Chapter 13

"Nobody on this earth is perfect, Everybody has their flaws; everybody has their own dark secrets and vices"-Juice Wrld

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"Don't call me Hen." grumbled our hacker. I don't find it amusing like I usually do, the banter between the siblings. I still can't wrap up my mind around the fact that Hen, our baby, will do this. I was waiting for them to tell me it was a joke and laugh about it but all of them ignored my confused state and made themselves comfortable on the couch. Hen was in the middle, Isa with one side, Penny on the other and Sam at the back of the chair. He started to take stuff from his backpack and organize it.

"You are kidding, Right?" I asked, pointing to Henry. All their eyes were lifted to me

"Why would you think that?" asked Isa. "You know what, could you serve us juice. Hen needs it?" Henry glared at his sister, probably hearing Isa calling him by his nickname pisses him off, and apparently he holds his sister responsible for that. I opened and closed my mouth like a fish out of water. Everyone seems serious so I went to get their juice thinking when I get back from the kitchen they will tell me all this was a prank. No one said anything when I served them the drinks. I sat there looking at all of them.

"Give me his number." said Hen, and Penny gave him a paper probably that had Justin's number written on it. Hen started to furiously type on his laptop, but I don't know what it's called. It's smaller than a laptop but bigger than a tablet.

"Stop looking at us like that." said Sam, snapping her attention back to Hen,

"He is a child!" I pointed out the obvious fact, in case they forgot.

"So,'' asked Isa, twirling her hair between her fingers. Pretty sure she got bored even though it has only been minutes since she didn't understand anything the child is doing. "You know Cassi," she leaned in a little. "I can't believe you are an ageist, among many things" Sam snickered and Penny giggled. Ageist, what is that?

"Why would you involve him in this?" this thing is getting out of hand already and no one is stomping on the brakes.

"I know why I am doing this." answers Hen, without lifting his eye from his computer thing. "For you." his eyes flicked towards me. "So that you could get a boyfriend." I am sure Isa filled him with this story, which is not technically false but not totally true. "I have an ear you know," he stated as a matter of fact. "I hear what you talk." Point taken, be careful what you say in front of children. It's hard to see him as a child though when he is a computer wizard. "Give me all your phones." Isa gave him hers then Penny followed by Sam. I reluctantly gave mine from my pocket because if I say something I know Isa will ask me her infamous question. 'Are you in or not?' We spent the next 30 minutes in silence. We didn't want to talk incase it will disturbs Hen. "Got it!" Hen announced, a proud smile on his face. I stumbled out of my seat to see but there were a bunch of numbers.

"What is it?" asked Penny. It's good that I am not the only one confused here.

"It's the inside of Justin phone Pen Pen." he replied. Penny scowled, and he smirked happily that he got back at her. "This are all his contacts." and he gave us our respective phones. "I tapped all of you in so when he gets a call you can hear the entire conversation." there was a new app on my phone, and when I opened it I got connected to Justin's phone it seems. Justin has a bunch of contacts, more than 700. My contact list is no more than 100. I sighed in our differences. "I can get you his pics or all the apps he has." Hen whispered.

"No!" I replied fast. We have invaded his privacy enough. I don't know what I would do if someone did this to me. 'That is if someone is that interested' a voice in my head whispered, and I shook my head to get rid of this thought.

"Don't feel bad," Isa put her hands on my knees. "Justin should be honored that someone is doing this for him." she smiled. "I know I would be."

"Would you be happy if someone did this to you?" asked Penny.

"Of course! It means they care enough to actually know me."

"Your psychology is messed up." whispered Sam.

"So, our hacker," Isa hugged Hen from the side. "What can we do for you?" she completely ignored Sam's comment.

"Nothing." Hen blushed furiously. "I will think about it, just remember all of you are indebted to me." and he is only 8. A notification came into all our phones at the same time. "It's his phone ringing. if you-" his small hands hover over the green button. "touch this, you can listen to his conversation but if you want-" he showed us the red button. "You won't listen to the conversation but, you will get notified if he calls or receive any calls with the other person's information as it is in his phone."

