Eclipse {Ravi Singh}

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disclaimers: i dont own agggtm, thats the 18th time ive said that and i love gracie abrams <33(not that that matters in the slightest i just thought you should know.)

pip dial caras number as she and amaris walked to pips car on romer close. amaris could hear caras voice on tbe other end of the phone but she couldnt make out the words.
"what are you doing now?" Pip asks "both max and naomi are there now?" pip talks again after a small pause that was cara responding, pip had stopped walling and turned to amaris looking at her with wide eyes, as cara answered the quetion pip nods. "is your dad in?" the mention of elliot makes amariss breath hitch. "ok me and amaris are coming over, be there in ten." cara said something in response before before pip puts her phone on speaker.
"mari!" caras voice came loud out of the speakers.
"whats up, love?" amaris asks.
"can you bring me candy?"
"wow, im being used." amaris says with a shake of her head.
"no, no, your sister just never gets me anything. if you bring me candy ill love you forever."
"uh, are you trying to replace me?" pip cuts in.
"yes, mari's better."
"you're just being nice because you want candy." amaris says with a roll of her eyes.
"not true!" cara practically yells and amaris laughs.
"alright, ill bring you candy. we gotta go, see you soon." amaris says before pip hangs up.

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"chica," cara greets pip as she opens the door, "happy sunday.
Mi club de homeworko es su club de homeworko. mari, did you bring me candy?"
"mhm, I've got nerds, skittles, and starbursts." amaris says and caras smiles brightens.
"you are my favorite twin." cara whispers grabbing the candy and walking towards the kitchen, "we've banned talking, and no typing to loidly like max does."
"hey, pip, mari, how’re you two doing?" naomi asks with a smile
"fine thanks," pips voice was rough
amaris simply forced a smile and nodded, she was angry-- pissed even-- naomi played a part in ruining ravis life. ravi. her ravi.
"hi, max." pip says pointedly to max who looks up and smiles a smile that was really more of a grimice
pip walks over to the table and dropped her backpack onto it, just
across from max
"pip loves homework, aggressively so." cara explains as she sits down, "well, sit," cara pushes a chair out with her foot.
"what’s up, pip? do you want a tea?" naomi asks noticing that pip was staring.
"what are you looking at?" max asks
"max!" naomi scolds him, hitting him with a pad of paper. amaris felt her nails dig into her palms, how could they act so normal? they ruined so many lives with one studpid lie.
"we came here first just as a courtesy, to you naomi." amaris says stepping forward so she was next to pip, her blood was hot with anger.
"mari, what are you talking about?" cara asks but pip and amaris ignore her.
pip slides the three photos infront of max and naomi, "this is your chance to explain before i go to the police. what do you have to say, Nancy Tangotits?" pip was glaring at max.
"what are you on about?" he scoffs.
"that’s your photo, right? from the night andie bell disappeared?" amaris questions resting her hands on the cool table.
"yes, but, why –"
"the night sal left max’s house at ten thirty to go and kill Andie?" amaris cuts naomi off
"yes, it is, and what point are you trying to make?" max spits.
"if you stop blustering for one second and look at the photo, you’ll see
my point," pip snaps at him, "obviously you’re no stickler for detail or you wouldn’t have uploaded it in the first place. so I’ll explain. both you and naomi, millie and jakke are in this picture."
"yeah, so?" he asks
"so who took that picture of the four of you, jackass?" amaris tone was hostile 
‘"yeah, ok, so maybe sal took the photo. It’s not like we said he wasn’t there at all. he must have taken this earlier on in the night." max says with a shrug.
"nice try, but –" pip is cut of by naomi.
"my phone. the time is on my phone."
max was quiet for a minute, "well, you can hardly see those numbers. you must have doctored this photo," he says.
"no, max. i got it from your facebook as it is. don’t worry, i’ve researched this: the police can access it even if you delete it now. i’m sure they’d be very interested to see it." pip says calmly.
"why didn’t you check properly?" naomi had turned to max
"shut up."
"we’re going to have to tell them."
