Punishment, Lies, and Vengance- The Lies Series. Part 3

Chapter 7 A Christmas to Remember.

After school I went to meet up with Alex. We decided to meet at the pretzal shop. I sat down across from him. "Hey" He said to me smiling. "Hi." I said back. He looked at me for a second. "April." He said. "Can we save the I'm sorry." I said to him. "Yeah we can." He said back.  

"I was wrong you know." He said to me. "About what?" I asked him. "About flipping out. It was when we first started talking and we weren't together. I shouldn't have freaked out like that." He said to me. I looked at him. "Nate means nothing. He was past. He wanted to talk to me, and I told him I would. He kissed me, I didn't kiss him." I said. "I understand that now. You were mad and upset." I said to him. 

"I'm not anymore. I would actually like to get back together with you." Alex said to me. I nodded my head for a second. He grabbed my hands. "I love you April. I like you from the moment I saw you." He said. I smiled. We talked for a little bit longer, told each other jokes, and then got back together. 

We left and went home, when I got home everybody was sitting in the living room. I sat down with them. "Alex and I got back together." I said. Diana smiled. "Good for you." Diana said. We heard a knock on the door. We looked at the door. "I swear if it's this Det. again." I said. 

We all got up and went to the door. I opened up the door. He was standing there. "We need to talk April." He said. He walked into the house, and walked into the living room. He sat down on the couch. "Look." I said. "I hope you know I didn't come here for you." He said to me.  

"Then what are you here for Nate?" I said walking into the living room. "Well I do have a girlfriend. I came here to be with her." Nate said to me. "Then why do you have to talk to me." I said to him. "To tell you, I'm so over you." He said. "Then you can get out." I said. 

He got up and walked towards the door. He smiled at me. "I figure you should know that the girl. It's Eve." He said giving me a dirty look. He walked outside and I closed the door in his face. "He knows." I said.  

"How do you know?" Diana asked. "The look he gave me. He knows we started the fire." I said. We all sat down. "Well there is positive. At least Christmas is soon. This week we go on Christmas Break." Lisa said. 

The next couple of days went by really slow. Finally Christmas came around. The morning everyone opened their presents and in the afternoon Diana came over and we hung out upstairs. We all recieved a text message. We opened our phone, and checked the message. 

Merry Christmas Liars. I thought I would be really nice this year and get you a present. The present you guys are giving to me are the looks on your face. It's under Lisa's bed. Check it out. 

-It's Nice To Be Me. 

We all got up and walked over to Lisa's bed. She got on her knee's and started looking for something under the bed. She pulled a box out. No wrapping, just a plain brown small box. She handed it to. "Open it." Lisa said. We all sat down on her bed. I opened the box and there was a letter in there. 

"That's all just a letter?" Lisa said. "Read it." Diana said. I pulled the letter out of the box. I opened the letter that was folded in half. It read. 

Dear Shelly, 

This letter I am putting in you casket. We had some good night. To let you know, I was the one stalking you all along. I sent all the letters and have everything on you. I am not done though. Just as you went down, your friends will go down just as well. April, will go through everything you went through, maybe worse. I know who murdered you, I am the only one, and one day, I will release who killed you, but I want to keep the mystery and let April try to figure out. I plan on getting her in jail for the murder, but I might get her out. We both know Shelly, you know who I am. It's just a matter of time, let me get a team together, and April will see that what you two have done, what you have done, what she has done. Is not right. I might be the one, but my leader Black Coat is putting me in charge. Black coat is everywhere, just as I am. We are everywhere, but no where. You know who I am, and you know who Black coat it. There is one thing. I wonder how April would feel is she knew about you Backmailed her mother. I guess she will figure out all due time. And just to think you had such a beautiful smile, now you aren't smiling over everything you've done to people. Instead we are smiling. 

-Red & Black Coat. 

I couldn't look away from the note. Diana started moving all the paper in the box and found a bracelet. She looked at it. "Ew" Diana said dropping the bracelet. I put the note down and picked it up. It had teeth on it, and lettering. Dead Girls Can't Smile. I dropped it. I felt like my head was spinning.  

"This was buried with her. This letter. She blackmailed my mom." I said. I couldn't believe any of it. The night came and I fell asleep. That's all I wanted to do was sleep. Then I woke up. I woke up from being cold. I felt a cold breeze and like I was moving. I was so light headed right now, I could only make out certain things.  

I looked around. I was in a car. I have no clue where I'm going and why I'm in a car. The driver turned around and it looked just like April. I started to feel so faint I fell back asleep. 

A litte bit later I woke up, because my phone was ringing. I answered the phone. "April where are you?" Lisa asked me. I looked around for a second. "I have no clue. It looks like I'm in a whole." I said to them. I got up. I almost fell over a couple times getting up. "I'm in a graveyard." I said. I turned around. "Why are you in a graveyard?" Lisa asked me.  

I looked at the tombstone. "I'm in Shelly's grave." I said. There was a pause for a minute then Lisa talked. "Diana and I are going to come pick you up right now. Stay there." Lisa said. She hung up the phone. I dropped my phone. I bent down to pick it up. I looked on the casket.  

This is what the other side looks like. All the answers about your mom around in a secret place. Maybe really close to you. Start digging deep, or Ripping Deep. 

-It's Nice To Be Me.