I tapped my feet nervously as I waited for Valerie to show up at my house. I was the one who received another note. "A painful trip down the memory lane. I wonder if you know that you shattered every drop of hope Rosalind had," was written in the note and with it was a ticket attached.

It was the ticket when Rosalind visited us in the city. One of the times when I was genuinely happy after a long time. Before we went to Kelly, I wanted Valerie to know everything since we decided to work on our friendship again.

One of the major things needed to make our friendship work was purity and we would achieve it if we stopped keeping secrets from each other.

Yesterday when Jordan and Valerie said that we owed justice to Rosalind, this bubble of hope was formed in my mind. We did owe it to her. But I wanted the killer to be found because Rosalind didn't deserve death. I just wanted to know why they had to take her away from us.

A knock pulls me back to reality as a rub away the tears and clench on to the ticket tighter. Valerie walks in with a broad smile. I can't help but smile too.

"Hey! You okay?" She questioned me, sensing my tension.

"Yeah, it's just I received another note from the killer yesterday." I confessed.

"Oh my god. It's been some time since we last received the note. What does it say?" She came closer.

"It sent me this ticket and told me that I shattered Rose's hope." I cried, giving in and letting the guilt consume me.

"Brianna, that's not true and you know it." She comforted me. "The killer is one sadistic person. Don't start blaming yourself again."

"But what if I did take her hope away?" I asked, looking Valerie in her eyes.

"What do you mean?" She asked me, completely dazed.

"Rosalind came to visit us after we were settled. She wanted to see how we were doing and wanted to make amends regarding our fight. I had a concert around that time, so I saved her a ticket. I didn't really mention that we both weren't on speaking terms either. One of my drivers went to pick her up at the airport and I told them to drop her at my place. The concert wasn't going to begin in three more hours, so I decided to show her around the city once she freshened up."

"Am I going to like where this is going to go?" Valerie interrupted me.

"Not really, no." I answered honestly.

"Alright. Continue."

"We went out for coffee. Everything was okay but then she brought you up and I told her the truth and I knew that she blamed herself, so I tried comforting her and told her it wasn't really about her. But we both were uncomfortable after that, so she changed the topic and told how she was planning to open her own small firm where she would do all sorts of charity work and rise on her own."

"Okay..." She gestured me to go on, but I was tongue tied. I didn't know how to frame the next sentence. "Brianna, what happened next?"

"I got a call from my manager and he said that my show was cancelled and it hurt me so much." I cried again. "It was very important to me and it was cancelled because somebody with more money booked the ground and I was so pissed and angry. I worked so hard to get there. I didn't sleep properly and used to go down to the studio for rehearsing. I wanted it to be perfect, I wanted Rosalind to be proud of me, but the whole thing had to be cancelled. I felt humiliated and useless. All my hard work went down the drain."

Valerie immediately hugged me and let me cry. The next part was the worse and I was so sure she'd judge me and I didn't want her to. I was finally getting her back.

"Since I was upset, Rosalind paid the bill and we decided to go back home. In the car, Rosalind was trying to be nice and make me happy again, so she joked about how I should join her and the charity will not let me down, but I was just so pissed, so I thought she was attacking me and I told her that her firm won't work because she doesn't have it in her to run an entire company. I told she should just stay home and be nice. That's what suited her." I sniffed.

"So, in other words, you called Rosalind worthless?" She asked.

"I didn't mean to." I buried my face in my hand, realizing how bad it sounds.

"She needed support, Bri. The moral of our fight was that she was always there for everybody and no one was ever there for her and you just proved it to her. God!"

"Do you hate me?" I whispered, looking at her blurry figure through my watery eyes.

"I'm mad at you, yes. But I don't hate you. The harm is done. Let's go to my place with the note and ticket." She patted  my back.

I nodded and rushed into the bathroom to wash my face. I redid my make up because I didn't want anybody to see my puffy eyes.

For some reason I was glad that she saved the ticket. I was going to hold on to it for as long as I can.

Valerie drove us back to her place. Jordan was spending some time with his biker gang since he felt nostalgic after going back to the club and we all were happy for him. Lenny had some things to do, so he wasn't going to be there either. I took responsibility for telling them what we found out.

"Do you know Blake likes you?" Valerie said.

I looked at her with wide eyes and she had a huge smile plastered on her face.

"WHAT?" I yelled, making her laugh.

"Well, I saw how he looked at you at the party and he does stare at you a lot in a non creepy way. So, I asked him whether he liked you or not and he said he did like you but as a singer."

"So, he is my fan?" I asked.

"Something like that." She asnwered.

"Thank god! Coz I was totally shipping you guys."

Valerie hit the brakes which made me jerk forward. I saw the red sign and looked back at Valerie who gave me a scary and confused look.

"What is wrong with you?" I squealed.

"What is wrong with me! What is wrong with you? Why would you ship Blake and me?" She started driving again but slowly.

"You can control him which is HUGE because Kelly can't do it. Plus he acts like a puppy around you which is really sweet. I didn't wanna bring it up but now that we are talking, I thought it would be a good chat."

"Kelly CAN control him, she just chose not to. He's anything but a puppy."

"That is no-"

"We're home. This is the last time we speak about this." Valerie cut me off and got out of the car.

She was totally flustered and embarrassed. It wasn't because she maybe liked him back, but because she was incapable to imagine that a guy could ever like her.

Valerie had a very low self-esteem and thought that people will never like her. She lacked confidence, but I covered that for her. I was the wild one, she was the shy one. But I could see she was working on it and I didn't wanted to point it out because that would just make her conscious.

I silently walked behind her, smiling to myself and adoring her. God, I missed us so much.

Hello Angels!!

Another chapter with our besties.

Im thinking of writing a spin off about them, but I'm not too sure.

Anywho, now that all the secrets are out, let's catch our killer.

Also, my stupid ass thought this chapter was published and I was about to get emotional on how I worked hard and no one actually reads it...except my really good friend, S.

BUT, then I realised the chapter isn't published.

Is this what insanity feels like??

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