"shut up, naomi,"
"oh my God." naomi was pacing now, "we have to tell them –"
"stop talking!" max grabs naomi by her shoulders, "don’t say anything else."
"they’ll go to the police, max. Won’t you?" naomi asks and amaris nods, "we have to tell them"
maxs eyes darted between naomi and the twins, "fuck!" he shouts and kicks the table leg, amaris flinches away some.
"what the hell is going on?" wara asks pulling at pips sleeve.
"tell me, Naomi," Pip ignores her bestfriend.
max falls into his chair and stares up at pip and amaris, "why have you done this? why didn’t you just leave everything alone?"
"why? well i dont know maybe because you ruined lives."
"nomi, tell me," pip says ignoring amaris and max. "sal didn’t leave max’s at ten thirty that night, did he? he left at twelve fifteen, just like he told the police. he never asked you all to lie to give him an alibi; he actually had one. he was with you. sal never once lied to the police; you all did on
that tuesday. you lied to take away his alibi."
naomi looks up and nods. the cold of the table kept amaris grounded amd not completely overcome with anger. if you had asked amaris why she was angry she wouldve said because they ruined his life. now one might think 'him' was sal but no, while that did pissed her off she was really only this made because of all the shit ravi had to endure. ravi. ravi. ravi. ravi. ravi. the name bounced around in her head.
"why?" amaris asks
"someone made us. someone made us do it." naomi says and amaris scoffed she couldnt take accountability for this? no one made her do anything.
"what do you mean?" pip asks
"we – me, Max, Jake and Millie – we all got a text on that Monday night. From an unrecognized number. It told us we had to delete every picture of Sal taken on the night Andie disappeared and to upload the rest as normal. It told us that at school on Tuesday we had to ask the head teacher to call in the police so we could make a statement. And we had to tell them that Sal actually left Max’s at half ten and that he’d asked us to lie before."
"but why would you do that?" pip presses
‘Because- because they knew something about us. about something bad we’d done." naomi began to cry and cara got up to comfort her.
"max?" pips eyes move to him.
"we, um . . . something happened on New Year’s Eve 2011. Something bad,
something we did."
"we? we, Max? It all happened because of you. you got us into it and you’re the one who made us leave him there." naomi snaps.
"you’re lying. we all agreed at the time," he defends.
"i was in shock. i was scared."
"naomi?" pip interrupts them.
"we . . . um, we went out to that crappy little club, the imperial vault, and we had all had a lot to drink. and when the club closed it was impossible to get a taxi; we were like seventieth in the queue and it was freezing outside. so max, who’d driven us all there, he said that actually he hadn’t drunk that much and was ok to drive. and he convinced me, millie and jake to get in the car with him. It was so stupid. oh God, if i could go back and change one thing in my life, it would be that moment . . ." naomi tariled off.
"sal wasnt with you?" pip asks.
"no, i wish he had been because he’d never have let us be that stupid. he was with his brother"-- ravi. her sun.-- "that night. so max, who was just as drunk as the rest of us, he was driving too fast up the A413. it was like four o’ clock and there were no other cars on the road. and then-- and then . . ." naomis begans crying again.
"this man comes out of nowhere," max finishes
"no, he didn’t. he was standing well back on the shoulder, max. i
remember you losing control of the car."
"well, then we remember very differently," max snaps, "we hit him and spun. when we came to a stop i pulled off the road and we went to see what had happened."
"oh god, there was so much blood, and his legs were bent out all wrong." naomi cries.
"he looked dead, ok? we checked to see if he was breathing and we thought he wasn’t. we decided it was too late for him, too late to call an ambulance. and because we’d all been drinking, we knew how much trouble we’d be in. criminal charges, prison. so we all agreed and we left." maxs words made amaris's blood boil, her breathes were heavy as she tried to calm herself, they were willing to lie a lie that would make their bestfriend go to prison but not go to prison gor shit they did.
"max made us, you got inside our heads and scared us into agreeing, because you knew you were the one really in trouble."
