The Game

1 - Cheryl Blossom - 1

'You're goal is to find out who killed your brother, Jason Blossom,' Pop Tate told me over the counter of his diner.

I left the diner and decided to head to the sheriff's station to see if they have any leads that I can follow up on.

Walking straight past the receptionist at the sheriff's station, I heard her shout at me 'Miss, you aren't allowed back there.'

'Oh, I'm sorry,' I said turning round, 'but my dead brother was murdered and I want to speak to the useless Sheriff of this town to find out what he is doing to catch the crook. In the meantime, there is a murderer on the loose.'

I turned around and walked off, that shut her up.

'Oh hi Miss Blossom, what can I do for you?' Sheriff Keller said as I walked straight into his office.

'I need to know if you have any leads as to who murdered my brother,' I asked, sitting down in front of him.

'We only have one suspect in the case, but I'm afraid that I can't share that with you,' he told her apologetically.

'Look, I understand that it might be a small lead but I need to know. I have a feeling that I can solve this case ten times faster than you and your piddly police department, so are you going to tell me or not?' I threatened, raising my voice.

'Cheryl, I really can't,' he told me again.

'Well I guess I'll just have to tell your son about your affair with Mayor McCoy then,' I looked him straight in the eyes, he held my eye contact for a considerable amount of time before dropping it.

'How do you know about that?' He asked, lowering his voice.

'I have eyes and ears everywhere in this town, if there's a secret, I'll unearth it, if there's a murder, I will be the one to solve it, especially if it's my brother,' I said.

'Fine.' He agreed, 'our only suspect as of right now if FP Jones, I can't tell you the evidence that we could have but-,'

I cut him off mid sentence.

'That's okay, I have all that I need,' I stated, leaving the office.

I decided to go and speak to Jughead, his father wouldn't kill someone without him knowing, surely?

'Hello hobo,' I joked when he opened the door to his trailer. Yes, I know where he lives, we will never discuss how I know that.

'Cheryl, what can I do for you?' He asked, stood in the doorway to block me from going inside.

'You can start off by letting me in,' I told him, wondering what he was hiding.

'You'd be better to stay out here,' he responded.

'Just let me in,' I demanded.

He gave in. I walked in and saw my cousin Betty there. She was wearing an oversized t-shirt with shorts on and her hair was messy.

'I don't care what you guys have been up to,' I told them, honestly, 'but I need to know if your dad killed Jason,' I said, turning to look Jughead in the eyes.

'What?!' He cried, 'of course not!!'

'Well Sheriff Keller told me otherwise and I will stop at nothing to prove that he did it,' I replied.

'It wasn't him!!' He shouted, his loud voice almost scaring me.

'Then prove it,' I demanded.

He looked over to Betty who was stood watching from the kitchen and slowly nodded his head.

She walked towards the cupboard in the front room of the trailer and opened it to reveal a football jersey. My brother's football jersey.

She reached into the pocket of it and pulled out a USB. Plugging it into the laptop on the coffee table, she clicked on the disc that appeared on the desktop.

It brought up a video. I saw my brother tied up to a chair in some dingy room. Then my father walked in.

The gun went off, his body went limp.

I felt hot tears escape my eyes. Betty came to me and held me as I sobbed into her shoulder.

I'd figured it out, I'd completed my goal. It was nothing like what I'd expected though.

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'Yes!! I did it!!' Madelaine exclaimed on the promenade in Los Angeles. 'That's messed up for that guy to kill his own kid though,' she said.

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Author's Notes:

So what do you think of this idea? It's going to be like lots of short stories inside of the bigger story.
Also don't worry, Toni will be in it next Chapter.
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