A Starry Eyed Mystery

Chapter 4

Still on Kyle's porch, I looked at Aidan. "He seems suspicious, don't you think?" He met my eyes and started walking down the steps, "Well maybe he just doesn't care about her. That doesn't mean he did it. People grow apart and stop caring, it's really not too big of a deal". This sounded familiar. I frowned at the change of his attitude and glared at him. "Well just because you don't care about me, that doesn't mean you wouldn't be a suspect if I was the victim instead of Olivia." This made him really pissed. His voice rose a couple octaves, "Don't you dare use yourself in that example. I would never let anything happen to you, let alone do something to you. I'm just pointing out the fact that a lack of care and sympathy doesn't make the person the culprit." I bitterly laughed. "You wouldn't do anything to me? Well that's complete bullshit, Aidan. You broke my heart and you left with the world's most goddamn idiotic explanation. You think that's not doing something? So don't make yourself sound like the victim. You broke me and you left. Don't you dare try and deny that!" I lashed out at him, feeling my rage bubble up. If it was possible for Aidan to look even more pissed, this was it. "How many fucking times do I need to tell you to LET IT GO? It's the past, so forget about it. And I never put you in any danger or physically hurt you. So drop it." With that, he walked away. Seconds later, he turned around and said, "See you tomorrow. Make sure to whip up another stupid plan for us to find out who tried to kill Olivia." And he was gone. I let a breath out and felt confused. Aidan, the boy I loved, who broke my heart. He was considerate for that split second and now his old self is back. I need a manual to figure this guy out...

I walked home and greeted Daisy at the door. "Hey cutie, at least I have you in my life right now. Nobody else seems to like me or even care about me." I sighed and flopped down on my bed. At that moment, I felt like crying. In highschool, I wasn't the most popular or well-liked person. Nobody really paid attention to me, I was just there. I didn't really have friends either, but that changed when badboy Aidan took notice of me. I fell in love with him and he saw me for who I really was. I finally had someone other than my Mom and Daisy to care for me. But prom night ruined me. And he just left. A single tear rolled down my cheek and before you know it, I was full-out sobbing myself to sleep.

A couple hours later, I woke up feeling my eyes hurt. Screw your past, Ashley. We need to focus on finding out who hurt Olivia, I thought to myself. I sat up and started to think. Okay, so Olivia was almost murdered. But she's still alive, just in a coma. What if the culprit never meant to kill her, but to warn her about something? I quickly jumped out of bed and went to my suspect board. Yes, I wasted 2 hours making that thing. But hey, it's organized and gets the job done. Hold on, if this was a warning, that means there may be someone else involved too. Olivia could've been involved in something serious, serious enough to almost get her killed. But what could it be? Maybe I just read too many books....

The next day, I took Daisy with me. After all, I needed someone to like me. I was supposed to meet Aidan in front of the police station. Grand place to meet, isn't it? He wasn't there when I arrived. Boys and their tardiness, I thought. To pass the time, I sat down on a bench and mulled over the mystery. Olivia was extremely well-liked, and she doesn't seem to be the kind of person to hurt others. So there's a chance that the culprit was someone not so popular who was jealous of her. But there wasn't something right with this whole thing. She graduated high school 8 years ago, that's almost a decade ago! So if the person was jealous of her high school rankings, why would they wait so many years to try to harm her? This doesn't make any sense. Frankly, I don't think high school jealousy had anything to do with this. Same with the disliked teacher hunch. It had to be something more recent, likely something more serious than pettiness. A throat cleared and I looked up to see Aidan looking down at me. "Oh, sorry, I didn't see you come." He looked at me thoughtfully and nodded. "Yeah, I just arrived. You seemed to be deep in thought though. Care to share, smartass?" And just like that, yesterday's anger returned. "For once can you try not to be a jerk? You literally have no care for anyone and niceness seems to kill you!" His bored expression returned. "You seem to have nothing new to say. Can you just tell me what's up so we can get this over with?" I glared, but nodded. "Okay well this is a hunch, but I have a feeling this incident has nothing to do with Olivia's high school life. I mean think about it: she graduated 8 years ago, so why would a person wait that long to do something to her? It doesn't make any sense. And this may seem like a far stretch, but what if the culprit didn't actually mean to kill her, but to warn her? Olivia could've been involved in something serious and there may be another person, a more dangerous one, who would really try to do something to her." I ended my sentence, realizing that I was rambling. Again. Crap. I glanced at Aidan and saw that his brows were raised. He whistled, "Damn, Ash, you really did some digging, didn't you? But jokes aside, that seems like a pretty solid theory. So what do you suggest we do?" I blushed and blurted out something I would never want to say otherwise. "We need to go to the hospital."

Chapter 4 is complete, let me know what you guys think!

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Keep dreaming, dreamers!

-Ennie