Where Your Secrets Hide

SECRET 65

I slowly open my eyes and the only thing I can see is dust, all around me. A foggy dust from the crash is the only thing I can see.

I cough and cough as I inhaled dust in me.

“Sergeant. Sergeant!” I called him, to asks him if he is alright, but nothing, he wasn’t answering. I couldn’t see him since everything I see is dust, just like what I said moment ago.

My ears are ringing, I couldn’t hear a clear noise, it just keeps ringing llike hell, that I want to cover my ears for it to stop, but I can’t, I felt like my arms are stucked somewhere.

I tried to move, but I could feel a heavy metal on top of me, ther eaosn why I couldn’t move.

I tried to crawl and I hit my head on whatever that is on my head.

I sigh in disappointment, I felt like in any moment now, I am going to die.

Is this what it felt like to die?

It felt so weakinening, like you coulnd’t move, you couldn’t do anything, like everything collapsed in front of you.

“Death is much worse than this.”

A heavely creepy deep man voice whisperes to me, the ssame voice that whispered to me when I pushed Chase car on the cliff.

I remember it, because it is the very first whisper that I accepted, and ever since that day, the voices are coming to me, and I am not surprise anymore, I am used to it, but every time I am receiving a whisper, I can’t take the creepiness out of me. I enver know who’s that voice, I never know where it is coming from, I don’t know what the voice want frm me. It is like it is haunting me. I don’t believe in haunting, in ghost, in paranormal aand supernatural, but now…

I think I do, because they threw it all to my face.

They show it to me, like they want me to believe in it.

Just after minute of me suffering, I heard foootsteps just from outside the door. I could hear sirens and all.

I can hear the door being opened.

And I think they are having a problem on opening the door, because the car is upside down.

And just a second, they finally opened it, and I can feel hands and arms, pulling me out of this place wwhere I ma stuck, and I screamed as I can feel the pain through my bones, like it is ripping apart. I started crying, I started to feel the tears on my cheeks form my eyes.

It hurts so much like hell.

I think this is more awful than death, no matter what the voice says.

This is much worse than death, because you could feel any pain through anyting, you can feel the darkness are coming to you, you could feel the death near you, and it is much worse, it is suffering and hell.

“Another one in here!” A man shouted when they finally pulled me out of the car.

When they pulled me out, they put me in a bed and put me in an ambulance.

“Sir do you feel any pain? Are you hurt?” Thhe nurse said and he flashes my eyes with a flashlight on his hands. He tried to look for any injury, but no matter how hurt I am, he enver found one.

HE looks so confuse and aat the same time amazed. But he still gace me an oxygen and treated me even though he never found me.

No one tell you this before, but breathing in an oxygen, can let your nerves weak, and can let you sleep.

So I did fall asleep.

THIRD PERSON’S POV

Hell, what it’s like to live in hell?

No one knows, because no one has been through hell before, because everyone lives there life like there is always for tomorrow, because no crimes, no hatred, peace is everywhere. That’s what life here in WestHood town, but that was before Chase died.

Ever since Chase Hudson died, people felt like, another crime is going to happen in any minute. They all believe that it is a witch doing, a wich uses someone to be a murderer.

But no one can proves that, not until after 2 years of Cahse death.

Everything seems perfectly normal, until it wasn’t. Accidents, incidents, crimes, murders are keep on happening o their town.

People starts to believe that something is off, that a murderer is on the loose. That there’s a serial killer doing all of this, and no one knows why. Not even AJckson, not even jAke, not even Austin, and not even Katharina.

Everyone is scared to death, specially when a real murderer papened lately. Two dead bodies were found, the other one was stabbed in the chest multiple times, and the other one opened her throat like they tok the adam’s apple oout of it.

That’s when they know, that all of these, is our of ordinary.

That a murderr, a serieal killer is on the loose, and no one knows who that is, how many they are, who are they, what gender are they haaving. No one.

They have no clue, nor an idea about them.

They just know, that the murderer, called himself as the “WestHood killer.”

The same serial killer name of 1887, 137 years ago.

People thnks that the history is repeating itself, except, the murders are random, except their dead bodies are showing up and not being hidden and not making them a missing person first.

It become a modern serial killer.

The sirens are too loud that it woke everyone up, well, it wasn’t the sirens that wakes everyone, it was the multiple gun shot that echoed around the twon. Everyone is so scared, especially when they saw two cars flipped down.

It is a fact that the only peole who survived, are the people on the other car, Sergeant GErlad BEnelisto, and Jackson Hall, since the people on the other car, are shot on the head, like the person who shot them, knows what they are doing.

“KAthairna, have you heard what happened to your boyfriend?” Jonna asks Katharina while they are busy trying to look for the dead body, to look on who died.

