CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE
The day was gloomy just like the melancholy mood suffocating the entire town. Every corner you turned, all you could hear was about Sean’s death. It was getting hard to keep my focus on the cake I was decorating when all I could hear around me was just Sean’s name. Guilt and pain were all that I felt numbing my entire mind.
“Hey, relax,” I heard Madeline whisper beside me.
“How can I relax when it’s all everyone is talking about?”
We were disrupted by the entrance of Sheriff Jacobs accompanied by two cops and Mrs. Ballard. Gathering all of us around, Mrs. Ballard began to address us in a grief-stricken voice.
“As you all know, we’ve lost one of our most important workers and friend. Sean Harvey was such an industrious young man and we are all going to mi
