Isle of flightless birds

14. American Beauty/American Psycho

"Shit, are you okay?" I ask him as his wet ass sits down beside me. "Promise you won't tell anyone." He looks at me seriously. "I won't." I promise. "Things happened and I got into a car chase with the police, I lost control of the car and drove into the ocean." He says. "You're the man on the news?" I ask and he nods. "Shit, are you okay?" I ask and he smiles at me. "Yeah. Thank you for not freaking out too much."

James is sitting on the same place as when I left. "What are you doing here Nate?" He questions and gives me a hug. "I had some trouble and Thea picked me up. Thea said I could get some clothes." Nate answers and James nod. "Wait here, I will fix you clothes." He smiles and walks upstairs. "Don't tell our friend either." Nate whispers in my ear and I nod. "Here you go." James says and hand Nate some cloths. "Thank you so much." He says and walk into the bathroom.

"I have been thinking, and I was wondering if we are together or are we just pretending?" I ask James. We are laying in my bed half asleep. "We are pretending, so be careful if you're going to kissing or sleeping with someone else." He smiles. "Okay, I was just wondering. Goodnight." I say and turns off the light. "Night."

The sun is shining into the room. I try to move, but James arm is hugging me tight to him. "James, wake up." I shout and he hugs me closer. "I missed waking up like this." He says and kiss my neck. "I don't, you always have a problem that hurts my back." I say and he lets go of me. "Right, I'm going to take a shower, you can fix breakfast." He says and walks into the bathroom. Dammit, I always get the hard mission. Before I go down i put on my dark blue jeans, a black lace bra and a white blouse over. The blouse isn't button up all the way, so the lace on the bra is seen. I also put on my favorite black boots and then I walk downstairs and put some bread in the toaster.

After James get down we eat breakfast in silence. "Who started the fire?" James asks as soon as we get into the car. "I don't really know." That's only half true, I meet the guy, but only once and I don't know anything about him. "Then why did you take the blame, what did you do that was bad enough for you to take the blame for a fire?" He asks. How could I tell him? How could I tell anyone what I did?

~flashback~

"Let me go!" I scream and the hands around me only tightens. "Thea Petrova." A guy says as soon as we enter a classroom. "Are you complete out of your mind? This school is burning down as we speak." I scream at the guy and he laughs. "I know, I started it." He laughs. "But the best part is that you have to take the blame, or I will tell the world about your dirty little secrets." He smiles. "W-what secret?" I ask and he smiles wider. "The daughter of multi billionaire Petrova is a gang member." He smiles at me and I laugh at him. "Yeah? I don't care about my dad." I tell him and he thinks a second. "She also killed Mr Fernandos innocent children. Shame on you." Wait? How did he know? "Take the blame, there isn't any evidence pointing at you so your dad will be able to clean this out, or let the word about the Fernando boys circle the world." He says with a smirk. "What will it be?"

~end of flashback~

"It was taking the blame or death." those words have haunted me since this morning. Why did I say that? I can't have him dig around. I won't end up dead. The boys are talking about something but I don't care. I can hire a hotel room under a fake name with cash so it can't be traced back to me. I will tell him a lie of what happened. Get somebody to kidnap him and take him to the hotel room."The kidnapping will be the easy part." I mumble and the look at me. "Nothing." I smile and goes back to planning in my head. Masks will be needed. But what if he tells me the lie I said before? Hmm, kill him maybe? We will see. If he don't tell me I can torture him so I know where his loyalty lays. That sounds good. "I need to call someone. I will meet you guys at lunch." I tell them and then I walk outside. "If you are calling about the scarecrow in my backyard call the number starting with (907). Calling about projekt 666 call the number starting with (759). If you don't have those numbers call Thea." I turn of the call. Why won't he answer? I dial another number. "I'm a little busy right now, call you later." Penny says stressed in my ear and the he end the call. Weird. I try another number. "Who is this? And why are you calling my boyfriend? I knew he was cheating." A girl screams and I end the call. "Thea, babe. You finely called. Come on, get high with me. High sex is the best."He shudders. I call five other persons, one of them answers, but he's busy. "Why is everyone busy?" I mutter. "I answered." Matt says behind me and I turn around like my feet were on fire. "You didn't answer your phone." I tell him and he smiles. "I forgot it at home. What do you need.?" He asks and I smile. "I need a favor." I tell him as the bell rings. "I need your help to kidnap James Miller." His face is shooked. "James Miller? Like in your husband James?" He asks and I nod. "The same James that died in that fire?" He asks. "Exactly, Are you in?" I ask him with a hopeful smile. "I mean sure, but why?" He asks. "I might know too much. Information that can get me killed." I tell him and he nods. "I understands. When are we doing this?" He asks. "Tomorrow?" I ask . "Sounds good. I will pick you up after school and we will talk about the details." With that he's gone. I walk back into the school. I have biology, so I walk to Charlie's office. "What's up?" I ask as I enter. "Just working on some troublemakers. Which teacher did you piss off today?" He asks and I shoot him a sarcastic smile. "No one, I skipped." I smile proudly. "Wow. We need to throw a party to celebrate." He cheers happily and I shoot him another sarcastic smile. "Want one?" I ask and light a cigarette. "No, I need one." He says and I hand him one with a laugh.