A Mystery Novel

~ČĤÁPŤĔŔ 19~

"Why were you in Mr. Fosters house?"

"You weren't really sleeping with him were you?"

"Where have you been this whole time?"

"Why didn't you tell us what happened?"

"Guys, one at a time. She'll tell us everything," Xander says.

They all turn to him.

"Have you known this whole time?" Miley asks.

"Kind of."

"And you didn't tell us?" Jacob asks.

"He wanted to but I asked him not to," Xandra says.

"Listen guys, I only found out recently, okay. Alex contacted me. I didn't believe it was her at first but we met up at the haunted house. She told me that she did something and someone was trying to kill her so she had to fake her death. I asked her who it was but she said she couldn't tell me or come out of hiding until that person is put behind bars."

'That's why he kept on using present tense' Jacqueline thinks, 'he knew she was still alive.'

"Did you know too?" Savannah asks Jacqueline.

"She found out by accident," Xandra says.

"I was at Xander's house and I needed a glass of water so I went to the kitchen and saw Xandra eating pizza. I thought she was a ghost at first but she explained everything to me.........not everything actually, I knew only as much as Xander did. She's been staying in the basement and she forgot her phone on the counter so I decided to keep it in my room until I had the chance to go to the basement but......you know what happened."

"I've been with you guys the whole time and you didn't even know it."

"That explains why Jacqueline said she's been seeing your ghost." Xander says.

"So are you going to tell us why?" Miley asks.

"Why what?"

"Why everything?!"

"Let me start from the top," Xandra takes a deep breath, "this may be shocking to you guys but.....I like older guys. Like really really older guys," she says, expecting them to gasp in surprise.

"Xandra, everyone knows that. Its not even a secret anymore." Miley says.

"Oh, well I like Eddie...Mr. Foster."

"And you were........sleeping with him?" Tyler asks, hoping she'll say no.

"Its not something I'm proud of but yeah, I was."

"That explains why you were his favorite student," Jacqueline says.

"And at the top of his class," Jacob says.

"And the love letter too."

"Yeah.......I didn't know I was ruining his marriage."

"You didn't know?" Miley asks skeptically.

"Okay, I did but I didn't care at the time. I decided to end it when he told me he wanted to divorce his wife. When I went to his house, I didn't expect Mrs. Foster to be there, she was supposed to go shopping that day. She does that grocery shopping every Wednesday and spends hours at the supermarket. It gives us more time to......do stuff," she scratches the back of her neck awkwardly.