We killed her

Chapter 2

Hayes an I stood at Courtney's door breathing deeply, we could see in the house from a nearby window. Courtney sat on a couch, with her MacBook earbuds in, images flickering across her face. Nothing about the situation was ominous. But this was real life, not a movie. What was I expecting? Hayes was the one who knocked, his hand trembling a bit. But I still felt oddly calm and at peace with the world.
Courtney looked confused, but she took her earbuds out and began to walk towards the door with grace. As she opened the door her face fell, and I could only imagine the knot her stomach was turning into. It made me smile.
"Hey Court," I said sweetly.
"Hi Blair, Hayes," she glanced at each of us and forced a smile. She began to yank on a hair elastic around her wrist, she was nervous.
"Can we come in?" I asked with innocence, stepping forward.
"Sure," she said nervously moving aside. As we stepped in she began playing with her ombre hair, and I knew she was panicking inside.
The house was clean, with family portraits on all the walls. It looked the same as always, not like the house of a girl about to be murdered.
"Can I get you guys anything?" She asked us faking her confidence.
"I'll take a water if you don't mind," Hayes smiled, and with a small nod she lead us down a hall. On the wall hung the annual Adams family portraits, and I took pride in know that next year there would be one less Adam smiling in a white dress on a beach.
Courtney moved around the kitchen filling our water glasses, and getting some chips.
"You know something Courtney," Hayes said as she poured Lays into a bowl for us, "I used to like you. Respect you. Enjoy you even."
"What?" The bitch genuinely looked confused.
"Yeah, but then you had to go and try to ruin things didn't you?"
"I don't know..."
"Sure you don't Court, sure," I was speaking now, "sure you didn't mean to spread those rumors about me, us. Two years that's how long you dated Hamilton. And all along you didn't mean it?"
"Blair...I," she looked nervously at both of us as Hayes began to move behind her.
"You never do," I snapped, "you never know but I'm not going to be stupid like the other idiots you've screwed."
"I'm doing something about it," at the same time I said it Hayes grabbed her throat from the back.
"LET ME GO!" She screamed. Hayes, strengthened his grip around her neck as she kicked and screamed.
"HAYES! HAYES! PLEASE!" She said gasping for air and trying to get away from him.
"I'm sorry Courtney," he said calmly. "But it...OW GOD DAMMIT!"
It happened so fast Courtney grabbed a small knife from the island and had attempted to stab Hayes with it. And now she was running down the stair, away from us.
"Hayes!" I screamed, "you ok?"
"I'M FINE GET HER!" He yelled and we both set off sprinting down the stairs after her.

"NO! PLEASE NO!" I heard Courtney scream before I saw her.
"This way," I whispered. Slowly we turned a corner where we could see the back door wide open. In the moonlight someone held Courtney by the neck screaming in her face, as she sobbed. Hamilton. Hayes an I crept to either side of him.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't bitch!" Hamilton screamed in her face, "one good reason and I'll let you go!"
"Because," she sobbed, "because once, once we were friends. I loved you, and I'm sorry about what happened, but once I did love you."
For a second Hamilton was silent, but then he screamed like I've never heard anyone scream before. Full of rage, and disgust, and hate. He threw her to the ground, and kicked her side.
"DON'T LIE YOU FUCKING BITCH!" Courtney tried to get up and run but he just grabbed her again walked a few paces and threw her down.
"YOU NEVER LOVED ME! NEVER! YOU'RE A BITCH AND A WHORE!" We were walking past her mother's gardens now. I bent over and took a shovel from behind a rose bush. Suddenly I felt very light, and very distant. Hamilton's screams stopped. I felt like I was moving underwater in slow motion.
Nothing was real as I approached her. It was like my arms moved on their own, faster and harder then I've ever moved anything. And then...crack.
It was louder then anything I'd heard. Courtney fell to the ground. She didn't cry, she didn't scream, she didn't move. All I could hear was loud steady sound of my breath. As I stared at her in a lump at my feet.
"Did I just..."I whispered. Immediately Hayes drooped to his knees and rolled her body over.
"No." He said. My heart began to thump faster, I didn't feel like I was standing I felt like I was floating. My hands began to tremble.
"What?" Hamilton whispered.
"I...I...think she's just been knocked out," Hayes said starring at her.
"What do we do?" I was beginning to panic. Suddenly Hamilton grabbed the shovel and started digging.
"What are you doing?" Hayes said. Hamilton looked at us.
"Well," he said, "we can sit around and bang her head until she really goes or we can burry her."
A twig snapped somewhere in the distance.
"What was that?" Hayes whispered so softly I could barely hear him.
"Hello?" I called out. No answer.
"Come on," Hamilton began digging.
Using our hoodies as gloves Hayes an I slowly dropped Courtney in the hole and silently began to fill it in.
"Don't you think it's a bit shallow?" Hayes asked nervously.
Another twigged snapped.
"Let's just get out of here," whispered Hamilton.

We didn't breath until we were in the safety of Hayes's car.
"There going to find her. They'll know it was us." Hayes had been saying that sentence over an over since we left the woods.
"Babe, we'll fine," I whispered. I didn't feel fine. Hamilton didn't look fine. He had his legs pulled up to his face and hadn't said a word since we got into the car. After about ten minutes of starring at nothing and shaking, Hamilton was the first to speak.

"Hayes," he spoke slowly but surely, "drive to your lake house. We'll each tell our parents we've been there all night. We drop the shovel at the landfill, we burn these clothes. We never speak of this agin."
"Hamilton," I'd never seen Hayes so scared, "they're going to find her. The hole, it's too shallow..."

"Hayes," I said sternly, "this never happened just drive."

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Hey guys, I'm so happy I published part one yesterday and it has 21 views! I know this doesn't seem like a lot especially to people who have hundreds of views on their book/stories, but like I said this is my first time ever releasing something that I've written for other people to read, so I really hope that you guys are liking it. I'm going to try and publish chapter 3, tonight but I don't know if I'll get to it with school an everything.
Ok well that's all for now, hoping you guys are liking it.
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