"I'm not doing it." The brown haired girl said from her spot laying on a bed. "You can't make me."
The girl seemed to be listening to something but there was no sound coming from anywhere. The longer she was silent the more frustrated she seemed to get.
"I can't just go to Colorado." The girl paused. "Because I'm only seventeen. Plus how am I going to afford not only a plane ticket but all the expenses of going."
"Look I want nothing more than to be able to help you." The girl held up a hand. "I am not calling the police. The last time I did that I spent four hours in an interrogation room trying to explain why I knew where to find that kidnapped boy."
Another pause.
"Well come up with another plan." The girl threw her arm over her eyes. "It is not my fault that the only person you would trust to help is the person who killed you."
The girl seemed to be fed up with whatever she was hearing. "Yes, yes I know. You need closure and want revenge. Blah blah blah I've heard it all before."
Suddenly the girl sat up and reached for a lap top that was sitting on what looked like a night stand. "Fine I will email the tip site. At least I know they won't be able to trace that back to me."
After typing for a few minutes the girl stopped. "There are you satisfied. I sent them an email that stated Darren Thompson murdered his business partner Glen Franklin. The body is located in a barrel that is buried under Darren's new porch and you can find the gun he used to kill him at the bottom of an old well located on his wife's parent's property in Paonia. That should be enough to get the case solved."
Alice blinked as she came out of yet another vision of the mysterious brunette. They had been happening over the past two years and Alice didn't understand why. Neither she nor anyone in her family have any connection to the girl they could find. While it wasn't unusual for Alice to have visions of strangers it was what she saw when she had visions of this stranger that was unusual. Sighing she made her way to the living room where a large map of the United States was hanging on a cork board. As she put a pin in the small town of Paonia Rosalie approached her.
"Another body?" Rosalie asked.
"It hasn't been confirmed yet but it seems so." Alice said.
"That brings the count up to 9." The more she learned Rosalie found her worry for the random girl in Alice's visions grow.
Alice looked at the newspaper clippings, police reports and coroner reports hanging around the map. "And we still don't know who she is."
"Has she mentioned the name of the missing kid she saved?" Some of the family, mostly Edward, were convinced that they should just ignore the girl and not get tangled up in whatever the brunette was involved with but Rosalie wasn't one of them. From what they had learned from each new vision it seemed like the girl was actually doing a lot of good by solving murders and finding missing people. Rosalie had hoped that they could figure out the name of the boy she rescued from kidnapers. That way they would be able to find out the girl's name so they could track her down.
"She mentioned getting questioned by the police to whoever she was talking to but never said who she rescued or what town the police that questioned her were from." Alice agreed with Rosalie about not wanting to ignore the girl. Alice was certain she was gifted. What her gift was she couldn't figure out and when she reached out to their cousin Eleazar in Alaska he guessed that it was the same type of gift Alice had and the girl saw visions. That had made Alice want to find the girl even more because she as well had a gift when she was human. Alice didn't want what happened to her when others found out about her gift to happen to anyone else.
Rosalie huffed in frustration. "If she would just give us a clue to who she was we could find her."
"I know but the visions are coming more frequently so maybe that means we are going to cross paths soon." Alice at least hoped so. It was obvious to her that the girl was going to play some kind of role in their lives but Alice didn't know when or how, just that they would probably be meeting the stranger soon. Alice just didn't know if that meeting would be a good thing or a bad thing. As she looked at the new pin on the map Alice hoped at least she would be able to help the girl carry the burden that seemed to be placed on her shoulders. No human should be left alone to deal with so much death, especially a teenager.