After Dark • Peter Hayes

Bruised knuckles

Pipers POV;

"You're still not talking to me?" Will followed after me while I went to brush my teeth. "C'mon Piper" he'd lied straight to my face, for who knows what reason. "Tell me what to do"

"Stop lying to me" I deadpanned. If he didn't want to tell me the truth about Riley I'd find out myself. "We don't lie to each other Will, never have"

"It's for your own good, you'd flip if I told you the truth" he tried to plead but I wasn't interested.

I turned the tap on to wet my brush and spoke, "who are you lying for?" I popped the toothpaste cap, "who's worth lying to me for?" Squeezed the paste onto the brush, "is it Christina?" He shook his head instantly.

"God no, he'd be too strong for her, as we've seen" that was true, there wasn't many people that had bet Riley. Will had.

"Was it you? To defend me?" He laughed, "ok that'll be a no." I put the brush in my mouth.

"Yes it will be".

Who else could over power him? Who else had bet him?

Edward? Edward had no reason to beat him up that way.

Oh my god.

"Peter" I stopped brushing my teeth, letting the brush hang from my mouth slightly, Will didn't answer. "It's Peter?!" I started brushing my teeth again.

"No it wasn't".

Except it was. That would explain his bruised knuckles. God damnit.

"It was! I seen his knuckles that night I left the medical room" I spoke after spitting the left over toothpaste foam out.

"I think you were looking at more than his knuckles Pi- Ow" my shoulder bumped his as I walked passed, "just don't take a go at the guy, he was sticking up for you"

"I don't need him to fucking stick up for me Will" I raised my voice slightly turning back to him. He looked worried.

"He was being decent for once" Will tried to defend him again.

"For once? He's probably the one who stabbed Edward too!"

"Well, that I don't know. I heard it was Drew" his best friend. Of course it would be. I turned on my heel and left the bathroom and Will to stand there alone. "Piper come back"

My only response lifting my hand above my shoulder to flip him off. Arsehole.

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Breakfast was incredibly awkward considering I hardly spoke to Will. "You know, people will believe we've had a fall out if you ignore me Piper" he whispered.

"We have" I whisper yelled back. He rolled his eyes and continued eating his bagel.

He'd been sticking up for someone who wanted to commit a hit and run with me, someone who was as cruel and calculated as Peter Hayes, over me. His best friend since the womb practically.

He spend all day with me and my parents yesterday to lie to my face afterwards.

Meanwhile a lady and a gentle came to visit Peter for all of 20 minutes and left. He didn't look happy to see them. It actually seemed quite intense now that I think about it, not that I cared.

"Why have we had a fall out then?" Will spoke up again, quietly enough that people couldn't quite catch what he was saying.

"Because you kept his secret over telling me, your best friend" I spoke slightly louder than he had, but still aware I didn't want anyone else to hear.