Chapter 7
"Hey, come on, guys. Let's get back to work," I said.
"Yea, come on," said Joseph. "Lance, Sydney, your scene is first."
"Joseph, I have an idea," said Sarah.
"Sarah, darling, the lighting is fine."
"It's not that."
"Then what is it?"
"Ducks."
"Ducks?"
"I think we should have ducks running around in the flowers to give the video character."
"That's a brillant idea! Jack, get me ducks!" said Joseph.
"As you say sir," said Jack and ran off in search of ducks.
A half hour later, Jack came back with ten ducks.
"Perfect, wonderful! Sarah, you're a genius!" exclaimed Joseph.
"I know."
Basically, my scene involved standing in the flowers hugging and kissing Sydney and singing while the ducks ran around us.
After we were done with that day's work on the video, I went to see Nat. I knocked on her door.
"Who is it?" she yelled.
"Lance."
She came to the door. "Hi, Lance," she said and stood on tiptoe to give me a kiss.
"What have you been doing all this time?" I asked
"Oh, just reading some fanfic on the internet," she said.
"Oh, can we talk about the murders? I think I have some clues," I said.
"Yea, me too. Sydney could have done it. I found one of her bracelets by Kennith's body."
"I found one by Dianne's body too. That Ray dude who's an author might have done it too. He's creppy."
"As much as I hate to say it, I think Joey's a suspect too," she said.
"Why Joey?"
"You know how Joey was wearing Dr. Martins today?"
"Yea."
"I saw Dr, Martin prints in the dirt near Dianne's body on the trail."
"How do you know what Dr. Martin prints look like?"
"My little brother has a few pairs. There's always prints on the kitchen floor."
"Oh. And you know the guy directing the video, Joseph Khan?"
"Do I ever! Yasmine makes me watch those Backstreet Boy home videos and he's interviewed on them because he directed that monster video of theirs."
"Yea, that video's kinda creppy. He directed that creepy Monster Magnet video too."
"I'm noticing a pattern here."
"Exactly. I think he's a suspect."
"Do you thing there's anyone else?" she asked.
I thought for a minute. "No."
"Okay then, let's move on to more important topics."
"Like what?"
"Like us."
"I like that topic," I said and pushed her down on the bad and started kissing her. We kissed for several minutes, and then we heard a quacking.
"What was that?" she asked and bolted up from the bed.
"Oh. One of the ducks must have followed me in here."
"What ducks?" she asked, and I explained that we were using ducks in the video.
"Oh. There he is," she said pointing to a white duck standing in the corner.
"I don't think he approved of our activities," I said.
"Well, who cares about him?" she said and started kissing me again.
"Quack!"
~*~*~
I went into the dining room a little bit early for dinner. When I walked into the dining room, I could see something on one of the tables on the far side of the room, but I couldn't see what it was. I walked closer.
When I got close enough, I could see a young man's dead body. I got scared and colapsed on the floor. Then everything went black.
~*~*~
It was almost time for dinner. I hadn't seen Nadine for hours and assumed she was off in the woods with Josh or something like that. I didn't want to walk to dinner alone, so I went to Natalie's room. I knocked on the door, but there was no answer.
"Is anyone in there?" I yelled and pounded on the door harder.
"Quack!"
"Nat, open up! It's Erica!"
She finally came to the door with Lance. "It's about time," I said.
"Sorry," Natalie said, "we were busy."
"I could tell. Brush your hair and come on. We're gonna be late for dinner. Hey, Lance, have you seen Chris?"
"No. Not since lunch."
"Oh. Well, I guess we'll see him at dinner. What's that duck doing in your room?"
"We have no clue," said Lance.
We walked downstairs to the dining room. When we got there, I saw two bodies at the far end of the room. I started running to ward them, and when I got there I could see that one was the elderly lady, Gertie. The other was Chris.
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