Emma Grant had been having a online relationship with a boy from the school a few towns over and had finally picked a date that the two would meet. One rainy wednesday Emma found herself at a rest area close to the freeway awaiting the boy of her dreams. When the boy didn’t show up for about fifteen minutes she began to get worried. She texted him until she got a response saying that he was over by the coffee shop and was sitting in the first booth when she walked in. The dark, musty coffee shop was filled when Emma walked in, she turned to her left and there sat the boy who she had been dreaming about, however he was not a teenager, he was an old gray haired man with overalls on. Emma quickly retreated when she saw the man. He stood up almost to embrace her, as it started to become clear that this man was not the same one that Emma had planned to meet.

Emma turned around without a sound and walked back to her car, not fully realizing what had just happened. When she got home her mom asked how she was and if the date went well. Emma was too embarrassed to tell the truth so she went and locked herself in her room.  Emma’s mom had never been that close to her so talking about boy stuff was not something she was good at. Emma then walked into room and locked the door, as her parents left to go to a party.

Hours later when Emma's parents returned home they noticed that Emma's door was still shut and nothing had been moved around in a while. They knocked on the door to see if she was okay but there was no answer. After trying to open the door for many minutes Emma's dad decided to bust the door open, what they found was horrific. Emma had be killed with three to four bullet holes in her upper chest. Emma’s window was open and the rain flooded into the room covering almost all of her furniture.

The police had been called by Emma parents moments after they returned home to find her.  The asked Emma’s parents if they owned any guns and if Emma could have used them to hurt herself. Emma's dad said no since he always had a big fear of guns. The police asked if anyone would have wanted to hurt Emma, to the point of death, however no one knew about her secret boyfriend so they did not believe anyone would kill her.

After learning about the problems Emma and her mom had, the police suspected that Emma’s mom had killed her due to the fact that Emma had always disliked her mom and she was mad the Emam never loved her like she should’ve. Emma’s mom became the prime suspect in the murder of her daughter and was arrested and was about to be due in court, until the private investigators hired by Emma's dad found all the messages locked in her computer with the man she met up with at the gas station. The messages showed all the evidence of the relationship. The police questioned the man, whose name was revealed as Chuck Smith. He claimed to not know Emma and would say that he was very concerned about the mother killing her. When searching Chucks house the police found a gun that matched the bullets found in Emma's room. They arrested Chuck on a count of First-degree murder.

The reasoning? Once Emma had left the gas station coffee shop where they were gonna meet, Chuck became hysterical because he had loved this girl and wanted to be with her so bad. He went home and thought about messaging her back to see if she was okay but decided to go over to her house instead since he knew where she lives. He wanted to talk things over so she could reconsider talking to him. When he saw her room and saw that the window was open, he climbed up the side of the house into her room. Emma started to scream and freak out since she did not want him there, and Chuck started to become mad. Chuck had a concealed carry license and always had his gun with him. When he started to go fed up he decided that if he could have her no one could, so he shot her four times and killed her. Chuck was sentenced to life in prison and was never heard from again.