Up until now, up until this afternoon, no one knws whose body those dead people belongs to. people are all curious and they are all gathering near at the WestHood high.

“Whait what? What happened to Jackson?” Katharina asks Jonna immediately as she said spread the news to everyone that another accident happened, not too far away from the academy. “A car crash happened, not too fat away from here, and Jackson was there, inside the car, with Sergeant Gerald.” She said.

Kathairna drop her jaw as she heard the enws fomr Jonna.

They tried to get out there, but there are too many people on their way since everyone is gathering all around to see whose bodies were found.

“I cannot believe our town are becoming a nightmare.” An old woman said to her friends. “It’s like the history are rpeaeting itself.” She added.

Everyone is so scared and afraid on what is happenieng.

“Another accident happened there!” A man shouted to get everyone’s attention. And ebcasue of that, because of their curiosity mind, they all run to follow the man, I mean, not all, but half of them to see what accident the man is talking about.

Katharina and Jonna tried to follow the pole, when Katharina stops walking as she saw one of the dead body being covered in a white blanket.

“Katharina.” Jonna called her. “Henry.” She said. Jonna looks confuse onw hat Kathairna said. “What do you mean Henry?” She asks her. “Henry is one of the dead bodies.”

Jonna couldn’t move as she couldn’t ebelieve what just Katharina just said.

“Poor Henry. HE just got out of the prison, but now he is dead.” Katharina said. “Come one Kathairna, we now know who is the other dead body, we have to go and see the other accident. They said that the car crash is so brutal. People thinks no one survived.” Jonna said trying o convince Katharina to go with her. “And in fact, Henry kind of deserves that, He killed Chase, I think it is a better results after all to im.” Jonna added.

Katharina sigh and followed Jonna, and take a one last look to the two bodies being brought in to an ambulance car until everything faded away as they walked away from the crime scene.

After minutes of them walking, they now all arrived at the scene oof the two car crash.

Everyone is being pulled out of the car, but kAtharina never saw Jackson being pulled out.

“I thought JAkcosn is in here? Why hasn’t he being pulled out?” Katharina asks Jonna. “HE was already pulled out. He was on that ambulance.” Jonna then point out an ambulance not too far away from them.

Katharina walk towards the ambulance, and Jonna shouted her name.

“I am so sorry MS. But you can’t go any further, this is a crime scene, no one should be over this line.” A police officer said to Katharina to stop her from getting cross the line that was taped on the ground. “But my boyfriend is nin there! I have to see him, I have to know if he is alright or not.” Katharina said. “The kid is fine, but the three adults aren’t. Two of them are dead, and the other one in in severe condition.” The officer ansered.

They all stop and becomes more worry. They didn’t know who that officer are talking about, so they have no idea if he was talking about Sergenat Gerald being in a sever condition, or him being dead.

“Katharina? Jonna? You are here too?” Jonna and Katharina look back as Carla called their name. When they look back, they saw Carla, Jake, and Vick there standing behind them.

“What the hell is happening to our town? Why these murders are keep happening?” Vick asks to them. “My life is so simple when I was just a mail man, but when I become a students, it turns like my high school life ended into a tragedy” HE added.

Everyone is just watching the officer pulling everyone out of the car.

When their phone vibrated all at once. They all look to each other, and it looks like they all have the same idea on their mind on what is happening, on what is going to happen next.

They all open their phone to see the message, and another secrets were revealed.

It was Magdayao’s secret, and Henry’s.

“Does that mean that Henry wasn’t their target at all?” Katharina asks and they all nodded. “The f**k is happening to us?” Shaina asks out of nowhere.

No one knows what are happening to them, but they know, that whatever this is, is just starting and it won’t end not until they get what they want.

Do you know the feeling of dying?

Well, I didn’t feel that. I said that because dying felt like you are just going to sleep, you are in peace before you die, but what I felt that die, wasn’t dying, it felt like I am getting murdered, tortured in a lot of different ways.

I don’t know why, but I felt like that accident has something to do with me, I fetl like it is my responsible, because ever since that night, I start to believe in ghost, that they exist.

Because it shows me, it shows me what Lucy want me to show, want me to believe, Lucy shows me, tells me, that whenever she was there, nightmare is going to happen.

I said it, it is because I am the reason why Lucy came back, not because I called her name, but because I thought I killed someone, to the place where she was killed.

And I think, that she thinks, ebcasue of that, I could help her ascend, I could help her find her body. I could help her find the closure that everyone wants, that she wants.

I do now understand that day, that night, that whatever is ggoing to happen, will be going to eb a hell.

That whatever is going to happen next, it will change everyone, it will change everything, it will change our town, forever.