🌻 Tragedy | MTV Scream

07

Rose was standing at her locker with Jake and Brooke when Jake began asking about Brooke's father, and the video Jake just so happened to 'find'.

"You figure out where the bedsheet in daddy's deep freeze came from?"

"The guest room," Rose answered, switching the books in her bag, with the ones she'd have to take home.

"Mom wanted to redecorate," Brooke added with a sigh as she leaned against the row of lockers. "Now she may never get the chance."

"So why don't you just come out point blank and say 'Dad, where the hell is my mom?'." Jake inquired.

"She did." Rose rolled her eyes, still upset about everything that happened with her father within a day of him being in Lakewood.

Brooke shared a look with Jake full of concern for their best friend. "Dad insists that she's in rehab. He just won't tell me which one. He went out late last night, came back all skulk. I don't know, I just... I have a feeling something really bad is going on."

"Hey! Um, have either of you guys seen Will?" Emma asked causing Rose to jump and nearly slam her own hand in her locker.

"Not since practice last night. But he was feeling pretty rock-bottom. So, I bet he was hella-deep in a bottle of his dad's cheap-label whiskey." Jake answered, tossing his arm around Rose's shoulders and holding her close.

Brooke scoffed. "Which is exactly where he belongs."

Emma shook her head. "He texted me that he tried to fix things last night, but it failed. I don't know, it was weird."

"You said your dad went out last night?" Jake brought Quinn back up and Rose wanted to strangle him.

She didn't want to talk about another horrible father figure in her life after she got into another fight with her real father.

"I think I might know who he was meeting." Jake shook his head in disappointment.

"What're you talking about?" Emma questioned looking between Jake and Brooke.

"Jake found out that Will's been blackmailing Quinn. He had a video of him doing something pretty bad." Rose informed the other blonde.

"But where is Will?" Emma asked, her expression becoming filled with even more worry.

"I don't know." Brooke shrugged. "We don't know. Right, Jake?" She nudged him with her elbow when he didn't reply.

"Right, Jake?" Rose looked up at her boyfriend with a concerned look.

"We need to talk." Piper suddenly showed up causing Rose to once again jump.

"Fuck!" She exclaimed pushing herself deeper into Jake's side.

"Watch your language young lady." A passing teacher scolded.

Before Rose could lash out Jake pulled her along with the three other girls out of the school.

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"Where the hell are we?" Brooke questioned once they entered the abandoned building.

"This is the place Will and I did the money drop with your dad," Jake confessed.