AVRIL'S CASE -BOOK 2

Chapter Five.

It was a few days after Cassie's meet with Joseph, and in the days that filled up that week, Cassie's curiosity grew stronger and stronger, and it did not help that one more mystery had been added to the plate; Brianna. She had made efforts to begin her investigation on who she could be, but she lacked a vital piece for the investigation to go anywhere, she was clueless. She had no idea where to start from, she had even tried searching for her on google and Facebook, but she was faced with thousands of Brianna's and lack of knowing what to narrow her search down to, left her frustrated. She felt like a wind of cluelessness kept pushing her backward and further away from the answers she needed. It did not help that she still had not figured out what the code meant either, she felt so useless and like she was failing at something she wanted to spend the rest of her life doing.

Interrupting her thoughts was a knock at the door, she dragged her body off her bed and slowly walked to the door to reveal Phoebe who scrunched up her nose once she saw Cassie's unflattering appearance. Cassie had on an oversized shirt and her hair tied up in a rough knot. "Geez Cass it's noon, why aren't you looking as gorgeous as me yet?" Phoebe asked with her hands on her hips, which made the bag that encircled her wrists to hang beside her hips, and then pushed past Cassie to enter the room.

"I'm mad at you," Cassie said still by the door, she crossed her hands over her chest and shut the door with her foot before walking to meet Phoebe who had already gotten comfortable on Cassie's bed.

"I know, but I have ice-cream," she rose up the bag she brought in with her, and then pulled out a tub of ice-cream and two plastic spoons "and I'm not getting fat alone so you'll have to endure my glorious presence for the meantime." She flipped her hair and then stretched out her right hand with a spoon and waited for Cassie to take it from her. Cassie, after a moment of rolling her eyes at Phoebe took the spoon and sat down beside Phoebe who had already started helping herself with some ice-cream. "so,' Phoebe said softly with her shoulders sunk a bit low "you know everything I told you last week was the truth, wouldn't have said it if I didn't care."

Cassie ignored her and continued with the ice-cream, which is where all of her focus was. "I don't think I'm mad at you Phoebes," she finally spoke, and looked up at Phoebe who then dumped her spoon into the tub "I think I'm mad at the truth, and the fact that you were the one who said it stung a bit, you're not exactly a saint."

"Aren't we all mad at the truth about ourselves?" she laughed slightly "I mean, I'm mad at the truth that I'm way more fabulous than everyone because anytime I see someone, it makes me feel bad that I make them feel insecure, you know?"

"Yeah, that's totally what I meant," Cassie rolled her eyes "I'll try to be more truthful, but if I need to tell a lie to keep us from getting killed or arrested, don't judge me," she pointed her index finger at Phoebe warningly.

"I won't judge," Phoebe laughed and rose up her hand in surrender. "I'm meeting Danny for lunch soon, by the way, he called me last night yelling at me about how I never spend time with him," she pouted. "Wanna come?"

"Sure," Cassie smiled, "I love Tyler and everyone else, but I live for those moments when it's just the three of us."

"Me too." She rose her right hand up in the air. "Well I'll be downstairs getting some fashion tips from your mum, she has better taste than me, it's sad." Phoebe faked a sob. Cassie laughed and watched Phoebe leave with her tub of ice-cream placed close to her chest, as though it were her child.

Both Cassie and Phoebe walked into the restaurant, which was a nice small restaurant that had a rustic feel. It had a lot of old-looking wooden furniture, a calm ambience, and dim lights. They immediately spotted Danny with the back of his head, he had his phone in his hands and used that to entertain himself while he waited. They walked over to him and when they got behind him, Cassie placed her hands over his eyes. "Cassie?" he laughed, while he lifted her hands up and brought her around, and then she sat down on the space beside him, to the left and Phoebe sat down beside him to the right, and they both placed their purses on the seat right opposite Danny.