#forkskplotdrop

It starts with the nine of them, cooped up in one corner of the local library...

It’s a Friday afternoon and most of them would usually prefer to be somewhere else, but there they all are, arranged haphazardly across desks and mismatched seats they’ve dragged from elsewhere. Andie has doled out tasks, mostly simple ones which require them to sift through public records. They’ve situated themselves close to that area of the library and far away from any stragglers or librarians that might be suspicious about whatever they’re doing. They wouldn’t really have an answer for one, if not the lie they keep letting leave their lips with polite smiles. It’s for a project. 

They don’t know what they’re actually doing, nor do they really know what they’re actually looking for. The general idea is to find anything... weird, but there’s a lot of meaningless news to comb through when you’re looking for the strange stuff, apparently. Plus, they’re working backwards, trying to sift back from Isabella’s Swan’s death in 2006. 

Again, Andie leads the pack. She has a mind for this kind of stuff and she’s been looking through the 2006 year book, trying to find... something, somewhere to start. It’s not until she stumbles upon a group picture that involves two familiar faces that she starts to put something together. Mike Newton, known around town as the second generation owner of Newton’s Olympic Outfitters was friends with Bella Swan. 

It’s the first key for information that doesn’t come from a parent. When she speaks up, discussion begins. They need to talk to him, but they don’t want to come across as weird and suspicious, even if he is known for liking to talk about his glory days. It’s a dumb idea, what they come up with. Ridiculous, even, but their resident brainiac is thinking back to the help wanted sign she’s seen out the window on her way to work when she comes up with a plan. 

One of them is going to be applying for a job, it seems, but how do they pick? 

They all have an excuse not to do it, things that jeep them busy. The fairest way is to put their names into something that’ll pick for them. So, fate decides...

Newton’s Olympic Outfitters before Jessica Newton (nee Stanley) seemed to play an endless cycle of boring, irritating muzak created to send anyone with a taste in music insane. She’d put a stop to that, thankfully and now a perfectly curated mix of her personal top 50 played over the speakers at all times. Really, she was pretty certain she was the store’s best asset, which was why when she’d heard that Eloise Tran had brought in an application, she insisted that she hold the interviewing process. Her parents were rich, she had a squeaky clean reputation and they could always use someone like her in the store smiling at customers and bringing in her parents rich friends. 

Mike had already aged out of coolness after inheriting the store and becoming a father, but even one and a half kids in, Jessica was convinced teenagers still thought she was young and awesome. So, clearly, she needed to be doing this interview. 

The night of Sadie’s Mallory’s party, someone doesn’t make it home...

The mother of Riley Torres was the one to notice she wasn’t in her bed that Saturday morning. They tried to reason with themselves, they assumed she had just fallen asleep at a friend’s house, drunk or that she’d gone home with some boy, maybe. They got into contact with every friend, they posted on Facebook. Now, the whole weekend has passed and everyone’s heard that Riley is missing by Monday morning. People are whispering about it at school, sharing stories of themselves locking eyes with her at Sadie’s party, thinking something was off about her. They tell stories about seeing some strange people present at the Mallory party, some people who didn’t look quite right. It’s all bullshit and everyone knows it, but they buy into it anyway. This is the most awful thing that’s happened in Forks in a long time, but it’s also the most exciting. Something is actually happening. 

People are talking about search parties and the school is worried about what they should say or do to the students in this situation. Everyone’s got a theory or an assumption about what happened. 

Riley Torres has been missing for 2 days and that’s all everyone really knows for now.