The Vindicated With The Monstrous

Nine

Camila jumped into the passenger seat of the car, "Where to?" She asked, Dinah had texted her that she was going to pick her up as they were gonna go straight into continuing their work in Lauren's priors that they had begun yesterday.

"Well, remember that school administrator that we talked with?" Dinah asked to which Camila nodded, "It turns out she had an old file of Lauren's where she listed an address as her home and it's unfamiliar to me."

"Really?" Camila rhetorically said as her eyes lit up at this new discovery, "Well, get going, let's find out who this is!"

Dinah laughed, now beginning to drive, "We should be there soon it's right here in the city, on the Upper East Side." Camila nodded, a little bit in shock at the fact that their destination was such an upperclass neighborhood. She was brought out of her thought of what is behind this destination when Dinah added in, "By the way, the computer lab is going through Lauren's computer that we gave them yesterday and they said that she had a very active online life."

Camila furrowed her eyes in confusion, "Doesn't everyone have an active online life these days?"

"No," Dinah replied while shaking her head, "She had a lot of dating profiles, I mean. Well they were on dating sites but the computer guy said they were more like 'hookup' profiles."

Dating profiles? Camila thought, not knowing what that had to do with anything, but she couldn't help but feel some sort of odd interest in this. "Oh," was all she could say as a response, not really knowing how to feel.

"Yeah, I'm just mentioning it because of what you had said yesterday, remember? That it was unusual that everyone around campus said Lauren kept to herself, her only friend being Alexa. Maybe Lauren used those sites to connect with people rather than meet and interact with others physically," Dinah explained with a shrug.

Camila was kind of impressed, the conclusion Dinah made seemed pretty accurate as Camila did say that yesterday. In her analysis of Lauren, one of the most obvious things is how smooth and charming she can be so it made no sense to her that Lauren was unable to naturally have people gravitate towards her at the school she went to. Camila nodded her head in agreement of Dinah's statement but didn't have anything else to reply because she found herself wanting to know more about these dating profiles and not for reasons involving her analysis of Lauren, just because Camila was curious. She was curious to see the girls she was talking to, curious to know if she had met any of them, then curious to know how many of them they were, how she talked to them, if it was similar to how she talked to Camila. Stop it, Camila thought to herself, because she knew that these small curiosities were coming along with jealousy.

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Dinah and Camila walked into a luxury condo, being guided by a maid into a living room with couches, decorated in a salon pink color, that rested on a marbled floor. Camila took a seat next to Dinah on the couch that was facing right in front of the large flat screen TV; Dinah looked straight up and saw a large chandelier hanging right in the middle of this couch set, "Damn," she muttered in a low voice that Camila could still hear, "I think that chandelier costs more than my lifetime salary."

Camila, who was also observing the glamourous room, nodded before adding, "This is how the other half lives."

They weren't waiting for long as a women with platinum blonde hair, clad in a sparkly black dress, came strutting in through the big burgundy doors with her Prada heels clicking on the floor. "Welcome, detectives!" she said with a smile as she sat in the resting chair that was adjacent to them. "I'm Julianne Jauregui, so nice to meet you."

Dinah and Camila both looked at each other, equally as taken back, before Dinah politely smiled back and replied, "Good Afternoon, Ms. Jauregui, my name is Dinah and this is my partner, Camila. We assume you probably have an idea of why we're here?"