Who Killed Sarah Foster?

20. You Have No Idea

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"Calum! HERE!!" Natalie waved when he watched the boy she had had a crush on for so long walked out of the school building in a hurry, but he didn't even acknowledge her.

"LEAH! Wait!!" He started jogging again.

"Leah?" Natalie was confused as she looked around for the person he was following.

"Leah, Nat!! The freak!" Her friend, Brianna – who also happened to be Leah's Chemistry lab partner – shook her friend, equally shocked at Calum's new attachment to the freak.

"What does she want with him now?" She put down her pom-poms and strutted in the direction they went.

"Well, it does look like it's him who wants something from her!" One of her cronies commented, clearly enjoying the drama.

"Shut up!" Natalie gave her a death glare and quickened her pace, worried that the freak might have bewitched her darling little boo.

"Calum!" She called again as she approached the duo with her army of pom-pom bearing cheerleaders.

The two looked over, Leah looking down immediately while Calum took a step forward, trying to cover her a bit.

"What's going on?" Natalie asked, sounding betrayed as if the two were dating.

"What?" he asked, confused. "I am talking to my friend. What else?"

"Her?" Natalie raised a brow, pointing her perfectly manicured finger in her direction. "Since when did she become your friend? Last time I checked; she was a 'total freak show who belonged in the looney bin of a psychological thriller' to you!" She air-quoted, while Calum winced looking sideways at the vessel and the only person who could help him and his sister find the murderer.

"That was before." Calum said truthfully. "After Sarah's death, she helped me through the grief. She is helping me."

Natalie raised a brow. "She is helping you? May I know how?"

"My elder brother committed suicide by hanging." Leah spoke up, gaining everyone's attention. Calum's head snapped to her, his eyes widening. Was she telling the truth or was she making this up? He had realized that she could lie quite well when she wanted to. The other girls' faces softened in sympathy but Natalie was still suspicious.

"You don't have a brother." She stated confidently.

"And now you know my family history?" Leah asked, rolling her eyes.

"You-" Natalie took a step forward but was stopped by Calum. "I think you and your friends need to get back to practice."

He turned to Leah. "I will drive you home."

Again, he surprised everyone in the vicinity.

"No thanks." She mumbled and turned on her heels, speed-walking away again.

Calum groaned as he ignored everyone else and resumed following her. "Leah, I am sorry!"

"What is happening?" Brianna spoke, grabbing her friend by the arm and shaking her. "Why didn't we know of such a development?"

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"Leah!" Calum caught up to her.

Leah stopped, took a deep breath and turned to him. "Calum, I know we have decided that we will get to the bottom of this but you really can't expect me to be around you all the time, planning and plotting strategies."

Calum nodded. "I just wanted to say sorry for all that I had assumed and said about you before..."

"Before you realized that I was freakier than you believed me to be." She completed, looking up, the light in her eyes extremely unnerving.

"I am sorry."

"I forgive you. Now go back and go home." She said and turned around but was stopped by him again. "Is it true? About your brother?"

"Yes, and that was seven years ago so you don't have to be sorry about that too. And unlike you, I get to see him every day." She smiled at the last sentence. As bad as hard and bittersweet as that was, she believed it was the only good thing that came out of her abilities.

"That must be nice." He said in a low voice.

She nodded. "You will be able to hear her again."

He looked up, new hope shining in his eyes.

"It will be through me, but you will be able to hear her in her own voice."

"When?"

"It will take some time. There are a lot of factors and consequences." She left out the part that all of the adverse effects were going to be on her.

"Like what?"

"You will see."

"Leah, you really need-" Calum's words were cut off when suddenly Leah suddenly stumbled to the side. He was about to hold her when she looked up with confused eyes and he knew it was one of the ghosts.

"Who is it?" He asked, his eyes wide. He was still not used to all of this.

"What's going on, Sarah?" Leah asked.

"I don't know. Two random people fighting. Paul tells me one of them is my ex. He asked me to get you guys, or at least him!" She pointed at her brother.

Leah shook her head and conveyed the message to the clueless boy.

"Max and who?" He asked, as they quickly hurried back.

"I don't know. Tall, dark, hella hot. I have seen him with my dear brother a lot the past two days."

"Tristan Brown." Leah inferred from the description. Calum broke out in a jog as soon as he heard his best friend's name. Why was he fighting with Max?

Sarah looked confusedly between his running back and the girl who had relaxed and was walking leisurely back to school. "Aren't you worried?"

"Why?" Leah turned to her new friend, a brow raised, genuinely confused why the ghost thought she needed to be worried.

"I don't know. What if someone gets hurt?" Sarah shrugged.

"I only police paranormal activities around me Sarah, I don't care what happens between humans." Leah said. All she wanted was to go home and sleep and feed Blacky who had come home that day morning after being away for a few days.

"Then why do you want to find my murderer? That was human affair, right?"

"Well, I will have to solve it to see if that's holding you back in the world. And I promised you. We had a deal."

"Ohhhh... So, your job is to get rid of ghosts?" She chuckled. "I mean, not that I don't want to go but I am just getting the hand of this life."

"I don't get rid of ghosts, Sarah. Yes I do that in the cases of the bad ones, but I have never done it. My job is to free them from their bodiless existence and help them move on to their next life." Leah sighed and turned to her former classmate. "I know it's all new and fun and exciting now but once the monotony hits and you remember who you are, there will be nothing more you want than to go away."

"I guess you make sense." She sighed.

"I don't want Paul to go you know, but I have no choice but to figure out the reason and set him free. As much as I hate it, I must do it!"

"It must be hard." Sarah smiled sympathetically.

"You have no idea." Leah gave her a sad smile.

They reached the site of scuffle which was by the bleachers of the football field.

"What's going on?" Leah asked to no one in particular. Paul appeared out of nowhere.

"Kelly and Max sitting on a tree... K-I-S-S-I-N-G..." He sang.

Sarah didn't pay attention to what he had said. Her mind was stuck at the point where he had appeared out of nowhere. Even she wanted to do that. It was so dope!

She wished she had behaved when she first met Leah Wayne, then she wouldn't have had her powers taken away.

Leah was least affected by the news. It was bound to happen but she wished they had kept their relationship a secret for some more time, at least a month. Then they could have started dating, cooked up a believable story of how the boyfriend and best friend found solace in each other's arms from the grief of the loss of their girlfriend and best friend respectively. But then again, no one thought up or cooked up stories as well as Leah Wayne did.

"And where is Calum?" She asked as she quickly fixed her hair and hood so that even if she had to intervene, her freaky features would not be out for the world to see.

"Obviously he is mad as well, but the last I checked he wasn't throwing hands." Paul shrugged, laughing at the end. He was clearly enjoying the drama.

"Let's go see." Sarah clapped. "I could really use some entertainment!"

Leah rolled her eyes. She was stuck with freaking drama queens!

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