What Happened After Sundown

III

"Oi Lizz, everything dandy?" Jason asks, in a very non-concerned way. His goofy, drunk smile fades when he doesn't get an answer though. A soft breeze flows out the window past Elizabeth, her blue hair blowing slightly and goosebumps appear on her arms. She suddenly and quickly moved forward and slammed the window shut, panting followed closely behind as she fell to her knees.

The rest of them flinched at the noise. "Lizzy! What are you doing?!" Morgan runs over to Elizabeth and kneels down beside her. She goes to put her hand on her shoulder when she realizes she's shaking...a lot. Elizabeth falls limp and hits her head on the wooden floor, unconsciousness consuming her whole body, and mind.

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"Lizzy...Lizzy...ELIZABETH!" Elizabeth jolted awake, immediately hit with a sickly feeling in her stomach. She looks at Morgan who had woken her up with shouting "...the hell are you doing?!" Sitting up, she rubbed the back of her head "you passed out, I woke you up" Morgan responded nonchalantly. Elizabeth's brain filled with confusion before suddenly putting the pieces together, remembering everything. She looked down to the floor and pursed her lips, hesitating, she closed her eyes and let her weight shift back to behind her, letting gravity do its job. "Stupid dream..." she muttered. "By the way, what happened with you earlier, you were acting like you just saw a ghost or something" Morgan continued as she crouched down beside Elizabeth's bags, rummaging through them and placing clothes in the drawers of the room.

"Befor-" Elizabeth sat up instantly "t-that wasn't a dream?!" Morgan seemed to be confused "you slamming the window shut and falling unconscious? Nope, it actually happened"
The sick feeling Elizabeth had in her stomach worsened immensely, so much so she had to clutch her stomach with her arms, though, it didn't help whatsoever. "Lizzy, you okay?" Morgan stopped in the middle of placing Elizabeth's couple books on the dresser and looked back at the nauseated girl. Elizabeth gulped down the ball in her throat and looked up at the brunette "yeah, I'm fine" she attempted to say it as casually as possible.

Morgan gave a suspicious look before smiling a bit, motioning her arm towards the door. "Come on then, everyone's outside. You've been passed out for, like, ever so it's already almost midnight. We're having hotdogs I think, since we're all starving" she paused and looked at Elizabeth "you might want to change first though, you must've been having a nightmare because you were sweating quite a lot" Morgan goofily makes a peace sign with her hand and sprints out of the room.

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Officer Michelle Gorge walked around, neighborhood after neighborhood looking for the missing girl, who supposedly died almost exactly 4 months ago. The reason Michelle decided to start back up on the case after so long was, well, she couldn't get any evidence about Iris's killer or anything. So, she set the case aside for a while. She chose to get back to working on that case though, it's got to be the most interesting one she's ever encountered.

The story of Iris is locally popular throughout the city. People have started to call it 'Who Killed Iris Lucia On Sundown Street?' or 'What Happened After Sundown: The Murder Of Iris Lucia'. It must be pretty painful for family members and friends to see that name mentioned so much. How Iris Lucia is such a beautiful name, for a beautiful girl.

She's very skeptical about the whole thing, someone who's been dead for 4 months can't magically come back to life and run off. But, that's the only thing that makes the most sense. She's made her way all the way to the scene of the crime, Sundown street.

"The old weeping willow tree is just past those trees..." a breeze swoops through the trees past Michelle, blowing her red hair out of her face. Clutching her clipboard in her arms, she walks towards the ditch, which she jumps over and continues straight into the woods.