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"What exactly were you all doing at the lake?"
Officer Powell was pacing in front of the four of us who sat on the couch in the Wheeler's living room, our parents all stood behind him.

Dustin looked at Lucas, who looked at the officers, who looked at Max, who looked to me who looked back at Dustin. "It's comp-" Lucas started to say.

"We were... We were just going for a walk." Max spoke up. She fiddled around with the tape she held in her hands.

"A walk?" Officer Callahan asked, suspiciously, his voice getting higher incredulously. "At 9pm?"

"To the lake!" Dustin squeaked nervously from beside me and Officer Callahan tilted his head. "We were gonna... Take a little swim. Little night swim."

"Dusty..." Mrs. Henderson said. Her face was full of worry.

"Y/n, were you all with Eddie?" My mother spoke up, her eyebrows furrowed in confusion.

"What?" Dustin's voice was raised by another decibel as he answered the question meant for me. "No!"

I shook my head. "No, not at all!" I lied.

"Someone was just murdered there!" Mrs. Henderson screeched.

Dustin cleared his throat and his voice returned to normal. "Yeah, we... we didn't realize that until we got there."

"That's why we didn't swim!" Lucas cut through with confidence.

"And Nancy, was she with you at this night swim?" Mrs. Wheeler asked.

"No," Max said just as Dustin said, "Yes."
They looked at each other, both confused on what to really say.

"We're not sure." Lucas said slowly.

"She was there." I tried to cover. "Then... She left. It's all a little confusing.."

"That's when you guys came!" Lucas nodded.

"Right." Max said. "And then they dared me to say what I said."

Lucas managed a nervous chuckle. "Oh, yeah..."
"About the killer."

Dustin and Lucas started to force themselves to laugh. The parents all just stared at us speechless. Mr. Wheeler was the only one who spoke, "You're lucky you didn't get shot." He said.

Dustin nodded at him in acknowledgement to which Mrs. Wheeler just glared at her husband.

"Have you had any contact with Eddie?" Officer Powell asked.

"That psycho... freak killer?" Dustin asked, shaking his head in an unbelievable way. "God, no."

Officer Callahan was behind Officer Powell, with his arms folded over his chest. He looked at us as he knew we were lying, but stayed silent behind.

"Nope. No." I shook my head profusely.

"Absolutely not." Lucas said.

"No, we haven't heard from him in ages." Max said, clutching onto her mix tape.

"We barely know the guy." I scoffed, looking to the side.

"Who?" Dustin muttered.

Erica looked pissed. She stood up walked over and enunciated every word, "Oh, that's a bunch of bull."

"Erica!" her parents scolded the small girl.

"I mean, you realize they're lying!?" Erica asked.

Lucas sent her a glare when he was able to. "The whole couch is on fire."