1 Chapter 1
The police station was crowded with people, it was kind of scary. To our left, I saw gray metal bars with two people in them, and police officers rushing around. To our right was a big white room with a glass door, outside of that room sat twenty waiting chairs to go in. There was no one waiting to go see the officer, "We came just in time." I explained to Benny. As we made our way up to the waiting chairs, I was very happy to sit down and to take a break. When I saw Hollie Spears running out of the room crying, Hollie Spears was the sister to Sarah Spears. What a catch, I looked over at Benny and he nodded to me. Then faster than Quicksilver Benny ran up to her and questioned her right away. I was still in the waiting chair looking at the white glass door which was blurred so you couldn't see in or out.
A man in a dark blue police suit walked out and stood slanted against the white door "Ethan Boman and Benny Ghost,"
"He said, then Benny hugged Hollie and walked into the room after me. The room was small and didn't look anything like the outside had. The inside was all brown, brown floors, brown desk, brown shelves, etc. Golden trophies on the shelves were the only thing that decorated the room. There was plenty of papers on the officer's desk all records of different cases, along with a golden name tag on it. Dust was everywhere, except there was a big square shape area on the desk where there wasn't.
You could tell that it was the tissues that were placed closer to the edge of the desk in hands reach. I sat down on the brown chair it was leather and I thank God that it wasn't hot outside. Benny sat down next to me and I knew that he wasn't going to speak, Benny loves writing. He told me that he wants to a journalist, but I'm not sure that he's going to get there. Benny will only speak to me since I'm a person he trusts in. He will only talk to me, not my parents or even his parents, he also talks to his sister Anna. . In other words, he's a mute, and how can he get a job, with talking, if he won't talk? I don't express my opinions on it, because at the time it wasn't important to our case. The officer sat down and pointed to the golden name tag.
"Name's Officer Lucas, now what did you need?" He was a chubby man but white as the moon.
"We are here from Crest Area High School," I said to kick it off, Officer Lucas stared at me.
"Why are high schoolers coming to a police station?" He leaned over and whispered, "Do you have any tips for the Spears case?"
"No, we are from the school's newspaper, CASNP. We wanted to ask you a few-" Officer Lucas jumped up from his seat.
"No, I don't have any more time for you," he grabbed Benny by the back of his flannel and pushed him out the door, "Have a good day!" He shouted.
Hollie was waiting outside for us, she hugged Benny so hard I thought I saw his eyes pop. Benny never spoke to Hollie at all and it made her mad sometimes, the three of us were best friends since ever. Everyone was quiet when we were walking home, Hollie looked up and said. "I believe that this is the first time I have seen you guys in nice clothing." She laughed and smiled, trying to start a conversation with Benny. We both were in flannels, Benny had a black and red while I had a white and grey. He was wearing big baggy tan pants while I had on jeans, he had tan boots and I had white. We looked somewhat alike except for our eyes and hair, he had jet black long curly hair that didn't go past his ears. While I had red hair that didn't go past my ears too. We didn't look very formal as she had said but I could see it.
Hollie and Benny were so close sometimes people thought that they were dating, but really they're really good friends. I don't know why Benny never talked to Hollie, I mean they're closer than anyone I could ever see. I was about to answer Hollie's question when Benny hit my arm. I looked up at him and he pointed in front of me. There on a skateboard heading towards us was Marco Evans! We have only known her since fourth grade, when we met her at Carson's funeral. I had a giant crush on her and Benny knew about it. Marco skated and did a flip to stop the board, she looked up and took off her helmet. Her dark auburn hair was much longer and waver then Hollie's straight blonde hair. Her face was much paler and Marco had freckles, she was a tomboy. Unlike Hollie who had pale skin and no freckles, she didn't like skateboarding, but Hollie was also a tomboy, but not as much as Marco.
Marco learned sign language just for Benny, even before they were friends. She's really fun to hang out with and such a great friend, Sarah, and Marco were like sisters. Hollie was jealous of them but as the years went on she learned to love her. Hollie hugged me goodbye and walked away, as Marco approached us. Hollie had makeup running down her face. "Hey, Ethan. Hi Benny, why was Hollie crying?" Benny asked her in sign language, "What do you mean?" Had Marco not heard the news, I guess we weren't doing our job then.
"I mean, why was water coming out of Hollie's eyes?" She asked again, Marco stood there confused, waiting for an answer.
"And why do you guys look so nice?" At that question, my face went pink.
"We were just at the police station." At that sentence, Marco turned white like she had done something wrong.
"Don't worry we aren't criminals, it was for the school's newspaper." Marco's face seemed to lighten up a little.
"Sorry to say but Sarah Spears committed suicide." Marco's face went pale again. Benny then signed "Hey how about a little ice cream to cheer everyone up?"
