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The woaped at each other

“Seriously?” Kirsty said,to them “Rainne killed someone? Rainne who talked about peace and recycled underwear? The girl whocould walk across the road That Rainne?”

This was the proble with hered women and there was no space to think That and the fact she now slept on faded Barbie sheets and looked at old Take That posters when she couldn’t sleep, which was all the time

“Now that you mention it,” Shona said, “she’s really not the type for violence, is she?”

“Oh, oh, oh” Jean bounced on the old wooden chair, s of tea spill “I knohat happened!”

The looks around the group said that no one believed that for a rabbed a cloth from the tiny kitchen at the back of her mum’s shop and mopped up the mess

“I bet,” Jean said, “that Betty killed the parents and pinned the murder on Rainne!”

“We all know she’s capable of murder,” Shona said as she considered the latest theory

Kirsty looked towards heaven and silently asked for more patience

“Why would she kill Rainne’s parents?” she asked her mother’s loony friends

“Why? To get Lake all to herself, of course,” said Jean

“We all know she thinks of that boy as a son,” Shona said

“Or as her evil prodigy,” Heather said with a nod

They looked at Kirsty for a minute Heather blushed

“Not that he’s evil,” she said quickly “Just that Betty would like him to be You know, so she can start an empire and take over the town”