Where Your Secrets Hide

CHAPTER 92

I woke up as my alarm rang. It is start for a nother day fro the end of the week.

It's Friday!

A new month to start with.

Today is June 1st of Friday. I get up and fix my bed, I look to my time and It is exactly 7 in the morning.I started to do my morning routine and after that, I leave my room fro me to get to school.

Until I realized one stupid thing.

My car.

Damn.

I forgot it in the hospital when I visited Austin yesterday and then Jake asking me to go to the mall with him. And I rode his car leaving my car behind.

I open this app on my phone, an app that will find you a taxi. Until a car stopped in front of me. I thought it was a strangers car, but no, it wasn't. the window of the car slides down and there Is aw Mr. Anotnio inside.

"Hop in Jackson." He said. "Me?" I asks him while pointing to myself. "There is no other Jackson there right?" He said and I smiled, sarcastically but as a joke.

To be hones,t Mr. Antonio is a good person, a good teacher. He really is better than Mrs.Vagianna, but you know, the two teachers have their own statistics or have their own way of teaching, that is why I like mr. Antonio more than Mrs Vaginna.

Mr.s Vagiana is a strict professor where all you have to answer is the right answer, if you are wrong, there is a punishment or she will embrass you in front of the class. But no matter how monster she is, everything she teach is so easy to understand, while Mr. Antonio's teaching technique is different. He is more of a free guy. He let his students do whatever thay want to do as long as they still understand the lesson, but when he got mad, damn, it's like a volcano that erupted.

Everyone will be quiet, more terrfying than what Mrs. Vagianna is doing to all of us every day.

I walk towards the car and I went inside.

"Thank you." I said. "I am going to the-"

"Hospital. I know. You forgot your car there... I am a teacher who observes the best. You didn't got home yesterday through your car, but you had a ride with Jake Carter and the both of you leave the hospital at the same time in one car, which is Jake's car." HE explained that makes me felt so dumb.

I can't even memorize the multiplication, so how could he memorize all that scenario that doesnt even seen with an eye?

"Thanks for that description of events Mr. Antonio... So observant for a perosn like you." I answered. "I am not going to be an english teacher if I can't rememebr that things... Actually, my majot is not actually English, but more of a psychology. But there are no psychology here in the West where I was raised, so they decided to put me in English Major." He said. "Wait you were raised here?" I asks him. "Yeah, pretty much... I grew up with the Cameron and Sergeant Gerald... My family left after that horrible death of those kids... and the accident to Cameron." He said.

Yeah, Sergeant Gerald said that.

I just didn't know that he was there at that time, I didn't know that he was raised here since he only become my english teacher last year after Mrs. Vagianna left.

"So why are you back?" I asks him. "My mom died and her last wish was to be burried where she was born... And I stayed because of one person."

"Ares." I said to answer him.

Tsk, I don't know anything about love with a huge age gap, but I can tell that this man? Can be a father. He can be my father if I want too. But, he is gay and having a relationship with a 19 years old guy, which will bee turning 20 next next month.

"I know what you are thinking Jakcosn. But if you love someone, you can;t just give them up. It is hard to give up to somebody you loved the most." He said. "No... I am totally fine with it to be honest... I just wish you are going to have a child with a woman... I mean, basically your genes are better than mine Mr. Antonio." I said.

I heard him chuckels. "Well, Ares and I talk about it, I suggested that after he graduated, we will be together and we will adopt a child." He said.

I nodded and I smile until I heard him sigh.

"Gosh... I rember that horrible accident in the hospital where two babies were switch but the other one ended up dead." He came up with that enws tory. "Huh??" I asks him. "Well, the hospital here in Westhood doesnt have any room for labor 20 years ago... So they had to go outside the town for the woman who is pregnant to give birth." HE said. "Then...?" I asks him. "One of the womans baby had a heart failure so they had to perform a heart exchange... And it suceeded to that baby, except for the other baby who ended up dead." He added. "I don't know what happened next but the woman who agve birth to that baby who had a heart failure, ended up bringin the dead one instead of her real child." He said. "How do you know this Mr. Antonio, and who is the woman?' I asks him. "I don't know Jackson... My mom is a nurse that time and she told me to enver adopt a baby from the hospital becasue of that situation." He said. "But you are still going to adopt a baby..." I said. "Yeah... But I guess not from that hospital. And again, we lived in a modern world now Jackson. That was 20 years ago." He said.

