Page 16 of Date Night

Slowly the four of us make our way out of the yard but I'm surprised to see that we're not the only ones out here.

The second we get to the opening of the yard I notice the sheriff's car at the opening.

At first I'm nervous, but I shake the feelings off. We're not doing anything illegal or anything like that so there's no reason for me to feel like I'm about to get in trouble.

Before we can make any more movements, a bright light from the top of the car illuminates making it impossible for me to see anything around me. I put my hand up to block the light but it doesn't do much use.

"Hey, what the hell?" Braylon barks and grabs hold of me as if he were about to protect me from some unseen danger.

"Do you all have permission to be out here?" The cop booms out.

"Yes, Mr. Krillan said it was fine." I answer trying hard to keep the annoyance out of my voice.

A second later the light is shut off and I watch a tall but somewhat lanky man coming in my direction. "We've had too many kids running around back there. Getting hurt." He continues but he's not looking at anyone else, just me, "Especially with the sudden interest in what happened here years back."

That was a dig at me if I ever heard one. I guess it's safe to say the local police definetely doesn't want me looking around at what's going on.

"Thank you for your concern." I bite out and take a step to the side ready to get back in the van and back to the library.

"Hold up a second. I need to have a word with you."

Braylon looks at me for a second. His eyes asking if I need him. I wave him and the rest of the guys forward. I'm safe. It's not like the town cop is going to do something right here to hurt me. Right?

"How can I help you, Officer..."

"Sheriff Alden." He replies sticking his hand out for me to shake.

"Sheriff, how can I help?"

"You can help by not doing what you're doing." His voice is gritty and angry.

"Why would I do that? I'm not hurting anyone." I shake my head and cross my arms over my chest.

"How would you know who you are or aren't hurting. You should let sleeping dogs lay."

I knew I'd get some push back but I didn't think anyone would be this brazen. "I'm sorry I can't do that. These victims need the world to know their story and that's exactly what I plan to do." This time I do step around him.

Sheriff Alden catches my arm and stops me from moving,"Miss, I'm telling you if you don't stop this now you're going to end up going down a road that only leads to trouble. Do the right thing, stop it. If you know what's good for you, this will be the last time I see you around here sniffing around for things."

I'm not sure if he means to scare me but he does a good job at it. I don't know why he's so interested besides the fact that I might uncover something the police force missed. Maybe he just doesn't want to be embarassed.

With that, I walk off toward the van only to hear Liora and the rest of them inside talking about what's going on.

"Hey, are you okay?" Braylon asks when I get in the front seat next to him.

"Yeah. He was just trying to scare me off." I shrug.

"Why? It's not like we're hurting anything. That's silly."

"That's what I said." I whisper back but then something Liora says captures my attention.

"Sheriff acts like this is the first time anyone has looked into the Date night killer. I mean I've got a whole shrine of information back at my house. Besides the killings and stuff the date night killer was the most exciting thing to happen to this town. Why wouldn't people want to know more."

"You're a strange girl aren't you?" Max jokes but the comment has already rooted in my brain.

She's got a shrine? That's not normal. It can't be.

I don't know much about Liora besides the fact that she's nineteen years old and dresses in all black most of the time. I want to call her goth but I don't know if that's the correct term in this day and age.

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