"Would you get that fucking mace out of my face?" Zelda snapped, as unlocked the door to the DeVries' house with the girls' key. Lucy had given the twins a can of pepper spray to keep Zelda in line should she try anything funny, and Christine had never kept it out of spraying range of the girl's face.
Zelda entered the house, with the tall goths in tow. Zelda felt a hint of memory of being in here recently, though the recollection was muddled by some strange musing about French poodles "Athe-Linda's room is down here," she said, trotting down the hall.
"Of course it is," Beth said, "After all, you've already been here earlier today."
"No, its just that I..." Zelda began. But of course the twins wouldn't believe her. So she just bit her tongue, and entered into what used to be her friend Athena's room. The twins entered behind her, and Beth set about searching the room, in case they missed something the first time, while Christine watched as Zelda booted up Linda's personal computer.
The wallpaper showed a trio of Goth girls, which Zelda assumed must be the ones who usurped the lives of her and her friends. Linda was indeed Zoe's mom, or rather Zoe's former mother... Zelda tried not to think about it too hard. In any case, she looked much younger now, and appeared in many ways to look like Athena did, down to that shock of long black hair that covered half half her face. The middle girl wore Zoe's usual getup, and it took a moment to recognize Zoe's brother Jon. Or 'Joni', as Zelda remembered Lucy calling her. The third girl was unmistakably supposed to be in Zelda's on role, though she couldn't quite place the girl with long blue hair. She seemed familiar though, maybe someone from her school...
"Alright, here we go," Zelda said, "We go in here, recent files... Ah,looks like someone patched in a fake email correspondence between DarkGodess88 and DeathStepGirl." Zelda recognized Athena and Zoe's old screen names. "Looks like it's saying something about acquiring a quantity of coke, among other things."
"Delete it," Christine commanded.
"Doing so... now" Zelda said, wiping out all trace of the files in a few rapid keystrokes. She turned back to the twins. "It's done, take a look for yourself. Now can we go back to your cousin and tell me what's been going on here."
The twins glared at Zelda, then checked the computer. "Fine, let's go," they said in unison, and turned to leave. Zelda shut down the computer, and headed out after them. Maybe she could finally get some answers now, or at least a change of clothes...
