F#ckGirl (F#ckGirl #1)

by Sheila Michelle

  “Not yet. I haven’t really seen Taylor posting anything on social media lately since we talked to him at school this week. It’s clear that he’s been staying off of there ever since talking to us. I don’t know what it is, but I don’t think he’s telling us the whole story about him and Felicity’s true relationship,” Seals said.

  “Well, if you think he’s hiding something then you know you need to do your best to try and get it out of him. I’m sure he hasn’t told y’all everything, considering the fact that he lives across the street from her and his bedroom window is parallel to hers,” Murdock said.

  “Exactly,” Sherwood said. “But right now, we’re putting him in the middle of the list of suspects. We don’t consider him a really high one.”

  “He may not be, but still do a follow-up interview with him soon,” Murdock said.

  “We will,” Seals promised.

  “And who else? That rich girl, Stacia. I know you both interviewed her up at her boarding school and I would like to thank the two of you again for traveling that far to go up there and talk to her. How would you rank her on the suspects list?” Murdock asked.

  “In the middle to high,” Seals replied.

  “Explain,” Murdock said.

  “Because of what she did to her expensive purse and stealing from her. But I think most of all because of her fucking with her rep of being a girl. When someone starts fuckery like that, it labels a person and it’s hard to get rid of a label like that. I’ve seen some nasty shit written about Stacia on social media about being a tranny, and people making stupid memes about her and everything. I don’t believe there was any of that stuff about her before Felicity claimed that she was a guy. And we were waiting for Stacia to bring up the fact that Felicity put it all over social media that she was really a guy, but she didn’t. We don’t know if she was blocking it or just forgot about it,” Seals said.

  “Yeah, that can fuck someone up for real. So, yeah, I’ll keep her near the top of the list of suspects, and definitely bring that up to her if she fails to bring it up the second time that you talk to her, since she didn’t bring it up the first time,” Murdock said. “And you told me over the phone how it went with Jay Stringer a few hours ago, so I’m updated about him. But I haven’t heard about that other boy, Reamer Miller.”

  “Oh, we think he may be a little crazy,” Sherwood said.

  “Ronald!” Seals said, with a slight laugh.

  Murdock grinned. “And why is that, Sherwood?”

  “He was telling us that he was seeing Felicity and that she told him to quit his girlfriend Audrey for him,” Sherwood replied.

  “Hmm. So you think he took it upon himself to quit Audrey thinking that he was gonna be with Felicity, huh?” Murdock asked.

  “Exactly,” Sherwood said.

  “It’s possible, but always keep the other reason open as well because it could be true, but if he seems a little off, then the latter may be true,” Murdock said.

  “He’s really been trashed all over social media with people talking about how much he was played by a fuck girl. I just don’t think that Felicity told him to quit Audrey for her, and he’s just too ashamed to admit that he’s the one who took the initiative to do it, and when it didn’t work out the way he thought that it was going to with her, he had to lie to everyone,” Seals said. “It’s obvious that the kiss Felicity gave him that night really messed up his mind!”

  “To say the least!” Sherwood replied, as he shook his head.

  “Sounds like it,” Murdock said. “So with knowing all of this, where do you put him on the list of suspects?”

  “High,” Sherwood replied.

  “Very high,” Seals replied.

  “Sounds good,” Murdock said. “And what about Audrey? Have you talked to her yet?”

  “No, we haven’t but we will,” Sherwood replied.

  “And just knowing what you know about her, where would you put her on the list of suspects?” Murdock asked.

  “Right now, medium to low. She may have chased Felicity down the hall that day at school, but I think she may know that Reamer took it upon himself to quit her instead of Felicity telling him to do it. We’ll see what she says,” Seals replied.

  “Okay, I’ll be waiting to hear it,” Murdock said.

  Seals looked at her phone; she gasped! “I just got an e-mail from someone who’s claiming that they know who did this to Felicity!”

  Sherwood and Murdock looked at her.

  “What does it say?” Sherwood asked.

  Seals read it. “This person said that they don’t wanna tell me over the e-mail, they say they wanna tell me in person.”

  “Well, what the hell are they waiting for? Tell them to meet us at the station because that’s where we’re headed!” Sherwood said.

  Seals wrote this person back. “Done.”

  “Well, it looks like the two of you are gonna be able to solve this after all,” Murdock said with a smile.

  Chapter 30

  It was almost two hours later, and Seals and Sherwood sat at the station as they still waited for this person who sent the anonymous e-mail to Seals to show up, but they were getting discouraged by the second, and Seals’ numerous attempts to contact this person went unanswered. Determined to have this person talk to her, she tried one last time. She sent the e-mail, and gasped. “Yeah, should’ve fuckin’ known. All of the sudden this e-mail doesn’t exist anymore!” she replied as she shook her head.

  Sherwood shook his head. “See now, these are the games that I don’t like people playing with us. The person was probably full of shit anyway.”

  “Probably,” Seals agreed. “But how did they get my e-mail? That’s only given out on the cards that I give to people.”

  “Who knows?” Sherwood replied. “It could’ve been someone that you gave your card to and now they wanna confess to what they did to Felicity, or they do know who did this to her and really wanted to tell us, but backed out.”

