Rules & Roses

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CHAPTER 2:

There were photos, hundreds of them, too. But one of them in particular caught my attention. It was in black and white but there was a girl- my mother, probably- and a man, walking towards the woods, in the probably most suspicious clothing attires i have ever seen in my life. Anyone who works in the fashion industry would agree with me here. But what had me freaked out, wasn't the knife.

It was the bag.

They had a bag with them.

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I was shook. I was so shook my everything stopped functioning properly. I couldn't move from the position in my bed, which was really getting hot. My eyes were locked on the black-and-white photo of my mother and this man-- no, no, not a man. A psychopath. Alan didn't say anything, he was just waiting for my reaction. This photo had a title as well,

SARAH MARLO-- POSSIBLE MURDERER???

I don't really remember the next 5 minutes after that.

I think I blacked out, but i'm not really sure.

Lets just say-- for the time being, I stayed that way for a while.

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About 6 weeks later.....I Think

"Come on Jas!!! We're gonna be late!!!" My best friend, Cara, yelled at me as she literally dragged me across the dirt to the concert platform, Where Alan was, waving us over.

Oh, yeah, I forgot to mention. Today is Nashville's annual fall parade. Because, its, like, October.... yeah. Anyway, I am still researching about my mother, but I haven't gotten that far yet.  My Dad, well... he's, my dad. Hasn't changed a lot. But Alan and Rosie's Mother came back a few weeks ago, and demanded they come home, they reluctantly agreed. But they are still over at my house almost every day. But-----

"AAHHHHHH HELP ME! PLEASE! SOMEBODY! ANYBODY! HEELLLPPPP!"

I stopped then, Hearing the scream. I stopped dead in my tracks. Cara looked at me with a confused expression, and tried to drag me along, but failed miserably. 

"Jassy-" huff."what" huff. "the" huff. "heck?" huff. "When" huff. "did" huff.  "you" huff "get" huff. "so" huff "heavy?!" huff. She tried to pull me towards Alan and the concert. I wanted to move, so badly, but my legs were as stiff as iron. I felt a pull toward the scene, but I wasn't able to move. In fact, I was barely able to breathe. I dont know why I'm acting the way I am, the police were probably on the scene anyways. I dont understand why no one is rushing to help the lady. 

I heard her voice. Not that far from here, actually.  It sounded like it was just inside the woods that outlined the back of the festival, right behind a few carnival stands. But something was off about it all.... there was no other yelling besides the woman.... and there were no police shouting, or dogs barking..... it felt.... off. For some reason.....

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One week later....

As I walk down the echo-ey hallways of Western high, People stop and move out of the way  to let me pass, they turn to their friends and whisper among themselves and think I can't hear them , but little do they know, I can. I can hear everything they say, I mean, it's not that difficult. 

I hear fast-paced steps from behind me, and try to match them, because I know exactly who that is--- Stephanie.

Ugh, again? This is the 6th time this week! This is getting stupid. I thought to myself as I felt a hand firmly grasp my shoulder. I turned a little too late because the next thing I knew, I was being slammed into the blue and gold lockers- hard. I heard Stephanie's friends-- Ones a Brunette, and ones a fellow ginger-- snicker maliciously behind her in their cheer uniforms. 

"Okay, you've caught me.... congrats for the sixth time... what do you want this time?" I ask sarcastically through gritted teeth. My dark grey eyes not leaving her electric blue ones.

"Well, since you asked, I want you to leave Alan alone." she says with an evil smile on her face.

"And... why would I do that again?" I ask with sarcastic sweetness hinted in my voice. 

"well.... one) because I told you too. 2) You've been pestering him too much, following him around for-- what has it been? like, 8 years now? You're a creep, and everyone knows it." She continued on, rambling on about how I was an embarrassment to the school, the whole city of Nashville, to be exact. But I tuned out until i felt a sharp pain against my face, and when i decided to pay attention, I felt the same pain on the other side of my face, and I realized I was getting slapped in the face. 

"HEY! PAY ATTENTION TO ME WHEN I'M TALKING!!!!" She screeched in my ear, jumping me back into reality like a car battery being jumped back to life. I looked at her shocked for a second, then-- from the look on her face-- if looks could kill, she'd be dead. She dropped her hand and started backing up away from me, and her two "bodyguards"-- what were their names?-- Chelsea and Brook, stepped in front of her protectively, and started charging to punch me.

I easily dodged it, taking Brook's-- My fellow Ginger-- arm and twisting it behind her back and forcing her to the ground. My eyes were shut because migraines, and stuff, but I didn't need to see that she hit the ground; I heard it. Her face making contact with the Hard surface concrete did not whatsoever sound pleasant. I heard Chelsea whimper in fear, and I looked up at her, and she backed away. Nah, not backed--- more like crawled, ya--- Excuse me, Crawled , away in fear. 

I heard more footsteps and shouting from the hallway to my right. I turn to Stephanie and she's looking right at me, phone in hand, Showing her boyfriend's-- A football player; I dont know his name-- contact, and smiling maliciously. Her blond hair flowing effortlessly onto her shoulders; as if trained like a dog to do that. I scowled at her as the Football players showed up.

Lets just say, the scene didn't look pretty. 

END OF T H R E E

Hey Guys!!! So sorry I'm like, what is it? 3 months late??? yeah, I had a BAD writers block..... But here is chapter 3! and mine and  BTSEllyB's new book "Calypso" Chapter 1 will be out before Thanksgiving! and so will chapters 4, 5 and (hopefully) 6 before christmas!!!!  Also... I'm still thinking about that Zelink Modern AU fanfiction...... so yeah, that's my life.....