Coral Lake

Chapter Two Part One

One year had passed since Stacy and Stephanie lost their mother to coral lake, a lot had happened since then Stacy was still working in design and was still doing well, she kept her hair short and her weight slim but her consciousness was far from fine. The first few months was hard and the pain that gripped her chest still remained. Both her and her sister loved there mother more then life itself so when they found her and she was dead, both of them could not move on. Weeks Stephanie stayed at Stacie's and both would cry in each others arms at night as they tried hard to live through the pain, they only had each other now and that's the only thing that seemed to stop Stacy from breaking all together. At this time a year later Stacy had finally let her heart heal but she still couldn't help her her building  suspicions over rule her with what happened to her mother. It drove her to the stage that she even had a little white book that contained pages of everything she found out, from where her mother was the day before from talking to people that lived near the lake, from all the things that didn't make sense which were what was most driving her to the assumptions that something more had happened. The police put it to drowning because there was water in her lungs. Stacy argued against this and kept bringing up the suspicious cut on her head but all they said  was could of been caused from her falling and hitting her head, but this did not sit well with Stacy at all. For a year she was trying to work out what really happened she didn't believe that it was an accident it didn't make sense. Her mother never would never have been foolish enough to go outside in the dark alone, she was wearing her striped pyjama that she never went outside in. Her mother was cooking the stew she wouldn't dare leave, but not only that but the cut on her head also made no sense, I mean it was a possibility she hit her head but with all the factors in place it was deemed to be something more then just a accident.  It was why she had to go back to coral lake, plus it was hers and Stephanie's cabin now which meant they could go whenever they wanted accept there was one problem. Her sister. Stephanie even now was grieving tremendously hard, it was going to be a lot of work to get her out the small flat she lived but Stacy had no choice. It was needed to be done. 

Stacy could still remember the day her mother's solicitor Johnson came to Stacy's flat with Stephanie, he was wearing a green striped suit with a matching green tie, his bald head reflecting the light of the sun, he held a leather black briefcase which made him look like he was a villain from a spy movie "Stacy, Stephanie I'm so sorry for your loss" he looked at both of us with sad grey eyes as he held his suitcase by his side "Thanks Johnson come on in" Stacy told him wearing a green vest top and tight jeans with matching high heeled boots. Stephanie was wearing a black tracksuit that held a few tea stains with white trainers, her hair was a messy bun, she looked completely defeated, large bags under her eyes that was red from the amount of crying she did each night. All three of them headed to the front room as Stephanie walked away and headed to the kitchen "So what's this about?" Stacy asked as  her sister returned two steaming cups of tea for her sister and Johnson then she retreated back to the kitchen for her own. "It's about your mother her will says you have everything she owned including the cabin in coral lake" he didn't even catch a breath he said it so quick that it left Stacy and Stephanie speechless "Well we don't want it" Stephanie suddenly snapped, her tea slamming on the table her face turned red as tears started to gleam in her dark eyes "Stephanie do not be silly of course we want it, it was mothers dream to have that cabin. "Stacy told her calmy sipping the hot tea "Yeah and looked what happened" Stephanie snapped sitting down wiping the tears that started to stream down her cheeks "Look all I need you to do is sign these and I'll be gone" Johnson suddenly said, he opened his suitcase and pulled out some legal documents, Stacy signed them all and Stephanie also did with a good ten minutes of badgering from Stacy. 

Stacy stood there thinking about the memory over and over the way Stephanie reacted when she heard she was having the cabin with her sister, since the accident with her mum Stephanie had been so depressed she starting to have nightmares and nearly lost her job twice due to her not going to work but thankfully the boss was a understanding man and understood how grief can impale a persons heart. Stacy thought all this through and finally made the decision that she would kill two birds with one stone. She would find out the real reason of who hurt her mother and try and heal her sisters pain by going back to coral lake.