#dulie

Today was a day of revalations. Del had been cleaning in her father's office - the first time in years, since she could hardly stand being in there. But she'd done it, and was neatly stacking up his old notebooks, when a curious paper fell out. She'd picked it up, intent on just putting it back in it's place, when a sentence caught her eye. I'm afraid for my life. Shocked, Del sank into his office chair to read the rest. The contents were absolutely shocking. 

There had been a girl stalking him, apparently - always dressed in bright yellow. She followed him to work, watched him put 1 sugar in his coffee, and even once watched with great interest how he interacted with Del. The girl was young - too young to be of any threat, but it still creeped him out. Del's father had learned the name of the girl from Delaney, who'd told him that she was Julie Foster. A little weird, but harmless. But Del's father had been becoming more and more paranoid, seeing Julie seemingly everywhere he turned. Julie - everywhere. 

The paper was dated two days before Del's father had passed. Del, her mouth open in shock and horror, could only stare at the paper for a few minutes, her mind processing what she had just discovered. Could it have been Julie, who had driven her father to kill himself? What could've been the motivation behind it? The only logical reason that Del could come up with was jealousy - of Del and Finn's relationship. But that was ridiculous... wasn't it?

If Delaney didn't know better, she almost would've thought that Julie had some weird obsession with her. Whenever they were in the same room, Julie's eyes seemed to track her and follow her every movement. And the other girl's lips always seemed turned down in disapproval and annoyance, though Del had no idea why. Del had been nothing but perfectly nice to Julie, and had tried her best to maintain an appropriate amount of detachedness with Finn.