Unexpected Rendezvous

Chapter 10

YOUTUBE, CHARLTON SPEAKS CHANNEL

Jamie and Zack wave at a phone camera from what looks like the front seat of a car.

ZACK: Hey, this is Zack Tate and Jamie McFarland, coming to you live from (glances around) Jamie's car. Which, not gonna lie, could be cleaner. 

JAMIE: You're the one who wanted to record here. I voted for Domino's. 

ZACK: Too noisy. Anyway, we snuck out of lunch to bring you a Charlton Speaks special report on what everyone at school is talking about today: the shocking death of our classmate, Charlton High's Jesy Nelson. The news reports don't have much detail yet, but it sounds like Nelson died in an abandoned building in central London.

JAMIE: She didn't just die. She was killed. By a blonde girl.

ZACK, glaring at Jamie: You're getting ahead of the story. That part's not even confirmed yet. (Looks back at the camera) Anyway. Nelson was elected class president yesterday, and was supposed to give her acceptance speech at 10 o'clock this morning. We were all in the hall, waiting. (Dramatic pause) But Nelson never showed up.

JAMIE, crowding into the camera: You know who else didn't show up?

ZACK: Not yet-

JAMIE, loudly: That's right, a blonde girl. The one she beat.

ZACK: Damn it, Jamie, you always ruin my intro.

JAMIE: You were taking too long. Anyway, it's weird right? Perrie Edwards never misses a single day of school until today, when the girl who totally humiliates her died? And nobody's heard from her. Not her brother, not her best friend-

ZACK: I'm not sure we should be saying names here. This is all just speculation obviously, but-

JAMIE: But that girl is intense. Like the kind of intense that snaps one day and goes off the deep end. You can see it, right?

ZACK, after a short pause: Well. It's not like you can't see it.