The Mysteries Of Baker Town

Part 8: Vicious Love Cycle

As I eat my pizza I can't stop thinking about Ben. But I don't know why. He broke my heart, stomped on it and tore it into a bajillion pieces. Just the thought that Ben would choose Amy over me is so confusing. And Ben couldn't bother telling me that he was with Amy before reeling me in and making me look like a complete idiot. It is so disappointing that I can't have the boy of my dreams.

I frown at the thought and decide to grab a soda from the fridge. Amy looks over at me, laughs and then kisses Ben about every three minutes. This vicious cycle only makes it harder on me. What does he see in her? Honestly! Did she blackmail him into dating her?

"Hey.."

I look back to see Rick standing a couple of inches away from me.

"Oh, hi"

I say back. I was kind of confused on why Rick wanted to talk to me. I don't know what to do so I just lean down and grab another soda from the fridge.

"Here."

I reach out my hand with the soda in it but before I can make any move, he pulls me in and kisses me hard on the lips, holding one of his hands on my hip and one on my face. Finally he lets me go and all I can think about is why this just happened. And how amazingly good Rick was at kissing me. It felt so romantic. I wanted to find Rick and kiss him again..

But then all that romance melted away when Rick backed away and ran to a room at the end of a short hallway, leaving me standing in the middle of the kitchen. Shocked and alone. With smeared red lips and a soda in my hand. Everyone was staring at me from where they were and all I could feel was heat. I also couldn't help but notice that Amy had her mouth all the way open and was practically drooling onto Ben's lap.  Her eyes were wide open and her eyebrows and forehead were furrowed into completion. Ben looks over at Amy to see her staring at me. And where what just happened, happened.

He shakes his head, stands up and heads down the hallway turning at a flight of stairs and finally going down with the saddest face ever. All I wanted to do was comfort him at this point so without thinking about anything I follow Ben's trail down the stairs and into a huge, carpeted basement.

"Ben?"

I call out but I don't use a lot of effort. I feel like I shouldn't make too much noise. The basement is lit with two lamps. One at the end of a hallway in front of me surrounded by about five rooms. And I think one more at the end of the other side of the basement. All of the doors to the rooms were closed so I didn't know if I should go looking for Ben in there. Instead I follow the other light down to what looks like another living room.

There are a couple of couches, a plant, a coffee table, a fire place, and what especially caught my eye was a huge whiteboard that covered the whole entire side wall. I couldn't believe that you could actually buy a white board this big. What made me even more curious was that the whole whiteboard was scattered with tons of pictures of dead bodies and other people that I have never seen before. There were arrows that were pointed in every direction, and lines connecting pictures to captions, and pictures to pictures. I see a few bolded words on the board as I examine it closely. 'Witnesses', 'Suspects', 'Solved' and 'Murdered'. Huge bold letters at the very top of the whiteboard read 'The Mysteries Of Baker Town'

As I scanned through the scattered pictures I couldn't help but stop on one in particular.. It was my dead mother.. in a body bag. I gasped and took a few steps closer. My eyes widened. There wasn't a burning house in the background. I froze when I finally made out what I saw. A cabin with a sign hanging from it.. Sam's Soda is what I read in big, bold letters..