Small Town Curiosity

Realization

It's 4 in the afternoon and Justin is on our way to the scenes. When we got out and I went to show him the drag marks and the difference in footprints they were gone. "No this isn't right I was just here yesterday, I know this is the spot." We started walking towards the scene and all the footprints were gone. "Justin, I swear they were here." "Aria are you okay? There is nothing here." "They were here yesterday I swear, I even took photos to prove it." "See Justin, look, that was right there." We looked at the picture and the spot that had the drags and they were just gone, no trace of anything. "Look Aria you are my best friend and I'll do anything for you but this is crazy, there is nothing here." "Okay I know this is weird, let's just go to Jessicas and I'll show that there are no marks or cracks in the branch."

I and Justin started climbing the tree and got to the branch above the scene. "See Justin, look there's no marks or cracks in there." "Aria looks like there are marks and a crack." "WHAT!" "No, they were not there yesterday, it's probably from a bird." "Aria looks like those marks are circular and there's a crack in it. It's from the rope. Come on, let's get down before we get hurt, your mom will never forgive me." "Justin, I swear there was nothing here." Am I losing it? Am I imagining all this?

It's been a week since me and Justin had gone to the crime scenes. I haven't gone to school. I feel like I'm going crazy. My mom is making me go back today though since I have missed so much. My Mom and I were listening to the daily news like always. "On today's daily news in Burkeville, Arizona there has been a third teenage male body found on the outside of the woods. The boy is Tyler Aken. The deceased was found in a car crash." "Oh my god, mom. Is this real? What is going on?" "Sweetie, they're just accidents. Nothing is going on." I ran up to my room to call Justin. "Justin, this is not right. This can't be an accident." "Aria everyone gets in car accidents." "Justin, it was right next to the woods, just like Brian and Jessica." "Aria it's the woods there was probably an animal that Tyler tried to avoid and then spun out and hit a tree, or he just lost control. Car accidents are normal."

I don't believe Justin or my mom. 3 accidents in around 5 weeks, it's not possible. Something is going on around here and I'm gonna figure out what. I left to go to the outside of the woods where Tyler's crash was. When I got there the tree Tyler must have hit was completely broken and cracked. It must have fallen on top of the car. When I got home I thought of what Brian, Jessica, and Tyler had in common to see if they were accidents or on purpose. I sat there for at least an hour trying to find anything they had in common but I couldn't until I realized they all were pretty mean and were bullies a lot of the time. Maybe someone got hurt by them and is punishing them for it. It's the only reasonable and unreasonable thing I could come up with. It's unreasonable because it's a small town where we all grew up together. I don't know anyone who could be that violent.