third person's pov

after i got that message, i grabbed my car keys and dashed downstairs not caring to put on shoes as i always have a pair in the car. just as cal grabbed something to eat i grabbed his hand and yanked him outside.

"next time give me a heads-up of your pulling my limbs." cal says as we got into the car and i drove out of the drive way and heading to borgie's house. as it's our meeting spot, also because he lives closer to where i live. which i never knew, until cal told me.

"in the group chat borgie said he found a lead. so that's where we're heading." i say all in one breath as i purposely drove past the stop light.

"makes sense, why'd you yank my arm off?" he asks as he drank what was left of my ice coffee from starbucks. which wasn't that much anyway, i didn't care. i wasn't in the mood to kick his ass, but whatever.

when we got to borgie's house, i abruptly stopped which made cal almost smash his head into the window. in this car there aren't any seatbelts, but thank the fucking gods i haven't pulled over.

i got out of the car as cecily was also here too. that and she lives a block apparently from borgie.

"so what do you got?" i asked him as cal dangled his arm around me as we sat on borgie's back porch.

"so i texted people to see if they knew what happened because ya need more details." borgie says as us three gave him weird ass looks.

"okay just skip to the point of this." i say snippy as he nodded his head.

"gia knows your address." he says as i shot my head up like someone mentioned fast and furious.

"how does that little witch know my address in the first place?" i ask him as cal rubbed my arm to calm me down a little before the entire neighborhood hears me.

"remember that one time that gabriella took you home? think hard on this." cecily says as i looked at her with narrowed eyes before i began thinking.

"well gia was in that car with her, that and they live a mile from your house." cal says as i gave them a blinked look as i was speechless.

"i remember that because i sprained my ankle and dad was gone and that was before me and eden got our license. why does that lead to gia being with them?" i say to him as cecily moved a strain of her hair behind her ear.

"ruby was in the front yard barking like crazy, and she was being suspicious, well gia was." cal says adding to the conversion as i'm fucking confused like shit.

"we did some digging about gia, and i found out that she used to stalk you without you knowing about it. she'd watch ruby like a hawk." borgie says as he leaned a little on the table trying to keep his voice down as his mom is in the kitchen. he doesn't want his mom knowing about this conversation. "it was like she was planning on doing this for a while but that night was when she finally made her move. she wrote down the schedule of you taking out ruby at a specific time." he continued as i couldn't believe what i was hearing. it was slowly starting to make sense but that doesn't make sense of why she was with vic and ronnie.

"wait, what was she doing with vic and ronnie then?" i ask him as i folded my arms over my chest as cal did the same. it honestly feels like me, cal and cecily are interviewing borgie.

"she been best friends with the two of them for years. mainly because of her sister being in a relationship with vic. is it starting to make sense now?" cecily jumped in as i raised my eyebrow as i shook my head.

"what makes this crazier is that the weapon that she used was um....a...um..." borgie says stuttering up his words as i gave him a look to continue.

"which was?" i asked him as he cleared his throat as i felt my blood boiling by the second. "answer me, now!!" i yelled at him with hot tears rolling down my face as i was trying to hold them not wanting to cry here but i guess its too late for that.

fuck me.

"it was the same weapon that leatherface used in texas chainsaw massacre." borgie says as i stopped moving when he said that as i looked at cal as if looking for an answer. i felt my hands becoming shaky, and my breathing start to stop immediately as my heartbeat was rapidly beating.

"w-w-w-wha-what." i say stuttering over my own words as nothing is coming out that's words. well that's embarrassing.

"that's what she used but ronnie used his father's pistol to actually kill her and gia used the saw to cut her." borgie says as my tears continued to stream down my cheeks like a waterfall. it felt good because i was getting cold. then, again i'm wearing a tank top and shorts, and this time of night it's getting cold.

i walked down the steps away from them as i was hugging myself, then i felt arms around me as i moved away as i knew exactly who it was. cal.

i didn't want to be touched. i wanted to be alone. i wanted to grieve.

"we will let you two be." i heard cecily say as she pulled borgie away into the house leaving me and cal alone. i felt everything like hitting me in the face, like when you just got punched in the face yeah that's what that felt like. it was all starting to connect itself like a puzzle. i didn't like that puzzle. it all started to make sense, of how and why an innocent dog died.

"i know your pissed, but please, do . not . commit . murder. okay?" cal says as i sigh knowing he was right, as i put my head onto his shoulder as i felt him rubbing my back, which started to make me more calmer, so i wouldn't kill anyone.

"way to take the fun out of it." i say to him as he tapped my chin which made me look at him, and i didn't see him connecting out lips like one of those cheesy fucking ass movies. where the boy and girl kiss each other like they've never seen each other. but this is soft and gentle and---making me sound like an idiot. (i'm trying to lighten the mood for my sanity, and this was the first thing that i can think of).

when me and cal broke the kiss, which i lowkey didn't want to end as i pouted a little as we walked in the direction of where cecily and borgie went, which was inside the house. i felt cal slinging his arm around my shoulder, as i lean my head onto his shoulder as now everything is still giving me a goddamn mother fucking headache.

is it too late to slowly die already? *it's too late* damnit.

i just can't believe is dead, as she was a gift from my mother before she had died. i still can't wrap my head around that she was murdered, for no reason whatsoever. i sit on borgie's couch as we think of a plan, but sadly none of us have any ideas.

later

we developed a plan but it's a plan of revenge as gabriella and gia are having a party at their house and all of the popular brats are going to be here including vic and ronnie of course but no one cares about them. they're not even my type in the first place.

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i know where i ended
the chapter is weird
but i just want to get
this chapter out
because i haven't
written this book
in a year *i know*
this book has been put
on the back burner
for so long, so i will just
publish it where
it is.
but anyway, hi!

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