Think back to your high school days and the friends you had. Or if you're in high school now, think about your friends now.

The likelihood is, you can think of one or two people that are your closest friend(s). The couple of people that you trust(ed) beyond anything else. Now imagine if they (tried) killed you.

For most of us, we can't imagine what that would be like. Especially for a high school kid.

Skylar Annette Neese was a typical high school kid growing up in Morgantown, Virginia. She was the only child of loving parents that is described as a "bubbly" type personality.

She spent most of her time with her two best friends, Sheila Eddy and Rachel Shoaf. Skylar and Sheila had been best friends since they were in second grade, and had always been very close.

It was when they got into high school that they met Rachel, who had come from a Catholic school. The three of them soon were spending all their time together.

However, as time went by, and Rachel and Sheila were getting even closer, Skylar found herself feeling like she was being shoved out of the group.

There was chit-chat around the lunch tables that Rachel and Sheila had begun a relationship. And in the fear that Skylar, after seeing the two of them hooking up while drunk at a sleepover one night, would ruin everything through exposure. Not wanting Skylar to tell about what she'd seen, the girls decided that they needed to kill her.

It was then that the girls began to plot out how they were going to kill their friend to protect their secret.

(It amazes and deeply saddens me that people would rather turn to murder than be perceived as gay. It sickens me that parents make their kids feel like murder is a better alternative than being out as gay.)

Now, ironically enough, Rachel was going out to church camp for two weeks. The plan was to commit the murder before she left. I wonder if she planned on confessing to the priest in confession...

Skylar, who was just going on about her life, got home from work at Wendy's close to ten on the 5th of July in 2012 and soon after bid her parents a goodnight and went to her room.

Some hours later, she snuck out her bedroom window and got into a car with Sheila and Rachel. It was something that she'd done before, and had planned on spending the night joyriding with her two best friends. Little did she know that no one would ever see her alive again. Little did she know what the two girls had in store for her.

They drove approximately 30 miles, heading northwest. The road was a narrow, one-lane road through the woods, just across the state lines into Pennsylvania.

It was a place that the girls knew well, as they had come out there on more than one occasion to smoke pot and hang out. They walked into the woods before telling Skylar that they had left the lighter in the car. As she turned around to go get it, Sheila and Rachel counted...

...one...two...three...

Pulling out the knives that they had hidden in their clothes, began stabbing Skylar. To Skylar's credit, the poor kid fought back and actually got the knife away from Rachel. With it, she sliced Rachel's leg.

However, Rachel and Sheila were able to overpower Skylar, and proceeded to stab Skylar to death in the woods. They had initially planned on burying Skylar, but they found that the ground was too hard with too many rocks for them to dig.

In light of this new complication, they haphazardly covered her body with leaves and sticks at the base of a big tree.

Over the next year, they spent time professing their innocence on Twitter and other social media.

So, let's back up a bit to the day after the murder. In the afternoon, Skylar's father returned home so Skylar could take the car to her own job and noticed that there was a bench under the window that Skylar had used to aid her in climbing out the window the night before.

He called Sheila, when he realized that his daughter wasn't home, asking if they had been together the night before, as she (still) wasn't home.

Sheila denied them being together, but that she had spoken with her around midnight. She later called back and told them that Skylar had snuck out of the house the night before and that they had been together. She swore that she'd picked her up around 11 and dropped her off again about an hour later.

When she still hadn't shown up for work for the first time since she started working, her parents, scared beyond measure by this point, called the police.

The apartment building they lived at had security footage that showed Skylar sneaking out and getting into a silver car. And it was because of this that the police did not send out an Amber Alert.

As per usual with any (at least American) police department, they wrote it off that she would be back home in a few days.

In the mean time, Rachel went out with her mother and godmother on a boat. They would both notice the cut on her knee that day. The next day she left for church camp for two weeks.

A few days after the murder, the police interviewed Sheila. Now...detectives...they're trained to notice things. Things people don't normally think about. I mean, sure they always (try) and have something figured out as to what to say...but they typically don't think further than that.

They don't think about emotions...showing too much...or too little...they don't think about body language, micro facial expressions and all the small bits of body language that will give you away before you ever open your mouth.

Well, the detective noticed that Sheila seemed far too emotionless for what was happening. He also took notice that she drove a silver car. But detectives need more than this to make an arrest. This made the girls suspects, or persons-of-interests, but they needed more. And for the next year, the girls remained free.

Over that year, the detectives worked to break down the girls' stories, poking holes in their words and finding the lies in their timeline of events.

There were many people in Morgantown that believed the girls were lying about what happened, or at the least omitting certain details. They were often taunted on social media, where they remained very active throughout the investigation.

That December, Skylar's mother posted a long Facebook message begging the girls to tell the officers the truth. Within a few weeks after this post Rachel confessed.

She confessed to the murder of Skylar Neese on January 3rd, 2013. On the 16th, she led investigators to her remains. She was so badly decomposed by this point, that it took until March 13th for her remains to be positively identified.

Now, while Rachel had confessed, they were still investigating, and she was allowed to remain free for another four months while she aided in the investigation. To help them, she wore a wire and recorded conversations that she had with Sheila in person as well as online.

She spent the last several months of her freedom well, going on vacations with her friends and family...but as they say...all good things come to an end.

Sheila was arrested on May 1st, 2013 on first degree murder charges. At first she pleaded not guilty, but as the trial drew closer and with the fear of what Rachel would testify to), changed her plea to guilty. She was sentenced to 15 years to life.

Rachel was sentenced to 30 years, with eligibility for parole after ten years, on second degree murder charges; for which she plead guilty.

They are both serving time at the Lakin Correctional Facility.