"we all agreed, naomi, all four of us," max shouts making amaris flinch slightly and step backward. "we drove back to mine cause my parents were in dubai. we cleaned off the car and then crashed it again into the tree just before my driveway. my parents never suspected a thing and got me a new one a few weeks later." how the fuck was that important.
amaris noiced the tears streaming down caras face before she wiped them so naomi couldnt see. "did the man die?" pip asks
"he was in a coma for a few weeks, but he pulled through. but- but- he’s
paraplegic. he’s in a wheelchair. we did that to him. we should never have left him." naomi say befire sobbing again.
it was silent apart from naomis cries until max finall spoke again, "somehow, someone knew what we had done. they said that if we didn’t do everything they asked, they would tell the police what we did to that man. so we did it. we deleted the pictures and we lied to the police."
"but how could someone have found out about your hit-and-run?" pip asks
"we don’t know, we all swore to never tell anyone, ever. and I never did."
"me neither," max says in agreement, and naomi scoffs.
"what?" max stares back at naomi
"me, jake, and millie have always thought you were the one who let it slip."
"oh, really?" his tone held hostility
"well, you’re the one who used to get completely plastered almost every night." naomi defends
"i never told anyone, i have no idea how someone found out." max turns back to pip.
"there’s a pattern of you letting things slip. naomi, max accidentally told me you were M.I.A. for a while the night andie disappeared. where were you? i want the truth." pip says
"i was with sal, he wanted to talk to me upstairs, alone. about andie. he was angry at her about something she’d done; he wouldn’t say what. he told me she was a different person when it was just the two of them, but he could no longer ignore the way she treated other people. he decided that night that he was going to end things with her. And he seemed..... almost relieved after he came to that decision."
"so let’s be clear," amaris starts slowly, "sal was with you all at max’s until twelve fifteen the night andie disappeared. on the monday, someone threatens you to go to the police and say he left at ten thirty and to delete all trace of him from that night. the next day sal disappears and is found dead in the woods. you guys know what this shit means, right?"
max looks down and naomi covers her face, "sal was innocent." pip says.
"we don’t know that for sure," max says shaking his head.
"sal is innocent." amaris leabs forward, "someone killed andie and then they killed sal, after making sure he’d look guilty beyond reasonable doubt. your best friend was innocent, and you’ve all known it for five years. youve let everyon tell the singhs that sal was a murderer."
"i’m sorry, i’m so, so sorry. we didn’t know what else to do. we were in too deep. we never thought that Sal would end up dead. we thought if we just played along, the police would catch whoever had hurt andie, sal would be cleared and we’d all be ok we told ourselves it was just a small lie at the time. but we know now what we did."
"small lie. your small lie killed your bestfriend! sal died because of your small lie, do you realy get that?"
"we don’t know that, sal might still have been involved in what happened to andie." max says.
"he didn’t have time to be," pip voice was even and calm.
"what are you going to do with the photo?" he asks his voice quiet.
"max, did you kill andie?" pip asks
"what? no, I was at my house the whole night." max was standing now
"you could have left when naomi and millie went to bed." amaris shrugs
"well, I didn’t, ok?" max sneers at amaris
"do you know what happened to andie?" pip brought maxs atention back to her.
"no, I don’t."
"pip, mari," caras voice was shakey, "please don’t go to the police with that photo. please. i can’t have my sister taken away as well as mom."
amaris watched pip, knowing that'd she go with whatever pip decided
"i won’t go to the police," pip says finally.
"thats bullshit!" amaris's voice had risen.
"amaris." pip warns and amaris rolls her eyes as she runs her tongue over her teeth.
"im gonna go wait in the car." amaris says before storming out of the house.
she was pissed, she wanted yell at pip, she wanted to yell at max, but she didnt do either instead she was silent. she was silent on the way home, she was silent when pip had told ravi about every thing, she was was silent up until ravi asked if she was okay and even then she only mumbled 'yep'
ravi had shook his head, "no you arent." he said and amaris shrugs, "just tired and upset." she responded and ravi decided to leave, however he did grab her hand and hold it as he walked the girls back to their house.

a/n
this shit was so long and it fucking deleted so i had to rewrite it