Chapter One

I glided blissfully through the lifeless water of my light blue painted swimming pool doing my breaststroke.

 

The pool was even to hot for me to stand. I got out of the pool and stood on the warm burnt sienna pavement.

 

I felt like I was being fried in a grease pan while the sun was scorching down on my already sun burnt back.

 

I sat down under our family's huge weeping willow tree since it was so shady there. I started reading How to “Kill a Mockingbird.”

 

I dozed off with the heavy hardcover book resting on the brim of my nose.

 

I awoke about a half an hour later to the soft whirring of a lawn mower in a nearby yard.

I stood up, grass sticking to my very sweaty back.

 

Over the fence was Mr. Cadavers yard. He was picking weeds.

 

Ducking down my tiny polka dot bikini top caught on a tree branch and came untied. I quickly tied it back up.

Mr. Cadaver started to come towards me. “Peeking into my yard, eh?” he said. Then he stopped, he got out a two barrel shotgun.

 

“Oh my god, he’s going to kill me!” I thought. Then I heard the gunshot.

It didn’t go near me. He had shot a rabbit. The rabbit had been nibbling on his carrots in his garden.

 

“Thank GOD!” I thought. “I could have been killed.”

 

I got up off of the grass, and walked to my driveway. The scorching hot black pavement burning my feet as I almost hopped across the driveway.

 

I opened the front door, the cool air caressing my hot sun burnt skin. The cool wood floor refreshed my feet. I walked up to my room.

 

My phone then started ringing. I knew the ring, it was my boyfriend Cody Brash! He had moved here 2 and a half years ago.

 

"Hey," I said. "What's up.

 

 "Nothing, I just wanted to say hi to you!" replied Cody. 

 

 "Wanna come over?" I asked him. 

 

 "Sure, sounds great, see you in a bit!" said Cody.

 

I quickly threw on a bright orange sundress over my swimsuit.  I then put my hair up in a little bun on the top of my head.

 

A couple of minutes later I heard the chime of our doorbell.  I practically sprinted down the stairs to the front door.  I haven't seen Cody in 2 weeks!  I opened the front door.

 

I leaped into Cody's arms.  We hugged for a long time.  Then he gave me a tender kiss on the lips.  "It's great to see you again Cass!" he said!  "You too, Cody!" I replied. 

 

"CODY!" my mom said excitedly as she walked into the room.

 

Cody gently put me down and gave my mom a quick hug.  It was a little akward but I knew my mom really like Cody. 

 

"How are you Mrs. Pollen?" asked Cody

 

 "I'm great!" replied my mom.  "How about you?"

 

"I'm doing fine!" replied Cody.

 

"That's good, well I'd better get back to doing the laundry, then I'll make you guys some lunch." said my mom.

 

The two of us left the room and went upstairs. 

 

"There's this new guy nextdoor," I said. "He's really creepy, his wife supposedly "died" from a heart attack, but in the paper it said they found the body." 

 

"The body had bruises covering the entire body, and it was stabbed like 10 times!"

 

"That doesn't sound like a heart attack to me!" Cody said.

 

"So, I've been doing some research and there have been other women found the exact same way, beaten and stabbed 10 times." I said.

 

"Wow," Cody said.

"I know." I replied to Cody's remark.

 

"We should figure this out," Cody anxiously replied.

 

"I think we should,"  I said.  "I don't think Rose Cadaver's death was an accident."

 

"LUNCH!" called my mom.  We ran downstairs and there were grilled cheese sandwiches served on two glass plates.

 

"What service!" said Cody.  "Thank you Mrs. Pollen."

 

"You are very welcome, Cody." replied my mom.

 

"Enjoy," she said and then she left the room.

 

"Mmmmmm, this is really good," said Cody.

 

"I know, isn't it?!" I replied.

 

When we finished eating my mom came and took our plates.  We left the room and went upstairs.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Mia]

Nice job. Shouldn't it be family's and families though? I like it. Oh, and stop reviewing my stories in caps.