A plan? In it with someone else? What was Chief Jenkins talking about? What could Jerry have to do with this? And how could the knife have come from Katherine’s house?For the hundredth time I go over it in my head, replaying everything that’s happened. No, that’s not quite true. There’s one memory I always avoid unless someone, like Gail or Chief Jenkins, makes me think about it—that horrible scene of finding Katherine dead.But tonight I force myself to go back over it. Her body on the ground. The others coming. Their dark silhouettes. Dakota saying, “You killed her!” The flash of the camera … the blur of faces.But wait. The faces aren’t really a blur. They’re kids I know. Kids from school … … except the tall one with blond hair—And suddenly I know why Griffen Clemment looked familiar. He was there that night, in that crowd.Griffen, who said he hadn’t spoken to Katherine or Dakota since the previous spring.Did he play a role in Katherine’s death?I go over it in my head again and again, but I can’t make sense of it.And I fall asleep knowing that there’s still so much I don’t know.But something is different when I wake in the morning.
