The Quiet Sister✔️

36. New Year New Nola

NOLA POV

It was New Year's Day, and she chose to spend it all alone at home.

Tennille was back in L.A., and so was Sarena and her family for a vacation slash she needed to do some work with Tone and Ginger.

Even Kitty and Icee took the babies on their first flight, across the sea to spend with Krystle and her family. They invited her to come along, but she was not in the mood.

She preferred to sulk at home all alone. She could have called Ronan or Drew or Tori to hang out with on New Year's Eve, but felt she would be Debbie Downer. She read textbooks she found on more serial killers.

Interesting stuff to her. By definition, a serial killer is a person who committed a series of murders. Often times there was no apparent motive, but they always were in a pattern. She believed that there were many serial killers out there, uncaught, continuing to do crimes under the radar. The missing children and women that no one was looking for.

Was there a such thing as the perfect crime?

Yes. Most authorities in crime would say no, but then, how do you explain killers never getting caught, Innocent people in jail for crimes they did not commit, only to find out they never did the crime, but the killer was still free.

The perfect crime.

How could criminals get away with it for years? Mostly, they did the murder and never spoke of it to anyone. They were normal enough that they lived their life with no red flags. They could be your next door neighbor, your teacher, or even your pastor at your church. It always was the ones you never suspected.

It gave her the chills. Because of that, she looked at the people around her that could be psychos. Not counting her family. They were crazy but for different people.

The rest of the Facts. T-Zack and Freezy. She had little to no interaction with them. They had no familial bonds with Tucker or AKA. They were just groupmates, all connected by Icee and Craig. T-Zack was now divorced from his wife, thanks to him telling her about his affair. They had split custody of their three kids. He seemed to be a good guy, despite the affair with her sister.

Freezy was a quiet man. But she did her research into him. He had secrets he was hiding, but nothing pointing out that he was a killer.

Then there were the two guys she was dating. Ronan was in class with her studying criminal activity, Wouldn't that be a great cover? Learn the techniques and use them to commit the perfect crime. That's what she would do. He never talked much about his family. She did not either, so that was no excuse.

What about Drew? A small-town boy with a family that sounded like they were not close at all. Being a bi-racial kid that could pass, how did that affect his childhood? Around racists who talked freely about their hatred for Black people.

She wondered about Tone and Riyah and their situation. Tone decided to stay with Riyah and pretend to the world they were one hundred percent in love and okay. That is what most reality shows are these days, fake. She wanted no part of it.

Riyah was certifiable crazy. Tone had to live with that. She was so glad she avoided being attached to him, although she still cared for him as a friend. He could keep his distance from her as long as he was with that bitch.

"I need you to stay focused and not think about some boy."

That was Victor, of course, telling her how to live her life as soon as he touched back down in Springfield and came to the house. It never occurred to him that she could give two shits about any guy. Not Drew, not Ronan, and for damn sure not Tone. One was an ex and the other two were just guys she saw casually. No feelings were involved on her part.