She Knows What You Did

Prologue: 3:12 a.m.

The call came at 3:12 a.m.

“Erin… it’s Sophia. She is aware of what you did. What we did. I remember everything.”

Erin Cade jolted upright in bed, the voice trembling on speaker.

“Sophia? What are you talking about?”

Breathing hard. Then a whisper.

“She was never supposed to die.”

The line went dead.

Sophia Hale's apparent overdose was discovered face down in her bathtub two weeks later. But Erin knew her friend didn’t die by accident.

Someone made sure of it.

Chapter 1: Return to Blackridge

Ten years was a long time to stay away.

Under a thick layer of ambition and steel, Detective Erin Cade had hidden her past. She’d left Blackridge for the city, changed her number, and tried to forget what happened that summer.

But the past had a pulse — and Sophia's death brought it screaming back to life.

The funeral was small. Rain tapped the coffin like a ticking clock. Few mourners attended. Most had forgotten Sophia. Erin did not. She saw Mason Elwood, a quiet, remorseful ghost from the past, standing over the grave. He would not look at her. Then a late vehicle arrived. Out stepped Lena Valen, elegant as ever in black heels and red lipstick. Her eyes flicked to Erin. No grin. No warmth.

Only recognition.

Chapter 2: The Girl Who Vanished

Jasmine Quinn disappeared in the summer of 2011.

Erin, Sophia, Mason, and Lena were inseparable back then — four kids with too much time, too little supervision, and secrets they couldn’t name yet.

Jasmine was an outsider. Pretty. Sharp-tongued. She crashed a party none of them wanted her at. Someone fought with her. She stormed into the woods.

She never came out.

The community assumed she had fled. But Erin remembered the blood on Lena’s sleeve. The silence Mason kept. The way Sophia cried afterward, inconsolable.

Something had happened. Something they all tried to forget.

Chapter 3: Sophia's Journal

Erin inherited Sophia’s apartment key — her parents didn’t want the mess. The place smelled like dust and lavender.

In the bedroom, Erin found a hidden compartment behind a loose plank. Inside: Sophia’s handwritten journals.

They were scattered, rambling, increasingly paranoid. But one theme repeated:

“She watches from the woods.”

“I saw her eyes again in the mirror.”

“Lena lied. Mason helped. Erin forgot.”

“She knows what you did.”

Then one line, scrawled in red pen:

“The night at Quarry Cliff. We left her there. Jasmine remained unmoved. Erin’s memory flashed: the firelight, the cliff edge, Jasmine’s scream.

And then — nothing.

Chapter 4: The Truth Slips

Erin started the search for Mason. He lived in his parents’ house, now a teacher with hollow eyes and bad posture.

“Do you remember that night?” Erin asked.

Mason looked away. “We were drunk. We all were.”

“Did we kill her?”

His voice cracked. “I didn’t touch her. It was Lena. She was yelling, and Jasmine was crying... and then it got quiet.”

He gave her something — a USB drive Sophia had left with him "just in case."

Back at her hotel, Erin opened the file.

A video: teenagers, laughing, shouting. Fire crackling.

Then Jasmine’s voice: “Get your hands off me!”

Lena shouting: “She ruined everything!”

A scream. A thud. The camera drops to the side. Darkness.

Then: Erin’s voice, shaky. “She’s not moving.”

Chapter 5: Lena’s Game

Erin confronted Lena at her luxury apartment in the city. Glass, light, and control were all there. Erin stated, "You pushed her." Lena sipped her wine. We were young. We didn’t know better.”

“You didn’t call anyone.”

“She was still breathing when we left.”

Erin’s hands shook. “You killed her.”

“No, Erin. We did. And Sophia? She couldn't handle it. Erin realized it then: Lena wasn’t afraid. She never had been.

She was dangerous.

And she wasn’t done yet.

Chapter 6: The Body in the Quarry

The quarry hadn’t been touched in years. Erin went alone, flashlight in hand.

The GPS Sophia had annotated in her journal led to an overgrown trail. At the cliff's base — a shallow grave. Bones, fabric scraps, a bracelet engraved with JQ.

Jasmine never ran away.

Erin called it in anonymously.

Forensics confirmed the remains within days. Blackridge was suddenly a murder town again.

And Lena? She spiraled on social media. Her podcast vanished. Her sponsors withdrew. But she hadn’t been arrested. Yet.

Chapter 7: Sophia’s Revenge

Erin leaked the video. An anonymous upload — just enough to spark interest.

Within hours, Reddit threads, local news, and amateur sleuths tore into Lena’s past. Mason cracked under pressure and confessed everything to police.

The following day, Lena was taken into custody at the airport. Her final words to Erin?

“You’re no different than me.”

Erin didn’t respond.

She was.

Because she came back.

Epilogue: Letter at the Grave

A week later, Erin returned to Sophia’s grave.

A folded note and a tiny white lily were her last possessions. Sophia —

You remembered when I chose to forget.

You tried to make it right when I ran away.

Now they know what you did for her. For me. For the truth.

She was aware and now, so does everyone else.

— Erin