Where Your Secrets Hide

Secret 2

Oh god.

"Shall we open it?" I ask Henry. "I don't know." He answered. We both don't know what to do, we're both scared, scared because of the things that I did.

I walk slowly towards the door and open it, with my hands barely shaking.

A man in a yellow hat and a yellow polo-shirt was in front of my door. He smiled, so I smiled.

"Hi, how can I help you?" I ask him. "Oh, nothing. Just dropping a newspaper. I just knock because I heard voices from inside. You know, work. If no one is in the house, we throw newspaper, but if someone's inside, we knock." He explains.

Oh, okay.

He gave me the newspaper, and I smiled.

He turn around and he was going to leave, when he stop. "May I ask something?" He turn around and look at me. "What's the bad smell?" He asks.

Shit, this is what I am talking about.

The smell.

"To be honest I don't know, behind my house is a forest. Full of trees and unpleasant smell. I'm used to it, by the way." I answered. I saw Henry look at me, like he want to tell something. "Oh yeah, I get it. Sorry for the question. You know, I'm just new at my job, my mouth cannot be shut if I'm curious, it's like, I'm a gossip girl, but the different is I'm a boy, so yeah, gossip boy." He explains and he laugh, awkwardly. "Yeah, thanks for the newspaper." I said and shut the door.

I look at Henry and smiled.

"I do really think we should do our next step later, after school." He said.

Yes, he's right. I can't put risk in my life right now. We have to get rid of Chase body, as soon as possible.

Because only days left, we will be in senior year.

"We should probably go to school right now." He added. I went to my sink counter and get a bottle of spray. I sprayed it to the whole house, so the smell wont come out, so no one will notice it.

"Let's go."

You might think that I am a bad person, well I am, but what happened is an accident. I didn't mean to kill Chase. I know this line is always a line of a killer, 'I accidentally killed him, I accidentally killed her.' blah blah blah. I mean, sometimes it's real, sometimes it's not, just an excuse to get away with it, but I'm not dumb to tell that.

I have plan, on how to get away with murder.

But first, let's go back to the night where I 'accidentally' killed Chase. The game night.

The game night

"Yes, I know! Henry! Could you stop? The game is only 3 hours left and you are stressing yourself for a shoes?!" I said while walking down the streets to Henry's house because he forgot the shoes that he's going to wear later at the game.

"Yeah yeah whatever."

I knock on Henry's house door.

"I'm outside your house, so, chillax. Yes, okay, goodbye." I said and ended the call.

The door open and Henry's brother came out.

"Oh, hi Jackson." He greeted. "Hi Jonas." I greeted back.

He is 11, a kid actually. Henry's sister is now in college and she's at Sydney, studying.

"Is your mom home?" I ask him. "Oh yes, come in." He said and I came inside.

Me and Henry's family are close, specially when mom died, they're here for me. So I consider them as my second family.

"Oh, hi Jackson. Henry didn't say that you'd come today. Are you going to the game? Or Henry is just making it so he'd go with a date?" Henry's mom said, Anna Vay.

"He has a girlfriend?!" I ask her because if he has one, I didn't know about it. "Oh no Jackson, I'm just guessing. But, does he have one? You know, maybe he met someone at the party." She said and laugh, I just laugh even it's not funny, I don't want to look rude.

"Oh no, he doesn't. I'm just here to get his shoes that he's going to wear later at the game. He forgot it." I said. "Oh. Just go to his room." She said.

Yeah, I know, Henry is disgusting, he kept all his shoes to his room.

I went upstairs and go straight to Henry's room. I look around and his room is a mess. I went to his shoe cabinet to get his football shoes. When I open it the first thing I saw is a box inside. Well, because I'm curious I get the box and open it.

A money was inside and another piece of box was in there.

Where the heck did he get this load of money? And if I'm not mistaken, it's all a hundred!

I get the other box inside and open it, and I almost drop it because I got frightened on what I saw.

A pack of drugs.

Is Henry a dealer?

My bestfriend has a drug inside of his shoe cabinet and a load of money! What is he doing?!

I close the box and put it back.

I get his shoes and a white bag fall when I get his shoes. I open it and it was a gun!

Fuck Henry!

What are you up to?

"Hi!" My soul almost left my body when Jonas scared me. "What's that? A gun?" He said.

Shit!

"It's a toy! Duh, look." Because of my stupidity I point it to him like an i***t, just to prove it's a toy, even it's not. He just laugh so I put the gun in a bag and close his shoe cabinet. "That was cool! It looks like real! Can I have it?" He added. "Oh, no! Buy your own kid." I said and stood up. "Come, lets go downstair." I said and pull his arm with me to get him out of Henry's room.

