He's Always Watching

Chapter 18

"Hey, it's not your fault. You don't need to be apologising for whatever your dad is doing." Chris tried his hardest to comfort me. Although we didn't really want the others to know that I stopped over at his last night, I think we made it too obvious but they didn't need to know the details and this wasn't what everyone was thinking about right then at that moment. We were all thinking about why my father had joined some lunatic in some crime.

"None of you are going to trust me now and I'm going to look like the guilty one." My crying was uncontrollable. The tears were falling like waterfalls. Each individual droplet like a raindrop, as they fell heavier than the one before it. My own dad was capable of being behind a kidnapping of not one but 7 school kids alongside some strange guy that never leaves his house or talks to anyone. I wanted to disown my father. I didn't want to know him. I wanted no connection to him.

"We trust you Tori. It's your dad who we don't trust." Noah placed a hand on my shoulder sympathetically. I'm glad that they can trust me. I'm nothing like my dad.

"Guys we need to go like right now." V suddenly exclaimed, dread and terror in her eyes as we all began to run. We were all confused as fuck but we didn't stop running away from the house, not daring to look back.

We ran all the way to the diner, where we decided to stop and have a drink and something to eat. I didn't know about the others but I was starving.

"V, what did you see back there?" Beth asked concerned for Vanessa who looked as if she was about to throw up all over the table.

"Lewis. Well it wasn't Lewis. But his body. It was being dragged across the floor at the side of the house by ... Hollie"

No one knew that Hollie could possibly do something like this. It was unexpected of her. She had top marks in every class why would she want to kill a some what innocent person? As much as we didn't want to believe it, we had to. Vanessa had seen it with her own eyes. The cold, dead body of Lewis Clay being dragged across the floor by Hollie. Vanessa didn't tell us that day that she had made eye contact with the cold blooded killed and that Hollie now knew we were looking for them. Cold. Cruel. Broken.

Although we didn't know for sure if Hollie the straight A student had killed the boy who's secrets would now come out eventually, we were sure about 1 thing though... we had our third suspect.
1. Richard James Ward
2. Mr Kim ... Tori's dad
3. Hollie Green

When night fell, everyone headed for their homes, except me. Chris insisted that I stayed at his. He had already got some of my clothes earlier that day when we went back to mine, my neighbour Mrs Hopper, an old sweet lady had our 2nd spare key, whilst I was in the bathroom doing my hair, Chris packed some of my clothes. His father, Mr Jones, was more than happy to let me stay. He was rather sweet, just like Chris. His Australian accent was more recognisable than Chris' but Chris still had his.

I couldn't sleep that night. Every time I closed my eyes my dad was there at the door of the creepy house. His eyes were full of evil. Then Hollie would be there holding the dead body of Lewis as she dragged him across the floor to a hole that had been dug. After, Richard James Ward would be stood by Jamie's car as he watched it all happen. Laughing in my face. Then the hazel eyes would appear. They weren't the hazel eyes I had fell in love with. They weren't Chris's eyes. These were different.

"Tori, what's wrong?" His voice was low and husky, but I could tell he was tired. I felt bad for waking Chris up.

"Sorry, did I wake you?" I whispered, not wanting to wake Mr Jones up as well. I would never be able to forgive myself.

"No. I was already awake. I can't sleep at all. It's pointless of me trying." Chris reassured me as he put his arm around me. I felt safe in his arms. I would stay like that forever if I could.

"Neither could I. I want to go back to Mr Ward's house."

"When tomorrow?"

"No. Now. Like right now." I didn't know if I wanted to but my words just kept coming out of my mouth. I couldn't stop it.

"Tori, are you sure? It's like 1 in the morning. Is this really wise?"

"Chris, I need to go back. I need to find out what happened to Lewis. Who killed him for sure. Okay. We know that 2 of them are still alive. Hollie and Samatha. We aren't 100% sure if Jamie was even driving that car the other day. And Lewis is dead. There had been no signs that Chloe, Olly, Riley and Jamie are alive or dead. Who knows what's happened to them." I couldn't keep it all back any more. I was desperate to know more. I wanted to find my dad guilty. I wanted to break him and make him pay for whatever he had done.

"Come on." Chris got up out of bed and began putting his clothes on. Without hesitation I began getting changed as well. We both had a torch each and we made our way downstairs.