Buried Secrets

Chapter 2: What If

I couldn't sleep. The thought of Hannah kept coming into mind. I knew where she was. I knew she was dead. All because of stupid teenage girls she had to die so young. Why did we even make this stupid club anyway? If I would've known people would die, I wouldn't have agreed to start it.

These thoughts kept running through my mind over and over again. You're stupid, Allison. Really smart move. Just go out to the water tower at midnight and tell Hannah Vasquez if she jumps off the top of the water tower into a frozen pond, she's in.

I was beating myself up over this. I couldn't live with myself. I had to tell someone eventually.

After being awake for hours with thoughts running through my mind, I looked at my alarm clock. 4:34 am. There's no way I'm going to school tomorrow.

"Allison get up!" my older sister Emily yelled at me from her room.

She never lets me sleep longer. I got up and went into my bathroom. I brushed my teeth, washed my face, and put on my makeup. I went back into my room and took a good look at myself.

"Nope." I said quietly to myself and got back into bed.

"Allison get up now! You're gonna be late!" Emily said standing next to my bed.

"No. I'm staying home. I got a total of about 2 hours of sleep. So no thanks." I said happy to stay home.

Emily walked out of my room but soon enough my mom comes in. Crap. I jump out of bed like I was never happier to be out of bed. I have 5 minutes before I need to leave. That's not happening. I went back into my bathroom and redid some of my makeup since it was now messed up. Straightened my sort of wished to be long blonde hair. I put on a cute flowery navy blue shirt from Forever 21 and Hollister jeggings with Toms. I french braided back my bangs and re-brushed my hair. I grabbed a blueberry muffin my mom had made and headed out the door.

Again, school was my typical day. The only thing interesting that happened was two girls got into a fight in the hallway and I actually saw it. Oh, and I forgot about my DNA replica, so I got a zero. Other than that, it was a boring day.

Tonight I was hanging out with Danielle. I got a text from her.

"Hey. Be there at 6 be ready."

I replied with "Okay, I'm ready for my hot date(;" jokingly.

Soon enough, Danielle arrived exactly at 6 to take us to the mall. Danielle's birthday is before mine so she already has her license.

"Did you ever figure out what was going on with Ashlie? I didn't see her at school today." Danielle questioned.

"Yeah, I called her. She didn't really feel like talking so it was short and sweet. She said she just hadn't gotten any sleep and her and her mom got into an argument before she dropped her off so she wasn't in the best mood." I answered.

"I can understand that." Danielle said as we arrived at the mall.

We had a good time together. It was a good way to spend my Friday night when usually they consist of sitting in my room.

When I got home both of my parents were asleep but Emily was sitting on the couch watching tv.

"Hey, did you hear about Hannah Vasquez? You know her don't you?" Emily said.

"Um, yeah. She just moved here like a month ago." I said nervously.

"Did you hear that she went missing Wednesday night?" Emily asked.

"No actually I hadn't. People in school don't talk about much unless your friends with them and I haven't watched the news lately." I said still nervous.

"Oh, well, you look tired. Maybe you should go to bed." she suggested.

"I was planning on it, thanks." I said sarcastically.

I went up to my room and put on my pajamas then got in bed. I laid against my pillows for a few minutes then got to thinking. What if Hannah didn't fall off the ladder. What if she got pushed?