A Crooked Murder

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Note: we're discontinuing this book until further notice

Dear Diary,
What a beautiful morning! Ah it's so cold...why did it have to rain last night?! Hopefully it will get warmer by the afternoon. God knows what the teachers have planned for us today. Out of all the things we could wear why do we have to wear ethnic dresses...DRESSES!!! ARGH!!!! Hopefully the programme will be worth it. None of us slept early, obviously...we were going to spend an entire day free from classes, so we were busy chatting with each other. Lets see how it goes...

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Rylee shut her diary and waited for her roommates to get ready.

"What do you think about this dress?", Preethi, one of her roommates, asked Rylee. She was wearing a beautiful Anarkali, with red floral patterns on it with her short hair left open.

"It's beautiful! Gosh how long is Stephanie going to take to get ready? We don't have much time. There's just twenty more minutes for the programme to start."

"We have the programme in the High School block hall right?"

"Yup! Now we better hurry up before the teachers yell at us..."

"Hey I'm ready! How do I look?"asked Stephanie.

"Yeah you're pretty too! Let's leave now, we have to wait for others too remember?",replied Rylee.

"Umm...let's wait for Kiera first, she's also coming.",said Preethi.

"Fine. Let's wait. Five more minutes! That's it!"

"I'm here! Okay be honest, how do I look?", Kiera came rushing towards them after dressing up, realising they were very late.

"You look dazzling okay. Now can we please leave?", said Rylee, gesturing them towards the door. She turned off the lights, closed the door and waited outside for her remaining friends, who were in the other rooms.

"Finally the Maharanis decided to bless us with their presence!!!", Mia, Rylee's twin, who was already waiting with her roommates Abirami and Riya, said in an annoyed tone while looking at her watch.

"Well, you know me, I got ready on time and even wrote in my journal, it's these great people who took so long",Rylee told Mia while pointing at them.

While they were talking Nath and Riya came out of their room.

"Even Myra is earlier than you lot!", Abi yelled.

"We wouldn't have been so late if Nath didn't insist on trying three different dresses 'cause apparently none of them looked good!",Riya quipped.

"Hey, don't blame me you're the one wh-"

"Enough. Both of you. We're already late.",Rylee and the others then took off running down the hallway towards the auditorium.

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They reached just as the programme was about to start. As there was no seating space, they had to stand at the back of the auditorium.

"This is all your fault, Nath. Why do you take so much time to choose?", whispered Mia in Nath's ear.

"Oh come on I wanted to wear the best dress. You can't just blame it all on me!",Nath yelped.