Searching for Zara

Chapter 13- The End (part 2)

Lewis Clelland was sitting in a hotel room with Meryl telling her everything. Everything about my murder and life just before the car hit me.

He first told her how he knew, which was because his mother was too a private investigator who was hired by her father Mr Clelland to protect his street. Lewis had overheard recorded conversations and read emails and texts that were sent by my killer. He knew everything and now was telling Meryl because he needed to know that the Mayfield girls were safe.

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1 year ago: "Hey so do you wanna go out for lunch?" I asked my secret boyfriend. I didn't always love being with John so I had someone else on the side who made me laugh more and actually had sex with me, and took me to lunch.

"Yeah sure babe" was his answer on the phone.

We met at our usual, which it turns out became a usual with someone else. We had a great time and then we went back to mine.

"So you're sure no one will catch us?" He said whilst kissing my neck.

"Positive"

We were laying together in my bed wrapped in each other's arms, when he came in and saw us. He screamed at us and told my not so secret boyfriend to leave. He then shouted at me because he didn't know I was cheating on John. However he then truthfully said he didn't like John anyway so it was no longer an issue to him, and I already knew he was having mental health issues so I lied to him saying that I would break up with John because I didn't want him to hurt me.

A week later I found out I was pregnant. I didn't know what to do, so I thought the only person I could talk to was him; the one who caught us, so I did and he screamed at me even more and slapped me across the face. He said he was going to kill the boy who he'd caught me with. So I tried to persuade him not to because I didn't want anyone to get hurt.

Another week passed by and became the night I told my parents which lead to my death. My killer was waiting around the corner of our street waiting for me to leave and try and take me away to get an abortion. However when he saw me run across the road he sped up and hit me to my death. His idea was not to kill me but to kill my baby. It was his way of protecting me but he failed. He was so messed up that he thought what he had done was good.

It turns out Burke; Sam's brother saw the whole thing when he was going to pick up Sam from Natalia's. He later told my killer and later that day Burke was killed. My murderer was in too much trouble that he couldn't stop as before that he'd killed John as John had made a controversial comment on how he found out I was pregnant and not with his baby because we'd never had sex.

My killer had left my secret boyfriend  to move on with some other girl. But he wasn't done with him yet so he had overtime come up with a plan to frame him for my murder as it sounded pretty possible for him to have done it.

So I guess I should say now that my secret boyfriend was Kieran, Kieran Ross.

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9 months ago: Once my killer had been to my funeral he decided he wanted to go to my school as he felt he needed a replacement for me.

When he arrived at my school he bumped into one of my friends. They'd met a few times before but had had no proper conversations but once that meet was over they stated dating and he began to really like this girl.

He really wanted to get more from her though but she wasn't ready yet and still isn't. He could never control his anger and when he reached his limit he slapped her.

Once they'd broken up he'd been hiding and watching every move from all of my friends. Truth be told he'd become addicted to killing people, but he was too focused on getting Kieran arrested so the case would be over and he would be safe. But he had no idea that one Russian family member was determined to now get him arrested after she processed, that it was my cousin who killed me; Callum Anderson.

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As soon as Meryl found out she and Lewis talked more whilst she wrote notes. She wanted to get this over with and get back to Russia. She hated Mayfield.

"So your mums arresting Callum as we speak? And everyone will be informed including my family?" She said in shock.

"Yeah, I just wanted to come hear to tell you because I knew you were trying to help the girls"

"Well we better go then" she said heading for the door.

"Wait, quick question. Do you think it's too soon to say to Lucia what's happened? I still really like her and from what've heard Kieran was only using her.

"I think she needs someone to help her heel from all this shock".

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The next day it was all over the news. The girls had found out earlier but now the whole world new.

The girls had cried to sleep and Johnny had gone to help Clara and Sam had gone to help Natalia.

"Hey babe" Johnny said when Clara opened the door and lead him to her room.
As soon as they reached her bedroom she burst into tears having a moment. Johnny carried her to her bed and lay next to her, holding her while she cried in his arms. He stroked her hair and kissed her forehead telling her that he loved her and that she would always have him no matter what.

After a moment Clara sat up a little and said "I love you too by the way, and I'm so glad that you're here." He nodded to tell her he knew and then they shared a sweet kiss before he went back to holding her again. This time however she wasn't crying over my murder case, she was smiling slightly at how happy she was she had met Johnny.

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Two weeks later Amelia Daniels Jackson was born. She was beautiful and Adrianna and Natalia fell in love with how cute she was. All the girls visited the hospital to see her and they all held her and it lifted their spirits.

Adrianna and Maks just stayed friends as they would be living in Russia half the year and then in Mayfield the other half.

Natalia and Sam stayed together obviously and helped each other grieve. They babysat Amelia and Natalia ran a marathon for charity in order to help young people with mental health.

Lucia eventually got better and got over Kieran. She became herself again and realised she needed Lewis as he was just a really nice person.

As for Clara and Johnny, they recorded music together and applied to both go to Juliard in New York. They became even more in love and would always be together.

That's it. All of it. They were done Searching for Zara.

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Thanks so much to everyone who has read this! Hope it was okay x