Where Your Secrets Hide

CHAPTER 91

I rang the doorbell of their home and I look up as I am amazed to the house where I am right now.

A big white house with a fountain outside that you could see even with a gate outside.

The gate opened and a maid went outside to open the gate for me.

"Mr. Hall." She said and I smiled. I did not expect for her to know me, nor my surname. "Madam Carter is waiting for you in the dining hall." Shhe said and she put herself on the side for me to let in. I bowed as a respect.

I followed her form the gate to the door of their main house, the main door.

I wish I lived in this house, I wish I could afford this kind of house that this Carter family has. All I could afford for now, is a pack of chicken.

Lol.

"hi, Good Morning Mrs. Carter." I greeted Chase mother when I first saw her standing wiating for me inside the kitchen, where the stairs are near. "Good Morning to you too Jackson." She said. "I know you probably asking why did I picked you to tutor my son when I know that you are not even that good in your own grade..." She said.

Damn, that felt so embarassing for a mother to say.

So I just laughed and rpetended that it is funny, even though it is not.

"You don't have to explain Mrs. Carter. Iwill do my best to make sure that your son is going to be better." I said. "I don't want him to be better, I want him to be the best." HE added.

Damn, if you want your son to be the ebst, then why me? WHy did you picked me when ou could hire a teacher, a professor that si better than me?

"you can take your stuff upstairs and put it there. Chase is upstairs, he just arrived, so maybe he is taking his shower." She said and I just nodded.

After that, I walk upstiars and oout my things on his room, the room that the maid showed me.

Damn, this boy's room is so freaking huge. It's like, I am inside a hotel room. Everything is so nice and neat. I think it is rare to see a jock whose room is clean and neat. Because all I know, jock are... Not that edible.

Henry's room is messier than my whole house... Like literally, his clothes are piled up, his shoes, his bed... Like his room was strike down by a storm.

I heard the door opened and when I look back, my eyes widened as I saw him.

I shut my eyes and cover it.

"What in the hell are you doing in my room?" He shouted and I could hear the steps running towards me.

I could feel the grip of his hands and drag me outside his room.

"You should've knock! You've seen me naked! Do you know what does that supposed to mean?" He said. "I don't" I answered.

I could feel the force that he gave to me and felt my body slam the ground as he pushed me down, outside his room.

I heard a loud noise by him slamming the door in fornt of me.

"I am really sorry about that Jackson.... He don't want to be seen naked... Ever since the accident that happened to him and his brother." I heard Chase mom. "I really am sorry for that. I didn't know."

"He threw you outside his room?" He asks and I nodded. "I didn't even see his whole naked body, I mean I saw it, but only for a millisecond." I answered back. "I know he doesn't want to be seen naked, and I know that the reason wasn't just becasue of what happpened to you and to him, the day of the accident. I could tell that ther is something more." I told him. "Yes... There is something more... he never really want for anybody to know that, becasue no one supposed to know that, it is his deep secret... And I could tell, that you would understand that." He said and I smiled. "No matter how complicated his life is, it wouldn't change the fact and any fact that I felt towards him." I said. "Anyways... he is gone, and I moved one." I answered. "if he is still alive, I think he won't be." Jake added.

"But he is dead."

And he will be dead, forever.

And how could he say that, he didn't even know what kind of relationship we are having back then. I mean, I didn't even feel that Chase loves me or something.

"You know what, why don't we stop here and change the subject of our topic?" I asks him. I don't want to remmeerb him, it just makes me more guilty than I am before. I know I did not kill him, but I know that I am ther eason why he is dead.

And the fact that he is dead, makes me feel uncomfortable.

"Yeah, you're right. He is dead, and I can't do nothing to change his fate, but all I can do for now is to find his murderer." He added. I smiled at him and avoided an eye contaxt direct to him. I stood up and looks at him. "Come now, we should not waste time sitting ehre in this chair in a mall, a lot of things can be done here in mall, right?' I asks him. "Right." HE answered and he stood up too and start walking away from me, going to the exit.

Yeah, and now I felt like he is being suspicious again towards me.

I need to do a lot of things tog ain his trust, not to fool him, but for him to erase the suspicions that he ahs towards me. I know, he might not want, and don't want to say it, but I can feel that he is still suspicious aboutt me. I mean, if I could play dumb 2 years ago, if I could act that I was the one who found the body, then maybe I can act like innocent today.

I mean, I am innocent, just not that innocent for me to not plead guilty of something.

