in which hannah baker exposes madison foley.
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began: 4/12/17
DISCONTINUED/INCOMPLETE
authors note:
hello loves! as i am now much older than i was when i wrote this book, i have come to realize that it is subject to many errors. read at your own...
A/N {let's all pretend there's 14 tapes for the sake of my plot please and thank you} ps :: this is a continuation of the prologue so you should maybe read that
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-- tape 1 side B
paused
my finger brushed over the pause button on the small cassette player justin had given me, along with a box of tapes. after listening to the first minute of 'my' tape, tears already ran down my face.
the other side of this tape didn't really phase me much. i already knew what justin did, everyone did. it was the gossip around school for at least a month. that's when hannah baker became 'the school slut'. at least that's what the students called her. i didn't think that whole thing would get to her the way it did. i thought it was just a high school thing, every girl sported the 'slut' name tag for a while (as shitty as that is).
to tell the complete and honest truth, i didn't deserve to be on these tapes. i never associated myself with the whole 'slutty hannah' thing, i just kind of ignored it. i've never said a word to her and she was in no position to be telling whoever was on the rest of these tapes about my life. maybe she just didn't want me to end up like her. or maybe she did it with the intent of ruining my reputation even after she died.
wait- justin had heard these tapes? he knows about this, he knows about me? oh god what hannah said must be true, he probably was ashamed of me. who else is on these tapes, who else will know? i mean it wasn't even that big of a deal, it'll just be blown out of proportion, just like everything i do is. people wont like me anymore; and i'm not used to that.
my mind was raked with different thoughts and emotions.
play
"I'm just going to cut right to the point here, maddie. you're a faker, a liar, an actesss, whatever the hell you want to call it.
the world needs to know the truth. you, maddie, you are not liberty highs happy-go-lucky cheerleader.
you're really just an insecure little girl. you can't handle when people don't like you so you just let all the guys take their turn with you?"
pause
hannah baker didn't fucking know me. she didn't know what i went through outside of school. she had no right to say these things about me and now everyone else on these tapes are going to hear it too.
play
"you could've done something, maddie. you could have done anything and you didn't. you let your friends screw me over, and that's why you're on these tapes.
so now your secrets out mads! madison foley has problems; bad ones at that and nobody ever seems to notice.
maybe someone will notice now maddie, you could drop the act. hope you had fun being lucky number two on these tapes. or would that only be an act too?
just remember to pass them on to the next lucky person.
bye maddie. "
end of tape
tears pool at the base of chin and i stare down at my bedsheets. i pop the tape out and insert the next, just relieved mine is over. maybe the others on these won't even care about me, they'll just keep listening like i did. besides, they all had secrets too. would else would they be on these tapes?
-- there's lowkey gonna be hopefully an into with maddie and the rest of the gang next chapter. and like hannah was kind of a bitch in this chapter but id say it's cuz of her hatred for justin. so they'll be a time skip next chapter and stuff will progress yay! thanks for reading have a a nice day.
