- THIRD POV -

- Flashback -- The Night Of Alyssa's attack

At the LAURENT'S HOUSE, Alyssa is sitting in her room, sitting at her vanity mirror, gently brushing her hair with her hair brush.

Outside her window, a few feet away, someone watches from behind a tree and walks away.

Back in Alyssa's bedroom, she gets up and walks over to her bed and sits down.

The alarm beeps from downstairs.

Alyssa walks out of her bedroom, down the stairs and into the empty darkened living room.

Alyssa walks up to the alarm system and turns off the beeping.

She turns around and comes face-to-face with the red masked serial killer.

The red masked serial killer grabs Alyssa by her throat and throws her on the floor.

A frantic Alyssa tries to crawl away, but the red masked serial killer grabs her again and turns her over on her back.

Holding a machete, Alyssa screamed as the red masked serial killer stabs her in her stomach four times and watches her cough up some blood.

Due to some blood loss from her stomach stab wounds, Alyssa passes out with a small puddle of blood forms under her.

With a blood-stained machete, the red masked serial killer saunters away, opening and closing the door behind them.

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PROVIDENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL

The next morning, Me and the Beckett Crew are in the waiting room with our parents and Alyssa's parents.

My Mom slowly walks inside the waiting room. Mr. and Mrs. Laurent looks up at her and gets up and walks up to her.

"Fern?" Mrs. Marlene Laurent said. "Is there anything?"

"Not yet, Marlene, but I've already conducted an investigation." Fern informed them both.

"Is there any leads that you can follow? Any clues?" Mr. Clarence Lauren asked.

"That's why I came. If your daughter saw the serial killer, it might be a clue." said Fern.

"Alright." Mrs. Laurent said.

Mr. and Mrs. Laurent walks back over to their chairs and sits back down.

My Mom and I exchange worried looks at each other.

"This can't happen again. There's been enough deaths already." Leigh Ann said.

"Yeah." Sebastian agreed. "But Alyssa's gonna be okay."

I gets up and walks away. Sebastian, Grayson, Leigh Ann and Sasha slowly walks after me.

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Later that day, in the cafeteria, I'm sitting at a bench table with a yogurt smoothie, some granola bars and other snacks from the vending machine.

"Catty?" Sasha said and the others sits down at the table with me. "What is it?"

I look at Sebastian, Grayson, Leigh Ann and Sasha.

"I know I shouldn't point any fingers, but I have my suspicions." I said.

"What do you mean?" Leigh Ann asked, taking a bite of her chewy granola bar.

"Don't you guys think it's odd that Jade Ester showed up after the homecoming dance and she's a new student at Providence Academy?" I asked, taking a sip of my yogurt smoothie.

"She wasn't at the homecoming dance, and then, at breakfast today, she heard about the margarita Spice Jangle incident." Grayson hinted.

"Jade heard about it because she wasn't there at the homecoming dance." Sebastian said, sitting next to me.

"Jade is still the new student at Providence Academy, so, maybe, she's learning." Leigh Ann said.

"I don't think so." I said.

"What are you getting at, CP?" Leigh Ann asked.

I give Leigh Ann a knowing look and she starts to figure it out.

"You think that Jade is somehow connected to the margarita Spice Jangle incident?" Leigh Ann said.

"Maybe, I could be wrong about my suspensions." I said.

"You're Catty Beckett, you're aren't wrong." Sasha said.

"Something's not right about Jade. She seems like a nice young woman, but there's more to her." I said.

Sebastian gently puts an arm around my shoulder. "Let your Mom handle it, Carrey. You don't need to get involved with another of your mother's investigation cases."

"You guys know me too well. I'm gonna let my Mom handle Alyssa's case, and I'll see what I can dig into Jade Ester." I said.

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ROCHELLE'S DINER

That late afternoon, Jade and I are sitting in a booth table, across from each other.

"I hope that Alyssa is gonna be okay." Jade said, worried. "What I've heard about Providence Academy so far, three people from there have died."

"Yeah." I said.

"So, um, why did you ask me to meet you here, Catty?" Jade asked.

"I just wanted to get to know you a little better." I said to her.

"Okay, cool." Jade said with a small smile. "What would you like to know?"

"If you don't mind me asking, have you always lived in this small town?" I asked her.

"I have. My parents and I lived in a suburban neighborhood and moved away and into a house here." Jade tells me.

Catty (VO) Suburban neighborhood. Clue one.

"How about you, Catty?" Jade asked.

"There's nothing much to tell." I said to her.

"Oh, really? You seem like a pretty cool person to hangout with. And plus, you and your best friends sits together at breakfast and lunch." Jade said.

"Yeah, we do." I said.

Jade's phone buzzes on the booth table. She picks up her phone and looks at it.

"It's my Mom. I have to go, she made dinner." Jade said with a glance at Me. "I'll see you later at the academy, and it was nice getting to know you, Catty."

"You too, Jade." I said.

Jade gets up from the booth table and walks away, walking out of the diner.

Catty (VO) At least, I have a clue about Jade Ester.

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BECKETT HOUSE

Later that evening, in my room, I'm sitting at my computer desk, googling "suburban neighborhood".

And the Ester family pops up.

I click on a website and reads it.

Catty (VO) Headlines about suburban serial killers. Neighbors goes missing in a few days. Mutilated dead bodies of suburban serial killer victims turns up in trash cans.

After reading a few newspapers headlines about the suburban serial killers, I become worried that Jade Ester and her parents could be connected.

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- THIRD POV -

[Song: Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit]

At Professor Miss Bellamy's house, she drinks herself some tea in a teacup in the kitchen. A gentle knock is on the door.

Miss. Bellamy gets up and walks up to the door and opens it. No one is there.

Confused, Miss. Bellamy closes the door just as the Red masked serial killer puts a plastic bag over her head and suffocates her.

Miss. Bellamy tries to get away, but the red masked serial killer continues to suffocate her more.

Miss. Bellamy backs up, knocking the red masked serial killer against the wall, causing the serial killer to let go and she falls on the floor, taking a gasp of air.

Miss. Bellamy quickly gets a pistol from the kitchen drawer and aims it at the red masked serial killer.

But the red masked serial killer is gone.

Still holding her pistol in her hand, a frantic Miss. Bellamy dials 911 on her phone.

"911? What's your emergency?" The 911 operator woman asked.

"I was just attacked by the red masked serial killer. They tried to kill me." Miss. Bellamy told the operator.

"Try to remain calm, ma'am. Help is on the way." The 911 operator woman said on the phone.

Miss. Bellamy becomes worried, worried that the red masked serial killer might come back for her.

[Song ends]

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