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couldn’t believe she was mine.
“Get some rest,” she replied huskily.
I watched her swaying hips as she left the office, and after devouring the ham sandwich she packed, I passed out with the memory of her cherry Chapstick on my lips.
Dear Diary,
I have to tell you something. I didn’t start writing this diary to be liked. I started writing so there would be something in my life that felt real. Everything is just a jumble of secrets now. You’re the only one that knows the truth. The only one that knows how wrong I am.
Which is why I have to tell you this.
I saw something. Something I never told you about, Diary. Something I promised to take to the grave. Something bad. Really bad. I think that something is coming back to haunt me. I guess all secrets come to light in the end.
XOXO,
Violet
Breeze
It had been a couple of weeks since Kai had been taken in for questioning and our morning in bed together afterward. We had settled into our new normal and were together every second that we weren’t at work or school. Kai even introduced me as his girlfriend to his boss on a day that I met him at the restaurant. I was so shocked I could only mumble and grab his hand. The word girlfriend had sent butterflies dancing through my belly.
I had never been a girlfriend before and had no idea if I was doing it right. But damn, Kai was good to me. He was sweet, caring, and there for me, however I needed him to be. It was hard to think of Kai as Violet’s boyfriend. Not because of the guilt, although that was something I was still working through, but because he was like a completely different person with me than he was with Violet.
At first, we mostly spent our time at Kai’s house, both in and out of the bedroom. We worried that Lex would show up unannounced again, but Kai assured me nothing would happen as long as he was around. We hadn’t had sex yet, but we’d explored one another’s bodies enough that I knew every freckle, every flex of his muscles. As a little time passed, we felt more comfortable holding hands around town and confirming the rumors that we were together. People talked, but that just came with life on a small island. Everybody knows everybody else’s business. But we did hear one particularly nasty rumor one day at the ice cream shop.
There were two middle-aged women sitting in the booth in front of us, each eating their way through a towering sundae. They must not have realized that Kai and I were sitting behind them. They talked about what a terrible tragedy it was that Violet’s killer hadn’t been found yet. Then, the first woman, whose name I couldn’t quite remember, lowered her voice and said barely above a whisper, “I heard that Kai and Breeze worked together to kill Violet so that they could be a couple.”
“You know, Brenda, I heard that too. The way those kids are carrying on, I wouldn’t be surprised if you’re right,” the second woman, Cathy, said. I used to babysit Cathy’s kids during the summer. I taught them how to surf, and they still came by the shop every now and then to say hi. I was hurt that she would say such awful things about me.
I watched darkness cloud over Kai’s eyes at their words. He stood up forcefully and walked over to their table. I was too shocked to even move, I just watched from my seat.
“How dare you,” Kai growled. “How dare you say that. Violet was Breeze’s best friend. Breeze grew up with her! We had nothing to do with her death, and we are not going to apologize for finding each other after Violet was taken from us.”
Cathy looked stunned. I briefly wondered if anybody had ever called her out like that before. Kai stalked back over to our table. But he didn’t sit down, instead he extended his hand and helped me stand up.
“If any of your friends think the same way, you can feel free to tell them that I said to fuck right off,” Kai barked as we left the shop. I glanced in Brenda’s direction—if she had been wearing pearls, she definitely would have been clutching them.
Another cloud over our relationship was that Lex was demanding more and more. Kai was now doing runs weekly and updating the police on Lex’s