Page 16 of Unhinged Kallie

Becca let go of Troy’s arm, and he gave me another look. Once again, I knew what he was thinking, and now was the time. Troy pointed at the sky with his left arm.

“Look at the eagle,” he said as we linked hands behind her back.

“Where?”

“Right there,” he said. “Look harder.”

His hand tightened on mine and with a shove Becca flew off the rock. She screamed at the top of her lungs as she sailed over the edge of the waterfall. We leaned over together and watched her fall until she disappeared into the spray at the bottom.

“She did flap her arms like an eagle.” I grinned at Troy as he smirked back.

“We better go make sure she won’t tell anyone.” Troy leaped quickly from one rock to the next, and I followed right on his heels like his shadow. Laughing, we sprinted along the trail that led down to the bottom.

“Over there,” I said, nodding toward the blue material poking out from behind a big log.

We ran over and found Becca with a large gash on her head, and her legs twisted and bent the wrong way. She was crying so hard she hardly made any noise except for the large intakes of air.

“You pushed me,” she wailed over and over again.

“Well, we can’t have her saying that,” Troy said.

“No, that will definitely get us in trouble.”

“I’ll take the dress. You take her head.”

“Her head?” I asked.

“Yeah, you shove her head under the water.”

I looked at Becca’s wide, tear-filled eyes as she cried. “Oh. Okay,” I said nodding. I watched Troy walk along the top of the wide log, dragging Becca away as she screamed, but there wasn’t much fight with her legs broken.

“Ready,” Troy asked, and I nodded as I jumped up to join him.

Grabbing a handful of the blonde curls I hated so much, I made her look at me. Her eyes were red from crying, the blue no longer the prettiest thing about her. For just a moment I was conflicted if I should do this, then I remembered how Talon never wanted to play with me anymore since she came along.

“You never should’ve tried to steal my cousin away from me. I don’t share,” I said.

Troy smiled, and we pushed down together. Her body thrashed in the water, her hand smacking at the log. It took longer than I thought it would, but soon Becca stopped twitching, and I knew she was dead.

With a shove, her body floated out into the water and drifted away. She looked peaceful, like a floating doll.

“Should we have done that?” I asked as we watched her slowly disappear.

“Why not?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know. Isn’t killing bad?”

“Did you want her to live?”

“No, she was trying to take Talon from us.”

“Now the problem is solved.” Troy pointed at the spot Becca had disappeared. “Did you like it?” I looked down at my feet not sure if I should admit that I did. “Cause’ I did,” he said.

“Me too,” I said softly, and it felt good to tell someone.

“Oh, oh,” Troy said, cringing as a shadow loomed over us.

Turning around, I looked at my daddy’s face and swallowed hard as his hard stare found me.