Tracy+and+Olivia's+2+minute+mystery

By: Tracy Okonya and Olivia Austin **
 * Once Upon A Murder...

//This story is told through the eyes of Bob Smith, a 15-year-old boy.//

"I always thought Amelia was innocent. Always. When Yolanda died, everyone blamed her, but she was clean, or so I suspected. Yolanda had drowned herself.... Drowned... In the depths of Liberty Lake. Never to be seen again. Amelia was a quiet girl who no one ever talked to. Everyone was afraid of her. I never knew why. The only people who ever got courageous enough to talk to her were my best friend Nolan and I. We discovered that though she wasn't your average 15-year-old kid, she was normal- mostly. But we knew she had never liked Yolanda. Never. Yolanda was so full of herself, and, in Amelia's opinion, she was the biggest kiss-up over-achiever she had ever met in her life. And she was a diver. She loved to go dive in Liberty Lake. If only she had known that was where she would meet her fate one day. Well, Amelia was a pretty good diver herself. She hated Yolanda with so much of her heart that she wanted to show her down at Liberty Lake. So Amelia said to her, 'Hey, Yolanda. You're a decent diver, I hear. That true?' Yolanda's response was, 'Yeah, so?' 'So, I was just wondering if maybe you would want to come have a diving contest with me?' Yolanda scoffed//, '//With //you//? Bring it on.' 'Alright. This afternoon at Liberty Lake,' said Amelia with fire burning in her eyes.

'Huh. We're all alone, it seems,' Yolanda said with some suspicion in her voice. They walked out to the cliff where the diving was done as Amelia said, 'Yes, so we are.' 'Let's get this over with then,' said Yolanda impatiently. 'Of course,' said Amelia as she set up a video camera on a tripod. 'Wait, what's that for?' asked Yolanda, motioning toward the camera. 'For the judging, of course,' Amelia paused before saying, 'Well, you're up first!' Yolanda jumped, but Amelia jumped with her. She held some sort of pillow in her hand. Once they hit the water, Amelia pressed the pillow into Yolanda's face to where she couldn't breathe. And that's what I know, Doctor." I told my story in full detail, but Dr. Yakamuku still stared at me with some sort of suspicious disbelief in his eyes. "You say there was no one there when they dived?" he questioned. "No, not a soul," I replied confidently. "And, have you seen the video footage that was taken of the diving?" "No, Amelia just put it there to make it look like a real contest. Clever girl, very clever," I said. "Have you seen Amelia since the incident?" the doctor prodded further. "No, I don't recall seeing her at all after the day before, well, that fateful day." "Son, it looks like you've got a little explaining to do. You are a liar!" Dr. Yakamuku exclaimed.
 * "**That afternoon, Amelia walked briskly to the lake.

//How did Yakamuku know?

**Answer: Bob never saw Amelia after the day Yolanda was killed or watched the video footage. Also, there was no one at Liberty Lake when they dived. That means that Bob never would have known the story, which reveals that he made the story up. ** //