My best friend the serial killer

Chapter 4 Acting strange

I was down stairs helping mom with the cooking when I heard Melany's familiar knock at the door.

"Hey Isabel!" I hollered. "Can you get that?" I asked referring to knock sounding at the door.

I heard Isabel pause her tv show and walk towards the door. I heard Melany ask Isabel where I was. I didn't hear Isabel say anything so I assumed she just pointed to the kitchen.

I continued washing the lettuce leaves and cutting the vegetables to go into out salad. Soon enough I heard Melany walking into the kitchen where mom and dad sat talking to Jason and where I was preparing the salad.

I looked up at her and noticed she had her duffel bag. It looked like she dropped it in mud on the way down here it was red a capped up. "Wait a minuet" I thought. "We don't have any red mud around here." I didn't realize it but I was completely staring at her. "Melany are you crashing here tonight sweetie"? My mother asked. "Uh, if it's alright with you all." She said. "Sure thing buttercup." My father told her.

Melany stared at me wondering why I hadn't said anything to her. "Hey Mells, take your clothes out of that bag and u can put them in my drawer." I said. "I will wash your bag later." I told her. She nodded and walked up the stairs to my room.

I continued to peice the salad together. We sat in silence for a few minuets then Jason finally broke it by saying, "Katie tell me about this new boyfriend of yours." I snapped my head towards mom giving her a look saying why on earth did you tell him. I hesitated not knowing what to say. Jason has never liked any of my boyfriends. Not even the one I had who was just like him. "Well he plays football and makes straight A's." I finally said Jason sipped his tea and then said, "when do I meet him?" "Tomorrow" I said.

Then I noticed Melany hasn't came down yet. "i'm uh, gonna go check on Melany ." I said.

I strutted out of the kitchen and bounced up the stairs. "why am I acting so happy?" I thought to myself. I opens my bed room door only to find Melany wasn't there. so I turned around and went into the bathroom. No sign of her either. That's when I heard the washing machine start up. I turned the corner and there stood Melany.

"Hey what are you doing in here Mells?" I asked. She turned to look at me. "Oh, I uh, just had some dirty clothes I got some blood on them and I figured it would be ok to-" I cut her off. "No, it's alright." I said, "but dinner was ready so come on." Melany nodded and then followed me into the dining room.