A Mystery Novel

~ČĤÁPŤĔŔ 2~

Alexandra

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"I brought snacks," Savannah says, sitting down beside Xander and placing a bag of chips, cookies, sodas and water on the ground between them.

Savannah, Xander's almost girlfriend, has gotten used to Xander's yearly ritual of sitting in front of Xandra's grave on her memorial day. They probably would've been together by now if Xandra's death hadn't put their lives on hold.

"Thanks," Xander muttered. They don't really talk much on that day because Xander's always in a bad mood but she understands how he feels, she's been down that path before but at a much younger age.

"I forgot something in my car, be right back," she stood and left but Xander's gaze never left his sister's tombstone. Someone sat beside him a few seconds later.

"That was fast," he turned to look at Savannah but saw Jacqueline instead.

Jacqueline was Xandra's bully in highschool. No one actually knew what Xandra did to Jacqueline that made her hate her so much. Xandra was a very lovable person, everyone liked her but one day, during lunch, Jacqueline suddenly dumped her tray of food on Xandra. The girls had been rivals since then but after Xandra's death, Jacqueline changed.

She was no longer boisterous, annoying and proud, she became calm and sensitive. She was there for Xander during Xandra's funeral.

Xander was in a daze through out that day, he wandered away while the funeral was going on and no one, except Jacqueline noticed him leave. He walked for a while before he realized that he was lost. Jacqueline had followed him, she let him cry on her shoulder for a while then he kissed her.

Jacqueline didn't know if the kiss was out of love or grief but she realized he had no idea what he was doing and led him back to the cemetery.

She was surprised that he didn't strangle her to death when he saw her. Many people thought that she was the cause of Xandra's suicide. They came up with different hypothesis that ended with Xandra killing herself because she couldn't handle the bullying anymore.

"I come here every year too, I come to apologize to Xandra but then I see you here and chicken out. I hide somewhere and watch you and I just realized that I sound like a stalker," Jacqueline says.

Xander doesn't say anything, he started to lean in and she found herself doing the same but then leaned back.

"Savannah will be here any second, I should leave," he stands up. "Happy birthday, I guess," then she leaves

"Was that Jacqueline?" Savannah asks, sitting beside Xander a few seconds later. He shrugs.

Savannah places a box full of Xandra's stuff on the ground in front of her. "Your mom gave me this three years ago and I still haven't gone through it, I just....couldn't," she bites her lip and tries to hold in the tears. Xander reaches for her hand.

"Its okay," Xander says, he picks up a book from the pile, a photo album. He opens a random page and sees a picture of him and Xandra on their tenth birthday. He closes it immediately.

"Lets just leave the box as it is," he says.

They sit in silence for a few more minutes before their phone beep, signifying they have a message. Xander doesn't bother to check his phone but Savannah does.

"Xander," she says after reading the text, "look at your phone."

"Why?"

His ringing phone interrupts him, its Jacob.

Before Xander can say anything, Miley's voice spills out from the phone.

"Xander! Did you read the text? Read the text! Have you read it yet? Xander! Answer me! There's a sick jerk playing a prank on us and I swear when I get my hands on that-"

"Miley, calm down," Jacob says from the other size, "geez, its just some bored nerd trying to mess with us"

"How about I mess with his face!"

"Okay, you need to calm down."

"What I need is to smash someone's face."

"You know if you get arrested again, your parents aren't going to bail you out."

Xander and Savannah sit and listen to their bickering before Xander gets fed up and hangs up.

"Five...four....three....two...." the phone starts ringing again.

"How dare you hang up on me? I swear, I'm gonna-" Miley starts to rant.

"Ignore her, I know we went a little off track but-"

"We'll be at your house in five minutes," Miley says.

"I'm not at home," Xander says.

"Then go home!" Miley yells and hangs up

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