Looks That Kill [on hold]

9. Revelations

JULIEN REED heard the gunshot and his first instinct was to run toward the source, although he didn't act on it.

"What the fuck was that!" Rebekah said, her eyes wide.

"I don't fucking know but we better run," Julien told her as they began to run through the woods.

Another shot was heard and Julien reached into his pocket to pull out the gun he had stolen from his father's safe for their adventure. Before he could fire it at the dark, Rebekah pulled his arm.

"No, Julien. Don't! Let's go!" Rebekah said, urging him to keep running.

Julien started running again, both of them making it back to the cabin in record time. They quickly got in the car, Julien speeding away to go back to town.

"Becks, what the hell did we find?" Julien said referring to the metal object, obviously shaken.

Rebekah, eyes still wide, shook her head, "A possible murder weapon. Someone had to be watching us, that's too much of a coincidence a gun goes off as you were going to discover what the object was."

She looked at her phone to check the time and saw that it was almost 3 am. She also saw five missed calls from Sadie and one urgent text to their group chat 'SOS. MEETING NOW.'

"Sadie's calling for a meeting right now. It seems urgent," Rebekah told him as he furrowed his brows, wondering if Sadie got caught, "she just texted the group chat to meet at her house as soon as possible."

He tried his best to stay focused on the road ahead of him but it seemed almost impossible after the events that just occurred. The possibility that they had found the murder weapon was too high for Julien.

Julien headed towards Sadie's mansion, and saw Hunter's Ford truck and Ashley's Toyota driving behind him when he passed by the town square. Apparently, Sadie had gotten through to them at 3 in the morning.

When he got to Sadie's, Georgia and Aiden's cars were already sitting in the driveway. He parked behind them, Ashley and Hunter following him. Julien and Rebekah got out of the car, receiving strange looks from Hunter and Ashley as they all walked up to the front door together.

"Why are you two matching?" Ashley asked looking Julien and Rebekah up and down after knocking on the door.

Sadie opened the door frantically, ushering them into her leaving room and closing the door.

"The better question is, why are the three of you matching?" Ashley asked them as everyone else looked like they were in their pajamas.

The six of them sat down on two big couches in her living room, Sadie standing before them pacing.

"What? You said to wait for them to arrive so now that they're here tell us. You can't just wake us up in the middle of the night without telling us what happened," Aiden said rubbing his eyes.

Sadie finally stopped pacing and looked at Rebekah and Julien, "I got the copies."

"What copies? What's going on?" Georgia asked looking at the three of them.

"We were going to wait until the morning to tell you four what we did, we swear. Rebekah and I went to Sadie's cabin and the woods to look for clues about Scarlett's murder but before that, we dropped Sadie off at the hospital to get copies of Scarlett's autopsy and toxicology report." Julien said avoiding eye contact with the other four.

"You did what?" Ashley screamed furiously as Hunter, Georgia, and Aiden had matching expressions of anger on their faces.

"Why the hell would you go without us?" Aiden demanded.