Hidden Gem: Jake x Reader

Chapter 8.3

Raven removed Richy

Thomas : ?

Jessy : What are you doing Raven?!

Me : I'm sorry 😞
The attacker could be reading everything we're saying

Jessy : (Y/n)... 😟

Jake joined the group

Me : Guys, this is Jake

Lilly : Hey

Jake : Hello.

Jessy : Hi
👋

Cleo : Hello, and thank you for coming

Me : Okay, where do we start?

Dan wanted to get something out of the way before we could even start discussing what Jake and I had uncovered. He wanted to talk about how Jake knew Hannah disappeared in the very beginning before anyone else knew. I wanted him to stop, but Jake stopped me. He said it was okay.

He had changed his mind about not telling them why, thanks to me. I felt kind of happy he was changing for me, until he said he was on call when it happened. I could feel the color drain from my face. When I was blowing up at him... I had said at the time he would never be able to understand what I went through... but he did. He had gone through basically the same thing with Hannah.

He explained that he was wanted by the government and his pursuers had invested a lot of money and time into catching him. With Thomas's number he had one choice, contact him. And when Thomas got my number he then contacted me. Though he still is uncertain what part I play even now. I asked a few questions about his call with Hannah, but it had been almost the same as mine with Richy. No one could be seen nor could any object.

We ended up waiting until Jessy got home before discussing the facts that were found. 10 minutes was all we had to wait. Dan saying that he was my Hacker, I could feel a blush rising to my cheeks. Freaking ass hat had to phrase it that way... Doesn't matter. I glanced up to check on Jace but he was still busy on his computer. Deciding it was best not to question that, I waited for Jessy to get back. When she got back, the last person was obviously Dan.

When he showed up we started the discussion. I told them to prepare for a long conversation because there was going to be a lot. They could of course ask questions at any time, and some situations were complicated. I was basically asking them to actively participate in the conversation. With that we started with the most important clue, the man without a face.

Cleo was originally the one who found it out when she went to talk to Ms. Walter but only found out by talking to Alphie. It was obvious we would be talking about a masked man. This was where we brought in Richy and Jessy. Seeing every piece of evidence laid out as we talked was kind of like a release.

No one even knew about Hannah's depression, or could think of what Hannah could have done to get the killer's attention in this manner. When it came to the information I asked about Jennifer, Jake tried to see who it was. There wasn't an answer... because the person I asked was dead. That was here we talked about Iris. The problem there was about Hannah's car, it wasn't there before. So how did it get in front of her house?

Did Hannah not take it home after she went to Richy's? Did Richy take it back after she disappeared? I didn't want to bring up these concerns, I needed to watch that video again just to make sure. After this we decided to take a break. This was a lot of information for the others to digest. When they logged off, Lilly texted me to talk about Amy Bell Lewis and the letter to Ted.

As far as I knew Jake was still working on it. She was hoping I could get Jake to help us with the letter so I asked. At the time, he was going through our previous conversations to get the investigation in order so things could go as smoothly as possible. It seemed a good time to ask about it.