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CLEO WALKED IN THE SCHOOL, JESSICA WASN'T HERE YET, SHE WALKED TO HER LOCKER AND OPENED IT. She frowned when she saw an unfamiliar note, she opened it.
KEEP YOUR FUCKING MOUTH SHUT was written in red paint, her heart skipped a beat as she looked around, she quickly put the note in her bag and slammed the locker shut, someone wanted her to keep quiet, someone who knew she would testify, someone wanted to protect Bryce. She ran past the teens in the hallway and rushed to the dark room, she opened the door.
When she walked in, she froze at the sight of the room, it was a total mess, the table were flipped off as well as the chairs, papers were scattered around the room, Tyler raised his head as a sad smile appeared on his face. Cleo's eyes fell on the camera in his hands.
"What the fuck?" Cleo mumbled as she walked over the papers on the floor, "what happened here?" she asked
"Someone i talked about wasn't really happy" Tyler answered
Cleo took a chair and sat beside him, she ran a hand through her hair "Oh Goodness" she mumbled as she slid the note to Tyler, the boy put his camera down and opened it, he shot a look at Cleo before looking back at the paper.
"They broke your camera" she said "Oh, Tyler i know how valuable it was to you"
"Yep." Tyler answered "Someone wants us to keep quiet" he said, Cleo nodded
"Bryce?"
"I don't think so" Tyler said "he seemed surprised when i confronted him about it"
"Then who would do something like this?" she asked
The door suddenly opened, revealing Clay, he walked in the room and stared at his sister before looking at Tyler, his gaze trailed on the mess that was the mess that was the room, he couldn't help but feel bad for Tyler. Even the camera was broken, something Tyler valued a lot, and the person who did this knew it "Who did this?" Clay asked
"Someone i talked about yesterday, at the trial" Tyler answered "This is what happens when you tell the truth" he added in a harsh tone, Clay looked at the room again, making Tyler frown
"What the fuck do you want?" Cleo asked, slightly annoyed by her brother's presence
"Did you come here to look at the destruction that is my life?" Tyler added
Clay cleared his throat "No" he answered "i was wandering" he said "do you ever work with polaroids?" he asked
Tyler let out an exasperated sigh as he got up "Yeah, amateur hipster tripe" he mumbled
"I'll take that as a no"
"It's retro analog bullshit.There's no negatives, what's the point?"
"So no one can make a copy?" Clay asked after a slight pause
"No, you can make a copy of anything, you just take a digital picture of it" Tyler answered "But, yeah, you want one print to hold on to, take a Polaroid"
"Do you know these people?" Clay asked as he pulled out a small picture and walked closer to Tyler
"Tommy Shuster" he said "Erica Charles, I think. I shoot Tommy a few times for baseball"
"So they go here?" Clay asked
"They did. They were seniors when we were freshmen"
"Do you think he knew Scott Reed?" Clay asked, Cleo watched the two boys talk, Clay was acting weird, Clay was always weird but today he was acting weirder than normal.
"Don't all those troglodytes know each other? Why do you care?" Cleo intervened
"I'm not sure I do" Clay answered before turning around and walking out of the room
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Cleo was sitting with Jessica and Alex at lunch, talking about a sex doll that was hanged on her porch and a note she had found in her locker, just like Cleo did.
The two girls stared at Bryce who was messing around with the jocks, Alex seemed to notice as he followed their gaze.
"Somehow i don't see Bryce walking into a sex-shop" he commented
"What do you think about Chloe?" Jessica asked
"She's the blonde stereotype" Cleo said
"And you say that while being blonde yourself?" Alex asked as a chuckle escaped his lips, Jessica put a hand over her mouth to hide her smile
"Oh goodness me and her also have similar names" Cleo added as she bring her hands to her head
Alex shot Chloe a look before looking back at the girls"Anyway, she's academically good but she does stupid things, i can't see her having any ideas"
"But It's gotta be someone" Jessica said, looking visibly worried
"Whoever it is, it'll stop if you tell the truth tomorrow" Alex said
"How does that make any sense?" Jessica asked
"Because they're doing it to protect Bryce and if you tell the truth, there's no protecting anymore"
"It's not as easy, i know you want to testify but we can't testify for you, Alex" Cleo said as she got up from the table and walked away
"Cleo !" Alex called but the girl didn't answer as she walked out of the lunch room
When she went back home, Cleo widened her eyes when she saw Skye in the kitchen with her dad making hand-rolled pasta, she stood in the door frame and stared at them, they didn't seem to notice her until Clay walked in.
Cleo sat on the table as she watched the two teens, Clay was obviously dating Skye but for some reason, he didn't wanna tell his parents about it.
"Guys, what's going on?" he asked
"We're making hand-rolled pasta, your dad taught me, wait check it" Skye said as she threw a hand of pasta on the wall, it stuck to it.
"When it's done it'll stick" her dad added
"And why are we hand-rolling pasta?" Clay asked as he walked towards the two, Cleo stood behind and watched the scene.
"Skye said she liked Italian. Figure it's the least we could do" his dad answered "it's our first dinner together. Your mom's thrilled, by the way. Big points scored" he added
"Our first dinner" Clay repeated
"Clay, this was your idea, remember? We talked about it at lunch? Skye said
"That's not exactly..."
"Well" Cleo intervened "when you're done embarrassing yourself call me down to dinner" she said before rushing upstairs
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