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T H I R T Y - F I V E

"Well, I don't wanna think about you right now, don't wanna think about you right now, 'Cause if I did, it would be damn bad,"
ㅡ Don't Wanna Think; Julia Michaels

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L U K E

After we got to school a little late because of Perry, I got into my class as usual. A little later my phone vibrated in my pocket. Fishing out my phone, I saw a text from Arthur.

Arthur Daniels
Off next period until lunch? I have important things to show you.

I replies his text instantly.

Me
Meet me at parking lot in ten.

I placed my phone back in my pocket and took a glance at my watch. Five minutes more until the next class. I scribbled some notes until the bell rings. I grabbed my backpack and walked out before anyone else did. I walked to the parking lot and saw Arthur was leaning against his car.

"Where to go?" I asked.

"Ellie's," he answered.

"Why Elle's?"

"We can't go to my house because my mother is at home, can't go to yours because your mum is at home too and we need to go to Ellie's because Peter is there and he got something for us about Perry," he explained.

"Should've told me earlier Ed," I grunted and get inside my car.

We both drove away from school before anyone noticed us. After minutes, we arrived at Elle's house and I cut off the engine, followed by Arthur who parked right behind my car. I pressed the doorbell and revealed Peter in his glasses and sweater.

"Come in, just go straight to my room," Peter gushed and we all strolled upstairs to Peter's room. Once we get inside, it was like a hurricane just destroyed his room.

"Wow," Arthur commented.

"I've been working my ass for last few days and I even slept on my couch instead of my bed because of the thing Arthur asked me to investigate," Peter said.

"So how is it?" I asked.

"You're not going to believe it," he said before reaching one of those scattered papers on his bed and handed it to us.

"Have a seat... anywhere you want," Peter said and we all ended up sitting on the floor.

"Remember when you asked me to hack Samantha Horran's laptop?" Peter asked Arthur.

"Yeah," Arthur nodded.

"Why?" I asked dumbfounded.

"I asked Peter to do it because I want to know who sent her an email about us," Arthur explained.

"The email that she said about Elle broke up with you because of me?" I asked and he nodded.

"So what's the results?" I asked Peter.

"So I got it, that email was from Teresa Ronan," Peter said.

"Tessie," Arthur and I said in unison.

"Yes and so I tried to hack Tessie's email. It took a few hours before I happened to know that she is connected to Perry," Peter said.

"What?" I asked.

"There's more. In that email, Perry blackmailed her using her father which is my uncle. Then, she paid Tessie if she revealed everything about Sophie-Anne to Samantha. The amount is not little. She paid for almost a grand to Tessie," Peter explained, passing us more papers from his bed and those are all evidences.