Between the Lines✔ [COMPLETED]

[25] Uncalled For

Malory

I'm not stupid. I know that I can't avoid Kyle entirely because I will see him every day at school. I know that we have to get along for rehearsals. I know that Olivia and Ron –and probably everyone else for that matter- will ask why we're back to the way we were in the beginning if I start insulting and beating him up again just out of the blue. I know. 

I also know that I'm probably going to be in trouble for keeping a murder report to myself for two weeks. I haven't seen anything about it on the news –and I probably won't for a while unless someone decides to randomly show up at the abandoned warehouse and spot the body or something –I don't know how the whole murder discovery thing works, don't judge me.

Again, I reiterate that I'm not stupid. I know how to act around Olivia and Ron so that they don't suspect anything –and it's already been established that Kyle knows how to play along. The good thing is that aside from the few nods we give each other at lunch and the odd atmosphere of the last two Friday rehearsals, I've successfully been able to avoid him. I've been hiding in the library pretending to finish assignments. I've been avoiding corners and classroom doors and walking around blindly just in case we bump into each other. Kyle? He hasn't come over for practice at my house ever since the incident and I'm glad.

Even now, Kyle and I have our silent agreement in that we know how to play along. That's the good thing about knowing another genius, I suppose; that's the good thing about knowing someone who can think like you –but it's also scary, because if he can think like me... then doesn't that mean I can think like him?

I know that he's scared. I know that he's preparing himself for the worst, even if he's got his usual calm expression and his, ever so often, smile on his face in front of others. I know that he expects me to eventually probably say something and get him into big trouble –and what would that mean? Life imprisonment? Capital punishment? 

And yes, Malory Lloyd is a genius who should have said something the minute she saw what she saw. Malory Lloyd should be smarter than to keep something like this to herself. Malory Lloyd should get into trouble along with the murderer for keeping his secret.

But Malory Lloyd also understands. Malory Lloyd is also someone who assesses situations entirely before coming to conclusions or thinking and acting irrationally –most times, anyway.
I do want to hear Kyle's side of the story –or maybe I just think I do. I'm sure he's probably thought up some lie by now. I'm sure he's waiting for me to say I want to know what really made him do what he did. 

Ever since it happened, I feel like I've been going insane. The whole image of Kyle almost having sex with that girl and then shooting her in the head...

And based on what I heard –based on what she said about the two of them –based on the things he said to her –based on the way they could simply be with each other, even after what, a year? There has to be a damn good reason why he killed her –why he murdered the woman he loved. 

And the way she talked and walked...

What he said about her...

Was she really a sex slave?

Why would he involve himself with a girl like that?

And who the hell is Ace?

"You're going to walk into the door if you don't come back to reality anytime soon," someone says behind me. I turn. It's Ron. "You okay?" He asks.