Chapter 4

I picked up my phone and tried to call Benny, but just like the twenty times before. He didn't answer the phone, I was worried. I could tell that he was mad at me for spilling a secret that ours to say. It was starting to make me feel even more guilty, and I didn't do well with that emotion. Then I heard a small 'Bom!" coming from my window, I grabbed my old baseball bat. Then quietly walked over to see what the sound was, and why it was a thing.

Marco was throwing pebbles at my window, she was standing there with a ladder. I opened the window and almost got hit as she leaned the ladder against the windowsill. She climbed up it with easy, sneaking around was a special skill of hers. Marco entered my house and gave me a hug. By the wetness on my shirt I could tell that she was crying earlier, and just really needed a hug. She parted away and tried to speak, but she stopped and looked around.

"Benny here?" she asked, staring at me.

"No, no he's not here. Just me, myself and I." I answered, then wanted to take that back. Marco laughed anyway, and smiled. Then her smile dropped again.

She stopped and tears began forming once again, she said something that I never once thought of. I was to worried about Benny at the time to actually think about Sarah and her case. Once the words came out of her mouth she turned away from me, I have thought of many people that could have killed Sarah. But I have never thought of someone that I knew that I with my secrets. With my life in fact, not just my life but Benny's too, a person that had our trust since day one. No one could have seen this coming, what if it was someone in our friend group.

I would have never guessed that it could have been Hollie the whole time! I mean the signs where all there. Acting depressed, wanting to go the the police right away, not answering her phone, ingoning us anytime she got the chance. She wanted to get away from her friend group, so she picked one of us to kill. Since Sarah was her sister no one pointed fingers at her, it was the perfect plan. She was right in front of our eyes the whole time, how could we not have seen this possibility before? Marco put her head on my shoulder and said "We need to look out for each other now, before she thinks her job is not done." Tears began forming in my eyes, emotions began flowing out of me. What if Benny was on it too, that's why she'd been flirting with him so much lately.

I walked to the bus stop really early, thinking what am I going to say? Hey Benny um Hollie might be a murder. No, I can't be that direct with it, I walked back and forth at the stop. Benny walked up to me and tapped on my shoulder, signed "what's wrong?" I looked him in the eyes and for the first time ever, I lied to him.

"Nothing I answered, just confused about the case." At that moment Marco pulled up to me her hair pulling in the wind as her skateboard was flying across the ground. It was like time and space had stopped for a second, and nothing else mattered. Then I remembered that she told me to stay clear from Hollie until we had evidence pointed elsewhere.

Benny and I were waiting for something exciting to happen in class. If the teacher would say something to us about yesterday. Nothing really happened, Mrs. Odwin just stood up and taught the class as usual. Today was a day of stress that I couldn't handle. Just thinking about trying to stay away from a friend, hurt my mind. Why shouldn't I just ask her, in front of Benny? If she's the killer then there's two of us and she can only kill one of us at a time. Or not say anything at all Marco, didn't really provide that much evidence. I should still stay alert no matter what happens. Benny should too, that's why I have to tell him.

But how could you tell your best friend that another person that they care about is a murder? I sighed as I saw him walking up to the bus stop, he was happy. I wonder what happened.