A Year At The Opera

Chapter 11, Part 3: Catching Up

A/N: Here it is, the stunning conclusion to this 11K word chapter. The next chapter is going to be about as long tbh. Maybe even longer. And there's going to be a time skip which should be fun (read: excruciating and exhausting because it's more than 30 characters to keep track of) for me to handle. But anyway, without much more to say, here we go! Have fun, remember to clean your phone, wash your hands, vote and comment.

Word Count: 2.6K words.

Svetlana

Svetlana stopped a few feet from Ingram's table as one of the Pixies began to talk.

"So, how's the whole thing going with you two?" Kitty asked.

"Uh, we're good." Ingram replied quickly.

"Yeah, we heard you found a dead body?" Thea jumped in.

"Uh, where did you hear that?" Mason asked nervously.

"Friend of a friend has a parent in the Ellesburg PD." Thea said.

Behind her, Regina stood, applying extra lip gloss, impatiently tapping her foot. Thea grabbed her arm and Regina stopped.

"Oh. Yeah, we did." Ingram said.

"And?" Kitty asked curiously.

"And they are investigating it. I really don't know much beyond that. It's only been a day since they found it."

"Are you okay?" Thea asked, almost sincerely.

"Yeah, we're fine." Ingram nodded.

"Great. You two keep being your cute selves. We're gonna go get something to eat now." Thea said turning around. "Let's go, girls." The three walked away, brushing past Svetlana as she approached Ingram.

"Hey." She waved at him.

"Hey, Svetlana, right?" Ingram shot her a smile.

"Yeah." She nodded, almost blushing.

"Thank you for taking me to the nurse's office by the way."

"Yeah, no problem! Uh, so are you doing better now?"

"Yeah, its healing pretty okay. Still just a little bit sore but I've been more sore before." He glanced at Mason and stifled a smile.

"That's good." She looked back at the girls as they stood by the counter and ordered their food. "Hey, what was all that about?"

"What was what?"

"With the three—"

"Oh, Thea. Right. Nothing much. We went to our cabin this week to spend the two weeks off and found a body buried near the cabin."

Svetlana gasped. "What!"

"Yep." Ingram nodded and took a sip of his milkshake.

"So, what? Do you know who it is?"

"Nope, we know nothing so far."

"Have you been questioned or anything?"

"Yeah, but it's all good. My mom's a lawyer."

"Oh, that's great. All right, well, I'm not gonna keep you any longer. Enjoy your milkshakes." She chuckled and awkwardly walked back to Sean.

She quickly sat down and almost on cue, Arlene came up with all their food.

"Here you go, one smashburger; two strawberry milkshakes, extra whipped cream, extra sweet; one large fries, half curly with extra salt." She said placing the plates down in front of them.