.
"No she sent that pic out and its good gossip. Besides she broke the rules of sexting never show your face. It's always face down, knees up, and no birth marks as simple as that."
"Ok well maybe she broke the rules of sexting, but that doesn't mean we have to keep bullying her about the picture that we have on our phones."
"You still have that picture? I deleted it like after a day. I thought maybe some perverted freshmen boys might still have it, but you?"
"No I didn't mean it like that. I meant had on our phones I deleted that picture too."
"You know somebody probably still has that picture on their phone and somebody should really show it to coach," Kiersten hinted towards Jen.
"No way! I'd get in trouble."
"No you don't actually have to show her, besides you don't have the picture to tip her off. Just tip it off to her then she'll ask someone who has it on their phone to show it to her and boom."
"I don't know."
"You know if Emilie Vanslut is still on our team for the championships and one of the coaches finds out about Emilie's little incident we can get kicked out of the championships."
"They can do that?" Jen asked in amazement that they could just do that.
"Yeah Jen, they can do that to any team. You have to tip coach off so we don't get kicked out of the championships."
"Well why don't you just tell coach since you thought of it?"
"Because she beat me out of the scholarship. Coach would just think I'm doing it to get revenge, and it would look bad on me. So if somebody is going to tell coach it had to be you Jen," Kiersten got up and left for the field to let Jen think.
End of flashback
"I just wish I could take everything back I said to her. I never meant to hurt Emilie, but it happened."
"You weren't responsible for what happened to Emilie, but I don't want to completely forgive you yet. You're one of the first people who were honest with me though."
Drake got up and he walked back home while Flora got up and went to her car to go somewhere.
Stella's House Flora's POV
"I don't know what I'm going to do Stella I don't know what to do. I'm completely lost about this text."
"Flora you're over pressuring yourself dear. Just let yourself relax from all the stress you've put on yourself."
"Do you think I might've took this too far? Maybe I crossed the line on Emilie's friends a little. I can't rest until I find out who sent out that text though."
"Flora just give it a rest the kids won't give you any answers. Now I think I'll go get something to drink," Stella was about to leave when I stopped her.
"I know it was Kiersten," I interrupted.
"Excuse me? I know one thing; it was not my daughter Kiersten who sent out that text."
"Stella think about it. Kiersten's been jealous of Emilie since the day she was born. She's always been."
"Who suggested that it was my daughter Kiersten?"
"Someone told me in confidential."
"I'm going to settle this right now," Stella got up and went to the bottom of her staircase. "Kiersten, honey, can you come down for a minute?"
I heard footsteps coming down and then Kiersten showed up at the bottom of the steps. "Yeah mom?"
"Mrs. Vandalite here thinks you sent that picture of Emilie out. Now, did you send that picture to anyone at all?"
"Well no, I received it, but eventually everyone did," Kiersten turned her head towards me. "Mrs. V, I swear I would've never sent that text out to anyone. Emilie was one of my closet friends," Kiersten told me. I knew she was lying since Jen told me that Kiersten sent her that text.
"Thank you Kiersten. You can go now."
Kiersten headed back up to her room and Stella came back to the couch and sat down next to me.
"See that settles everything."
"She's lying. I wanna see her phone."
"Flora we have friendship since high school. I think you need to trust me some more and you need to trust my daughter more."
I felt tears watering up in my eyes and I started crying again. Stella pulled me close to and I was crying on her shoulder.
"Oh Flora everything is going to be alright."
"I'm sorry. I just miss her so much."
"Oh we all do Flora. Now, how about I go get us something to drink?"
"Ok," Stella got up and headed for the kitchen." I'm-I'm going to use your bathroom."
"Ok Flora."
I went to Stella' bathroom and I washed myself up a bit. When I was done washing my face I grabbed the hand towel to dry my face, but I accidently knocked off some of their magazines off the toilet. I got on my knees to pick them up, but before I did I noticed something odd about the magazines. There were various letters cut out of the magazines and the letters were stuffed in there. The letters looked like the exact same ones I had on those threat letters,
"Oh my god Kiersten, what did you do?"
Kiersten's POV
I went back to my mom downstairs once I knew Mrs. Vanalite was in another part of the house. My mom was in the living room getting something, but I had to tell her.
"Mom! I'm dead!"
"Now calm down Kiersten, why are you dead?"
"She's totally going to get the cops to arrest me! She thinks that I sent out that text!"
"Kiersten now that's not going to happen because you didn't forward that text to anyone."
"Well not exactly…I forwarded that text to Jen, but I only sent it to her."
"Kirsty!...Now I'm ashamed of you, but it wasn't your fault that picture was taken. Now get that glass and let's go," my mom pointed to an empty glass of water and she headed for the kitchen.
I grabbed the cup and followed her, but something didn't seem right. My mom didn't give me a speech or take anything away. All she did was say that she was ashamed of me that's it. It didn't seem right.
Flora's POV
I left Stella's house once I was done in the bathroom. I told Stella something came up at work, but really I was going to the school to talk to Mrs. Knot. When I got up Mrs. Knot's office I saw a police officer with her.
"I'd like to drop charges on Drake Collins," I started.
"This is a really good thing you're doing Mrs. Vandalite," Mrs. Knot started.
"No I'm dropping them on Drake, but putting them on Kiersten Kline."
"Mrs. V haven't you had enough of this yet? You're never going to figure out who did it."
"In the Kline's bathroom I found comic letters that looked exactly like the ones on the threat letters I received."
"That's hardly proof," the police officer started." Besides we have the cell phone records right here," the officer pulled out a sheet of paper." It's says right here that Kiersten only sent it to one person, Jennifer Calvery. Then Jennifer sent it to forty other recipients. We don't know the names of all the recipients, but we're working on it. The person who made the text go viral was Jennifer Calvery."
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