'...Sage.' Somebody is shaking me. 'Sage.'

'Mmm, five more minutes.' I turn on my side, away from the unidentified voice.

'Honey, wake up.' I snap my eyes open at my mum's panicked plea.

'What? What is it?' I ask her, rubbing my eyes.

'The police called. They want you to come down to the station again. They said they've found something.' She says.

That wakes me right up. 'Did they say what they found?' I ask.

She shakes her head. 'They just said you need to go to the station with your appropriate adult.'

'When?' I yawn.

'Now.' She affirms. 'I'll be downstairs when you're ready to go.' She walks out of the room, leaving me to get ready.

The police are just messing with me right? Because Mrs. Park said they don't think I have anything to do with it, so why are they dragging me to the station. Maybe it's their weird attempt at investigating, I don't know. But what I do know is that they're wasting my time.

***

Having got ready, mom and I ate breakfast in silence before she drove me to the station. Upon arriving, I see that the girls are all parking up with their moms. 'Hey. What are use all doing here?'

'We've been summoned.' Theia replies.

'Something about finding something?' Kayla shrugs, before linking arms with me.

We all walk into the station and see Kree and Angel sat on the chairs. I look over to Kerrys to see if she's okay but she doesn't take her eyes off of Angel. Angel, feeling eyes on him, looks up and notices her. A small flash regret seems to appear in his eyes before his eyes go dark again and he looks elsewhere.

Kerrys puts her head down and walks over to the other side of the reception. Mrs. De Leon cuts her eye at Angel, walking past him and mumbling 'Que to la pique un pollo,' making us all snort. Kree snaps up at her insult, almost as if to say "So nobody told her we understand Spanish.... Okay then."

It's only now that I notice Luca and his mom is here too.

'Luca?' Theia says. 'Now why is he here people? Didn't use rule him out last time. Common sense people, this boy wouldn't hurt a fly.' Theia says to no one in particular. 'Well, maybe me in the bedroom...' she mumbles.

'Your mom is right there.' Kayla whisper shouts.

'She can't here me, she's in full lawyer mode.' Theia whispers back.

I walk up to Kree, giving him a PG-13 hi, considering we're in the presence of my mom. 'Hey.'

'Hey baby.' He laces our fingers together and kisses my hand.

'Do you know why we're here?' I ask him, as he's his own appropriate adult, the police might have told him more than what they're telling the rest of us.

'Nope.' He tuts. 'I'm just in the dark as you are.'

His lawyer walks up to him, cutting off our conversation and I look over at Theia's mom whispering with the detectives '...they're my clients.' She points at us all.

'All of them?' The officer at the front desk asks her, wide eyed.

'Uh, yeah.' She replies, before walking over to our group. 'So they're saying you need to all produce DNA samples so that you can be eliminated from the investigation.'

'What? EXCUSE ME!' Kayla stomps over to the officer at the front desk. 'Get me the officer in charge.'

'Kid. Step away.' The officer condescends her. Before she can cuss him out, she's interrupted.

'What's all the racket?' Detective Dawson saunters in, with his puppy dog Detective Townsend lagging behind him.

'¿Por qué quieres nuestro ADN? ¿Cómo has encontrado algo ahora? Usted ha tenido los cadáveres desde hace tres meses, quién tarda tanto en solicitarnos pruebas a todos. ¿Qué tipo de investigación incompetente está llevando a cabo aquí? Lo juro, solo quieren nuestra sangre para poder maldecirnos.' Kayla tends to ramble off in Spanish when she's mad.

'SIIIII!!!' Kerrys shouts out nodding.

'What she said.' Theia shouts back from the vending machine.

'Kayla, calm down.' Mrs. De Leon tries but fails to calm her down.

'You're friend's feisty.' Kree whispers in my ear.

'Oh, she's not done yet.' I smile.

'Not to mention, it's taking them three months to investigate two murders.' She reverts back to English.

'Ma'am, we've had other things to investigate.' Oh, Detective Townsend has found his voice.

'Ma'am? What is this, the 1950s? I'm 17. And what could be more important that finding a potential serial killer? I don't think you've noticed but we're not exactly overflowing with crimes around her.' Kayla retorts.

'How about finding another dead body?' That shuts her up.

'Wh-who?' Kerrys stutters out

'Beatrice Lewandowska. A jogger found Miss. Lewandowska out in the woods yesterday. She was left, barely covered. The person, or persons, that tried to bury her clearly didn't do a good enough job.' I hear my mom gasp at Dawson's findings.

'That's terrible.' Mom says.

'I know. Terrible for the extended family. First their mom is dead and now Bee.'

'It was just Bee and her mom. They didn't leave anyone else behind.' Kayla says.

'What, so does that mean their deaths are insignificant?' Dawson stares Kayla down.

'No I didn't mean-' Kayla stutters out.

