School,two periods later,Same day
Jade's point of view
"Are you absolutely sure it was the same tune?"Kate asked for the third time.
"Yes,Kate I'm pretty sure.Besides Justin thought so too,"I told her.
Justin hadn't exactly stopped to tell me what he thought,he had taken off again as soon as Stan left.He was getting pretty good at avoiding me but I was determined to corner him and talk to him,which is why I was leaning next to his friend Dean's car since I hadn't seen Justin's car anywhere.
Right on cue Justin walked out of the building with Dean and some other guys.He was occupied with what Dean was telling him so he didn't notice me and Kate until he stopped right infront of us.
"Justin.Dean,"I said nodding to both.
"Hey Jade.Hey Kate.What's up?"Dean said opening the front door of his car.
"Nothing much I was just wondering if I could talk to Justin.Alone,"I said smiling at Dean who nodded.
"Sure go ahead.I'll wait,"Dean said to Justin who was about to get in the car.
"What do you want?"Justin said after we walked a few feet away,out of Dean's ear shot.
"Lots of things but at the moment I want to know why you're avoiding us,"I said.
"I wouldn't avoid you if you didn't keep stalking me,"Justin said ignoring our eyes.
"We wouldn't be stalking you if you'd only talk to us.I know you know that Stan was whistling the same tune we heard. Question is what do you plan on doing next? We have a suspect.We can tip the police anonymously.Help the cops turn in the right direction,"I said.
"Tip off the police?Are you serious?! They'll know it's us.They aren't exactly that dim witted you know.They have their ways of finding out who tips off anonymously.Besides a tune doesn't necessarily count as evidence.And even if the police does check up on him and it turns out they can't prove it's him he'll know we know and then he'll be after us too.You didn't think about that did you?"Justin said looking at us like we were kids.I flushed.
"No but-"Kate said.
"Look just leave it to the cops ok? No need to worry your pretty little heads about it.If the cops catch him then fine otherwise we're not interfering.No need to play Nancy Drew detective games incase you didn't know we're talking about a murderer not some petty pocket thief.He's killed once and gotten away with it for now and chances are he won't be afraid to kill again.So I suggest for your own sake stay away from all this.You might have a suicide wish by going after a killer but I don't."Justin said.
"So what,you're just going to sit around and do nothing? You're going to let the killer get away with it simply because you don't want to get caught doing whatever it is that you were doing."I huffed.
"What were you doing there anyway?"Kate said.
"Not that it's any of your business but since you're obviously not going to give it a rest until you find out,I was working off my community service hours by helping Bill with fixing up the Library shelves and stuff.My dad doesn't know about it and if he found out I was anywhere near a murder site and that too because I was putting in time, I'm dead meat.So I'd appreciate it if you'd keep your lips zipped,"Justin said.
"We weren't going to tell anyone."Kate muttered.
"No but you were obviously not going to stop bugging me until you found out.So congratulations you got what you wanted.Will you leave me alone now?"
