The Group

DeadMen Tell No Tales

I woke up today feeling like shit knowing that a friend was missing possibly dead and his brother very much so dead. I didn't like his brother but I didn't want him dead because that shit would be fucked to want a kid dead, especially at that age. Their mother was so worried about Levi and crushed about Brayden, like any mother would be but she wasn't always like that she used to not care about Brayden's death and not care about Levi missing, she would walk around laughing and you could tell it was a genuine laugh not one of those fake laughs. But as soon as the press arrived...she decided to start balling and putting on a good show for the cameras. She even went all the way cutting her wrists, and drinking and even getting thrown in prison for drug abuse. Eventually though the press left, and she stopped cutting and drinking and balling, validating that she was putting on a show for the cameras. Nobody had found even a sign of Levi yet and he was becoming the main suspect because he had no alibi for that night, his mom didn't see him home since that morning and he was supposed to walk his younger brother, Brayden home from school and that was the first day that Brayden and Levi were missing. The second day is when I shoulda saw Braydens body so that's the day that's the day that Brayden was killed.

I walk home later that day after school and as I get to were Brayden's body was parallel to the road I look over and see a note nailed to a tree. I throw down my binder and slide down the rocks and grass till I get to the water, I walk over to were the note is not noticing the water licking my socks.

"Hello if you are reading this then that means that you found the body of Brayden, go to this website to find the first clue in finding Levi"

Under the text was a website URL, I grab the paper and climb the bank until I reach the top. I instantly text my mom "ima be hanging out with the gang" I also text the group chat "hey we need to hang out now like rn in private don't ask questions we just need to hang"

Ragan: uh sure?

Sarah: fine ig

Colton: aight

Levi:

So we meet up at Colton's house, Sarah drives because his house is out of town by about ten minutes if you fast walk. We arive at Colton's house and all exit the car walking to Colton's front door and knock.

"Welcome me dudes" Colton says laughing as he opens the door to us.

"Hey" I say walking up to his room, I can feel everybody's eyes on my back. I know I'm acting weird but I don't care because this is important. Everybody makes their way to Colton's room, Ragan sits on Colton's lap and Sarah and me sit across the bed from eachother.

"So what was super important?" Ragan asks

"This" I say handing Ragan the letter.

She begins to read it and you can see the color fade from her face as she reads on, Colton is reading over her shoulder and his eyes widen with surpise and worry. Sarah sits there waiting for the letter to be passed to her, when it does she goes green, see she's a fast reader also so that helped push the whole reading process along.

"Where did you find this?" Sarah says

"In my creek it was nailed to the tree behind were we found Brayden"

Ragan and Colton look up at me with terror in their eyes. "What did you do" I ask

"We looked up the website...it-it's fucked..." Ragan comments

"What was it?" Sarah asks

Colton hands Sarah his phone and I look over her shoulder, it really was fucked it was videos of kids being mutilated.

"I've heard of things like these, they're red rooms" Colton says

"We need to show this to the police" Sarah says

"Yeah and have them shut down the case?" The cops had shut down the case within 24 hours of finding Brayden's body. Yeah our cops are corrupt or fucking stupid, or both I honestly don't know anymore you can pretty much buy off any cop around here it's so stupid. But anyway, everybody looked down knowing we couldn't bring this to the cops.

"We handle this ourselves" I said

"How though?" Colton asks

"By finding out what that website has to do with Levi"