Welcome To Cathedraltown

Chapter 4: The beginning of the end

At my condo, John made popcorn so we could watch drag races. "What happened to Merle Ginsberg?" I asked John. " I don't know, maybe Rupaul hates her.." John replied. "Hey. Elections are coming up. Maybe you should run for mayor." He suggested. "You're kidding." I laughed. "Are you forgetting that we can't run for mayor?" "You're stupid, John." "Oh I forgot... what's that noise"
On the street I saw a parade "oh god not again" I grunted. There were floats upon floats, with people chanting our motto. "Oh boy, not again," I said. "What's going on? He asked." "Somebody just died from walking past Woodbine. Apparently they were shot down by an automatic gun or something.. Anyways, I think I'm gonna go to bed," I explained as I walked into my bedroom. "I'm going to invite Arthur and Micah to breakfast tomorrow." John said. Micah is our neighbour. He's also our mayor, Dutch Van Der Linde's brother. I don't remember much after that. John said I passed out because I was sooooo tired. We'll never know what exactly happened. Anyways, at breakfast, Arthur came to our door with some cookies. "Hi y'all! So.. wanna talk about last night and that incident?!!" Arthur asked. Micah walked in, and suspiciously said, "No, no. We don't wanna talk about that.. Right, Ms. Adler, wait no. Right, my lady? Oh god that's creepy.. Right, Sadie? Yes. Sadie. Right, Sadie??" It was almost as if he had something to do with the incident. "Uhh, Micah?" is there something you want to tell us?" I asked him, narrowing my eyes. "No, my lady. Uhm, I mean, Ms. Adler, wait no. Sadie. No, Sadie. I had absolutely nothing to do with what happened last night." Micah blushed. "Ooka ay.." I accepted what he said and went on. Micah's been crushing on me for a while but I don't like him. There's something off about him. He's just John's pal. I've always been sweet on Arthur though, he's pretty handsome and has definitely been working out for a while. Anyways, breakfast. Everything went normal until Micah and John were talking about the incident last night. I couldn't catch everything they said, but suddenly, John's face turned as white as a sheet and his jaw dropped to the floor. "Oh my god John, are you okay? I asked him. "No, we have to get to the Cathedral now." He realised. Micah, again acting as suspicious as ever, piped in and said, "No, no. Why do that? We don't need to. Tell him my lady, wait no. Tell him Ms. Adler, wait oh god. Tell him Sadie! Yes. Sadie. Tell him Sadie!" "Ugh, just follow John. Let's go." I said, sounding pretty annoyed at Micah. It's just I wish Arthur liked me, and not some bozo who doesn't care. After we were all leaving to get into our cars, Arthur came and kissed me on my head! I turned as red as a cherry red tomato and blushed so hard. I hoped nobody noticed, but John looked at me and smiled, "You'll get him one day." I was going to slap him but instead we left, driving as fast as we could to the Cathedral. "What the hell is happening? What are we even doing? Why are we going to the cathedral?" I demanded. "Just go" he said