My Chibi BangTan Book 2 ✔

Notes

 So much time had passed, so much time... I did what I needed, work, school. I wanted to stop all of it but I couldn't. I cut another class, I wanted more time to myself. In 2 years I hadn't cleaned out Jason's room, I didn't bother to move- why would I? This home, this apartment held everything that was him. Why would I give it all up? With more free time I went ahead and started cleaning up Jason's room. I made his bed, I washed his laundry and folded it then put it away neatly. Like he'd be back to get it somehow. I don't know if I was just hoping he'd walk in one day and say 'ha! I pulled a nice prank on you huh?', but what if he? What if.... I slapped myself, I shouldn't think such ridiculous things. This wasn't some drama, people don't just spring back to life. So I continued to sort through his things.

It was a week later when I found it. The notebook, my brother's keepsake. Least that's what it was to me. I opened it to find a folded piece of paper, it belonged to my brother so I felt it only right I take a look at it. When I unfolded it I was met with a full page of text, and at the top of the page- My name.

Ella,

I never wanted it to be like this, I thought I'd have more time. I swear, don't hate me for leaving you.. if you are reading this, it means I've left you. I promise it wasn't of my own will. Ell.. you need to pay attention, more so than in your kick boxing classes okay?
Mom's death... wasn't an accident. Let that settle in. This notebook will tell you everything I know, I'm sorry if it's jumbled but there's one thing I need to tell you about. Someone you need to see and take this notebook too. His name... I don't really know his name but listen. A few days ago.. before I wrote this of course, I was on that site.. the one you yelled at me all the time to not go to. The dark side of the internet as you called it, anyway I met this guy.. he had an encrypted file and was challenging anyone to decipher it for him.. well I did cause you know me, I'm an encryption master and I like a damn good challenge.

I got to talking to him more since he was impressed with my skills and I decoded a few more files for him, it was difficult but there was a pattern to it. Anyway, I showed him the stuff in this book... well not physically showed him he was some dude on the internet. Anyway we were making plans to meet but my guess is... considering what I uncovered... I won't be meeting this guy and his team, so you have to. Depending on how long it's been... he might be here already. You'll find what you need to know from him, and in this notebook.

Ell, please be safe.. you were always way smarter than me in a lot of ways. I left his info on my laptop under my bed. The password is your birthdate. Contact him, tell him.. tell him about me. It wasn't an accident Ell. Whenever it happened, however it happened... it wasn't an accident, and I didn't kill myself.

I felt my heart clench. What the hell was he talking about? What was going on? I couldn't process it. So I sat there, and reread the letter over and over again to let it sink in. This couldn't be happening...

I needed answers.

I needed Jason.

It wasn't until 2 days after when I got the courage to look through Jason's laptop. I smiled knowing he used my birthday as his passcode. He was the best big brother.. the only family I ever really had. As I let my fingers glide along the keys I couldn't help but remember the good times, like when we were kids and he would walk with me to get ice cream. Or when I was sick from school and he'd ditch class to come stay with me. He made me soup, he'd take me shopping with the money our no good father would leave for us. We never saw him, it was like he didn't exist. Raised by a combination of grandparents and care-takers hired by the man who was suppose to father us. Jason was the only constant, he was my only real friend, he was my only family.

And now he had been taken from me.

I clicked on a few folders, nothing of interest though- just some pics of Jason and his friends, me and Jason, and some game he use to play. I looked over the letter again, clicked a bit more and tried to find... whatever I was looking for. I didn't have too much to go on for who this contact was of his. This notebook was filled with so much I couldn't make sense of half of it.
From reading it- it seemed like Jason had went to see our father. From there he decided to look into our mother's death. Had the sperm donor pissed him off? Why would he randomly look into mom's death? He apparently found something, some company but I couldn't find the name of it in his scribbles. There was a lot of info on a Doctor Faust and some lawyer- Kent Williams, there were numbers too. One that kept showing up- 10. I had no idea what it meant. I wish he left me with more.. like a decoder book or something.

One thing is for sure though- I needed to figure out why he went to see the sperm donor. And what did that jerk say to Jason to make him dig into mom?

As I was clicking around I must have clicked something right. A window popped up, it looked like some chat site but the web address was all kinds of weird. A message popped up, a conversation between Jason and someone with the screen name HandsomeAF613. Odd name choice, a little self centered maybe. But I guess if you wanted a name that didn't look suspicious- this might be it. I quickly typed in a message to this random stranger.

I was told to message you, meet me at the back of the Shore House. It's near the docks, where you were suppose to meet Jason.

I sent the message, and then shut down the laptop, putting it back under Jason's bed. I wanted to curl up on it and sleep.. but I had just one more thing I could think to do....

And I really didn't want to do it.