Strike Out Part One

Strike Out Part Two

Chapter 1

I sat there my hand on the filing cabinet handle ready to open it, Isacc behind me waiting to see what was in it, and my rapidly beating heart.

What will be in there? Is it a clue? Just a mess of pointless stuff? What?

I had no clue but needed to find out. Slowly I opened the drawer, a squeak as I pulled the drawer out further. It was.. was.. full of pictures. Old pictures.

"Do you know anyone in these pictures?" I was puzzled. Completely blocked.

"Is that Lizzy?" He was right that was her! As a little girl. Her light hair hanging on her shoulders, blue-green eyes standing out in between her perfect roundly shaped head. She looked so innocent, so.. adorable.

"Yeah, but where is she?" it was a background of a huge cream colored house and behind it horses with covered wagons. Where was she? That's another thing we need to figure out too. I took a picture of the photos with my phone and then went upstairs to take a picture of the photos of me. What was going on!?

Chapter 2

After a lot of research I had finally figured out where she was! It was her grandparents ranch! Only thing was, why were they in the filing cabinet?

I thought long and hard but had no clue. The only reason that it would be in the filing cabinet is if it was all a secret. But what was a secret about all of it? It was her grandparents' ranch, unless it was all just game. Like her whole life she was lied to. What is that supposed to mean?

Well her mom has black hair and dark brown eyes. Her father has brown hair and hazel eyes. Although she looked completely different, was she adopted? No, it couldn't be, I was shown her birth certificate many times before. What was wrong!? Why did they ever hide the picture? There has to be another reason. But what?

"Hey!" Isacc had been standing there the whole entire time and I had practically forgotten that he was there! "Are we gonna go or stay here forever?"

"Just a minute," I replied quickly, "Let me grab this and shut the drawer."

There was no response. "Isacc? You still there?" All I heard was a mumbling. I turned around and he was tied up with tape on his mouth. "Oh My God! Isacc! What happened!?" It was strange, I took the tape off his mouth and began to untie him.

"Someone came up behind me.... I didn't... They put tape on my mouth." He was shocked.

He stood up and looked at me, "Isacc, calm down." He was shaking now.

"Watch out!" He yelled as someone came up behind me and hit me on the head.

Chapter 3

My eyes started to open slowly, but I quickly sat up. My head hurt, there was no blood, it just hurt. As I stood up I realized that Isacc was tied up, again. I untied him once more, but as I did someone opened the door and yelled, "Get away and sit on the damn bed!" the voice was soft and sweet but angry at the same time. I turned around and it was Marcus, Lizzy's cousin.

"What are you doing here Marcus!?" It was a shock, I hadn't seen him since we were younger, he's changed so much!

"Just helping my aunt and uncle go through all this." He had that look in his eye that made the whole room feel abnormal, cold, shaky. "You know since Lizzy was murdered, by someone very close."

"So you know who!?" I exclaimed, "Who is it?!"

"You, of course. She had the perfect little life. An only child, smart, rich, athletic, popular. You wanted her to suffer."