A Murderer Is Announced DIXI

# F-f-falling in F-f-falling out... #

Excuse me, please. Thank you. Just coming through, sorry.

# That they're going to be there with me now... #

Excuse me, sorry, thanks.

OK. Excuse me, can I just get through, please? Thank you.

# Tomorrow we'll still be my besties and me. #

Whoo! Yeah! OK, let's give it up for the Spitfire Kittens!

CHEERING Yeah!

They're going to take a short break,

but they'll be right back after an emergency meeting.

Everyone on the prom committee meet back stage, immediately.

-Shari!

-Yeah, you too, Eve. I know you're on the committee.

What's all this about, Shari?

In case you haven't noticed, there's a prom going on in there.

I know. And there's also been a series of murders.

THEY GASP

She means of Dixi pages.

That's right! And the killer is in this room.

-What?

-At first I thought it was Chloe just being mean.

I'm sorry, but you are.

No, it's true. I am.

But after Chloe was hacked, Mimi stepped in and did what

she always does, copied her for attention.

-Mimi admitted everything last week.

-I'm coming to that.

I followed a trail that led from Mimi to Newspace

to Game of Pones to my brother's stolen dagger of awesome.

Ruby dagger with the cobra handle.

Whatever! It was a dead end.

But waiting in the shadows was Murdo, always so keen to help.

Was it all just a plot to get a date to the prom?

Give it up, Shari. I'm sorry, but I never wanted to go with you.

-I've got a date.

-I know. And once you'd flagged my posts as abusive...

They were abusive.

..I got called into Miss Johnson's office,

our internet safety officer, whose job was at risk from cuts.

Could she have done all this just to show how important her job is?

But her browser history was clean.

-You checked my browser history?!

-Never mind about that!

But by this point, I'd suspected everyone.

Even you, Isla.

-I mean, was your whole kooky, clueless thing just an act?

-When?

But then I saw that there were two other people who had the opportunity.

Zane, I so didn't want it to be you,

but there was too much that pointed to you -

the CCTV footage, the poster at the print shop,

and you were in the computer room

when I got that message telling me to back off.

And then...

there's Eve.

The last person that I would ever suspect, my best friend.

My bestie since reception, since forever.

You have been there for me no matter what.

Like a sister, only better.

But you lied to me.

You weren't at your dad's the other weekend,

you were with Murdo working on the tech specs for prom.

I'd been all anti-prom,

so I thought I'd look stupid if people knew I'd changed my mind.

What did change your mind? It was Murdo, wasn't it?

You joined the prom committee so you could spend time with him.

You friendzoned him in year seven,

but when you thought he was going to ask me out...

-I never wanted to ask you out.

-..you realised that you needed

to make your move.

Shari, it's true about me liking Murdo and yes,

I asked him out, but I would never hack your Dixi.

I know, we're besties.

How could you even suspect me in the first place?

Because I was obsessed.

You saw how even after Mimi confessed, I couldn't let it go.

I thought you were being all like, look at me, as always.

Yeah, that's what it was. I just wanted the attention.

I can't help it.

Not this time.

You were covering for someone.

After I found out Eve had lied to me, I went to her house.

I had to know the truth.

Then I saw this.

This is the original, before someone added my face to it.

This is what the killer used to make that horrible poster of me.

And there's a name next to the number and that name is...

-No, stop!

-I'm sorry, Mimi, but everyone has to know the truth.

The name on the poster...

is Lana.

THEY GASP

You can't just go around accusing my mum.

Shari, apologise at once!

I am so sorry, Mrs Hastings. Shari, outside, now!

-But it's her, she's the one...

-Enough, Shari!

No, why? That's all I want to know, why? What've I ever done to you?!

I've never done anything!

Haven't you?

Mum, don't say anything without a lawyer or

someone from the student council.

You might not have done anything to me, but I saw how you made

Mimi feel when you tagged her as "Me Too Mimi" on Dixi.

That was just a joke.

It's always a joke when it's someone else.

I wanted you to see how it felt.

Well, it felt horrible.

