The Cause

As Drake was walking out of the school, Scott fastly approached him.

"Hey Drake!" Scott then punches him.

"Why the hell are you and your teammates targeting my friends? Are you that desperate of wanting me to 'confess!'"

"Well well well. You punched me, the vice captain of the basketball team. Okay. My turn!" Drake used both his fists to beat up Scott until he was knocked out to the ground. 

Not giving up, Scott tried to get up until Drake stopped him putting his foot on Scott's stomach.

"With the way you punched me, it seems that those accusations of you killing Troy seem to be coming true. You know me being a top player as well as him."

Scott ignored him as he tried to use his hands to get his foot off of him. But it didn't work as the pressure on his stomach was getting worse.

"B-But why? Why are you suddenly targeting me and my friends?" Scott trying to breathe.

"Well isn't it obvious. Laura wanted us to make you confess. Because she doesn't want you to get humiliated or die. She wants you to confess to the school so they can feel relieved of Troy's death. Yeah that would ruin your reputation, but hey, it's better for the majority of the people."

Drake then got his foot off of Scott. "However, I can give you another option that would disobey Laura's orders, but if you can let me be with Natalie again, then maybe me and my team can finally leave you alone."

"But who knows. Natalie might never be my girl, so you better think about our deal Scott, or else I might be the one who kills you and not Laura." Drake walks away.

As the after hours came to an end, Scott walked out of school, expecting someone to pick him up. Then, a black approached the entrance way of the school.

Agent F5 rolled up his window. "It's Tuesday. Time for some news."

Meanwhile, Drake was also getting ready to head home after Basketball practice. However, someone else approached him.

"Drake. May I have a word with you?" Liam behind him.

"Sure captain. What do you need?" Liam turned around.

"Of what you and the teammates did. Did you or them by chance try to hurt Bryan."

"Well Liam, me and the guys did make Scott and his friend's lives miserable and-"

"Did you try to hurt Bryan?" Liam interrupts Drake.

"No. Like you asked. But I don't understand why. Isn't Laura's orders to try to make Scott confess by terrorizing his friends including Bryan."

"But how do you know Bryan is Scott's friend? Did she tell you that because of the order? Or is it because Laura truly despises him?"

"Well Liam-"

"Captain!" Liam interrupted Drake.

"Well. Captain. Laura is the King of High School's girlfriend and I'm just following her orders. Remember what happened to our basketball coach after disobeying her last year."

"Yeah. One day he was there and the next he wasn't. Till this day, we don't know where he went and we have never had a replacement since then." 

"But I know." Drake pulled out his phone.

"A phone?! But I thought not many students-"

"Oh I'm not one of those 'students' that John desires." Drake turned on his phone.

As he turned on his phone, Drake had gone through his camera roll showing pictures to Liam.

"I never told anyone this, but I managed to get some photos and this is what I got."

Liam got closer to look at the photos and saw what seemed like a forest. But what he saw would terrify him.

"Oh my God!" Liam covering his mouth.

It was a picture of the Basketball's coach's cut open guts being eaten by many crows. The picture was horrifying as it also showed a familiar person with him.

"Is that?"

"Yep. That's him." Drake then put his phone away.

"I'm just saying captain, if Laura finds out that you were being disorderly, he's gonna come after you and he's not afraid to give you the same treatment that he gave to our coach."

Liam, being in shock, tried to say something. "B-But why?"

"Like I said, captain. Coach insulted Laura's cheeky personality and her boo thang came after him."

Liam didn't know how to react as he felt like he was ready to cry.

"But don't worry captain. Bryan is as safe as ever. I mean there's nothing special about him unless you are 'dating' him!" Drake left as he laughed evilly. 

Liam slowly turned around watching Drake leave. "You son of a bitch. If you or our teammates touch Bryan. I will beat.The shit. Out of everyone of yall even if it means dying."

Meanwhile, Scott and Agent F5 were on the road leaving Sunshine Valley.

"Where are we going?" Scott looking at agent F5.

"I'll show you." Agent F5 focused on the road.

As they were getting off road and into the grass, they approached a red cargo container.

"Here we are." Agent F5 stopping the car.

"A cargo container?" Scott looked at the container.

"Just shut up and get inside." Agent F5 opening the container.

As the container was opened, it seemed to be a small office with a working heater as well as a mini fridge, a portable stove and a futon. There also seems to be a couch with a working lamp that has already been turned on.

"Is this where you were living in?" Scott looked around in the container.

"Yep."

"Then why not stay in a motel or maybe a trailer?"

"Because...…Because I'm unique." Agent F5 closed the container.

