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03: harsh emotions

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here it is guys, chapter 3:

  

"She wears black, but she has the most colourful mind"

Chapter 3: harsh emotions

Guilt, innocence.

Good, evil. Life, death.

As the shadows around Riverdale deepened, the lines that separated these polar opposites blurred and distorted.

"I'm guilty", Cheryl said in biology class. But of what?

"To clarify," the Blossom girl started, "I didn't mean I was guilty of killing Jason. I loved him more than I do myself. But I am guilty of lying about what happened on July 4th."

"The autopsy puts his death about July 11th. When was the last time you saw your brother?" Sheriff Keller asked the red head in front of him.

"It was July 4th." Cheryl said truthfully. "I don't know what happened the week after that--"

Keller cut her off, "Cheryl, in your own words, what happened at Sweetwater River?"

"The plan was bananas, even for me," Cheryl started again "Jason wanted to leave Riverdale and never come back. He asked for my help to stage a tragic accident so our mom and dad wouldn't come after him. Our story would be we went for an early-morning boat ride and the boat tipped and capsized and Jason drowned." Okay, then... "In fact, we made it to the other side dry as bones. We said goodbye on the Greendale side of Sweetwater River. He promised he'd call as soon as he was in a place where he couldn't be reached or pulled back by our parents. One month at most. Everyday, I waited for a call, for an email."

"You tell anyone about the plan? Any way that you can corroborate it?" Keller pressed. Cheryl looked down. "You have no idea why your brother wanted to run away... fake his own death? Doesn't that seem cruel?"

"No, he wasn't." Cheryl quickly defended. "Jason wasn't cruel."

"So maybe this is all just a web of lies you're spinning to cover your own tracks."

"I didn't kill Jason." She snapped. Finally. "There was a gunshot that morning. We heard a gunshot on July 4th. Maybe whoever killed Jason took a shot at him and missed that morning." She was trying to fit the pieces together, but it seems it was getting no where.