Dusk h.s.

Chapter 96

My eyes are wide and my lips are parted slightly.

"Why?" Is the only word I can manage.

She looks over at me. "Harry hurt me. He hurt me in the most unforgivable way, Anna. I was in love with him, and he made it seem like he was in love with me. It was all a lie. He was using me for sex and then cheated on me with that skank."

"So you killed your best friend's sister?"

"Oh, Luke's sister wasn't exactly innocent in this whole thing. She told me to stay away from Harry and if I didn't, she'd kill me. I wasn't afraid of the bitch. And look how it turned out."

"So you killed Luke's sister because you wanted Harry all to yourself."

"He hurt me. I had to get him back for it. When I found out she was pregnant, that was my perfect opportunity. I couldn't let him be happy with a baby. A family."

"He didn't even want the baby. Or her."

"He might say that, but somewhere deep down, I knew he cared."

"So you killed someone to get back at Harry for cheating on you?"

"I wanted to make him miserable like he made me miserable. It didn't exactly get the job done though. So, I guess you're plan B."

I shake my head. "I thought we were friends."

"I'm not very good at friends, Anna. You should know that."

"Too bad you're wrong. You wanna hurt me because Harry cares. Harry doesn't give a shit about me! He slept with someone else."

"Because he was drugged, Anna! He knew exactly what he was doing, but he couldn't stop it! Do you really think he'd willingly cheat on you?"

My facial expression must've blown the roof off his car. "You drugged him?"

She smirks in success. "I basically pushed them in the room together."

"Why? If you wanted him for yourself, why would you drug him into sleeping with someone else."

"Because it didn't fit! I needed you to walk in on him sleeping with someone else so you'd hate him and leave him. It wouldn't work if it was with me. He'd probably get you to believe I blackmailed him or something."

"Why would you do that? Why would you put me through all that pain if you were just gonna kill me anyway?"

Her speed surprisingly slows down to a normal pace as we get closer and closer. "Because I never wanted to have to go this far. If I got you to break up with Harry, he would be hurt and miserable. Until you wanted to get back together with him!"

"So he never really cheated?"

Tears form in my eyes and roll down my cheeks. Harry does care. He loves me. Why would I ever doubt him?

I look around, noticing the familiar surroundings if this...... "Are we in Harry's car?"

"Well, I can't exactly drive my own car off a bridge."

It all makes sense now. Gabbi killed Luke's sister in Harry's car to frame him. Now she's doing the same thing.

Fear takes over. Am I really about to die?

Then a thought comes to me.

"Luke said that his sister called him before she died."

"Uh....yeah?"

"Well, isn't it fair that I get a phonecall too?"

She sighs. "I only let her call Luke because I actually care about Luke. She needed to make peace with him. I couldn't just kill her and let Luke grieve."

"Exactly! And Luke's in love with me. Let me call him. Let me make my final peace with him."

She sighs. "Okay."

Luke's POV

Anna and Gabbi have been gone for awhile. I wonder what's holding them up. It's almost midnight and the comet that Gabbi's so fascinated with is about to pass over.

When my phone rings and Anna's name flashes across the screen, I answer immediately.

"Hey, where are you?"

"Luke?" She's crying. I can tell. She's scared.

"What's wrong?"

"Listen, I just wanted you to know that I never meant to string you along. I love you. I really do just.....not the way you want me to. And I know that as of now we may never see each other again, but...."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

She breaks out into sobs, filling the other line. "Tell my family and friends, especially Harry, that I love them and never meant to be the bitch I am to them. And to you."

"Anna...."

"Thank you, Luke. You were finally the friend I needed in my life."

"Anna, what....."

"And don't be upset because I won't be with you anymore. I want you to live your life. I want you to find someone that you love."

"Anna please!" I beg her to just tell me what's going on.

"Tell Robert and Courtney that I love them. And I never wanted any of this shit to happen."

"Anna..."

"I know the truth now, Luke. Maybe that's what's gonna kill me."

"I don't fucking understand!"

"Goodbye Luke!"

"No Anna......" She's gone. The line is dead.

Images ruling through my head of her crying. Where is she? It sounded like she was in a car. Oh shit! The phone call. The worried, panic phonecall.

I look over to where Harry and his group of friends are. The only problem is that Harry is nowhere to be found.

"Shit!"