THE SMITH-GRIFFITH-MARKS COMMUNITY CENTER

The next day, the community center itself has been turned into an art gallery for me.

The boxing ring has been broken down and put in the storage room until after.

The guests looks at my art canvas paintings admiring each one. Miss. Shroud is observing me as I showcase my art gallery.

Sebastian, Grayson, Leigh Ann and Sasha are standing afar.

"I just paint whenever I can, or I usually paint things like, fruits or abstracts." I said to the guests.

Grayson raises his hand with a playful teasing smile. "Do you paint nude paints?"

Everyone chuckles among themselves.

"Grayson?" Leigh Ann said, bewildered.

"Dude, you're gross." Sebastian said.

"What? It's just a question." Grayson said.

"No, I don't paint nudity because, to me, it's weird to paint them naked." I said to Grayson trying not to chuckle.

"But if someone were to ask you, would you do it?" Grayson asked with a playful teasing small smile.

"Oh my gosh, Grayson?" Sasha said.

"I politely wouldn't." I said and looks around at the guests. "Does anyone else have a question?"

Leigh Ann raises her hand. "I have one. How do you paint? Like, do you just paint or do you take a picture and paint it?"

"That's a good question, Leigh Ann." Sebastian said.

"Thanks." Leigh Ann said.

"I do paint whatever pops up in my mind, and I do take pictures and paints them." I said and looks at the guest again. "Thank you for attending my art gallery."

Everyone applauds and I smile to myself.

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Minutes after, Grayson is snacking on a bag of chips. I walk to him and punches his shoulder.

He looks at me with a crazed expression on his face. "Really?"

"Yes, really, jackass. Nude pictures? Seriously, Gray?" I said with a serious expression on my face.

Grayson just playfully laughs.

"It's not funny." I said to him.

"I know." Grayson said in between laughs.

"Then, why are you laughing?" I asked him.

And Grayson stopped laughing and small smiles at me. "Because you look cute with a serious look on your face."

I roll my eyes. "Grayson."

"You're not a serious person, Catty." Grayson said to me.

"I can be serious when I want to be." I said to him.

"Oh, I know you can. That's why I don't try to piss you off." Grayson said, eating another chip with a crunch.

"You get on my nerves, Grayson." I said to him.

"I know, that's why I love you, Feisty." Grayson said to me with a small smile.

"I love you too, Grayson." I said to him.

Grayson and I shares a kiss.

"By the way, how's Alyssa? She burned her house?" Grayson asked.

"Yeah, she did. She said that she wanted to cleanse her Mom's sin." I tell him.

"Her mother killed her ex-husband." Grayson said. "Damn, that's messed up."

"Yeah, it is." I said. "I mean, what Alyssa has been through, at first, she was a somewhat mean girl with problems at home. Her parents divorced, her mother killed her ex-husband and now, she's the niece of Remy Levesque."

"Yeah, I know. But Alyssa still has that bad bitch within her, she just needs to pull herself together." Grayson said.

"Yeah." I agreed.

"I gotta go, the guys are meeting with Cane's Dad, Mr. Garrett, at the fire station." Grayson said.

"Okay." I said.

Grayson and I share another kiss and he walks away.

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ROCHELLE'S DINER

Later that day, I'm sitting in a booth table with my usual root beer float. I have received a check of 1,000 dollars from my art supervisor, Miss. Shroud.

So, here I am, sipping on my root beer float and my phone buzzes on the table. I pick up my phone and looks at it.

Jade Ester

I press the 'Red" decline button on my phone. My phone buzzes again and this time, it's a text message from Jade.

I become worried. My phone buzzes on the booth table. I pick it up and looks at it.

Jade Ester

I answer my phone. "What the hell did you do to my Mom, you crazy sociopathic bitch?"

"You shouldn't use such bad language, Sunshine Good Girl. And your Special Agent Mom is good and well." Jade told me.

"You're lying." I said to her.

"Am I?" Jade said.

My phone pings another text message. I look at my phone screen and sees my Mom duct-taped to her chair with a gun pointed at her head with a piece of tape over her mouth.

"You crazy bitch." I said.

"You think I'm lying now, Catty? That picture was taken a few seconds ago. She might be dead already." Jade said with a maniacal laugh.

"I don't believe you." I tell her, becoming frantic and worried.

"Yeah, I'm pretty sure that your heart is beating your chest right now." Jade Ester tells me on the phone, laughing, maniacally, on the phone.

I hang up my phone and gets up from the booth table and walks away, walking out of the diner.

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SPECIAL AGENT OPS FIELD OFFICE

I arrived and quickly scurried inside the office.

"Mom?!" I exclaimed, walking down the stairs and into the main room.

My Mom is still alive, duct taped to her chair with a tape on her mouth.

I scurry up to her and gets a pair of scissors and cuts her free.

"Mom?" I said and hugs her.

"I'm okay, Catty. I'm okay." My Mom reassured me.

Shortly after . . .

[Song: Control (clean version) - Halsey]

My Mom and I are sitting on the couch next to each other. I phone called the Beckett Crew and told them what happened.

"Jade has a grudge against you and she's hell-bent on causing you pain." My Mom tells me.

"I know, Mom." I said to her. "She wants revenge because I helped you put her away."

"But it's been six years, CP." Sebastian said. "She can't possibly hold a grudge against you."

"Jade doesn't care. We all know that she was The Red Mask serial killer back in our junior year at the Providence Boarding School Academy." I said.

"If she comes after you, she's gonna have to get through us and my gang group." Grayson said.

"And me and your father." My Mom said.

"She already came after you, Mom. She's gonna go after my Dad next, and then, you guys, just to make me suffer." I said and looks at my Mom. "You were right, Mom. I shouldn't have gotten involved with your investigation cases, but I just wanted to help."

"No, don't do that to yourself, Carmina. Don't blame yourself for wanting to help me. Because of your help, I was able to collect clues, so, don't blame yourself." My Mom said.

"Your Mom is right, Catty." Sasha said.

"We got your back." Grayson said.

My Mom, Me and the Beckett Crew exchange worried looks at each other.

Catty (VO) Jade Ester's vendetta against me has just begun and she won't stop until she succeeds.

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- Third POV -

At Jade Ester's apartment, the young adult infamous sociopathic serial killer, Jade Ester looks at a bubble map she made with Polaroids of Catty Beckett and the Beckett Crew.

Jade Ester smiles with a malicious expression on her face.

[Song ends]

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