One Of Us Is Back

Owen Returns

Phoebe

Owen is returning this afternoon so my mom doesn't want anymore talk about the Jackson case. I really do hope that he isn't behind it. I quickly text Knox and Maeve about Owen coming back. They give me encouraging words, but neither of them help. 

When Owen returns, I can see and feel that he is the person behind all this. He asks an unusual amount of questions, and lost a lot of interest in Bounty Wars. I think he's behind this. I can't be sure. I keep eyeing him, and I think he knows we know. I brought him to my room and confronted him with a nice non-confrontational tone. 

"Hey Owen."

"Hey Phoebe"

"Do you know?"

"Know what?" At this point, I can just feel like Owen is just trying to stall for as long as possible and trying to prevent the flow of information. 

"You know what"

"You are being intentionally vague." Sometimes, he can be so irritating. This is one of those times. I am just going to confront him.

"I saw bazaar" After I spoke those words, you can see the look on his face immediately drop. His eyes look at me in fear and his breathing rate increases. 

"Owen." I tug at his shirt "Why did you do it?"

He eyes the door. He's probably thinking about dashing out of my room. At the best time, Emma walks in. "What is Owen doing here?" She gave me that kind of glaring look that you know that she's fuming that I spilled it all to Owen. 

I walk over to Emma and whispered, "He did it. I don't know how or why. But he did it." Emma's face goes blank and the concern on her face is significant, you can just see it. I was praying that it wasn't him. 

Owen

How did they know? My head is scrambling to think how they could have possibly known? I hid all my tracks. I ridded myself of all the ChatApp information when Jared was caught. I don't think I would have been caught. What if Mom knows? What if the police know? 

I am concerned when Phoebe walks over to Emma and I can feel my heart beating out of my chest. I think about running out of the room but I think against it. Maybe my mom doesn't know. That's why we are doing it in their room. That gives me a sigh of relief but they could just be doing this behind mom's back. 

They both walk back. 

They sit down and face me. I try to give them my innocent face. Emma does that face when she wants something from Mom "Owen. We know you did it. Continued the ChatApp conversations with Jared. We just want to know why"

"Does mom know?" I mutter.

"Huh?" 

"Does mom know?" I say a little louder. 

"No, but you have to explain everything to us." 

I dip my head down. "I kind of knew that Emma was behind it because I overheard her conversation with Derek a few months back. She didn't confront you immediately and when you two were fighting, I just felt that tension. I just knew it was Emma when I heard you two fighting. I knew how dad died, and I wanted to get back at Brandon. I'm sorry"

Phoebe came over and hugged me while I could feel Emma glaring at me and I guess she has the right seeing that she is the one that will have to do all the explaining to the police why there are messages between her and Jared. 

"Don't tell mom" They looked at each other and Emma said: "We won't. But you have to tell us anything we want to now about this. Deal?" "Deal." Phoebe and I both know that she left me off the hook easy and I am just glad that I got it off my chest.