Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 4

"Jackson Hall, Jackson Hall, please come to the principal office." The woman behind the speaker said.

My classmate starts teasing me.

"What happened?" Henry ask. "I don't know, I didn't do anything." I answered. "Jackson Hall, what are you waiting for?" Our History Teacher said. I stood up and start walking out of the classroom and start walking on the hallways to the principal's office.

When I got there I knock.

"Come on in." I heard from the inside. I open the door and smiled to Principal Holland. He's sitting to his chair whiles there's a two folders in his desk. "Sit." He said and point out the chair infront of his desk.

"Did I do something wrong?" I ask in my nervous tone. "No, but something right." He said.

What is he talking about?

Because of what he said, i start shaking up because I'm nervous, I don't know what to do.

This is what I always do when I'm not ready to hear the next word someone's going to say. Being nervous is my total lockdown.

"You're going to tutor someone." He said and gave me a folder. "WHAT?! Me?" I point out myself to know if it's real or I'm hallucinating.

Tutor?

I'm not even good at my own academics. How did this happened?!

I open the folder and it is my files inside the folder. What I'm going to do with this?

"What I am going to do with my own files?" I ask him. "Your files?" He ask me and look to the other files that he had in his desk near him. "Oh sorry, I meant to gave you this." He said and gave me the other file. I open it and I cant process the name that is on the files that he gave me. I don't know what to say on what I saw.

"Chase Carter?"

"Yes, he is the one your going to tutor."

"Please! Henry! Answer your damn phone!" I said but it just keeps ringing. I called Henry for 4 times, but it just keep ringing.

Where the hell is he?

I keep looking around to see if someone's watching me, but they can't see what I'm doing because we're behind Chase Car....

I hope so...

The only lights here is from Chase car.

And speaking of Chase, he is dead. His body is lying down on a grass, and the blood to his forehead dried up, and I can't breath, because I can't handle this.

I tried calling Henry again for the fifth time, while waiting for him to answer, I look back to Chase body. God, his eyes are still open!

I bent down and close his eyes using my two fingers.

I can't keep pretending that I'm okay, because I'm not. If Henry didn't answer this, I'm going to do it myself.

"Jackson!!" I almost threw my phone when Henry answered his phone. His voice is really loud. "Where are you?" I ask him. "Drinking? Why? Where are you?" He answered.

Drinking?

Why is he drinking?

"Why are you drinking?" I ask him out of my curiosity. "We lost. Our school lost, and it's my fault, because I kill Chase!" He said.

I kill Chase.

It keep echoing inside my head, the words he said. He didn't kill Chase, I did.

"I need your help Henry! Please! I am begging you! I need your help!" I said in my teary tone. I fall on my own knees. I am so weak right now. I don't know what to do. "Why? What happened? Where are you?" His tone changed when he heard me crying. "At the WestHood shortcut road." I said. "Why? You're going to your boyfriend?" He asks. "f**k you! Just, just please, meet me here, you'll see Chase Car, and you'll see me. I will wait." I said before I ended the call.

I drop my phone on the ground because I hold my shirt tight, and I keep crying.

I murdered him.

I kill him.

Im going to hell.

After 25 minutes of waiting, a light is approaching me that makes my heart beat starts to race faster.

Fuck! What should I do? What if they found Chase dead body here? I'm going to jail! What if it's the police? And they saw me in Chase blood.

The car stop in front of me, I close my eyes because the light from the car hurt my eyes. I put my hands in the air, surrending to my sins.

"Chase?" I heard. I slowly opened my eyes and it's Henry, looking to Chase body. He slowly looks to me. "Jackson? What the f**k did you do?"

The Body

What would you do, if you are in my shoes? Would you scream? Surrender? Fight? Or maybe.... You will do anything just to get away with it....

Just to get away with murder....

The bell rings and I'm still here sitting on the chair inside the classroom. I couldn't process everything my Science teacher just teach us. I couldn't focus, I cant focus until I'm still thinking about Chase, about how his body is hiding inside my cabinet closet, or worst, how his dead body's odor is starting to spread all over my house, all over the streets.

"Chase?" I suddenly get back to my mind when someone called me. "Sarah?" I call her name. Sarah smiled and she walk towards me. "Here." She said and she gave me an envelope. I get the envelope and opened it. I couldn't believe on what I saw. " Even tho I don't like you, you are still a friend of my best friend... A tutor. That is why you are invited to his funeral." She said.

I look back to the envelope that I am holding.

Yes, it is an envelope.... Envelope about Chase Funeral.

"Why so early?" I ask her. "His parents loses their hope about Chase. About Chase coming back alive. Because it is just so impossible. He's 2 weeks missing, they believed that he is dead." Sarah answered. "But you're not sure, I mean, we're not sure if Chase is really dead." I said to her. "I believe his dead. They already found a trace about his missing case."

