I thought I knew my sister...I really did! And then she went and became friends with the scum on the bottom of the pond, the nasty gum that gets stuck to your shoe, the headache that won't go away, the slut, the enemy...Tara.
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"Hey Zac? Hold on a second ok?" I said into the phone.
'What was that noise?' I wondered as I slowly made my way to the door of my room.
I heard the noise again...it was definitely a sob, coming from my sisters room. The first thing that ran through my head was that my parents' fighting had finally broken down my sister's brick wall, and I needed to be there to comfort her.
So, I slowly opened the door, "Jules? What's wrong..."
I stopped short when I saw who was sitting on my sister's bed crying her eyes out while my sister tried to comfort her....Tara. I couldn't believe it...as a matter of fact I think my jaw did hit the floor.
"What's wrong with her?" I asked Julie.
Tara turned to face me, mascara running down her face, "Leave me alone."
"Jeez, just trying to be friendly!" I exclaimed closing the door.
I walked back over to my room and picked up the phone, "Zac, I think you should come over...we have a little mystery to solve." I smiled, I would find out what was wrong with her if it killed me.
"Can you hear what she's saying?" Zac whispered.
"No, just a bunch of mumbling." I whispered back. "Oh crap, I hear footsteps. Get back in my room."
We both practically jumped back into my room, closing the door part way, leaving enough open for us to see out.
"Thanks for being there for me, Julie. You're a great friend. I think I'll go for a walk and try to sort all this out. I'll call you later." Tara said.
"Ok, Tara. Talk to you later." Julie said giving Tara a hug.
As soon as Tara had left and Julie had gone back into her room, Zac and I snuck out of the house and started to follow Tara down the street.
As soon as she was out of sight of my house, she whipped out a compact and started to fix her makeup as she walked.
"You are too good Tara, you really are." She mumbled to herself.
Zac and I exchanged a glance but didn't say anything for fear that she would hear us. We followed her all the way down to the very edge of our small town to the skate board park were all the teens hung out.
Before she could even get to the gate for the park a girl named Abby Philips, came running up to her, "Did it work? Did she fall for it?"
"Hook, line and sinker." Tara smiled, "And with the way that girl blabs her business around, the whole town will know it in now time."
The girls turned and entered the skate park then and Zac got up to follow them but I pulled him back, "We can't follow her in there...it will be way to obvious! We'll have to find out as much as we can from Julie."
"Jules, how much will it cost for you to talk?" Zac asked.
"I'm not telling! Tara made me promise not to tell and I'm not going to break a promise." Julie said stubbornly.
"What if we gave you a hundred dollars?" I asked.
Zac gave me a horrified look, but for a second Julie looked interested, and then her face changed back into the stubborn look and she said, "No, I'm not taking any amount of money...I'm going to keep my promise and that's it!"
"Come on Zac." I said leaving the room. Once we'd gotten into my room I said, "We're not going to get anything out of her."
"Maybe that's a good thing....because we don't exactly have a hundred bucks to throw around."
"I wasn't really going to give her a hundred dollars. I would have given her Monopoly money or something. Oh well, at least one thing turned out good today."
"And what's that?" Zac asked.
"Tara's little plan didn't turn out quite like she planned. She thinks that Julie is off blabbing her mouth right now...instead Julie refuses to budge."
We both smiled. Then Zac and I called it quits for the day and Zac went home and got some sleep. But I on the other hand hardly got any sleep, I was too busy thinking of a way to figure out Tara's little scheme.