"Thanks Mrs. Caliesto, I should keep going." I said a goodbye before going outside. "Ok, take care! Have fun!" Henry's mom said. "Mom! Did you know, Henry has a gun in his room?" I heard Jonas said.

What the....

"It was a toy Jonas!" I shouted because I'm away to Henry's house.

I walk to the taxi station and ride a taxi, ofc.

Up until now, I can't process why Henry has a gun, a drugs and a money. What is he doing? Why is he keeping it to me?

After minutes of commuting, we arrive WestHood High where students are already here. I went out and walk inside. I look around and people are chatting. Some of the students are on the field, waiting for the game to start.

I went straight to the boys locker room where the players of our school, in short the football team is preparing themselves for the game. I went inside and they're already changing clothes. I went straight to Henry sitting on the bench.

"Hey." I said and he look to me.

He's sad.

I can tell, I know every expression of Henry, because we are bestfriend.

"What happened? Why you look like that?" I ask him and sit beside him. "Oh, nothing. Just nervous." Lie he is lying. "Here's your shoes." He get his shoes and start wearing it. "Can we talk later?" I said. He look at me, at my eyes. "Did you find it? I guess you did. I'm sorry. That is why I don't want my mom to bring the shoes for me." He said. "Just explain it later. Right now, you have to focus on your game." I said and smiled at him.

I was shock when he hug me. So I hug him back. "Thank you." He whisper.

I'm not mad, I just want him to explain. Why he has that. Where did he get that, and when he start doing it.

I went out and trying to find myself a seat when I saw Katharina walking towards me with Carla, her bestfriend and Jonna, her another friend.

"Hi Jackson." Katharina greeted. "Do you already find a seat? Because we're finding one, actually three, well now four." Carla said. "Thanks." I said.

Until I saw Henry and Chase talking, well arguing. They went to the side of bleachers, and part of my mind said to follow them.

"Hey, can you excuse me for a second? I just forgot to do something. Just tell me if you already found a seat, Is it alright?" I ask them. "It's fine." Carla responded. I smiled to them and start walking away from them, walking fast.

When I got there I look at them from behind the bleachers. I couldn't hear the things that they are talking about because of the cheers and music on the field, but I saw Henry is very mad at Chase, while Chase is explaining calmly. Until it happen.

Henry punches Chase, repeatedly to his face.

"What the f**k?" I whispered to myself.

"Jackson!" I look back and saw Katharina running towards me. " We already found a seat. Come. The game's gonna start a seconds now." She said and drag me with her.

Why are they fighting?

Is it about me? Or the stuff I found at Henry's cabinet?

I'm a curious person, and I wont be shut until I know what are they fighting for.

And I know that, curiosity make things complicated...

We sat down with her friends. Carla's talking to me, but I cant hear the words she's talking about, it's like everything is fading, the only thing I can hear is my heartbeat. The game started and Chase is not playing, and still, I can't hear anything.

I felt that something's bad is going to happen in any seconds now. I could feel it, I could sense it.

"Jackson!" I went back to reality when Carla touch my hand. I look at her. "Hi?" I said awkwardly. "Are you mad at me?" She ask. "Why?" I ask her. "You're avoiding me, I'm talking to you but you're not responding. I'm sorry if it's because at the party. Because I don't want to have s*x with you. I mean, I wanted to, but I'm not ready." She said.

I kiss her lips to pass the drug that Chase give me. After kissing she look to my eyes, and her blue eyes shine like you're looking to the bottom of the sea, and it is so pretty, like I'm going to drown.

"Carla!" We both look to our left when someone called her. It was Jonna, he's with Justin, a football player. Jonna waved to us and they walk away. "Don't mind Jonna." She said and she pushes my nape down to her face, so we can kiss each other again. I open my eyes while kissing her and saw Chase looking at me, while kissing Sarah, her girlfriend.

And I remember the day when we both kiss at his room.

I tried to look away or closing my eyes, but all I can see is Chase. I don't know why. Maybe it's because of the drug. I open my eyes and saw Chase, kissing me. I push him, but it's just Carla, I'm just hallucinating.

What is going on with me?

The relationship between Chase and I, is just nothing.

"We should continue this at the bathroom." Carla said and she dragged me down the stairs.

"What the f**k!" Carla said. "Why do you have a gun?!" She added. "What? I dont ha--" I stop when I saw Henry's gun in my bag. How did this ended up in my bag? "It's for protection. Someone wants to kill me." I lied to her. But that's the best thing I could say nowadays, in fact, someone's threatening me. With a text from C.

Saying;

You maybe can hide this from me, but you can't hide it to everyone.

xoxo -C