A Good Girl's Guide to Murder (A Good Girl's Guide to Murder #1) - Holly Jackson Page 0,34
there was something else she could do.
She clicked into Devices and Printers on Cara’s laptop and hovered the mouse over the name of the Ward family printer, which someone had nicknamed Freddie Prints Jr. She right-clicked into Printer Properties and on to the advanced tab.
Pip had memorized the steps from a ‘how to’ webpage with cartoon illustrations. She checked the box next to Keep Printed Documents , clicked apply and it was done. She closed down the panel and clicked back on to Cara’s homework.
‘Thanks,’ she said, passing the laptop back, certain that her heart was loud enough to hear, a boom box sewn on the outside of her chest.
‘No problemo.’
Cara’s laptop would now keep track of everything that came through their printer. If Pip received another printed message, she could find out for definite if it had come from Naomi or not.
The kitchen door opened with an explosion from the White House and federal agents screaming to ‘Get out of here!’ and ‘Save yourself!’ Naomi stood in the door frame.
‘God, Nai,’ Cara said, ‘we’re working in here, turn it down.’
‘Sorry,’ she whispered, as though it compensated for the loud TV. ‘Just getting a drink. You OK, Pip?’ Naomi looked at her with a puzzled expression and only then did Pip realize she had been staring.
‘Err . . . yep. You just made me jump,’ she said, her smile just a little too wide, carving uncomfortably into her cheeks.
Pippa Fitz-Amobi
EPQ 08/09/2017
Production Log – Entry 13
Transcript of second interview with Emma Hutton
Pip:
Thanks for agreeing to talk again. This is a really short follow-up, I promise.
Emma:
Yeah, no that’s fine.
Pip:
Thanks. OK, so firstly I’ve been asking around about Andie and I’ve heard certain rumours I wanted to run by you. That Andie may have been seeing someone at the same time as Sal. An older guy perhaps? Had you ever heard anything like that?
Emma:
Who told you that?
Pip:
Sorry, they asked me to keep them anonymous.
Emma:
Was it Chloe Burch?
Pip:
Again, sorry, I was asked not to say.
Emma:
It had to be her; we were the only ones who knew.
Pip:
So it’s true? Andie was seeing an older man during her relationship with Sal?
Emma:
Well, yeah, that’s what she said; she never told us his name or anything.
Pip:
Did you have any indication about how long it had been going on for?
Emma:
Like, not long at all before she went missing. I think she started talking about it in March. That’s just a guess, though.
Pip:
And you knew nothing about who it was?
Emma:
No, she liked teasing us that we didn’t know.
Pip:
And you didn’t think it was relevant to tell the police?
Emma:
No because, honestly, those are the only details we ever knew. And I kind of thought Andie had made him up for some drama.
Pip:
And after the whole Sal thing happened, you never thought to tell the police that that could be a possible motive?
Emma:
No, ’cause again I wasn’t convinced he was real. And Andie wasn’t stupid; she wouldn’t have told Sal about him.
Pip:
But what if Sal found out anyway?
Emma:
Hmm, I don’t think so. Andie was good at keeping secrets.
Pip:
OK, moving on to my final question, I was wondering if you knew whether Andie had ever fallen out with Naomi Ward. Or whether they had a strained relationship?
Emma:
Naomi Ward, Sal’s friend?
Pip:
Yeah.
Emma:
No, not to my knowledge.
Pip:
Andie never mentioned any tension with Naomi or said bad things about her?
Emma:
No. Actually, now you mention it, she definitely was hating on one of the Wards, but it wasn’t Naomi.
Pip:
What do you mean?
Emma:
You know Mr Ward, the history teacher? I don’t know if he’s still at Kilton Grammar. But yeah, Andie did not like him. I remember her referring to him as an arsehole, among other stronger words.
Pip:
Why? When was this?
Emma:
Um, I couldn’t say specifically but I think it was around that Easter. So, not long before everything happened.
Pip:
But Andie wasn’t taking history?
Emma:
No, it must have been something like he’d told her that her skirt was too short for school. She always hated that.
Pip:
OK that’s everything I needed to ask. Thanks again for all your help, Emma.
Emma:
No worries. Bye.
NO . Just no.
First Naomi, who I can’t even look in the eye any more. And now Elliot? Why are questions about Andie Bell returning answers about the people close to me?
OK, Andie insulting a teacher to her friends in the lead-up to her death looks like an utter coincidence. Yes. It could be entirely innocent.
But – and it’s quite a big but – Elliot told me he hardly knew Andie or had anything to do with her in the last