And from that moment, I know everything starts to suck up.

What is she talking about the trace? Did I...

"You know what? We're not close, so just go to his funeral this Saturday." She said and she starts to walk away from me.

Today is Thursday... Tomorrow is Friday, the same day I killed Chase.

And now, everything starts to come up again, because even though its been 2 weeks since that happened, everything is still fresh in my mind, I can still hear his neck cracked, I can still see his eyes wide opened looking straight at my eyes, I can still see the blood on the rock...

Everything.

"Good morning Mr. Holland." The door from the principal's office opened and someone walked in. I look up to see who that person is, and it is no other than the jock himself, Chase Carter.

Chase look down and look at me.

"I swear to God! I did not know this guy, I did not make any trouble with him. So I guess it isn't about me making troubles again aren't I?" He said and stop talking and he look to the principal.

Man, I swear to God, I did not know how I become a tutor. And I'm going to what? Teach this Jock guy a lesson? Why can't he handle himself?

"Sit down Mr. Carter." Principal Holland said and he pointed out the chair beside me.

Carter follow him so he sat down on the chair beside me. Carter look at me like he is judging me. And from this moment, I can tell he is an asshole because of how his eyebrow making this weird lines on his forehead.

Chase has a black hair with a shade of brown. His eyebrow is so thick, and his nose is pointed . He is like a 6 footer man and his smell, ugh, it hurt my brain every time I smell this kind of scent, like how does all the jock in school has the same scent?

It annoyed me.

"Well Mr. Carter, meet Jackson Hall. Your tutor." Principal Holland introduce me to him. "Wait. WHAT?" Carter said with his problematic tone. He look at me again, and this time in my eyes.

And I know, from that moment, something will change, something is going to happen. When he look to my eyes that time, I could feel the tension between us. I could feel his heart beat, beating fast.

It's not an ordinary feeling, not a feeling of loneliness, not a feeling of happiness, sadness, or joy, specially not a feeling of longing someone or a feeling of loving someone....

It is more deeper, darker, more... Complicated to explain.

A feeling that you know, something's bad is going to happen. Bad things will happen if two dark soul meet each other. I can see through his eyes that his soul is dark, more like a soul of a lost man.

While me at that time, is a dark soul that is longing for someone. A soul that hoping for a light to come.

He look at me, to my eyes, he couldn't believe I did this horrible thing.

I murdered Chase.

It keeps repeating in my head. I couldn't stop hearing the little voices that is whispering in my ears. A voice that keep saying that I killed Chase.

I know I killed him, but...

"Jackson."

But it's an accident. I didn't kill him on purpose!

"Jackson!"

I didn't know that a simple push can cause a larger problem. I didn't know that there's a rock beside me, a small rock that can kill him.

"JACKSON!"

I went back to reality when Henry shout at me. I look at him and he is looking back at me.

"It's okay bro. It's okay." He said and he hug me. At this time, I didn't know that I need a hug from him. His skin is so warm, and it kept the coldness that I am feeling right now away.

I hug him back, so tight, very tight.

I couldn't imagine that this thing will happen.

"I didn't mean it! I didn't mean for this to happen! I didn't mean to kill Chase!" I whispered to his ear. He shush me and he hug me tight. " Don't say it. You didn't kill Chase. It was an accident. Don't say it." He said.

We separated from hugging each other and I look to Chase body.

"Hey. Hey hey!" Henry said and he force my face to look at him. " We're in this together! We will get away with this!" Henry said. "But how??" I ask him. "I-I don't know!! Maybe we leave the body and clean the evidence!" He said." Yes! That's right! Clean the evidence! That's what every killer do! They hide the evidence or destroy it!" He said.

I look at him and he realized what that supposed to mean.

"Oh God! I am so sorry Jackson." He said. "No, it's fine. You're right. I'm a killer, and killer must pay to their sins." I said. Henry touch my both cheeks. He hold my face so tight and he look to my eyes.

"No one is going to jail." He said. "We have to think about the things we're gonna do about him." Henry added.

Henry is right!

We have to think, I have to think

I stop myself from shaking.

Jackson,think! You must think!

I look to my right to look at Chase poor body. I know now what I am going to do.

I know now.

"I'm sorry Henry." I said to Henry. "No it's fine. You don't have to say sorry. I should be the one who should say that." He said.

Yeah, I know that.

PRESENT DAY

A busy and quiet night got break when a phone ring echoed in a room.

"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."

And when the boy said the name, Chase. Everyone stop doing what they're doing. The boy got their attention.

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

"Jackson. Jackson Hall."

-to be continued