Where Your Secrets Hide

CHAPTER 86

The music plays so loud that it is echoing inside my room, a happy beat modern music keeps playing.

I keep smiling on the mirror while fixing my hair while dancing.

I felt like a new person again, like I was reborn as a phoenix.

"Good day to you, good day to you too myself." I said to the mirror, like I was talking to myself.

I am so much happier than I was before, it's like everyhting about saddening, about the dramas, about the fear is all gone. I even forgot that Georgina wasn't the only killer, becasue I felt like every negative infomration in my head is and was erased forever.

And it is all becasue of what happened yesterday.

Foor the first time in my whole life, I felt like a man again.

It was my first time doing it, with a woman. Becasue I remmeebr the last time I did it was on Chase... No, to Austin when he obvioucly raped me. But yesterday? It felt so good.

I mean, if I am going to comapre it to my experience, I love the feeling of being a vers man, but also like the feeling of of that opposite feeling that I am having with thee boys.

Damn, I could still see her face and hear her voice how she doesn't want me to stop.

And today is Friday, what's the best day in a weekday?

FRIDAY!

Becasue after class of this day, tomorrow will be weekend, which means relaxing time.

I lipsynch the music that is playing on my speakers phone while looking on the mirror.

"Why do I felt like so handsome today?" I asks myself.

And everything felt so handsome.

When everything stops when someone called me on my number onmy phone that makes the music stops and interrupted me singing. I answered the call from Vick.

"DUDE! You ahve to get here in our campus, like right now!" He shouted and I could teell that everything is so noisy around him, like something is happening.

"Why what is ahppening?" I asked him. "JUST GET HERE!" he shouted before the call ended.

The music continues to play but the vibe that I am having earlier just disappeared becasue of that.

"Damn. I should never celebrated early." I said to myself.

I immeidately leave my room and went inside my car and drove it to my school. After any minute, I arrive the school and everyone is gathering, everyone is so messy and everyone is shouting.

I came outside the car and I tried to fit myself to everyone that is gathering just to see on what is ahppening.

And when I did, I saw a lot of camera surrounding the campus.

What the hell is happening?

"What the hell is happening?" I ask to one of the people out here. "they were making a documentary about our town, starting from the killings of he 1887, to the killings of yesterday." He answered. "Then why does everybody screaming when they are making a documentary?" I asks him. "We were given a role that everyone should scream and start clamoring since they were shooting a scene where a body was found." HE answered.

Oh.

"Excuse me, are you Jackson hall?" I look back as one of the stuff of the documentary series approaches me. "Yes. I am..." I answered. "Can we interview you for our documentation?" She asks and I just nodded without even considering the question itself.

I followed her and we stop in fornt of the crews and studd and they start clapping.

"Wait, interview for me what exactly?" I asks them. "We are just going to ask you a question about the killings since we heard that you are the new hero of this town. This documentary series will be on Netflix next summer, entitled as 'Where Your Secrets Hide' featuring any other netflix actor." They said. I look back as I saw one of the netflix actor they were talking about.

"you mean like Louis Partridge?" I ask them. "like Louis Partridge." They said..

I don't look like him, he looks so british and haandosme while I look so...

Handsome and doesnt look british lol.

"We will start the interview after they ended the filming of the dead body scene." they said. "But... We never found a body inside the school... Well, they dound two just outside the campus..." I said. "You see Mr. Hall. When making a series like this, you have to exaggerated some scenes for the audience of the show to stay tuned, and that will help the rating of the show." They explained and I juts nodded.

Yeah, more like not a documentary series since they are the one who is now chanign the scenes...

But I like it...

If it happened in real life, becasue it would look like more intense, and I want to feel what it felt like to found a dead boy in the school among with other students.

"Okay, we can start the interview now."They said and they drag me into this room where a lot of costume and make ups are ready fro their actors.

Damn.

I felt like a celebrity at this moment.

Do you know, I dreamt to become an actor too? Its just I don't have the guts after everything that had happened to me. I don't want to become an ator and then my secret will be revealed about what I did to Chase. It would probably going to end my career as the day It spreads all around the world, the news will going to be, 'Actor Jackson Hall from the little town in the west had a little secret that is too big to destroy his career.' And then it will all be the description under that title. 'Jackson Hall the actor from the stranger things have a strange secrets to hide, more likely, a stranger body to hide'

And then boom, I'll be in jail and everyone will hate me, I will received a death threats and everyone will uncover what happened to my town, and in the end Ill be dead.

Lol.

"He's ready Maam." The make up artist who did my make up said.

"Do I just have to tell everything I know? Like I am sorry, this is on the spot, I wasn't called earlier so I could be ready and prepared for this, so I kinda nervous and hate to ruin your show." I told them and they all laugh. "It is alright Jackson, you just have to answer all the questions that we want to asks you. You can answer it truthfully, or by everything you want to know." They said and they start rolling the camera and they strted counting.

"And here today,, is the real Jackson Hall from the documentary series that portrayed by Louis Partridge. The one who they call, as the hero of the WestHood town, where killings are everywhere." The interviewer said and I wved at the camera and smiled. "So tell me Jackson, how did you end up as the herp of this townn?" They ask.

I look around and evreyone is looking at me, not just the interviewers, the stuff, Louis Partridge or any actors, but also my schoolmate, my classmate, my friends, my girlfriend.

"Well, I don't really call myself as the hero of our town. The only thing I did was to fight and revealed who is the killer or the person who is killing every innocent person in our town. That is why I don't really call myself as the hero." I answered. "You may not call yourself the hero, and the only thing you did was to reveal who this person is makes you a hero. You did not just tell the truth to everyone or tell who is the person behind themask of thaat killer, but also saves a ton of lives, You've prevented that person to kill anyore lives along the way. That is why you were called as the herp of your town." She said.

