Zoe had big dreams. She wanted to go to university. She wanted to be at a prom with the love of her life. She wanted to work. To live. To be happy. To grow. To develop. She wasn’t just Noah’s girl. She wasn’t just another student at George Washington High. Her home town at Lakewood didn’t define who she really was. She wanted to overcome her fears and achieve something for herself.
She had ambitions. She wanted to inspire others. To believe in the big dream. To achieve greatness amidst the challenges one faced. Zoe is the kind of girl any guy would be lucky to be with. She is intelligent, smart and astute.
She found Noah, who she loved and wanted to be with. Knowing the tragedy that he went through last year with Riley and the senselessness of it all, she was aware and empathetic about Noah’s plight. But she didn’t know what was about to happen. Zoe didn’t even know what effect she had on people. She didn’t realise that she had this quality about her. She was kindhearted, a free spirit and an independent individual. Maybe, she was somewhat stubborn, a little too direct and yes, probably more so in touch with her feelings than some people. But that’s completely normal for a teenager.
She wanted to be happy. Initially, she did find a difficult time, trusting others when the killings started again. People were suspicious of each other. However, in light of that, she made strides in maintaining and creating new friendships. She started to be proactive. In turn, people were starting to accept her. Emma became friends with her, Audrey found a rival but later respected Zoe and Brooke was….she found a friend in Zoe. In a matter of weeks, Zoe was finally feeling a sense of joy. It wasn’t long ago that she felt alone but now, her dreams are finally coming true. She will graduate from high school in late spring. She will leave Lakewood to pursue her undergraduate studies. The love of her life, Noah is about to take her out to prom. She would face the world, head strong and she knew that greatness awaited her. She was finally ecstatic, basking in the light of true happiness.
The killer saw that and wanted to snuff out the light and crush her dreams. They wanted her to ‘vanish’ forever. They toyed with her fears of suicide by putting her in an enclosed casket crate. The crate was then tossed at the lake. All the hopelessness, the pain, brutality and the endless cries. No one was by her side. No apparitions of Noah, her parents or Riley. Not even Emma, Brooke or Audrey were there as figures of hallucination to help her out. She waited for so long…she held onto the hope that there could be a possibility….that someone was going to save her from the predicament that the killer put her in but it was a lost cause. She drown to death. Zoe was truly gone from this world.
Her death was a way for the killer to take away that hope. Her future irreparably shattered in pieces. It is as if they derived some cathartic pleasure from such a horrific event. Even though, the killers are part of the human race, they signify everything that we truly find deplorable. Completely twisted, psychotic and disgusting. Nothing will ever justify the sick games they played with people’s lives.
I just want to say Zoe, you will be missed. We love you. Your love is as free as the sky. It is invulnerable to space and time. To me, your apparition to Noah was not just another prop to make Noah feel bad about losing you. Yes, Noah will be heartbroken, but I know…that you were there in the scene to show to us that you had greatness in you and that no one will take that away from you.
Rest in peace, Zoe Vaughn
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