~𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕝𝕠𝕧𝕖 𝕓𝕖𝕙𝕚𝕟𝕕 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕟𝕚𝕘𝕙𝕥𝕞𝕒𝕣𝕖~

figured out

The OPD homicide unit had been calling me all night and I didn't even notice until the morning when I woke up. "Hello?" I muttered, my voice still thick from sleeping "good morning Sydney, we'd like to inform you that we have found who had caused the death of Isabelle McAllister, we wanted to ask if you knew the suspect, Jeremiah Swanson." Upon hearing my exes name my chest tightened up. It was difficult to breathe and tears began to flood my eyes, I was straight up panicking, and demi had to take the phone away from me to finish the call. She held me close to her and finished up the call. The more it thought about it, the angrier I got. My ex killed my best friend and I grew up with the rule of an eye for an eye, so after a moment of realisation I dressed myself and turned completely cold towards anyone and I was focused on one thing. Revenge.

I drove to Jeremiah's house and pounded on the door to which his new partner, Mariah, answered with her daughter Jessie by her side. "Sydney! What a nice surprise!" "Yeah yeah, sorry, I'm in a bit of a rush, is Jeremiah here?" "Yeah, is everything okay?" "Yeah it's fine, but could you take Jessie out for a while; here's some money, I just really need to be alone with jere for a bit" she nodded and took the money from me, before shouting for him and inviting me inside. I sat on his couch and you could see his surprise in his face when he saw me. "Syd! Oh, uhh, what're you doing here?" He asked with a small laugh. I decided to play innocent until something creeped up on conversation. "I just wanted to see you, you know,catch up." I replied with a smile. "Okay, do you want coffee?" "Yeah sure"

I watched him set down two cups filled with piping hot coffee and picked one up before asking him "so, I noticed your car was missing from the driveway. Did something happen?" "Uhh yeah, it broke down a few days ago" I smiled and nodded at him "was that before or after you drove into my best friend?" I said, getting more and more angry with every word I spoke, tipping the cup towards him until it just barely started dripping onto his leg. His face turned to a sickly pale colour and he began to wince at the hot coffee that was dripping on him, "Syd, you're hurting me, I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt Isabelle, I just wanted to scare her!" He was hissing at the pain that was surging through his body and although it was dripping onto my hands, resulting in burns but I was so blinded by rage that I couldn't feel it. "You were just trying to scare her?! You fucking killed her!" By now my hands were extremely burned and I had tipped almost the entire drink onto him. "I WOULDN'T HAVE FUCKING DONE ANYTHING IF UT WEREN'T FOR YOU!" He said swinging his first into my cheek to form some distance between us. I snapped. I punched and punched and punched until I heard a snap and a yelp of pain. "My fault?! You're the one who fucking drove into her! And don't try to make up some bullshit excuse for it either! You killed her! You'll pay for it! And eye for a fucking eye!" I screamed at him, standing up and trying to calm myself down. "Get up, we're going to a police station." I said pulling at his arm.

I drove him to the police station and explained to them that he had confessed to me that Izzy's death was his fault. I also let them know why he was so beat up and they seemed to understand. And then they said it, the sentence that I needed to hear for so long. "Jeremiah Swanson, you are under arrest for the manslaughter of Isabelle McAllister. You have the right to remain silent but anything you Say may be used against you in the court of law." I watched, trying not to smile as justice was being served and Jeremiah was cuffed at takes away, further into the station. "Hey, are you okay?" One of the officers asked me, pointing to my hand "oh, yeah, coffee accident. " I chuckled, shaking my hand a little. "We'll let you know if anything else comes up." She said before dismissing herself so I could leave.

*Time skip*

Demi had made me rinse my hand under water for 10 minutes to soothe the burn on my hand. Although I was in a manic episode this morning, I had calmed down and taken my meds when I got what I wanted. I told demi and trav what happened and they both agreed that I could be terrifying sometimes. I knew that deep down, me getting revenge was what Izzy would've wanted, and I wouldn't feel complete until I got it. Me and trav were the closest thing to the family that she had, her brother was always traveling and I had no idea if he'd show up for the funeral and her mom broke contact with her when she came out as trans, so she wasn't coming; so as her new family, otn order to honour her; I made sure to get her justice. The funeral was in a few days and I wasn't 100% ready to say goodbye yet but I never really would be, but if there was a chance to say goodbye one final time, I'd take it. Her brother was always a hit or miss kinda guy but I really hoped that he'd show up; we were kinda close as children and to be honest, I was always quite attracted to him, but I hadn't seen him since he left for military school. I guess it'll only be a matter of time to see how demi reacts to my first crush..