Yeah 20 years ago.

But I fetl sorry fro that woman.

She thought she brings her baby when the truth is, the baby she got is not even hers... I wonder where she is now and how is her life.

The car stopped in front of the hospital.

"I'll see you around enxt time Jackson." He said and I nodded. "Yeah, see you around too Mr. Antonio." I said before I left the car.

I watched the car leave and that is when I start walking towards the parking lot where I park my car when suddenly, I saw people gathering around from the entrance of the hospital and everyone is making noises.

I got curious on what is happening so what I did is to walk towards those people who are gathering and look to what is happening.

I saw van from a news mediaa and police car.

Everyone is making noise,s everyone is waiting for someone to come out.

I force myself to see on who are they waiting for, until in just a second, I saw policeman, four policeman bringing out a patient form the hospital while he was cuffed.

My jaw dropped as I saw the face of that man they are bringin out.

Austin Kobe.

He was being dragged inside the car, a police car. I don't know what is happening, but I am curious as hell. I mean, is he even healthy now? As far as I saw, his wound is still deep and is still healing, so how could they dragged him like that.

"Excuse me please, excuse me please." I said while I am walking towards this street for me to see Austin closely while the people that are all gathering is killing me.

They are all taking pictures of him, giving him a mic, asking a question but Austin is just quiet.

Until I reached the first row of these poeple who are gatehring for any information that they want to have to Austin.

"No further questions can be given right now for Austin. We will all see in court and just wait for the results of his status." Detective Portman said and they started walking again bringing him inside a police car.

"Are you Jackson Hall?" I look up as I saw a reporter questions me. "You are one of the victims of Austin Kobe!" She now shouted that got everyone's attention. They started taking pictures of me. Their attention to Austin Kobe transferred to me as they saw me. I tried to walk away but everyone is just arounds me that makes me hard to wlak away from them. Until I slid a look to Ausitn and there I saw him looking at me just before he was put inside the police car and droves away.

Some reporters and people followed the car, and some just stays for them to take a picture of me.

They keep asking questions about what am I feeling, about what ma I going to do enxt, if I am going to tstify or what.

Now I know what is happening.

Today is his court trial for his rape case.

Austin's rape case.

"Sorry." I said and I tried to fit myself to them for me to get away but they just can't let go of me, and just after a minute I finally get away from them so I started running towards the parking lot for me to find my car and for me to get in there and leave the hospital and drove myself away from here to school.

I keep running and running until I found my car parked not too distanced away from the entrance of the hospital.

I went inside my car and start driving away from there for me to get to school.

Damn.

This is not a good day to satrt the first month of June.

Just after a minutes of me driving form hospital to school, I finally arrived my school and take a deep sigh. I immediately walk to the bathroom for me to have a better thinking. I don't knwo what to think. Why am I feeling this towards him? Why do I felt guilty when the truth is I am the one who put him there in that situation because I wanted him to suffer. Why does he have to change? I mean, I know that him becoming more a better perosn cannot change the fact that he raped a lot of girls and boys, but why am I feeling this?

Why do I felt like this about him and about myself?

I felt stupid and at the same time felt so dumb.

I shouldn't be guilty about this, I shouldnt be guilyt towards him since it was his call for him to be punished for everything that he had done. I know for a fact that it is his lesson to learn...

I turn on the faucet of the sink and start washing my face with a cold water. The cold wakes me up and shivers my spine as it wakes me up. After washing my face with a cold water, I use my own shirt for me to dry it since I don't have any towels or anything that I can use to dry my face.