Lol, I tell the truth.

To be honest, I don't even deserves this spotlight since I wasn't, I didn't really tell everything to them.

If they knew that I lied, that I knew something that theey didn't, I will be the most hated person in our town nor in the universe, from the most famous hero of the west, to the most hated person form the west.

"So jackson Hall, can you tell us about yourself? Just introduce yourself about who you are, what are you doing for the living? How did you end up as the very target of the WestHood killer?" They asks and I just nodded for an answer. "Well, my name is JAckson Hall. I lived here ever since I was born here. MMy family runs this town before they even named our town to WestHood. My fathers great great great grandfather moved here when he was in his mid 20's with my fathers great great great great grandmother. So our family generation basically lives here in our town... I am 17 and that I moved outside the town after the killer, the WestHood killer burned down my house." I started. "My father left us while my mom took her life. So basically, I don't know where my dad now... I don't know if he is alive or not... So... I lived almost alone for 7 years now I guess? Or for 9 years? The one that supported me is my aunties and my uncles and my cousin from Los Angeles... My aunt is my mothers sister. My cousin... died... 2 years ago here in our town, he was murdered, and the one who did that... Is either dead or still out there... Why I said that? BEcuas eof the poeple that help me lives a great life here, is the family of one and only bestfriend, Henry... But unfortunately... He was arrested for the murder of one of my friend s***h student for tutoring... And he was released last last month becasue all the evidence towards him killing Chase wasn't a fulll evidence that makes him get out o the prison... And just after a week, he was murdered just after my house was burned down..." I said and I did not notice that my tears are falling down on my cheeks.

I did not stop myself crying...

"And I felt so guilty every damn day towards him... I am the reason why he went to jail because I confessed everything about what happened, and he didn't even accept my apology just before he died..." I added.

One of the crew gave me a tissue for me to use it to wipe my tears.

And I did.

"And now, I felt like my guilt is haunting me by being the target of the WestHoood killer." I said.

"What if the reason why you are being targeted is because of that person? Your best friend that you framed up to your other friends murder?" She asks.

My forehead become quesitonable after she said.

"I did not say I framed him up." I said. "Well, you didn't, but everyone will think about it. Since you convince the police that he is the killer, when after 2 years, he ended up being plead not guilty... Everyone will think you framed him up..." She said. "Do you think that the reason why you are being haunted by the killer is becasue that killer wants to get revenge to your friend, HEnry?" They added.

No. Not think. But it is true.

Not just towards what I did to Henry, but what I did to Chase...

Someone was convinced that I killed Chase, and he will do everyhting in his power to get me killer or for me to confess on the crime that I did not do...

Ii smiled to the camera and look at it, directly.

"Do you want to know a little secret?" I ask them, avoiding the question that they gave to me. They all lean towrds me to listen what I am going to tell next.

"Do you know why every time they killed somebody, they posted their secrets?" I asks them and they all shrudded their heads becasue no one knew the answer. "It is because she kills not a random person, but kills through the rank of their secrets.. She said before she escaped that she wasn't killing innocent people, but she is killing those people who doesnt deseved to live, those people who have secrets, that can ruin the living day of this earth." I told them and they all cannot believe what they just heard. "So, that was her last message to you." They said and I nodded.

They keep asking quesitons about me, weve forgotten the question where they think that Henry is the one who is doing all these.

I will believe that, if he is alive.

But no he is dead.

And I havent even visited his grave once.

"Mr Hall, you said earleir that your family lives here ever since this town was made from the dawn right?" And I nodded as an answer.

That is what my father told me.

"So does that mean you know that the killer from the 1887 lives in your house back then?" And as soon as they said that, my eyes were shuttered as I coudnt believe what I juts ehard. What do they mean that the killer lives in our house/ I don't understand...

"What do you mean by that?" I asks them. And they all look to each other as they saw my confuse face. I think I given them the asnwr that I did not know what are they talking about. "Back in 1887, the police found something extraordinary about the case." They said and they given me a folder where files about the murder case, the serial kiler case abck then in 1887 are pasted there. "They found a tunnel that can lead them to a lot of buildings, houses, and places. But only one house is connected tot eh tunnel.. And it is your old home house that you said was burned down months ago." They explained to me.

I keep turning the pages to look on what are they saying is real or not.

Every pictures and words that was explained shows that they are not lying. How did they even know that kind of information? When I was the one who lives here first and they are here just to make a documentation.

"When you flip the papers to the last page, there you can see that yyour old room is full of pictures of thee victims. Means that one of the Hall family... IS the killer."

I drop the files and I felt like my heart stop for a minute when they said that. My hair stood up, my hair from my body stood up as the wind blows right into my face. I hold my shirt when I felt like I couldn't breathe.

When I heard a whisper to my voice.

"WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?!" Lucy's voice.

When I opened my eyes it becomes blurry, and I could see that the stuff looks so worried that they walk towards me to help me breath, to help me calm down, but even though everything seems blurry, I cans ee the gir that has been haunting me.

Lucy Sable.

She was standing far from the distance.

I couldn't see her face that clear, but her red headed hair is so clear that I know that she was Lucy Sable.

She is the only red hair girl that lives and died here in our town. No one else.

But even though I am focus to her, looking at her, I know why she was trying to show ehr face.

Something bad is going to happen.

Like the day my house burned, the day that Sergeant gerald and I had an accident, the day the bomb exploded.

She is showing me some signs that something is going to happen.