  “Yeah, you’re right. There are so many possibilities,” Seals said. “But you know, I was thinking about that phone that I found.”

  Sherwood looked at her. “What about it?”

  “I don’t know. Something about it keeps bugging me. I’m gonna call Erin,” Seals said. She got on her phone.

  “Hello?” Erin said.

  “Hi, Erin. This is Detective Seals. How are you?” Seals asked.

  “Not good,” Erin honestly replied.

  “What’s wrong besides what’s been going on with Felicity?” Seals asked.

  Erin sighed. “Moves kicked me out of the club and wouldn’t let me back in tonight. I’m at home right now.”

  “Really?!” Seals replied in surprise. “Just why would they wanna kick you out? You’re a regular there.”

  “They wouldn’t tell me. They just said that I couldn’t go back in there when I tried to get back in because I wanted to talk to Carson,” Erin replied.

  “I see,” Seals said. “Well, can you come to the station right now and talk to us? We were just at Moves tonight so I’m sorry we missed you there. There was an incident that happened to us there and—”

  “I know,” Erin informed her.

  Seals slightly gasped. “You do?! I take it that you found out through social media?”

  “Exactly,” Erin said. “A lot of people on my feed on all of my social media pages are talking about it. Sorry that it happened to the two of you.”

  “We’re okay, Erin. Thanks. We were actually inside when it happened,” Seals said.

  “Oh, okay,” Erin said. “Well, I’ll be there soon. I just have to let my parents know that I’m coming there to talk to you because that’s the only way they’ll let me be out this late.”

  “Okay, great. We’ll see you when you get here,” Seals said.

  About a half hour later, Erin arrived at the station and was directly led to an interrogation room where she waited for Sherwood and Seals.

  Sherwood and Seals appeared in the room
minutes later.

  “Thanks for showing up, Erin. I know it’s late so it was nice for you to come here on short notice,” Seals said.

  “No problem. I haven’t been able to sleep anyway because of what’s been going on, so I’m usually awake all of the time now. I just hope that this ends soon,” Erin said.

  “We hope so, too. We know how hard it’s been on you and on the Gains family, but we need for you to hang in there because Felicity needs you,” Seals said.

  Erin tried not to get emotional. “I know she does.”

  “Well, the reason why we have you in here is because of what happened to us at Moves hours ago. Since someone stole the phone out of our car, what type of phone did Felicity have?” Seals asked.

  “The latest one that’s out; the more expensive one. She always has to have the latest phone that’s out. It’s pink in color but has a crystal cover on it with different colored hearts all over it that are red and pink. She told me it was a symbol of love and confidence.”

  Seals and Sherwood looked at each other as they tried not to gasp. It was late and they were starting to get tired, but this woke them right up!

  “Wow,” Sherwood said.

  “Well, we might as well tell you, Erin, that we now have reason to believe that it was Felicity’s phone that I found underneath a dumpster in the back of Moves while Sherwood and I were waiting for someone to answer the door,” Seals informed her.

  Erin gasped in shock! “No way!”

  “Yeah, it’s true, Erin. I saw something sparkling underneath one of the dumpsters while I was scanning the ground. Once I got a closer look, I noticed that it was a phone cover, but didn’t know if the whole phone was attached to it since the person who disposed of it could’ve taken it and had no need for the cover. I was able to remove it from underneath the dumpster and saw that the phone was attached to the cover. I turned it on but it wouldn’t turn on so I just concluded that the battery was dead. I put it in my car and was gonna charge it up when I got back here, but while we were talking to Carson inside Moves about Felicity, he informed us that we needed to get outside right away. When I saw that the passenger side window to our car was broken, I knew someone had stolen it, and I was right,” Seals said.

  Erin shook her head. “I don’t believe this! Whoever took it must’ve known that it was Felicity’s phone, though! I don’t see how they could not have! Someone must be watching the two of you since you’re trying to get the person or people responsible for what happened to her. And it’s obvious that the person who had her phone hacked into it because she always had that four-digit passcode.”

  “Do you think she was tortured into giving it to the person or people who’s responsible for hurting her?” Sherwood asked.

  “That’s very possible because how could they or this person get into her phone without knowing her code?! They, or this person, deleted all of her social media pages — all of them — it’s as if she was never on there! And everyone knows she lives for being on social media!” Erin said.

  “Well, hopefully she’ll make it out of this and she’ll be able to be back on there, but more importantly, she can tell us who did this to her,” Seals said.

  “I hope so,” Erin said.

  “And if you’re wondering why you never heard about her phone missing from the media it’s because we didn’t report that to them. We wanted that left out just in case her phone turned up somewhere since you told us when we first spoke to you that someone deleted all of her social media pages. It didn’t take us that long to know that someone stole her phone and hacked into her accounts. And just to think I was the one that actually found her phone and didn’t know that it was hers, and now it’s gone again. Who the hell knows who has it now, but I know eventually we’ll find out so please keep quiet about us looking for it, okay?” Seals told Erin.

  “I will,” Erin promised. “Um, I just have to ask.”

  Sherwood looked at her. “What is it?”