"You shouldn;t be doing that, you looks so iresponsible for that." I look up sa I saw jake holding a tisuue on his hands and handling it to me. I smiled and took the tissue and use it to wipe my face for it to dry.

"Jackson! Why did you do that?" He said and I look at him confuse. "Why? What did I do?" I asks him. "You use that tissue to dry your face?!" He said and I got confused as what he was saying. "Yeah..." I answered in my confusion. "I used that for my runny nose! I was about to throw it on the trashcan behind you!"

My jaw dropped after he said that.

"What?! But you handed it to me." I said to me while I threw the tissue on the trashcan that is irght behind me while me being disgusted on what I just did. "I hand you nothing. I was just telling you to not dry your face with your clothes!" He said.

Damn.

I wash my face again and this time, I scrub it with my own hands until I heard him laughing like he was going to die.

"You should've seen your face!" He shouted and keep laughing like he was going to lose his breathe any moment now. I turned around to look at him. "That was a prank?" I asks him with my serious tone and he nodded and he still thinks it is funny? "Funny? Wow!" I said and I opened the faucet and I immediately splash the water towards him for him to be wet too and he looks like he couldn't believe on what I did.

He looks straight at me, thinking that I will be dead for a second but we just laugh together.

"You two are having fun when the person who doesnt deserves a punishement is being tortured at this moment?!" We were both shocked when someone talk beside us. It was Sarah standing there and I could see that she just ended her crying session since her eyes are still red. She looks at me with his teary.

"Are you happy now Jackson? Are you happy now?! You now completed and succeeded your mission for Austin to left you and your ass! Is this is really how you hate him that you have to share to everyone that he is a rapist? Where is your manner to this Jackson?!" She shouted.

"Why are you getting mad at me? So who cares if I am the one who told and uploaded and share his secret? Why? Isn't it true? He raped you, raped me, raped Georgina and all of those people on that clips and who knows who he raped tthat wasn't included in that clips! Why is this my fault? It doesn't mean you love someone you ahve to protect them even at their worst! Wake up Sarah! ODn't act like you ar enot mad at him! I heard you yesterday threatens him that you are going to kill him becasue of the sins he had! You are a selfish b***h slut who only cares about themselves the reason why I call you selfish! How about Austin? Do you even know his feeling? What is it in your mind and you are mad at me?" I shouted at her. "Yeah, he is right Sarah. How could you betray me and my brother? We all thought that your baby is from his! From Cahse1 But in the end you cheated on him and even got a baby with his psycho bestfriend! My mom thought and bought everything you need for the baby! But what? My mad is so mad that she wanted to put you in jail but I just talk to her to not do that since you are a student had has a better future waiting for you! But what? You are acting like a s**t again Sarah! I don't even know why my brother falls in love with you! If I know that this is your real color, I shouldn't let myself get fooled with a person like you!" Jake added to defend me.

Sarah was just standing there and I could see that she was stopping herself from crying. She knows that if she cries, her whole world will be over, because to her, crying means defeat, means you ar eweak.

"You are all going to regret this! Especially you Jackson, I will make sure that you will suffer! You didin;t even know the story that we both had! You judge us, judge me like you two ar eperfect! As far as I know, your secrets ar emore scarier than the killer. And once I know where your secrets hide, I will sue you and will make sure that both of you, all of you will kneel down after me, asking for my apology! Well guess what, I won't." She said.

"Then don't." Jake added just after she left us alone here inside the bathroom.

"DOn't mind her. She lost her mind, I felt like she got obsessed with Austin since no one tris to love ehr after Chase becasue of her attitude."

The words that she gave up keeps repeating inside my head.

If she knows where my secrets hide, then she'll make sure we suffer.

But that wasn't the words I am talking about, it is about the words that she uses, the phrase that she uses.

Where my secrets hide.

I am sure that, that is the same exact phrase that C gave to me 2 years ago that makes me make sure of my gut that Austin is C when the truth is , he is not.