I followed him and we just wondered inside the mall, we bought shirts in this branch and we play games inside an arcade.

We play the basketball one, and he is sucks at it.

Obvioucly, I score more than him sicne I am the basketball captian in our school.

I did not even know if he play sports or what, but based on his muscles, I felt like he do.

"Do you play sports Jake?" I asks him and he smiled. "Just one sport, football." He answered. "Oh, so you are basically like Chase. He told me before that he doesnt want to play any sports except for the football one, since it was and only his sports." I said. "Oh wait, speaking of football, why don't you tryout? Austin got kicked out of the team, I am pretty sure that they are finding new players, and finnding a new captain for the team." I suggested. "Isn't Charles the new captain?" HE asks.

I lifted up my shoulder to respond that I don't know.

"Charles? I didn't know that..." I said. "Well, it is fine, since you just got back from being hospitalized. No problem for that." He answered. After we played arcade, we went to this ice cream shop to buy an ice cream. For the first time in a long time, I never felt so happy. I mean, I've been to a lot. Like, I stayed in Hospital for weeks, or maybe a month, and all those killings? It just bothers me that I forgot to have fun.

"I never knew this is life should be." I said to Jake while eating the Ice Cream that he treated. "You never had fun before?" He asks. "I mean, I had fun before... But that was when Henry is still alive... Ever since Chase death, my life, my story changes. I never had fun even thought I had a girlfried. I think the only fun that I am having when every time I felt... you know.." I said and he laughed. "Damn man, next time, we will have a lot of fun... You are young, you should enjoy your life." He said.

How can I have fun when I know that there is a killer who is targeting me, when I know that C has an eye to me. When I know that I am lying about everything.

"Jake?" I called his name and he looks at me. "What if I have a lie that I;ve been keeping." I asks him. "Will you still trust me or will you still be my friends?" I added.

He looks at me, with his serious eyes.

"It depends on the lie that you have. Why? Do you have a lie to keep? Are you hiding something?" HE asks. I took a deep sigh and I nodded.

He lean towards me for him to listen, for him to know what I've been hiding.

"It is about the killings." I said.

I know that I can't trust him, becasue he can still be C, but I have a feeling that if I told this to him, this guilt that I;ve been carrying will be more lessen.

"What about it?"

"The killings didn't end Jake. Georgina wasn;t the only killer that is lurking around the town. There is more... I can;t tell it to everyone since I don't want to be a killjoy.. Ever since the world knows that Gerogina is dead, everyone celebrated the fact that the killings are done, wehn the truth is... It's not. I don't want to be the reaosn why my town is going to be more terrified and afraid about what is going to ahppen enxt... And the fact that there are still no work from them, makes me more concious about it, makes me more nervous... BEcasue I felt like, they are going to have the biggest comeback in the world... And I am scared..." I said.

After a minutes, I can't still get nay reaction from him.

Until he smiled and luagh.

"Is there something funny about what I just said?" I asks him.

"i know that Jackson. Serial killers don;;t kill like that.. I mean, they kill like that, but they don't work like that. A serial killer can't be caugh that easily... A serial killer will haave mroe victims in a year and not amonth." HE answered. "Physics.." He added and he started licking the ice cream that we have in oour hands.

"You really are a mysterious guy."

I mean he is right.

A serial killer don't work like that.

After that, after spending almost 5 hours in the mall, he dropped me to my hotel, to the hotel where I am staying.

"Damn, this is a luxurious hotel for you to lived in." He said. "I know right? Katharina''s father owns this hotel, and he said that I could live there for free. It is becasue I saved her daughters life." I answered. "You want to come in? Just in case you are thirsty?" I assks him and he just smiles. "No thank you." He answered. "Then I'll keep going." I said and opened the door for me to get outside the car.

Before I close the door he called my name.

"Don't forget tomorrow, we have a tutoring to do. I'll pick you up from school." He said and I just nodded. I closes thedoor and leave him.

I waited for his car to leave then I wave my hands to say goodbye.

I went inside the hotel and there I saw Katahrina's dad inside.

"Mr. Corazon." I called him and he looked to my way and he smiled. "Jackson, what a nice day to meet you." HE said and he smiled. Mr. Antonio is with him. "Are you considering my request to you?" he asks me and I smile forcely as my response. "I am still considering Mr. Corazon. I'll let you know... But I promise,, I'll give you my answer this week." I said. He nodded. "Then let your considering be done before next month, or the offer will be gone... " He said.

They wlak again, but before I leave I called his name.

