Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 76

After we ate our lunch, Mrs. Josephine called me to the faculty office.

I knock on the door to the faculty office and I can hear her called me in.

"Good day Mrs. Josephine." I greeted her and she pointed out the chair in front of her. "Please take a seat Mr. Hall." She said and I followed her.

"Can I ask why you called me in your office?" I asks her and she just looks at me without saying anything.. Her facial features scares me like she is going to murder someone, lol.

Mrs. Vaginna looks like Lilith in Chilling Adventures of Sabrina.

Literally. Her cheekbone, her jawline, everything is so fierce towards her.

She went on the desk behind her where every students files of her claass are kept.

"As you know,, or if you didn't know. I am your new adviser since Mr. Antonio was fired becasue of him having a relationship to a student, that is gay. And it is against the law of schooling." She said while getting a files from her desk.

After that, she faces me and put the files on the table, slide it towards me.

"You are failing Mr. Jackson. I don't want a student to fail, especially in my advisory students. You have a reputation Mr. Hall. A president of this school. What if the whole students found out that all of your grades can fall in one piece because you missed the school for a month? What do you think will be their reaction towards you? Do you think they are going to repeat what they did earlier to you? Wlecoming you back?" She said. "The answer is no Mr. Hall." She said.

I opened the folder and my eyes shines in hotness becasue of what I read.

Every subject that I hold is f.

Which means I failed all subject.

"But. I didn't go to school because of a reasonable reasons." I told her. "No matter the reason is, I don't care if you lost your arm or the WestHood killer got you. As long as you are alive and breathing you can't fail the subject. And in fact, you were released in the hospital 2 weeks ago, then why didin;t you come to school? What did you do in 2 weeks? Everyone is suffering since only a year left before you all graduated. ANd what are you doing? Living the llife how you wanted it to be?" She said. "You have to comply all the missing projects and assignment next week. If not. Your position as the president of the school will be taken to you. And you will be back as a nobody." Shes aid.

Damn, that hurts.

"Okay. Mrs. Vagianna. I'll do my best not to fail." I asnwered her. "Good. Then get out." She said and I stood up. But before I leave the room, she tells me something that makes my spine shivers.

"Death is not the end of the sufferings, it is just the beginning." She said. "Chase is not dead, you know that right?" She added.

I slowly turned around to look at her but she was just sitting on her chair, trying to put the files back in the desk where she gets it from.

She looks at me with her confuse face.

"Did I just tell you to leave?" she asks me and I just nodded as an answer.

I leave her room immediately.

I don't know if it was her who spoke that sentence to me, but what does the voices mean that Chase is not dead and I know that?

"You okay?" My soul almost left my body when Jake comes and touches my shoulder. "yeah, I am." Speaking of the Carter.

"Look. About the tutoring, I don't know what Chase told you for you to come to me and asks for my knowledge, but I don't think I can tutor another Carter. The last time I did that, my life turned upside doown." I said to him.

His face turns into confusion after I said that.

"So you back out?" He asks me. "Back out? What do you mean? I didn't even answer you before." I answered and he smiled. "I think your memory got affected when that car crash happened." Hes aid. "You already said yes like just before that kid fell on our table and got hospitalized." He answered. "Or maybe you just said yes because Katharina wants you to, the reason why you forget about it." He added.

Ugh, yeah, I remember now.

And yes, he is right, I just said yes becasue of Katharina.

Why can't I say no every time Katharina is with me/ It's like I always wanted to do everything when I am at her, when we are near to each other. It's like I don't want to dissappoint her. I mean, it is normal for you not to disappoint your girlfriend.

I just can't control myself.

"Yeah, I do remember now..." Is aid. "So?? You will back out?" He asks me.

Damn, I felt so guilty if I did.

I mean, the last time I'm at the Carter's house, it did not end well.

And the fact that I am the reason why his brother is dead makes me felt so guilty to say no. And the fact that I suspect him as C, makes me want to investigate him.

Ugh, my mind is so lost right now, like I don't know what to do or what to say yes.

"Fine. I'll tutor you. Just..." I said. "Just what?" He asks me and waits for m to finish my sentence. "Could I tutor you at my place? I don't know if I can step into your house after what happened the last time I am there." I said.

I heard him chuckled like something is funny.

"Which one? THe time you kiss my brother, or the time my mother gets mad at you when you visited his funeral?" HE asks that makes my choke on my own saliva.

What the hell?

How did he know?

"Y-you know?" I asks him. "I am Chase brother aand I am my mother's son. Of course I know that Jackson. I know that you and my brother aren't just an ordinary teacher and student.... I know that you two has a connection, that you two aren't just friends, that you two has something between, that you two are having a fling, that you two are a thing." he said that makes me fear of my life.

The way he hardened the words of every sentence he gave gives me creeps. It's like he is going to kill me somehow.

"If you know that... Then why are you still looking at me, why are you still trying to force me to tutor you? Aren't you supposed to be mad at me?" I asks him. "It is because..." He stops, like he stops himself to say something that will going to end whatever in his mind. "I wanted to see why my brother falls in love with you when the only person he had a relationship with is Sarah." Ehs aid.

He smiles.

"So, let's start this Friday after class. I'll wait for you. I want you to teach me how to do functions and expression." He said and he wlak pass through me, walk away from me.

I know that he is hiding somehting, that it wasn't just the reason why he wants me to be his tutor, it's like he is trying to investigate me too, trying to see if I had something to do with his brother's death.

I mean, I can feel it. I can feel that he is mad at the ways he is the only one who can feel it. I may not know what is going on in his mind, but I know something is going on with his head, and I know that it is all about his brother.

I look back to watch him slowly fade away as he walks distance away from me.

I don't know what he thinks, but I know that we suspects each other.

I suspect him being C,, and that he suspects me being his brother's killer.

But, if c is Jake, does that mean that the person who killed Chase is not c?

Because why would you find the killer of your victim when you are the killer of your victim.

Is it for you to look innocent?

I don't know.

We will might not know, until I found out the truth.

I mean, I acted like I am the one who found Chase body wehn the truth is his body was in my house for 2 weeks, and I did everything for me to look innocent.

If I can do that for me to deny that I am guilty for what I did to Chase, then Jake can do that to deny that he is C. So everyone will think that he wasn't C.

Everything just complicate things.