  “Since you guys said that you talked to Carson, I just wanna know what you talked to him about?” Erin asked.

  Sherwood and Seals looked at each other.

  “Well, Erin, let me ask you this. Did you know about the relationship that Felicity and Carson had outside of Moves?” Sherwood asked.

  Erin looked stunned. “Absolutely not. This is news to me. I’m serious.”

  Sherwood and Seals once again looked at each other, and then looked at Erin. They had a feeling that she was telling the truth.

  “Well, Carson told us that they did, and he was not happy about how much he was used by Felicity for all of the free stuff that the two of you have enjoyed there for the past year or so and how she just totally caused a lot of fuckery to him,” Seals said.

  Erin shook her head. Her eyes began to swell up with tears. “She never told me. She would always say that she never saw him outside of the club, but now she was seeing him the whole time. I should’ve known that it was too good to be true that we were getting in free and getting free drinks and all this other free stuff just for being regulars. Now I know why they won’t let me back in there.”

  “Well, I think you and Felicity owing Moves is not the reason why they’re not letting you back in there. I think it’s because they don’t want you asking anyone questions about Felicity since that’s the last place you saw her at,” Sherwood said.

  Erin nodded. “And that’s what I thought about, too. I can’t shake the fact that something could’ve happened to her in there because how could her phone end up underneath a dumpster? But she was found badly beaten in her bedroom? This whole case is not making any sense to me; I’m just so confused, you guys. I’m mad, depressed, you name it.”

  “And you have every right to be,” Seals said.

  “And it’s not your job to figure out who did this to Felicity, it’s ours,” Sherwood reminded her. “But, of course, our job is made a lot easier when people cooperate, so we can’t thank you enough for being one of the people who’s been constantly cooperating with us.”

  “No problem at all. Felicity’s my best friend. I’m gonna do whatever I can to make sure she gets justice for what happened to her even if she succumbs to her injuries, which is the last thing I want to happen. Anything you want me to do I’ll do. I know the Gains are physically and emotionally drained from everything and it’s only been a week since this has happened. I really pray for them most of all because they’re good people,” Erin said.

  “They really are, and that’s why we don’t mind it at all about working this hard for them,” Seals said. She changed the subject back to suspects. “So, is there anyone you can think of that we need to talk to about what happened to Felicity?”

  Erin thought about this for a second. “Um . . . yeah. There is someone.”

  Sherwood and Seals looked at each other, and then looked at Erin.

  “And who might that be?” Seals asked.

  “Max. Max Benson,” Erin replied.

  Chapter 31

  “Did you hear? Felicity’s phone is missing,” Sloan said, as he talked to Willow in private at school on the following Monday morning before classes started for the day.

  “And? What the hell am I supposed to do about it?” Willow asked.

  He sighed. “Look, I was wondering if you knew anything about who could have it because whoever does is obviously the one who probably hurt her, because why would they go that far to break into those cops car that are investigating this incident if they didn’t have something to do with it?”

  “Who told you about her phone missing?” she asked.

  “Erin did. She was just at the station on Saturday night and she called me when she left there to tell me about it. And it obviously hasn’t been going around on social media because Erin told me that they weren’t gonna release it to the media that it was her phone in case it shows up somewhere.”

  “Where was it found at?” she asked.

  “Erin told me that the cops told her that it was found underneath a dump
ster in the parking lot in the back of Moves. Then Seals put it in the car and while they were in there talking to Carson, their car was broken into and the phone was stolen right there in the parking lot.”

  She shook her head. “Well, I don’t know anything about it. I haven’t been back to Moves since that Friday night when I saw you there.”

  He stared at her. “I could’ve swore I saw you and Jackie and the rest of you there on Saturday night. I was there, okay, but I didn’t want the cops to know that.”

  “Well, I wasn’t there, okay?! And neither was Jackie, Cherie, and Trina,” she informed them.

  “C’mon, Willow. I saw you guys there; I know I wasn’t seeing things. Maybe you didn’t stay for that long, but I know it was all of you.”

  “I don’t know what you’re talking about, Sloan. The only day that Jackie, Trina, Cherie, and I were there was on that Friday, the day before, and I told those cops that because, of course, they asked me where was I at on that Saturday that Felicity got assaulted.”

  “And where were you on Saturday night?”

  “At Jackie’s and we were there all night since it was raining,” she replied.

  He gave her a look of suspicion. “Did you tell the cops that?”

  “Yes, I did,” she replied. “Look, I don’t wanna talk to them anymore. You know I told you that the reason why they wanted to question me separately from the rest of them is because I’m your ex and so is Felicity. They think the both us hurt Felicity together!”

  “Well, they’re just assuming, Willow. They know that they need a lot more proof than a jilted ex-girlfriend and an ex-boyfriend who was fed up with his ex’s fuckery because she was still starting shit even though we weren’t together anymore.”

  “Yeah, well, everyone knows that,” she said.

  He looked down at his phone. “I just gotta text. I’ll talk to you later.”

  “Okay,” she said, and watched him walk off. She began walking in the other direction. She turned the corner and ran into Jackie, Cherie, and Trina. “Hey.”