Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 31

I woke up finding myself laying down in a hospital bed.

I saw my hands cuffed on the bed.

What happened?

I look around when Sergeant Gerald came in with the doctors on his side.

"What happened?" I ask them. "You collapsed while being interviewed." Sergeant Gerlad answered. "Why am I handcuffed? I- I thought you said I'm innocent?" I asks him. "We are still not sure about that theory. But we will do our best to get you out here as soon as possible before the one who wants you dead strike again." He said.

My wrinkles on my forehead met with my two eyebrow from each side because of the confusion that I am getting.

"What do you mean?" I asks him and he look to the doctor on his side. "Mr. Hall. Apparently, we found out that you are being poisoned using a poisonous mushrooms that makes you hallucinate, and when you are overdosed with those poisonous mushroom, the results are either hallucinations, nerves breakdown... Even death." The doctor said. "I was poisoned?" I asks them with confusion.

I mean... How?

"We saw your medical results... You never really come here for any helath problem and never been committed in the hospital except the time when you were poisoned by a toxic cyanide that makes you in danger."

Sergeant Gerald look to the doctor with his shock face.

EH never knew that I was poisoned before.

"So... This poisonous mushroom and the cyanide poison is different to each other?" Sergeant Gerald asks and the doctor nodded. "Apparently the effect of the cyanide is weakness and death, and some memory loss if you are overdosed. While the mushrooms are hallucinations and nerves breakdown." HE said. "The timeline are very different. The mushroom poisoning started last week. As far as we're concerned... It is a food poisoning and he never really notice it so he keeps taking and taking it until it become worsen."

They both look at me.

"Is there any possibilities that he took that poison purposedly?" Sergeant Gerald asks. "Yes. There is a possibility that he would take it. But the thing we couldn't understand is why? If he knows that he could die by taking it everyday, why is he still taking it?" He said.

Sergeant Gerald nodded as he aggrees to the doctor.

"Yes you're right... Except if he wanted to die and suicide." He whispers to himself. "If he would suicide, then he should do it faster by slitting his wrist or haning himself. But by food poisoning? I don't think he would do it." The doctor said. "The only answer and a fact possibility here, is that someone is poisoning him..."

Then... Who would that be? Who is trying to poison me?

"Someone's trying to kill me?" I asks them. "Why? I've never done anything so horrible before..." I lied.

I did something very horrible...

It was me the reason why Chase is dead.

"Do you think it has something to do with Chase death?" I said. "It can be Sergeant. Since the poisoning starts just before his cousin was murdered, the day before Chase body was discovered, by him."

The room become silent after that, but no one leaves, but just no one tries to speak what is really happening.

"You said that the same poison was found to another high school student right?" Sergeant asks. "Yes. His name is Austin Kobe."

As far as I heard his name...

That's when I realized it all.

I poisoned Austin without realizing that I am being poisoned first....

"We found out that you were injected by the poison." The doctor said to me after 3 days of me staying here in the hospital with Uncle Gerald.

I almost lost my breath after hearing those words.

How is that possible?

"Can you really not remember how you were being poisoned?" They asked me and I answered no.

They all are confused on how did I get poisoned, but I know why I was poisoned.

It was Austin.

HE is the one who poisoned me after raping me.

Maybe for me not to talk.

But why does he has to poisoned me? What's the urgent? What's the importance?

I don't have to take some theory on why he is the one who poisoned me, because it is super obvious that he is the only one who can do this to me without me noticing.

So What did I do?

He has to taste the same medicine that he gave to me.

I don't want him dead since I want him to suffer until his death, I just want him to suffer.

I bought a poisonous mushroom online and it arrived after too many weeks.

I started to have a feeling that Austin is C, and I lost control.

I put a lot poisonous mushroom on his drink on Chase funeral.

That's why we had the same exact happenings last day..

I poisoned him, without noticing that I am being poisoned too.

But who the hell is that person?

Who the hell tried to poisoned me?

And how??

It just doesn't make any sense anymore.

"Until further notice Mr.Hall. You are going to stay here in this hospital untuil we say so. You have to lie low, no one should ever know you are in here." He said and leave the room with the doctor.

What have I done?

What am I going to do next? What the hell is going to happen?

I never understood how, but I can feel that my plan will be ruined afterall.

And if that happens, I will be ruined...

And at the same time, I'll be paying for someone elses sins.

And I won't let that happen.

I have to think, I have to think what I'm going to do next.

I have no idea what will be next, I have no Idea what will happen next.

And it has to stay on what I am thinking.

I stayed on the hospital while still cuffed and while monitoring my every movements. Because they think that I'm going to escape and go home.

They are monitoring my health too to see if I am getting healed from the poison, but it is negative.

Because the level of the poison is too high for just to be healed in days.

And up untuil now, I have no idea how, I have no idea how ddid I get poison, and why are they doing it?

Who wants me dead?

The night sleep while I'm imagining my future in the prison.

"Why do I have to imagne those things?" I asks my self. 'For you to be prepared if you went to jail.' My consciousness answered. "But I don't want to go to jail." I said back. 'Well It is your fault, you killed Chase.' It answered. "It's not my fault, I am not a murderer. I didn't kill CHAse."

"Are you sure about that?"

I almost lost my heart when someone answered me. I look back to see...

"Chase?" I called his name after seeing him standing in front of me wearing the same uniform he is wearing when he died. "Why did you do it?" HE asks me.

