A Crack In The Foundations

The girls held her hand as she sat at the table nearly hyperventilating. “The killer must have known I was going to be walking that way… knew that’s exactly where I’d be…” She stopped as she felt more tears falling. “The killer was stalking me.”
“Oh my god, that’s not how a serial killer works!” Hayley snapped angrily. “The world does not revolve around you Ellie!”
“That’s the only explanation?”
“Or it could be that it’s a field, in the middle of nowhere, and he needed a place to stash a body.”
“Is that how you did it in your book, Hayley?” Ellie snapped angrily and Hayley just continued smiling.
“No, Ellie. That’s how I did your murder. Except your voice box was missing.” Hayley whispered still smiling brightly, standing up and leaving the room.

“It’s her, Lily.”
“You can’t say that!”
“We know it’s her!”
“No we don’t, Ellie!” Lily argued pushing her friend’s hand away from her. “All we know is that Hayley has a very fertile imagination. Someone’s working in Hayley’s mind.”
“Yeah her!”
“Why would she have killed Keeley?” Lily spat angrily before flicking her hair back. “And she’d have killed Carrie by now as it’s Carrie that annoys her the most.”
“You blind fool. She’d never kill Carrie. They’re madly in love, lesbians. It’s disgusting the way they act!”
“Stop right there!” Lily warned her, her bravado shocking even her. “That’s our friend’s you are insulting.”
“No friend of mine is a murderer.”
“No. So it’s a good thing none of them are.”

***

Break their foundations. Make them lose trust in each other. It’s always a great skill. To know that everything is going to wind up okay. To know that they all think it’s her… to make them think she was some crazy bitch…

It was all the game plan.