Alive >> Jake Fitzgerald << Scream

One.

"Come on Tyler, where are the hell are you? Pick up your damn phone."

"Tyler I have ten minutes before I need to be at school and you're supposed to be giving me a ride, in case you forgot... again! Call me!"

I let out a annoyed huff as I lowered myself down to sit on the sidewalk, I was already late and there was no way in hell Tyler was coming to pick me up. I was stranded.

I pulled out my phone, going back into the group chat from the previous day in which was the place that the video of Audrey kissing some girl in a car was shared amongst us. I was immediately filled with guilt and after watching the video over and over again, I deleted it from my phone.

After that I went online and hacked into as many websites as I could find the video on, YouTube, pornhub, Vine, before I took it down. I wiped all evidence of it from the web and my phone.

A weird feeling settled in the pit of my stomach and I wasn't quite sure what it was, but I knew it wasn't a good feeling, perhaps it was guilt, but I knew I wasn't guilty because I didnt share that video with anyone and besides, that didn't explain the feeling of worry in my chest, worry that something may have actually happened to Tyler, something to do with the video of Audrey.

I pushed that feeling away.

I glumly rested my chin in my hands, as I waited and waited and waited... He never came.

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"Hey, have you guys heard anything from Tyler?"

"Not since yesterday, why?"

"He was supposed to pick me up this morning but he never showed..." I sat myself down ontop of the picnic table beside Brooke, dumping my purse on the ground in the process.

"That's a bummer." Will shrugged

I rolled my eyes, "and anyway, I thought we agreed to trash that video of Audrey?"

"She was bound to come out one day." Brooke leaned back to rest on her hands, "I mean, look at her."

"Hey there's no need to be so harsh."

"Well if you feel that strongly about her, why dont you go kiss her yourself?"

"Maybe I will." I joked

"Girl on girl action, I like it."

"Shut it Jake."

"Sorry! But what's the big deal if she is a lesbian anyway?"

"Still, she should've been able to tell people herself."

"Who put it out there?" Emma spoke up, everybody else fell into silence, "Jake?"

"Hey, I wasn't the only one on that group thread. And I did delete the video... Right after I sent it to PJ, girl on girl is his demographic." He laughed, nudging Will lightly in the arm.

I rolled my eyes yet again before I reached down and hit Jake in the chest. He shot me a wounded look, placing his hand dramatically over where I'd hit him.

"Ouch, Lyds. That really hurt!"

"Oh, grow a pair."

"Riley?" Emma interrupted our bickering.

"Sorry... Zoe saw it on my phone."

"Lydia?"

"I didn't show it to anyone I swear!"

Everybody shot me suspicious looks, to which i pulled out my phone, showing them that I'd infact deleted the video and took it down from the internet.

"If that's not enough proof, you can check for yourselves, I took it down, if I was gonna take it down then why would I show it to anyone?"

"She's got a point." Will scratched the back of his neck

"Thank you for that, Will." I hissed, "It's nice to know you've got my back."

"Do any of you even understand the term viral?"

"Look, we all know Nina did the wide release, Tyler probably helped her too."

"I don't see them anywhere."

"Of course it was Nina. She's a spoiled sociopath with no impulse control." Brooke spoke in a reassuring way, although she was speaking out against Nina, "I mean she's probably ditching right now to avoid your good girl wrath."

"Brooke's right. We all know what Nina's like, she probably posted it online and dragged Tyler into helping her, we all know how manipulative she can be."

"You got that right..."

"My point is, it wasn't any of us, we're all innocent, right guys?" I narrowed my eyes at each and every one of my friends, trying to narrow down a possible person other than Tyler or Nina who could've posted the video.

"Right."

My eyes immediately landed on Jake, knowing he was capable of doing such things as he, Will, Nina, Tyler and I had hacked into the schools website previously and downloaded malware onto it so we'd be able to watch students through their webcams and dig up some dirt on them. As soon as I was roped into helping with installing the malware, I instantly regretted it.

Before I knew it, the five of us were blackmailing people into giving us money in exchange for keeping quiet about their secrets... I hated it.

But coming from a one parent household in which my dad was a recovering alcoholic, who'd lost his job god knows how many times, and could barely afford to pay the rent, it was difficult and I was constantly in desperate need of cash so I could help pay the rent and be able to guarantee myself a place at a good college. It was the only way to secure myself a future, even if it threatened other people's.

But I guess we all had our own dirty secrets and well... that was mine, and of course what happened between Will and I, but that was unmentionable, in any situation.

And if i was capable of almost sleeping with my best friends boyfriend and blackmailing a long list of people, who knew what else I was capable of?

But Jake and Will, they were involved in the blackmailing too... so they were capable of just as much as I was, maybe even more?

And with that thought in my head, I pushed it away, not wanting to provoke Will after what happened between us, or get on the bad side of Jake.

Because I'd been on the bad side of Jake before and it wasn't pretty...