"Answer it" said Isa, and I touched the green button while the 3 of them closed their phones

"I don't know man," I heard Justin's voice, and I unconsciously shivered. We missed much of a conversation due to Hen's instruction. The caller ID reads Benji.

"What's your deal dude? Jessi is hot and rich what more could you want?" Benjamin sounded frustrated.

"Ok Ok, I appreciate your concern, but I need time to decide who I date carefully. She will be with me for the rest of the year and crowned as prom queen. I don't want someone annoying, I need to be careful with everything going on with Gorgi." Isa shook me with barely contained excitement

"No one knows what happened this summer, and I will make sure she won't open her mouth." I need to know whatever happened this summer. I need to find out. I am sure it's somehow the reason why Justin broke up with Georgina.

"I have 5 candidates," Justin's voice had a smile on it. I saw all of the crew members and all of us had the same thought. "I have a requirement they need to pass. whoever passes will be with me."

"Good luck to them." laughed Benjamin. "Got to to go man, my sister is home." with that the call disconnected and a heavy silence descended on the house. We all saw Isa, she is the mastermind.

"It's simple, We will find those girls and sabotage the entire thing."

"How?" Penny was nervous. She was chewing her nails.

"Go Hen." Isa pushed him out of the room. "We don't want to poison your head anymore than this."

"You poisoned it enough." Henry grumbled, collecting his stuff. Penny wore a guilty expression hearing what her brother said. When Isa was sure Hen was out of earshot, she began.

"We need to find them first, then we will see." Isa brought her phone and opened Justin's contacts. "Grab a paper." she ordered, and all of us got a paper and pen from my room. Once seated in the living room, Isa said, "I will tell you the contacts, only girl names and you will write the names. With 3 names I mentioned, all of you will write one of the names. Then we will rule them out." writing all the names was exhausting and not surprisingly, most of the contacts were girls. We opened the senior school group account and started to match names that are in our batch, assuming the candidates: can only be one of the senior girls since the lucky one will be prom queen, and Justin won't be with an outsider or with younger girls ,or older girls for that matter, You don't know with boys this days though. There was still many so we started to separate them. Girls in the low level of social hierarchy or have any friendships with Justin exes, which are 6 as I remember since the start of high school, were out. I don't think any girl will date her friend's ex. It's a universal rule, and Justin dated popular girls who have many friends so the girls in our list was decreasing considerably. At last when all of us were at our breaking point, we were left with 7 possible candidates. 2 of them are out, he said 5 but we couldn't rule out anyone anymore.

Adriana West.

Alexa Fox.

Dana Owen.

Brooke Rose.

Angelina Shaw.

Lenna Dixon.

Scarlet Payne.

"That's all?" asked Isa, she is exhausted. We all are.

"Yes," I answered.

"That's if we didn't miss anyone," Penny yawned.

"Let's go home." Hen's voice came from the kitchen. "I have school tomorrow." he said.

"We all should go home." Sam got up from her chair.

"Ok, but we will investigate about this girls. I need anything you guys could find." Isa brushed her wrinkled T-Shirt. "I give you 2 days; I will see what I can do too, and we will take turns in listening to Justin's conversation. I will listen to the first notification, then Cassi, Penny, at last Sam. Start recording the conversation if you feel he is talking about something important, especially to the girls on this list." Isa gave me the list and took the picture, sharing it with everyone. "You keep it inside the notebook." with that they all got to the door.

"It's pretty late, will you be ok by yourself?" asked Penny while hugging me. I want to tell her I am used to it, especially since my mom got back to work my parents will stay up late, but I didn't want to dampen their mood.

"It's ok." I answered, saying bye and seeing them settle in Isa's car, driving off the night. I locked the door and took off the lights, getting in my bed. 'Weakness' Isa had said. We need to find the weakness of these girls, and I will make sure we will do so because even though all of us want to appear perfect, we all have skeletons in our clothes. It just needs someone determined enough to take it out and expose us to the world.