the boarders

Octavia

Drew Hillister, a boy attending St Richard's boarding school for boys, was found dead this morning and his death has been confirmed as a suicide.

Octavia read the local newspaper and looked at Valentina, sadly. She'd gone there to meet Drew to talk things out with him and find out the truth about Aurelia, and Octavia had stupidly followed her, thinking Valentina had betrayed her.

"Do you think there was a suicide note?" Suggested Valentina, wiping her nose with the back of her hand as she looked at Octavia.

Octavia noticed that Valentina's eyes were rimmed with red; of course she still looked beautiful, but it was as if a light had gone off inside of her, she didn't seem to shine as much as she used to.

"I don't know." Sighed Octavia, examining her nails and throwing the newspaper on the floor. They'd chosen a nice photo of Drew, the way he'd always want to be remembered. But the thing was, that the death wasn't a suicide - Octavia had seen it all, she just didn't quite know how to break it to Valentina.

"Valentina," Octavia started, wringing her hands together nervously, "The thing is that I thought I saw Aurelia push him off of the pier." Valentina stayed silent, apart from the small, glassy tear that began to slide down her face and drop onto her dress.

"Why would she do that?" Cried Valentina, standing up and pacing around the room angrily. "God, I knew she was evil, but a killer?"

Octavia sighed and looked out of the window; their lives had been so simple, but ever since Aurelia disappeared things had changed immensely. They could no longer go out every night, for fear that Aurelia would be lurking somewhere and they'd feel a gun in their backs.

Valentina suddenly stopped pacing around and turned to her friend, "You know what I always see on murder mystery movies?" She said, "There's always some sort of clue." Octavia nodded. They could get to the bottom of this and discover what Aurelia was doing and why she made herself go missing in the first place, and of course, why she had to kill to get whatever she wanted?

"Me and Drew used to make out in this shed behind the school, do you think they'll be something in there?" Valentina said, excitedly, wiping her eyes with a tissue on the desk in front of her. Octavia laughed, "First of all, ew, but yeah, there should be something in there!"

Valentina grabbed Octavia's hand and both of them snuck out of their dorm rooms and headed for the shed.