Behind Classroom Doors II

XCII- Who is Jack Briers?

"All of the students are done for today." I tell Sam as I walk into his office.

"Good, are they gone?" I nod. "You're free to go then." I tell him goodbye and grab my bag to exit the classroom.

I get to the school library and get on the closest computer. I didn't want to do my research at the dorms in case Katie saw. The last thing I need is for her to be mad at me for snooping on her boyfriend.

I go on google and type in his name, along with his company. It pops up with a recent picture of Jack and his father, Wilson Briers. The first headline is about his possible merger with other small businesses in the city. That must be why he wants to speak with Dianne so bad. Most of the articles about Jack are how successful he became straight out of college. It's all very impressive but not what I'm looking for.

Then I see something on his father, Wilson so I switch gears a bit. There are a ton of pictures of them with their company. I sift through those and find an article on what Jack had as a role model growing up. Apparently, Wilson used to run the headquarters in New York for a tech company that branches out to the west. The article calls Wilson Briers, "A natural businessman." I skim over the good things it says about him until I get to the picture at the bottom. It's a group picture of six men in business suits. Wilson up front, with his arm around another man. They look like they might've been friends in real life. I read the caption, it lists off the names of the men in the picture. Along with Wilson Briers, and Henry Morgan.

"They knew each other?" I ask myself. Maybe that's why Jack has been insisting on doing business with Dianne. Their families have worked together before. I feel like there's more to the story, so I continue. I focus on Jack and his family before they adopted him. What's weird is I can't find anything on his adoption. In fact, I can't find anything between that last article and Jack starting his company.

What I did find was the article on the apartment that caught on fire. The fire department ruled it an accident and said two people died. I assumed that was Jack's dad and Shawn's dad but the two people listed are Gage and Henry Morgan. I quickly print the two articles and grab my stuff to go back to my dorm. I'm not sure what any of it means but I plan on finding out.

As soon as I get to my room I rush in. "Katie, I have something to tell you!"

"She's not here." I stop in my tracks at the sight of Jack in front of me. "What is that?" He asks, looking down at the papers in my hand.

I drop my bag on the floor and shake my head. "Nothing, it's just for a project."

He grabs them from me and looks them over. "Is the project about me?"

I sigh, "Look, I know you lied about your dad dying in that fire. I know you're only hanging around and waiting for Dianne because your father knows her. The only reason I know you weren't lying about being adopted is because you were in a foster home with Ty and Layla."

Jack looks at me momentarily before he starts laughing. I cross my arms over my chest and wait for his fit of laughter to end. "I'm sorry-I'm sorry." He says, trying to calm himself down. "It's just, you're so wrong about everything."

"What?" From his reaction, I might end up being a horrible journalist.

"I'm not waiting for Dianne because she knew my father. I'm not lying about my biological dad dying in that fire either." Any traces of anything being funny is now gone.

He's as serious as ever and it's hard to tell if he's still lying or not. I shake my head, "I read the article, the only people that died that day were Shawn's dad and his brother." Just like Shawn told me. So far, only one story adds up and it's not Jack's.