Arthur and Arabella really ought to stop meeting like this. [#8 short story / #80 teen fiction]

|| a wattpad featured story || Who, or what, killed Cassie? Mere days after graduation, Cassie goes missing only to turn up dead in the forest near the Ponotoka River. Nobody seems to know anything about what happened to Cassie, but Luke remembers parts of that fateful night. The thing is, he believes he is partly responsible for his once close friend's death. Now a freshman in university, he is determined to find out the truth about how she died. To find the truth, though, he has to search for it. The thing is, the truth is a little messy. As he and his friends go on a wild goose chase to trace back Cassie's life before she died, he begins to question himself: who was Cassie, really? Was this the same girl he thought he knew? ____________________________________ *Highest Rank: #73 in Mystery/Thriller *Winner of the Phoenix Wars Wordsmith category* *MATURE CONTENT: mentions of sex, alcohol, self harm, drug use, and frequent swearing*