He turned around to look at me.

"I wonder where katahrina is." I said like I am numb to not know where Katharina is. "Oh, her? She takes her exam in Chicago. Did she not text you?" He asks. "No. She didn't." I said.

EH nodded like he is thinking about something else. "I think she'll text you tomorrow once she bought her new SIM card. The network here and in Chicago are different. We are not communicating through text, but through app... I wonder what the app called is." HE looks up and Mr. Antonio whispered something to his ear. "oh yeah, Messanger, form Facebook." HE said and I smile. "if you have any question, don't forget to text me to the number that I gave to you. I should keep going since I have a meeting that I had to go this evening." he said and I just nodded and wave my hand as they walk out of the hotel.

Now I know the reason why.

I mean, if you love someone, you just gotta trust someone.

"Don't you trust me?" Chase shouted at me while we are inside his room. "Could you just keep your voice down? Your mother could hear us both." I said with my low tone of voice. "Sorry... It's just... Why can't you trust me jackson? I know what I am doing...I love you and that's what matters to me." He said after he just shouted at me. "I know... I know... I trust you... I love you too ahse, I deeply do... it's just... I felt like every time we are in school, you treated me like a nobody to be exact, you treated me like a stranger." I told him. "it is becasue I don't want anyone to know about us." He said. "Why? Are you ashamed? I mean, I am ashamed too, but everybody treats me like a loser, and everybody treats you like a king. And once they know, even though just a friend, maybe they could change the way they treat me... Maybe they can stop bothering me, bullying me, like am a nobody... because I am not..." I said.

I mean, I do trust him, but at the same time I don't. Becasue I felt like he doesn''t want everyone to know about the two of us. Like he is afraid to know that he is a bisexual or what.

"Is that what's important to you? Fame? The way they treat you? Is that the reason why in the first place you kissed me? You love me? BEcasue you think that if we had a relationship, your status in life will change? Then that is not love Jackson! I love you that I choose to be with you everyday than Sarah. I love you that I think about you every night and every day the moment I woke up! I love you that my love to Sarah faded away... While you? I felt like it is wrong to love you Jackson. You are the second boy that I ever loved, the second and the last ebcasue I know, we will be together in the end.... No matter what people say... but I just need you to wait, I needd you to wait for me... I am begging..." He said. "I'm sorry. I love you not becasue of those reasons... Maybe I overreacted since no one in my entire life are proud to loved me... My mom said that my dad left us becasue they don't love the both of us... That my mother killed herself becasue she loves dad more than me... Everyone betrayed me when it comes to love Chase... And I am so in loved with you that I don't want you to betray me... Becasue it hurts... I don''t think I can lose you... I felt like my life is knotted with you..."

I loved him but I didn't trust him...

The reason why he died.

Because I didn't trust him.

Like I said before.... Love hurts.

But...

No matter how it hurts, the opposite of the loves makes you want to love more...

But why does no one loves me?

I mean...

We are together...

But not becasue of love...

But becasue of desperation...

If only Katharina survives, maybe we will be getting married next year.

3 MONTHS BEFORE AUSTIN WENT MISSING

"You're the killer?" Jackson asks to the person who looks exactly like Chase. "I am not, but you killed my brother's best friend, like how you betrayed your best friend!" The man shouted back to answer Jackson's question. "I didn't kill him! I did not kill Austin! He is missing! I did not kill him!" Jackson shouted.

"Is it coincidence that the same thing happened to my brother happened to Ausitn? Missing for two weeks, ghost roaming around town, and then what? Austin is going to end up dead? You are just repeating your own history!"

The man who look exactly like Chase said, or should I say, Jake?

"Really/ Is this how you played me? Fool me? f**k you Jake! I did not even think you as the killer! But you think that I killed Austin? We didin't even know if he is dead or not! Huh. You know what Jake? f**k you, Katharina was shot in front of me! And you are here holding the knife with a hoodie on you, the exact description they are telling as C! But do you think I believe that? DO YOU THINK I BELIEVE THAT? Of course no!" Jakcosn shouted to Jake.

The thunder echoed all around the place and the wind become more stronger than ever and the rain did not stop falling from the sky.

"i don't know what to think Jackson! I don't! I don't even know what to believe!" HE shouted. "Then trust me." Jackson answered. "Trust you? Like how you trsut Cahse? Oh, wait.... You didn't." Jake start walking towards him, towards Jackson. "I may not be the killer, but I will do everything I can just to kill the monster who killed my brother!"