His voice is echoing like it came from under the ground.

It creeps the out of my life.

"I didn't do it." I said. "But you are still the reason why I'm dead." HE said back. "No! You are just a hallucination! You're not real." I shouted at him. "What if I am real? What if I am not just a hallucination? What if I am not just your imagination, but I am your consciousness." He said.

I felt my tear falls from my eyes to my cheek.

"No... You're not. You're not real, you are not here. You are just a hallucination. You are just an after effect of the poison." I said. "Really? Then Why? Why did you do it?" HE said. "I didn't do it. I didn't kill you! I never did!" I shouted. "I am not talking about you killing me." HE said that makes me confused about myself, about what he just said. "Then... What are you talking about?" I asks him. "Poisoning yourself? For what? For you to escape the justice?"

What? What is he talking about?

"You can't remember isn't it?" He said. "I don't know... Are you really for real?" I ask. "It's you to remember." He said and disappeared in the thin air.

"I'm sorry." I whispered when he disappeared.

I am still guilty for what I did... I still am and will ever be guilty for what I've done.

No matter what happens, no matter how changes occur, I will be guilty for what I've done.

I may not be the one who killed him, but I am the reason why...

But still I still have no answer, who killed him?

I put myself under the blanket and I start pouring my tears away form my eyes.

I rmemebered how I hit his head on the dashboard of the car, how I crack his head, how I drag his lifeless body on his trunk.... And how I pushed his car off the cliff.

I remembered it all.

"How to get away with murder." I said to myself while reading my notes while sitting on my study table. "I cannot go to jail, and I will never go to jail." I said to my self. "Everything is ruined now, but I will fix it." I said and look to the bottle that is beside my notes.

'Venga Mushroom'

"I can't let myself down." I said and start drinking it. "Die or not, but at least I won't be a suspect."

I start writing my ten tips, on how can I get away with murder.

1. Never leave DNA

"Come on!" I said while scraping the blood from the rock that killed Chase. Henry already cleaned the grass and erase our DNA to every single object here. We are wearing a gloves so we're not gonna leave any DNA while cleaning and covering up the murder I did.

2. Tell somebody you trust

I mean I already did this tip number 2, I already told Henry about it. But the question is... why do you need to tell it to someone you trust when there is a possibility that, that person can turn you in. Well the answer is, it is because they will help you get away with it. A true friends don't turn their friends in. Because you two can't leave each other behind, you two cannot be whole, if one of you is dead, nor missing, or just in jail. So choose wisely, because I chose Henry.

And I know Henry won't turn me in.

3. Clean the area where the crime happened.

Make sure that there are no marks nor any personal object or personal fingerprint everywhere, or otherwise, you can't get away with murder, since there are evidence pointing back at you. So in short, don't you ever ever leave any evidence that can point back at you.

4. Destroy the weapon you used.

I mean think about it, if the weapon or the object that used to kill the victim is still alive, then you'll be damned. So it's either crushed it into pieces, burn it until it turns to ashes or throw it in the middle of the ocean, yeah middle. But remember this, don't you ever hide the weapon you used, nor buried it or just plant it somewhere and throw at the side of the ocean, because that is how you get caught murdering someone.

5. Transport the body to another place.

Remember to never leaves the body where the crime takes place. So put the body away from the crime scene. Make sure to use a car, blanket or any kind of clothes to cover the body, and use gloves for you not to leave any DNA to the body.

6. Pretend that you're the one who find the body.

"911, what's your emergency"

"OMAY GOD! HI! PLEASE HELP!"

"what's the address of your emergency sir?"

"A,um. I don't really know the full address but the emergency is behind my house!"

"Okay, what's the address of your house sir?"

"It's uhm, WestWood Malagasang 12, saint street 114, West 162 california."

"Okay, got it..... Is your house near in the forest?"

"Yes! The forest! Now please! Help!"

"The police are on their way. Can you tell me what's the emergency sir?"

"I found a body. I found the missing boy. I found Chase Carter."

"Can you tell me what's your name sir?"

"Jackson. Jackson Hall."

"My dog went missing, I don't know what is the exact time since my school end at 5 and went home around 6." I said. The cop is just waiting for my next word to say so I continue talking. "Around dinner, it is time for my dog to eat his dinner when I notice that my dog wasn't around so I look around my house but he wasn't there, so I went outside to find him until I heard him behind those creepy scary trees behind my house. I keep calling him until I found him, but it wasn't just me who found something, also my dog found something, the body." I continued.

7. Lie But not all the details.

I was with Chase before he went missing. I left my phone in his car and only realize it after I shower. I don't have another phone so I went to Henry's house to borrow his phone to call mine but Henry is still not home so I waited until morning. But we couldn't contact my phone..." I lied again.

"Why are you with Chase?"

"He broke his leg just before the game so I offered him a ride home but he said that he can still drive and that his leg is not really that broken, that he can still move it so he told me that I should get home so I drove to my house and when we arrive their he exchange his sits and he drove away."

"Why are you bringing a gun on the game night." He asks.

"Someone is trying to threaten me. A text from a stranger random person. And someone is following me. I don't know if the person who is threatening me and following me are the same person, so I had to bring a gun beside me so protect myself."

8. Alibi

"Do you have an alibi?"

"Henry? I don't know if someone saw us that time, there's no cctv camera that time, maybe you should ask Henry's mom."

9. Blame someone.