Chapter 5: "The Good, The Bad, and The Dirty"

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(Chapter 5)
"The Good, The Bad, and The Dirty"

Saturday, January 11
7:00pm

"Stella!" Cassiopeia ran around to the back of Jaime's house.

"Cassie!" Stella called her over.

"What's going on?! What happened?!"

Stella nodded her head at the crime scene behind her.

"Oh, my god!" Cassiopeia gasped.

Jaime laid on the ground, dead.
Her head was surrounded by a pool of blood.

"What happened?!"

"They... they're saying she jumped," Stella explained.

"They think she jumped off the balcony?"

"Yes..."

"Why?!"

"She left a note."

Cassiopeia turned to an officer nearby.

"What note did she leave?" She demanded.

"Who are you?" He asked.

"I'm her friend."

"We were both her friends," Stella told him.

The officer held up a piece of notebook paper encased in a plastic bag.

"Wha

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"Wha... What? This doesn't... Wait, that's not even her handwriting! Where'd you get this note?" Cassiopeia asked.

"It was left on her bed."

"This... this doesn't make any sense! She wouldn't do this!"

"Alright, we need to clear the scene now."

"What? No. Wait!"
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Sunday, January 12
2:30pm

"Then they just threw you off the property?" Rebecca asked.

The four girls were together in Cassiopeia's bedroom together.

"Yeah," Stella nodded.

"Did you see Linda?"

"She wasn't outside. And we haven't seen her since."

"So, tell us what happened," Indigo said.

Stella took a deep breath.
"Okay. I saw Linda come home and then I heard her scream. But, I didn't think anything was really wrong until I saw a few cops around the backyard. So, I went over and asked what was going on, and then I called Cassie right away and she came right over."

"The officer showed us the note she apparently left on her bed," Cassiopeia told them.

"So, what they're saying is Jaime wrote that note, left it on her bed, then jumped off her balcony. She only jumped from the second floor, but she hit her head really hard on the pavement and that's what killed her."

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