The Murder in Stall 4 by Marski Renee

Author:Marski, Renee [Renee, Marski,]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781506000374
Publisher: Renee Marski
Published: 2019-03-26T04:00:00+00:00

10.

MORE VICTIMS

T he next day after school, the girls sat around the table at the ice cream parlor. Clara took a big swig of her chocolate shake and looked at Hannah. “Rodney is bringing me the files today so that I can go through them. Maybe I’ll see something the cops missed.”

Hannah shook her head. “They thought they had a suspect. But there wasn’t enough to hold him.”

“So, they suspected someone who wasn’t Andrew?” Clara asked.

Hannah nodded. She sat back against the bench. “Look, there’s something you should know. I skipped school that morning. Met up with someone and then decided to go to school anyway. That’s why I found her. I went into the bathroom before going to class and found her there.”

Clara looked at Hannah in surprise. “You skipped class? Why?”

“I was hanging out with someone, I told you,” Hannah reminded her sourly.

Clara leaned in and asked, “Who?”

Hannah looked down at her sundae and sighed. “Andrew. He seemed interested in me and we always had fun when we hung out.”

“You were with Andrew? So, he has an alibi?” Hannah shook her head slowly.

“Not really. He was late showing up. That’s why I chickened out and went back to school. He was really mad at me and didn’t talk to me for ages,” she mumbled into her drink.

Clara leaned in closer, her hair brushing Hannah’s. “Did he say why he was late?” she asked in a whisper.

Hannah shook her head. “No, just that he’d had to take care of something before he got there. By then I was so antsy, I just left.”

Clara leaned back and asked, “Did he have anything with him?”

Hannah gave her a confused look. “What do you mean?”

“Did he have a backpack with him? Or a bag or something?”Clara asked.

Hannah scrunched up her forehead in thought. “He was carrying a bag, but it’s not one that I ever recognized. He has a gym bag, but this wasn’t one that he’d ever carried before.”

Clara nodded, thinking out loud, “A kill bag, maybe? He keeps everything he needs in it to do what he needs to do.”

Stacy held up her hand. “Wait, wait, wait. That would imply that Andrew has done this before. As far as we know, there’s only Betty and Samantha. And Samantha made it,” she added.

“Right, but what if there are others? I mean, sure this is a small town, but there are other towns around here. Did he ever spend lots of time out of town?” Clara asked.

All three girls shook their heads. “No. Andrew really isn’t the traveling kind. Although, he did see Anthony for a couple weeks when he was in college.” Hannah said, taking another bite of ice cream.

“Hmm, goes to visit his older brother, but why? Like, was Anthony on break or something?” Clara prodded.

Tracy piped up. “No, but Anthony was seeing a girl at that time and Andrew claimed that he wanted to meet her.”

Clara sat up.”Any chance she got pregnant?”

The other girls looked at each other. Stacy answered.

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