Opposites attract (Mike W.)

CHAPTER THIRTY EIGHT

Act 3~Chapter 6: Billy Hargrove and Heather Holloway

Avery, El and Max decided to investigate what happened to Billy. The chose to look around his room so they went to Max's house.

"It's gonna start pouring soon," Max pointed out, looking at the very gray sky, "We should be at the mall or, like, watching a movie or something."

"You don't believe me?" El asked the two girls.

"We believe you saw something, El," Avery told her, "I mean, you said Mike sensed you in there before. Maybe it was just like that. Maybe Billy just sensed you somehow."

"But the screams," El defended.

"Yeah, I know, but, here's the thing," Max began, "When Billy is alone with a girl, they make like, really crazy noises."

"They scream?" the girl asked.

"Yeah, but, like... happy screams," Max explained.

"Happy screams? What is happy screams?" El questioned.

"It's like..." Max looked at Avery for help, but she just shook her head and chuckled, "You know what, I'm just gonna lend you my mom's Cosmo.

"His cars not here," Avery said.

"You really wanna do this?" Max asked.

El nodded and the three went on forwards towards the front door. Max lead them to Billy's room so they could look around to see if there was anything suspicious that could help them understand what El saw. His room was extremely messy, with posters of women in bathing suits and empty beer bottles scattered all over the place, a plate with used cigarrettes was laying next to his bed.

"Why do I get the feeling that we are gonna find all kinds of wrong in here?" Avery said, crossing her arms over her body.

Max walked over to his bedside table, opening the draw being greeted by a collection of adult magazines.

"Ugh, gag me with a spoon," she groaned, closing the draw. The three girls walked into Billy's bathroom, Avery turning on the light and looked around. El stopped, looking into the bathtub, calling the other two over, Avery and Max went over and looked in as well.

"Ice. It's just ice," Max said, comfortingly, picking up one of the empty bags of ice and looking at it, "It's probably for his muscles or something. He works out like a maniac."

Max dropped the bag back into the water, when El looked around. She noticed something on one of the cabinets. Blood. Avery and Max noticed her walking towards it and watched her open the cabinet and watched her pull out a box.

"El, what is it?" Avery asked. El reached into the bucket and picked out a red bag, and a yellow whistle, both covered in blood. El turned around, showing them both to the others. The three of them recognised them both from the pool, where Billy worked.

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The three of them went to the pool, now wearing long rain coats as it was now heavily raining, El in a red, Avery in an orange and Max in a Yellow. They walked into the reception and were greeted by two lifeguards.