'Well they are. And besides, I'm sure a cousin somewhere is upset about their murders.' Dawson says

'So you're sure this was murder then?' This is the first time Angel speaks.

Dawson stalks up to Angel and lowly replies, just enough for us to hear. 'Yes, Mr. Hasapi. I may be unsure about a lot of things, but that I'm certain about.' Just what exactly is he implying?

'So why do we need to provide our DNA to you?' Theia munches on a Reese's Bar she bought from the vending machine. Who knows how long that's been in that machine for.

'To rule you out of any and all enquiries.' Dawson replies, now staring directly at Kree, who pays him no mind. 'So if you would like to follow Detective Townsend down the hall, we can proceed with the DNA swabs.'

'Vete a Freír Espárragos.' Kayla mutters under her breath, as she stamps past Dawson. 'Wasting my good Saturday for this nonsense.' Let's hope he doesn't find out what that means!

***

Mom and I walk out of the station and I'm surprised that the girls are still here waiting for us, as I was the last one to be called in to give my sample. Dawson pulled me back and had a "helpful" word in my ear, when my mom wasn't listening, saying it would be in my best interests to give up the person responsible. Who does he think I am, fucking Mystic Meg?

Even if I did know anything, snitches get stitches and wind up in ditches. Oh wait, Bee was found in a ditch, so that joke should probably not be repeated any time soon.

'What are use all still doing here?' I say, walking down the steps.

'We were ready to bust you out of there. You were taking so long.' Theia replies.

'Theia. Not in front of a station. Discuss your hypothetical crimes elsewhere please.' Mrs. Park reprimands her daughter.

'We thought you'd been arrested or something.' Kerrys puts her arm around me.

'Nope.' I shrug, not wanting to tell them what Dawson said to me.

'Alright kids, it's going to take a while for the DNA results to come back. They have to send them away to the next town to be analysed.' Mrs. Park says.

'Awesome.' Theia claps. 'Let's eat. We thought we go to JOYS to eat away this terrible day.'

'Theia, it's only 11:30am. The day has barely started.' Kayla says.

'Yeah well JOYS has an all-day breakfast menu today and yo' girl got's to eat. To the cafe!' She marches towards her car.

'I'll see you at home mom.' I say to her.

'Okay honey.' She walks off towards her car.

'Where are the boys?' I ask.

'You mean where's Kree?' Kerrys wriggles her eyebrows.

'Yeah.' I draw out, smiling.

'I don't know. He said to tell you he had to go, then him and Angel hightailed it out of here. It was strange.' Theia replies, as we put on our seatbelts and drive off to JOYS.

***

Back to school. Yay! Note the sarcasm. We have a few weeks before finals and then I'll be preparing to be a senior. I have mixed feelings about it. One, because I can't wait to leave this place and two, I don't want to see any less of Kree than I do know. He still hasn't told me about which college he's going too, although I have seen envelope on his desk, in his room, which look like prospective colleges. But I'm waiting for him to tell me. We're waiting in the corridor, when Kayla walks up to us.

'So, I checked the library and it's full, so I asked Mr. Kwon if we could use his classroom. Took a little persuading but in the end he said yes because he's got a free period.' Kayla says, as we all walk towards the math room.

'At least it'll be quiet-' Kerrys opens the door, we all bundle in and freeze.

'Ugh, yeah right there. Ugh, don't stop.' The voice screeches. To our absolute horror, Belize is bent over the table and Angel is taking her from behind. Neither of them can see us yet. 'So big, so deep, so.... ahhhhh.'

'WHAT THE FUCK?!!!!' KAYLA SCREAMS OUT.

Both of them lift up and look back at us. Belize seems to be flustered at being caught but Angel pulls back from her unaffected. I look over at Kerrys and the colour has drained from her face. Kayla looks livid, Theia is slightly bemused and I'm in shock.

Pulling her underwear back up, Belize perks up. 'What? You're acting like you've never seen sex before.' Angel is buckling up his trousers, looking over to us with a small smile on his face.

'What the fuck is this, Angel?' Kayla asks him. 'How could you do this to MY TWIN?!!'

I'm concerned that Kerrys hasn't reacted yet.

'Babe?' I coax her. She snaps my gaze in my direction.

'Oh hey Kerrys,' She snaps it back when Belize mentions her. 'Didn't see you there.' Belize smirks, knowing full well Kerrys saw everything. 'I don't know you heard, but I was just telling Angel here how big he is.' I've only ever seen Kerrys angry twice in my life: when someone pushed Kayla when were in kindergarten and when someone in class said Beyoncé was rubbish. 'And that tongue... ugh, if only you were here to see that.' Belize should shut up if she knows what's good for her. 'He really knows how to make a girl scream, ain't that right A?'

Oh no!

