Chatper 11

"Zac?"

Zac snapped out of his trance. He was spacing out a lot lately. He looked up at the girl waving her hand in front of his hace. He cheeks were red and flushed from frustration. Her jet black hair fell 2 inches or so past her shoulders and her bangs curled in, which annoyed her. She was presently trying to get them to stay put. Zac looked at the lav in front of him and remembered where he was. He sighed.

"Sorry Vera," he said, finally. "I don't know what's wrong with me lately."

"We have to get this done," she said persistently. Natalie and Sebastian walked over to them.

"You ok, Zac?" Natalie asked, concerned.

"You've been acting strange lately," Sebastian agreed.

"Of course I'm ok. Why would something be wrong?" he scribbled down some answers to the last few questions on his lab and rushed past them to hand it in. Everything is over now, remember? he told himself. Why are you thinking about it again? He kept telling himself that, but he couldn't shake it from his thoughts.
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When Isaac got home that day, there was a phone call. He picked it up. It was Hannah. She informed him that she had just heard some news. Isaac wasn't worried and wondered what it could be. When she told him that Cassandra Harris had been murdered along with her boyfriend, Matt, he lost his grip on the phone. He sat there a minute, unsure of what to do. He picked it up after a few moments to hear Hannah's worried voice calling him. He apologized and quickly made up an excuse to go.

He went off to his room to think for awhile. By that evening Cassie's death was confirmed, and the rumors were quickly spreading. Taylor and Zac took the news calmer than he had expected. He was somewhat glad, although he knew they weren't showing that they were really scared.

Isaac thought about a lot of things that night. He had known Matt and Cassandra, and they had been pretty cool people. He was never really that close, but that didn't matter now. He wondered when Hannah had found out. He wondered how she had taken it. She sounded somewhat upset on the phone. He thought about Taylor and Zac. How calmly they had taken it- especially Zac. But most of all he thought: Who killed them?