Chapter 4 ( by TorNesorNerob)

Chloe scheduled the appointment while she was still at Jaclyn’s house. Jackie had always been a good sister to Chloe, a great aunt to Amy, a fantastic mother to Jenny and Julie, and the perfect daughter to their parents. In her youth, Chloe wanted to hate her sister for her perfection, but she never could. Jackie was always too willing to help, too genuine in her expressions, and too pure for anyone to hate. Chloe knew her sister would never wish her harm and thought maybe it was time to start listening to her since she often couldn’t even hear her own thoughts anymore.

On her way back home, all she could think about was Harvey. The teenage boy with the chestnut hair. He looked like he’d been cut out of a magazine, certainly an improvement over Brandon, at least he looked it. Still, Chloe felt uneasy about the situation. She and Amy hadn’t been awfully close lately, but she thought Amy would trust her with the name of her new love interest. Yet, she knew nothing. She’d never even heard of Harvey and the words in Brandon’s journal page were unsettling, I see now what Havey meant to you.

Amy’s death had been ruled a suicide. Chloe had urged police to look into it. She suspected Brandon or one of his sketchy friends from rehab, but since Brandon had turned 18 the day after Amy’s death, police dismissed his disappearance. The young man had a right to check himself out, according to his paperwork, so he did.

What she never imagined was that it was a pact between Harvey and Amy that had brought about the tragedy. Harvey had been photographing the home with his phone when Chloe came out and she was right to feel the urge to chase him down, but she wouldn’t know that for a while. In the meantime, she focused on staying alive as much as she could.