And not just you, Chloe too.

The way you treat Mimi like she's your pet.

She likes it. She can't cope in the wild.

No, Chloe, I don't like it.

Not really. I just put up with it as a price of being your friend.

Then it got out of hand.

I hacked Zane because I was worried he'd trace the message

I sent asking about hacking.

I sent you the virus cos I thought you were getting too close.

You were acting like you thought you were better than everyone.

Better than Mimi. I was angry. It was like being back at school

and if there's one thing I learnt there, it's how to put people down.

Mum, stop!

You can't re-fight your school battles through me.

School's out for you.

This is my life.

I'm sorry.

You'd better come with me, Mrs Hastings,

I think we need to have a little chat.

So, what now?

I'm not sure.

I hadn't really thought past this point.

I know what we should do.

We should all go in and enjoy the rest of our prom.

# Don't question my besties and me

# About as close we can be

# We tell each other everything

# And I mean everything

# Don't mention my besties and me

# We're not afraid to have a dream

# And if we fail or we succeed

# We do it as well

# F-f-falling in

# F-f-falling out

# Well, you know that I'm never in doubt

# That they're going to be there anyhow

# F-f-falling in

# F-f-falling out

# But tomorrow we'll still be

# My besties and me. #

And, just like that, it was all over.

Case closed.

Syd cleaned off that virus for me, so, yay, laptop, lols!

And Lana did send us all our changed passwords,

so I can leave this account and go back to my other one.

And, yes, I did change my password and my privacy settings.

Speaking of setting things...

So everything's back to how it was.

Wait...

Not exactly.

Syd started dating Chloe, which is kind of weird.

Eve and Murdo are finally out of the friendzone.

Miss Johnson's job is safe because she's running internet safety

and responsibility classes for parents.

And her first pupil is Lana.

..will have consequences.

When people heard it was all Mimi's mum,

she really did become the centre of attention for once.

But you know what?

I'm not saying what Lana did was right, but she did have a point.

I was mean to Mimi sometimes.

I didn't realise what I posted would hurt her feelings.

But we're hanging out tonight, with Isla and Eve,

and we'll finally have that movie marathon.

We're all kind of friends now.

Isla's even posted a song about it.

And that's everything.

Well, apart from...

But that's another page.

Oh, that reminds me, I started one of those Dixi things too.

Now, how do I upload your baby photos?

# So I went online today cos I had some stuff to say

# Saw a thread that messed my head Logged off instead and ran away

# They said I'm not all that They said that I'm too fat

# I'm a waste of space I'm an ugly face

# So thank you, trolls, for that

# Haters, we're sick of you and your twisted point of view

# Your spelling's pretty rubbish too but still we only wish we knew

# Why is it you hate yourself? Why is it you slate yourself?

# Cos the poison that you chat just proves that you don't rate yourself

# You say I'm lame and yes I guess I'll get upset

# Just cos it feels like disrespect

# Not cos it's actually correct

# And the words that we say are real life

# No matter where we say them

# And the games that we play are real life

# No matter where we're playing them

# And the feelings we feel are real life ones as well

# If you can't say it's OK and say it with some certainty

# Don't say it to me virtually Wouldn't do it IRL

# Those selfies that you take show a bit more than your face

# Sent into cyberspace Won't disappear without a trace

# When you've learned to respect yourself

# Learn to protect yourself

# Still there for your kids to click and that ain't going to go down well

# Say you're OK that you're doing your own thing

# Then be happy in your skin

# Not cos some website says you're thin

# And the words that we say are real life

# No matter where we say them

# And the games that we play are real life

# No matter where we're playing them

# And the feelings we feel are real life ones as well

# If you can't say it's OK and say it with some certainty

# Don't say it to me virtually Wouldn't do it IRL

# And they words that we say are real life

# No matter where we say them

# And the games that we play are real life

# No matter where we're playing them

# And the feelings we feel are real life ones as well

# If you can't say it's OK and say it with some certainty

# Don't say it to me virtually Wouldn't do it IRL. #