The BoyZ

Jewels

How are they so skilled at hiding murder?

My parents hurried to clean the basement and all the evidence of abuse. They wrote a fake letter stating why she killed herself and how much she loved us. The knife Mom killed her with was replaced by another, mom wore gloves, dipped the knife in Samantha's blood, and put Samantha's fingerprints on it.

When the cops arrived they believed the letter but were still investigating.

There was no funeral, they buried her body in the same cemetery as Hakim's parents.

No one suspected a thing. No one knows anything.

I want to skip the first and second periods but before the first period could end Dad came home early and made me go to school for the rest of the day. I wanted to yell at him. To scream. To tell the cops the truth, but I couldn't. I was just frozen. Numb.

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This is Hakim's second time skipping school, now I know something is wrong.

"Menelik, do you know why Hakim isn't showing up to school?" We have double classes today. Meaning the First and Second periods are combined.  We're assigned to write an essay about Lewis and Clark's little adventure. Mrs. Carson let the class work with partners.
"Not sure, but don't be surprised he's a troublemaker" Yeah sure Hakim is, but he hates his house. So where would he be staying? Diego's, maybe?

"Ugh, I hate school so much" I rest my head on the table.

"This is only the first period" he erases whatever he's writing.

"Exactly and we have History for it? Man once I find out who made my schedule I'm coming after them"

"Do you need help?" He places his pencil down.

"Yes please" I raise my head and shove my paper towards him.
"Alright here, you should write about-" Hakim appears at the door frame looking worse than he usually does. He goes to our original seat and ignores Mrs. Carson's nagging. "Well, there he is" Menelik sounds like he's expecting me to ditch him.

"Let's go over to him" I tilt my head towards Hakim.

"Together?" He raises an eyebrow.

I smile, this kid really thinks I'll ditch him. "Of course"

He gives me the widest smile I've ever seen on him and grabs a chair to sit on the side of my table.

"Hakim, do you seriously want detention?" Mrs. Carson raises her voice.

"Why don't you shut the fuck up" Hakim yells and bangs his fist on the table and I flinch.

The whole class goes silent and stares at him.

"Detention now" Mrs. Carson glares at him.

"Glady" he storms out of the classroom. What the fuck? The last time he was like that was when we were 7. The year of his parents death.

"Let's go to him?" Menelik tilts his head towards the door Hakim walked out of.

"How? He's going to detention" Menelik grabs my wrist and takes me out of the room, Mrs. Carson attempts to get us but Menelik runs and with him holding my hand I can keep up with his pace. He pulls me into the janitor's closet, "You'll get in a lot of trouble" I tell him.

"I don't care, Hakim needs us right now" he peaks out of the door "Coast is clear"

I already know Hakim didn't go to detention; he never does, he leaves the school and stays at Cherry Blossom Park until school is over.