'ARGHHHHHHH!!!!' Our eyes go wide as Kerrys jumps over a table and hurls herself at Belize. She punches Belize across the face and then grabs her hair and slams her face into the table. Belize is struggling against Kerrys' hand. 'HE'LL NEVER BE YOUR A, YOU STUPID WHORE!'

'LET ME GO, YOU CRAZY PSYCHO BITCH!' Belize screams back.

'WITH PLEASURE PUTA!' Kerrys drags Belize from her hair, out of the classroom, drags her through the hallway until we reach outside, where she throws her to the ground and starts to walk away.

Now that there is a crowd forming, Belize decides now is the time to perk back up. 'Couldn't keep your man satisfied, so he had to come to a real one.' She smirks, starting to get up the floor, only for Kerrys to push her back down and start slapping her.

'That's enough!' Angel pulls Kerrys off of Belize. 'That's enough.'

Kerrys turns around and swings for him, connecting with his jaw.

'Ooooooo.' The crowd collectively say.

'Don't touch me. Don't you dare fucking touch me. We're done. Oh we are so done! I can't believe I held out hope we'd get back together, but after this... Nuh uh!' She shakes her head. 'GO FUCK YOURSELF!' She seethe.

She runs towards Kayla, who engulfs her into a hug. 'Sssshhh, it's okay sis.' She soothes Kerrys, who is crying on her shoulder.

I turn to look back at Belize spluttering on the floor and see Theia is currently drenching her in gatorade. 'Bitches be thirsty.' She says so nonchalantly. Where did she even find the drinks?

I catch Kree walking towards the commotion. He takes one look at Angel's face, Belize on the floor and Kerrys crying and then asks, 'What the fuck just happened?!'

***

I can't make sense out of Angel

Nothing he's been doing lately makes sense

How could he do that to Kerrys?

Is she alright?

What do you think? She's distraught

I just don't know how Kerrys is gonna get through this

But you know what, she needed to see that so that she can start to move on

He still loves her uno

WELL HE'S GOT A FUNNY FUCKING WAY OF SHOWING IT!!!

Sage was so mad that she didn't stick around to tell me what had happened. Principal Knox came out, questioning what had happened but everyone kept schtum.

Sorry. Didn't mean to take it out on you

It's okay

You can make it up to me

Sage:

OH!

Just gotta wait for my boyfriend to leave and I'll come over😈

I gonna spank her!

***

Luckily, Principal Knox is none the wiser about the fight otherwise Kerrys would have been suspended instead of sat here with us at lunch.

Theia is off somewhere doing God knows what with Luca. I think we all can guess though. So it's just the three of us sat eating lunch. It's been quiet though, seeing as Kerrys is still upset about what happened. I just don't know what to do to help her.

'I'm back bitches.' Ugh the witch is back. Not what we need right now., or ever. 'Did use miss me?'

'No!' Kayla barks

'Erm KerBear, I heard about your little "fight" with Belize. Just to let you know, I would have hurt your face if I was there.'

'Well let's go right now then.' Kerry's stares her down.

'Erm not right now honey. Don't want to break a nail. I've got a hot date tonight.' Bailey says.

'Oh, with the invisible man again?' I ask.

'No.' Bailey scoffs. 'With a man I can keep.' She smirks at Kerrys. 'He is dreamy, sexy, and a freak in the sheets.'

'Oh, she means her shitzu.' Kerrys cuts her off. Bailey glares at her. 'It's either that or she's full of shit.'

'You're just jealous because-'

'Because what?' Kerrys stands up and walk towards her. 'What could I possibly be jealous off?' She cowers back, leaving Kerrys space to walk out. 'Yeah, didn't think so.' She leaves the canteen and we follow after her, leaving Bailey to mutter that Kerrys' attitude is the reason she can't keep a man.

'Ughh, she gets me so mad-' She bumps into someone. 'Excuse me!' She shouts, walking past Kree.

'I'll catch you up.' I say to Kayla and she nods, following her sister.

'Is she alright?' Kree walks up to me asking. 'She looked like she wanted to bite my head off.'

'It's not you.' I say. 'She's just had a run in with Bailey. Although I can't promise she won't want to kill you, you know, death by association.'

He laughs. 'Well make sure to visit me in hell on your way to heaven.'

'Don't say that.' I tut. 'Besides I wouldn't want to miss out on all the fun down there.' I put my arms around his waist, leaning back slightly to look up at him. God he's tall.

He fakes outrage. 'Sweet Sage, are you saying that you would follow me down to hell?' He cages me in his arms.

'I'd follow you anywhere.' I say and mean it. He moves his hands up to cup my cheeks and kisses me like we're alone. Soft, slow and sensual - his lips make me forget where I am, as always

'Good.' He leans back, his breath bouncing off my parted lips. 'Because I'm not planning to let you go ever.'

***