⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"There's someone I think we need to talk to," Bostyn said as she arrived with her car, bundling Tate, Brynn and Alex into the back seat. Brynn, who was blatantly still shaken and why shouldn't she be, had phoned Bostyn and asked her if she could pick her and Tate up once her friend had come back downstairs after her little reunion of a kind with Alex.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀The police officer had said he would come along for support but Brynn suspected it was just because he wanted Tate in his pants, but her best friend seemed happy so she unreluctantly agreed. Now there was four of them, plus the police, on the hunt for the killer, and there was still no certainty that any of them would find them.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀It could be anyone, but Bostyn was sure of where she wanted to start with. It wasn't much of a lead, especially since she doubted this person would have the brains to do anything like this but still, Rico de Costa had been fighting with Barclay and he'd lost Maddie years ago. It was a motive that Bostyn believed was sensible and she explained this to her friends, interrupting Brynn's reply to her answer.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Rico de Costa is an obvious suspect. He had a motive and I haven't seen him all day. He wasn't at Maddie's and he wasn't outside the Freezecaf like he usually is smoking. I drove past earlier. The others that are usually with her were there but Rico was nowhere to be seen."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Brynn thought this over in her mind for a second, her blue eyes staring intently into space as she pondered on Bostyn so suggestion. "It's a good thought, and somewhere good to start. Let's try his house, he might be there."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀So that was where they travelled next, down into the places where the deaths by drugs rose dramatically and Tate always felt a little uncomfortable when she drove those streets. People had been shot through their windscreen by insane inhabitants of the estates.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"This is where Rico lives?" Alex asked with a sniff. His tone made him sound stuck up but Tate looked into eyes and saw fear similar to hers. The boy had never even met these Rico kid and now he was traveling dangerous streets to meet him and question him about a pair of suspicious murders. Not something that one takes part in every day, is it.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Whilst they drove, avoiding pot holes and shattered bottle that littered the ground for the smoothest drive that Bostyn could give them, Tate found herself looking at the minute details of Alex. The smattering of dark freckles, cocoa in tint, across his nose and cheek bones. How when he smiled that his left cheek had a small simple in it and the beetle black colour of his eyelashes.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀Her breath was caught in her throat when Tate finally came back to reality. Inside, her mind was fuzzy and her eyes were gleaming with delight and curiosity as they darted around the landscape. Everything seemed to have taken on a grey tinge outside of the car, and for a second Tate wondered if she'd ended up with an odd case of colour blindness. There was no colour at all, not even in the sky which was suddenly littered with dark clouds filled to the brim with rain, ready for the heavens to open.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Do you know Rico's exact address?" Brynn asked, twirling a strand of blonde hair around her finger as she looked out of the windscreen with a blank expression on her face. Her eyes were brimmed with tests, of course they were. She'd just lost her cousin, as much as he annoyed her. Brynn had been the one to find him, and that hit home very hard.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Yes," Bostyn muttered as she pressed down hard on the accelerator, flying through a red light and causing a cacophony of horns to blare behind them. The other three looks horrified as Bostyn dodged in and out of traffic with such precision.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"You really think he did it?" Tate whispered, being thrown sideways as Bostyn whirled quickly around a corner, her head landing on Alex's lap awkwardly. She flushed a crimson colour as she sat up quickly, laughing Bostyn to stifle a laugh as she pressed down hard on the break and looked at the house to their left.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀"Yes I do. We're here. Let's go question a guy."⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀
