Chapter 1: Chapter 1

MYSTIC HOLLOW

Homicide

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BY NAOMI INNOCENT

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CHAPTER 1

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"Sarah is growing up, don't you think?" Her dad asked her mom who touched her chin. She didn't utter a word as they had their breakfast.

"Just yesterday, my little toddler has become a grown up girl" her dad said as she got fed up and placed her earphone on her ear, that brought the chur chat to a stop till they finished breakfast.

Sarah Bellos walked out of her dad's mansion, carrying her bagpack, she stopped the mansion and operated her iPad.

Her driver and four guards walked out of the mansion while the driver, who was a short thickest man, headed to her limo.

"Sarah, your limo is ready" the first guard told her.

She lifted her head and stared at the both of them for a while. She shook her head sideways and continued operating on her iPad.

"Sarah please, since you started Mystic Hollow High School, you've refused going to school by your limo. What's the issue? Your parents are worried" Miss Zoe, her female guard said but Sarah didn't spare her a glance.

Zoe took a peep at what she was doing with her iPad, seeing she was solving Geometry, she heaved.

"Sarah, you'll be late for school!" Zoe snapped while containing her anger. This time, Sarah lifted her face and glanced at her but she glanced back at her watch without Zoe catching a glimpse of her face.

It was exactly 7:00AM.

She squated and did arithmetic on the ground and it ended at 10.12

She smiled, standing up, she placed her earphone carefully on her ears and started walking to school which was miles away.

"What did she do?" The first guard asked Zoe who squated and studied the arithmetic she solved on the ground.

"Simple arithmetic, it's 10.12. Which means by exactly 10:12AM, she'll be in class" Zoe told him, he shook his head sideways and stood akimbo.

"This kid is one weirdo" he said and closed the door of the limo.

"Come on. We better go tell Mayor Bellos the new development" Zoe said standing up as she and the other guard walked into the mansion.

They got to the spacey parlor of the mansion, Mrs. Bellos was knotting Mr. Bellos tie as they conversed.

"Is Sheriff Ruth attending the meeting?" Mrs. Bellos asked and he sighed.

"Yh, she ought to, the Homicide is getting out of hand and....

He didn't finish his speech when Zoe interrupted the both of them.

"Mayor Bellos? " she called and bowed as the other guards did same.

"Don't tell me Sarah refuse going by her limo to school again" Mayor Bellos said as both guards bowed their heads.

"Well, Zoe, you should fix that, it's your job not mine. I hired you to take care of my daughter, Mystic Hollow is not safe!" he yelled at them angrily but they kept their heads bowed.

"Honey, honey, its ok. You know how Sarah is. She doesn't like being forced or coaxed to do something. And have you noticed lately? She's been avoiding her limo since she started High school, I guess she wants to live like normal kids do" Mrs. Bellos said.

"Well she should get used to it. She's not like other kids. She's Sarah Bellos. The daughter of the mayor of this city" her dad yelled angrily.

"You may go! And make sure before the end of the week, she had had a change of heart! " Zoe and cohorts nodded and left in terrror, cursing Sarah under their breath..

"Damn that kid!" The Mayor said as his wife continued knotting his tie.

"Let's just let her be" she said smiling as she fidgetted with the tie.

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Meet Sarah Bellos, a 17 years old teenager, a brainiac, weirdo and only child of the mayor of Mystic Hollow, Mayor Fedrick Bellos. Which literally means, everyone would love to be her and at same time jealous of her.

But one funny thing is that, since she was born, she hasn't said a word. When she was eight years old, her parents took her to the city hospital where medical check-ups from different doctors and from different hospitals were conducted, they found no problem in her genetic makeup or internal structures.

Which definitely means, she has decided to stay that way. That is, to remain mute or dumb, well which ever you call it.

So the doctors advised her parents to let her be, that she'll only talk when she feels like or want to. Right now, she is seventeen years old, and still hasn't said a word.

She had no friends in High school, they thought she's a mute or something. So everyone kept away from her thinking she has psychological issues. But the best person that knows Sarah Bellos is just herself.

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Sarah Bellos kept walking on the street straight to her school, she stopped at a mall and stared at a sign post. On it were different adverts, but what drew her attention was a number written on it *954*

She kept looking at the figure for a while then she shrugged and continued her walk to school listening to the weirdest song any high school teenager would ever listen to.(this story is written by Naomi innocent)

"Hey! Stop right there!!!" Two cops shouted and chased after a shoplifter who ran past Sarah.

At the shirt of the shoplifter, the number *954* written on it. She smiled and wore her hoodie when she saw it.

She got to their school and watched as students ran helter skelter at the sound of the warning bell. But this weirdo wasn't perturbed at all. She just kept strolling down the hallway.

