Leather Jackets and Brooches

Chapter 13

Several weeks had past and the group was no further with proving Toni's innocence, they were all slowly coming to the conclusion that she was guilty as much as they didn't want to believe it.

Cheryl had returned to school and found herself not paying attention in any of classes and she was lacking enthusiasm during Vixens practices. Cheryl was drawing in her notebook until her name was called over the PA.

"Cheryl Blossom to the office"

Everyone in the class stared at Cheryl. She looked up from her notebook, then packed her things in to her bag and left the classroom. When she got to the office she went to the receptionist who had the phone in her hand.

"A call for you dear" the older lady smiled and handed the phone over.

"Hello?"

"Cheryl"

"Toni? Is that you?" Cheryl questioned

"Yes it's me. I needed to talk to you" Toni confessed.

"Cheryl I'm innocent, you have to believe me" she pleaded

"Toni please don't do this" Cheryl stopped her

"Cheryl please believe me" Toni began to cry

"Toni...I'm sorry"

"Cheryl. Don't do this please" Toni begged

"Goodbye Toni" Cheryl put the phone down as a tear rolled down her cheek.

"Are you okay dear?" the receptionist offered Cheryl a tissue.

"Thank you" Cheryl accepted the tissue and used it to dry her eyes.

"Actually can you put me down as sick for the rest of the day please. I'm going home" Cheryl asked the older lady.

"Ok dear. You look after yourself" she offered Cheryl a warm smile.

Once Cheryl was home she went in to the bathroom to find a tablet to cure her headache that she had gained after crying pretty much all of the way home. She found the box was empty which annoyed her. She then remembered that her father used to keep a few boxes in his study desk. Cheryl entered his study and went over to his desk. She began opening the drawers in search of the headache pills. A strange brown envelope caught her eye, she removed it from the drawer and opened the envelope. Inside the envelope she found Jingle Jangle in packets, she emptied the envelope on to the desk. These packets looked similar to the one that Toni was caught with. Cheryl sat down in her father's chair and stared at the packets on the desk. Cheryl was a little confused, she knew her father was caught up in the business but they were so similar to the ones in Toni's bag.  Still confused, Cheryl decided to phone Sheriff Keller.

"Sheriff Keller. Hi its Cheryl Blossom. I think I might have found something that might help you with Toni's case" Cheryl picked up one of the packets and stared at it closely.

"Yeah I'm at home. Ok thank you see you in a bit" Cheryl placed the phone down.

Sheriff Keller turned up at Cheryl's house not long after he got off of the phone to her. Cheryl left the study when she heard him knock at the door, she then opened the door to him.

"Thank you for coming over" Cheryl let Sheriff Keller in.

"You're welcome. Anything to help solve this crime" Sheriff Keller removed his hat and followed Cheryl in to the study.

"I found this in my father's desk. Its very similar to the packet that was found in Toni's bag" Cheryl explained.

"You're right. Everytime we questioned her about where she got the drugs from, she pleaded that she didnt know where they came from. But we may have found the source" Sheriff Keller examined the packets and took images of them as well. He then compared these ones to the image of the one that was found in Toni's bag.

"But Toni didn't have time to go in to this study as she was with me the whole time and how would she know they were in there? Did you find Toni's fingerprints on the packet that was in her bag?" Cheryl questioned.

"We don't usually do that if the drugs were found on the person" he explained

"But now we have potentially more evidence I will check to she if her DNA is on any of the other bags. Because you have touched the bags I will need to take your fingerprints to exclude them in the investigation. When is your mother home?" Sheriff Keller began putting the packets back in the envelope.

"Im not sure. I shouldn't think she will be long" Cheryl hoped.

"In the mean time, I will asked the station to start examining the DNA on the packets. When your mother returns call me and I can arrange for you to come down to the station. Thank you for the help Cheryl, hopefully we will find a final answer to this case" he placed his hat back on his head and picked up the envelope, then headed for the door.

Later that evening

"Here you go sir" the deputy handed over the results of the fingerprints on the Jingle Jangle packets.

"There's no match between Topaz and any of the packets" Sheriff Keller examined the report.

"However there was another DNA found on the packet that was in the bag. We could try and match it to our database if you would like" the deputy suggested.

"Yes let's do that" Sheriff Keller agreed.

They ran the fingerprints through their database, it didn't take them long before it came with a match.

"Penelope Blossom?" Sheriff Keller questioned the computer's results.

"Wait sir. Didn't she make the call to us about knowing the Jingle Jangle was in Topaz's bag?"

"You're right. Have Cheryl and Penelope Blossom brought back in for questioning. I think Topaz might be telling the truth" Sheriff Keller began writing down some notes.