Scott took the folding chair, unfolding it, and taking a seat.

"So Scott. Give me some updates about your school." Agent F5 getting on his rolling chair. 

"Well nothing much last week. We had a pep rally and the 'King of High School' drove his motorcycle in the gym building."

"That's kind of a safety hazard isn't it?"

"Hey, tell me about it." 

Agent F5 was trying to get some clues but had nothing. "So basically, you got nothing to report to me?"

"Nope. Nothing." Scott then was ready to leave.

"Hold up! Hold up! We aren't finished here kid. I need to ask you something."

Scott then got back to his seat. "What is it?"

"Well, when driving on the road here, I had this weird sense. As if someone was watching me."

"What do you mean?"

"Well, I saw this kind of shadow or figure of a teenage boy with blonde hair, a yellow jock jacket and-"

"Black jeans." Scott added on to Agent F5's description.

"Wait. How did you know?"

"Because it was the same vision that I had when moving here for the first time. He was staring at me while I was washing the windows. THat's the same appearance that looks like John."

Agent F5 is starting to get some clues. "If this character is related to John, then tell me more about John himself. Besides him being the 'King of High School' or whatever shit you teens do."

"Well, John likes to be full of himself, always positive, and wants to have a perfect school year whatever that means."

"Is that it?" Agent F5 being a bit disappointed.

"No. There was something else that you might want to hear."

Scott turned his chair around to sit in a position where he would lay his arms on the back rest. "So a couple months ago, me and this person who I used to be close with went to the homecoming dance. She was great and really outgoing. However, it was the same night that would change everything about how I saw John and his friends."

Agent F5 giving a solemn expression to Scott.

"I realized that my friend didn't come out of the school from the dance yesterday, so I decided to head to the school again the next day to see where she went and all of a sudden. Troy killed her in an attempt to silence her and it was all coordinated by John as he toyed with her dead body."

Agent F5 was shocked as this was unexpected. "Wait, are you for real?! I'm part of the FBI so don't toy around with me."

"I'm not! I'm telling you the truth! John, Laura, and Troy all had a small conference in a classroom as they sat down on my friend's dead body as they were teasing her!"

"Okay and do you know where the body is?"

"No." Scott's tone fell as he lack proof needed.

Agent F5 took a deep breath. "Okay kid. I believe you. And I think it might be a similar situation to one of the SWAT team."

"What happened to the SWAT team you were investigating." Scott questions Agent F5.

"They died, the truck blew up and killed most of them. One of them died from many bullets inflicted in his body. So this gave me the assumption that John must be coordinating these sneak attacks. The big question however is why is he doing it?"

"Is it maybe because of what he said at the beginning of the school year."

Agent F5 gave him a weird expression. 

"Think about it. What John really wanted is to have a perfect school year. Meaning nobody would speak out against him like my friend did, always wanting everyone to see you in a positive view, and most importantly that nobody can stop him from achieving that."

"I see." 

"Agent F5. What was the SWAT team doing near John's mansion?"

"We were getting reports that many people were getting abducted from here so we had a search warrant for the person responsible for this town. However, when we tried to contact the team, nobody responded to us, so they sent me here to investigate. And what I saw was that they were already dead. So maybe your theory might be right. John might be coordinating this."

"Right and he is responsible for my friend's death so John might be the mastermind of this town, not just the school. Also, what do you mean by people starting to get abducted?"

"Well back in Headquarters, we also had reports of people going missing ever since the nineties and has been drastically going up since then."

"Oh shit. I never knew that. Maybe that's why I didn't see many people in the summer. If they were abducted, where are they now?"

"That's something that I'm trying to find out right now."

They both put their heads down as they heard the loud winds from the snow.

"Scott. Make sure you keep an eye on John. If our theory is true, he should know where the missing people are as well as why he killed one of our SWAT teams."

"I agree. Also, before you drop me off back home, will you ever tell me your name?"

"Sorry Scott. It's prohibited to reveal my name during this investigation."

"Oh." Scott felt disappointed.

"Yeah sorry kid. It's just a part of my job. Now get your ass off that seat. I'm taking you back home before the snowstorm starts."

"Wait there's a snowstorm?! Are you going to be okay in this…... .container?"

"Kid. I got a heater as well as a futon and a coffee machine. I'll be okay."

"Okay. I just don't want you to freeze to death, you know." Scott chuckled.

"Right." Agent F5 chuckled back.

When Agent F5 dropped Scott back home, snow started to pour down really hard. Scott ran home as fast as he could not looking back as he couldn't even see Agent F5's car in a short distance. As the snow poured down really hard, more questions are needing answers as the mysteries of this town have become deeper than before.