"Outta my way you snail!" Peter pushed her off balance as she fell to the ground.

As he ran past her, on the shirt he was putting on, she saw the number 9 at the back. She starred at it for a while as he ran while the warning bell kept ringing. He finally ran out of sight, that was when she stood up and dusted her butt.

She walked majestically to the class, and it was exactly 10:12AM.

They were having their second period as their History teacher, Mr. Alaric stopped her.

"Miss Bellos?" He called out to her. She halted and turned to face him with no facial expression.

"You're late again. Miss, this is the third time this week you've been late to school, missing classes. Seriously what's the issue?" He asked which Sarah took as a rhetorical question cause she simply doesn't have any answer to his question.

She adjusted her spectacle and stared at him as her classmates giggled.

"Just because your dad is the mayor of this town doesn't give you the audacity to come to school any time you want to. You should be a leader by example!" He yelled at her as she clenched her fist. Shel does not like the mayor part, it always freaks her out.

"Remove that damn hoodie and get to your seat!" He told her and continued his teachings while she nodded and left for her seat which is at the extreme of the class.

Mr. Alaric continued teaching as she brought out her drawing book and started drawing.

After their history class, they had two other classes before it was lunch break.

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Meet "The Freaks"

Their names are, Elena Gilbert, Alex Bennett, Laura Saltzman and Peter Parker. And by Peter Parker, I don't mean the spider man. Just Peter Parker of Mystic Hollow. Don't forget these names.

These four teenagers are best friends since kindergarten. They live few blocks away from each other. They were known as The Freaks from Junior High, and Mystic Hollow is their home.

"Can you please pass me the jam?" Alex said to Laura who was showing Elena something on her phone. She passed the jam to him and he muttered a thanks.

"What's she doing here?" Elena asked as her friends followed her gaze to Sarah Bellos, sitting right opposite them which had never happened before.

She's without any food nor water, but just her drawing book, she was finishing up what she had been drawing in class.

"Oh, its the mayor's daughter. The weirdo" Laura said.

"I think that girl's a psycho" Alex said munching on the bread.

Sarah stopped drawing and raised her face, her gaze met with theirs. They quickly averted their faces and pretended to be doing something else.

"I think she heard us" Elena whispered to them

Sarah stared at them for a while and continued what she was drawing.

"I collided with her at the hallway this morning" Peter said.

"Did she say a word?" Laura asked curiously as Peter heaved a sigh and shook his head sideways.

"I think she's a mute. She hasn't said a word since she came to this school" Alex said.

"Or maybe a psycho as you said earlier" Elena added.

"And it seems she doesn't have any friends" Laura cut in.

"Seriously! Who wanna be friends with a Psycho?" Peter chipped in as they glanced at her again, she was busy with her drawing but was doing it vigorously and crying.

"What's she doing? She's gonna rip that paper to pieces" Laura said.

"Wait! What? Is she crying?" Elena asked as they heard a gunshot and screams outside. The student panicked and there was a stampede.

(Well one thing you should note is that, Mystic Hollow High school is close to the woods.)

Sarah was panting and crying as she stared at what she drew.

Peter, Laura and Alex ran outside to see what happened as students gathered outside. But Elena slowly walked towards Sarah to peep at what she drew.

Sarah sat down, closed her eyes and clenched her fist while Elena peeped at the drawing.

"What's this?" Elena muttered to herself as she fixed her gaze at the drawing. A little boy, lying on a rock in the pool of his blood, with a hole at his forehead. She wrote the number 9 close to her drawing and circled it.

"What the hell is this? " Elena muttered to herself.

"Elena! You've got to see this!" Laura called out to her but she was still staring at the weird drawing.

"Elena?!" Laura called out again as she retraced her footsteps slowly and ran outside to meet her.

"I'm coming" Elena said with a croacked voice as she ran outside where people gathered.

By this time, the cops and sheriff Ruth were already at the scene and they had locked the crime scene.

Sheriff Ruth was asking a student who probably might have been an eye withness to what happen as she took down reports.

The student cried as she gave her report, she seemed shocked and scared at what she saw. Sheriff Ruth patted her back and assured her everything would be ok.

"What happened?" Elena asked no one in particular as she struggled and managed to see a lifeless boy on a rock who was shot at his forehead. It fitted correctly to what Sarah drew in her drawing book.

"What the hell?" She muttered to herself as she could not contain the shock.

"What happened over there?" She managed to ask a girl as she trembled.

"A nine years old boy was shot" the girl said as her mouth became dry. Then it dawned on her that Sarah circled the number 9 in her drawing.

Her heart skipped a beat as she muttered to herself.

"What just happened?"

She stared at the school building as if she could see Sarah as Alex patted her back.

"Is anything the matter? Elena?" He tapped her bringing her back to earth.

TBC