All For Not

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"I'm not entirely sure why you've decided to leave it in the hands of the sheriff so suddenly, you've never done so before but not handling it ourselves could backfire onto us in more than one way..." She ignored most of my words, "relax sister, you know we can't do too much or we'll be expelled before you close the case." I frowned, "you like it here." It was a fact not a question, "not at all..."

Suddenly the sheriff came through the school's large doors. As soon as his eyes were laid upon Wednesday he spoke, "there was no body," she stood walking to him and with a sigh I followed, "how could you miss a dead body?" He scoffed at her, "Cause it wasn't there. No footprints, no blood, no sign of a struggle. Nothing, nada. My search party looked all night." We began walking up the stairs when he looked behind him and frowned at me as she quipped back at him, "well, your search party must have left their seeing-eye dogs at home. I saw that monster kill Rowan right in front of me." His eyes shot back to her and he asked a fairly acceptable question, "get a good look at this monster thing?"

"It didn't stick around for a chat." He was tired and annoyed, possibly angry, "maybe it was one of your classmates." Stopping at the top of the first set of stairs principal Weem's whirled on him, "Sheriff, I find that question offensive." He was definitely all three at the moment, "I don't care, 'cause I got three other dead bodies in the morgue. Hikers just ripped apart in the woods." I frowned and looked to my sister as her eyes casted a glance towards me, principal Weems confused suddenly, "the mayor said those were bear attacks." I'm confident we all knew they weren't bear attacks, "well, the mayor and I disagree on that."

"So you automatically assume a Nevermore student is the murderer, even though there's no evidence a crime was even committed." Wednesday had a peculiar look on her face as they talked, "I'm sorry. I forgot, you only teach the good outcasts here, right?" She nodded to me and I turned walking down the stairs, "where's she going?" I spoke with a monotone voice, "to prepare for my classes, I'm still a student after all."

"Not so fast young lady," I stopped in my tracks, turning my head just a bit before fully turning to look at the man in uniform, "yes sheriff?" I narrowed my eyes and waited as he stood with an annoyed expression plastered on his face, "every time I've seen you, you two are always together, so where were you last night?" A single brow raised on my face as I noticed principal Weems' uncomfortable frame right beside his angry one, "I was with Xavier Thorpe eating chili cheese fries..." I turned before looking back up at him, "try to hide your disdain for me and my sister sheriff, a man in such a position shouldn't be throwing daggers at teenagers," I walked down the staircase ignoring him and his stare while whispering to myself, "I might just send them back..."