chapter 6

It's been 3 days since the death of Dave Vegas, his parents leaving their job and the news talking about his death in the dorm fire that happened at the University of Ottawa in Canada.

Its been a long week, just wish it would end real soon. Having to see my mom cry in her bed for the past 3 days of his so-called Fake death, dad on the other hand started drinking, even more, smoking too and even having nights in Evans room which Kinda made it hard for me to sneak things out of there. On the other hand, Evan is safe, having to travel to England with a new identity and a new life to start with it was safe and good for him. Regina is with him and Veronica is still here.

I head down to open the door.

"hey," said Hope entering and giving me a warm hug.

"Hey, I hope you're doing fine," said Hopes mom Elizabeth as she came in.

"where's mom?" She asked.

"upstairs crying like any other day" I replied.

" Let go to your room," said Hope. We get in my room and I lock it, she locks my window and puts the shade on.

"How is he?" Asked Hope, now you guys might be wondering how did she know? Well she's a clever girl, know something was up ever since I said nothing in the woods, I did see someone, Veronica. She told me I was lying and kind of pressured me, but in the end, she did help by giving me that money to change Evans name and birth certificate.

"he's fine, he's in England now and he's gonna start working next week" I replied.

"that's good, does anyone know about this?" She asked.

"no, and it's better if no one finds out, they were standing with us in the funeral and we're looking at all of us," I said, I just hope they leave.

" Well, let's just hope they leave cause they're seriously creeping the fuck out of everyone in this town, even long dale people are scared of them and I wanna know why exactly" asked Hope.

"well the only thing I know about them is that they know killers who got out of jail with bail, and are huge drug dealers in North America and have power everywhere. their like a cult or some shit" I replied with what I knew.

"Let us just hope things go well, but you're going to have to cry a little more than what you did if you're gonna make people believe the death," said Hope.

"what do you mean?" I asked.

"cry more and feel shit now and then. It's gonna be hard to act even harder but just be sad for about a week or more, or until they leave" said Hope, which is true, it is been more than 4 days and they haven't left town. I mean at least I got their names but that's it. One was bald and had a huge tattoo on his neck, was about 6 foot he looked like he was from France with his accent he gave, his name was Jackson Millar, the other one was a girl, 5 foot 6 and kind of looked familiar with her red hair. Kind of looked like Jeans' father himself but a girl.

" What is it?" Asked Hope.

"well the women standing with the bald guy looked so familiar, she looked like my new neighbors' father" I replied.

" Could she be related to them?" Hope asked looking through the window.

"I have no idea, but I do think they can. I'm just not sure right now" I replied. Thinking about it, it would be a good idea to put an eye on them. Their new and since they came here we never saw her parents leave the house or even come and visit. Weirdly Jean her self stopped talking to me for the past 4 days too. Not a coincidence but, there is a lot of shit on my mind right now.

"I guess we need to talk to Veronica," said hope.

"why thought?" I asked. I didn't want to meet her, I guess feelings are shit sometimes and want to get the worst of me.

"you still love her?" Asked Hope.

"no, and let's make this clear it was a one-night thing I did with her, that it nothing more to look at" I replied.

I just couldn't forget how she used to treat me, and how I took 3 days to prepare my self to sleep with her cause I was a virgin and she wasn't, I mean she had many past relationships and she's 2 years bigger than me. We had it in her room, her parents weren't home so we had her huge ass house all to ourselves. Except until we got caught when his brother came in. Yup he just saw me getting ahead from his sister and its the worst thing any human can go through. But we did do it again a week after begging her brother Jonathan not to say anything. It was good, I just don't know if she liked it. I mean the real question is did she even enjoy, cause I defiantly didn't, why you may ask. Well, I still didn't have feelings for her, she just wanted to rush everything even changing her school to get closer to me.

"you good or do you need a room?" I asked hope making fun that I zoned out.

"I'm good, just zoned a little but now I'm back" I replied. Both of us start hearing screams from my brother's room as my mom cries and cries louder and louder.

"how are you living with all this?" Asked hope.

"don't even, I just can't at this point. Living and lying about something that isn't true is horrifying, I'm just scared that all this won't work at all" I replied with my energy being drained every day for the past 4 days. I mean all this in 5 days is something out of ordinary.

"don't worry, it's all going to work just like you planned it, and besides you're the best at planning things when it comes to lying and things like this," said hope.

" Okay first of all what I did to Ryan is different, he didn't kill anyone Hope, he just woke up and found both of his parent dead" I replied. But the thing about it now I just feel guilty I didn't go to the police station and tell them about the murder.

"you seriously think he didn't kill his parents, Dave he hates them after he found out about John," said hope, it angered me that she bought a long history back to life.

"Hope are you really brining things that are dead back to life?" I asked.

"Dave all I'm saying is that no one found out about Ryan, its been more than a year your in high school and you celebrated your 17th birthday without being traced. Your brother is safe and everything is on the track of being successful" said hope trying to ease the pain of all whats happening around me.

"you better get ready, we have a long day tomorrow" said hope exiting my room. I smile and head to my laptop. Waiting for that response to come, telling me my brother is alright. I mean we do talk everyday but its just making me worried about his safety. Regina is with him and I mean she has alot of money and can do what ever she wants, her dad was the one who helped too. Her mom? Well she's dead, killed by our old neighbours after she had a fight about how controls north pass even thought she lives in long dale.

I suddenly get a call from a number I never saw, not saved or even from the US.

"hello?" I answered.

"you think you did something?"

"who the fuck is this?" I asked confused but nervous and scared.

"you really don't know?" He replied.

I immediately start recording the call, trying to show it to Hope and Veronica.

"okay quiet the bull shit who's this?" I asked

"you'll find out, you will be punished for your sins" he said before ending the call. I rush out any room texting both Hope and Veronica to meet me at the wood house where my brother stayed for the past days. I run through the woods in the dark towards the wood house.

I get there and lock the door, covering the window and hiding, I can tell y'all that I got pretty scared. I mean this both towns have a bitch ass amount of sins.

After 20 minutes of waiting I hear a knock on the door, I head to open it and see both Veronica and Hope standing out together.

"what's so important that you called us in the middle of the night" asked Hope.

"yeah you do know we have a life too" said Veronica.

I hand them my phone where I recorded the call, they look at each other confused of what he's saying.

"So?" I asked.

"why do I feel like I heard this before?" Asked Hope, Veronica puts it on loop.

"yeah, feels like I heard this guy somewhere" said Veronica.

"what do you mean, he's someone in town?" I asked.

"no, sounds like the guy in the daisy ice cream store across the street" said Hope.

"no it sounds like the janitor in our school, the one who got fired last year for selling drugs in north pass high" said Veronica.

"how about we check them both?" I asked.

"yeah, tomorrow after school" said Hope.

"sure" said Veronica looking at me.

"what?" I asked.

"nothing, hope you enjoy your day with Ms.Jean" said Veronica.

"wait how do you know her?" I asked.

" Cause I'm introducing her to school tomorrow" said Veronica. Just great, really great. My crush/ ex is going to show the school to the new girl that I'm already crushing on even thought I don't even know who she really is. lets just hope Veronica doesn't kill her or do some weird shit to her that would make her go away as per usual Veronica.