The hidden truth

Chapter 15 - You must know

Kevin spent the lesson questioning me about my knowledge of the southside which was very little, I told him I wasn't from riverdale and I lived in Greendale and his mouth flew open which made me laugh. He went on about how the ride must take forever and it must be horrid but I shrugged it off and Kevin went on about the southside again.

"Come on Kenzie, you've got to know something. You must know!" He pushed when we walked out and into the student lounge and I shook my head, I really had no idea what he was on about. I knew about the southside and Northside divide but I never knew that there was a gang and they did drugs especially teenagers.

"Kev, seriously. I know nothing about the southside, I knew about the divide but never that kids dealt drugs" I said as I sat on the sofa opposite him and he just laughed and as Veronica and Archie came into the room, I quickly needed a topic changer.
"Archie!, fancy a song?" I said quickly and with a pleading face trying to get Kevin off my back. He was so pushy, I had no clue why.

"Yeah sure!" Archie said and he started to play a tone on his guitar which i soon noticed was 'Believer' by imagine dragons. I smiled and started to sing. I looked at him and nodded, this was about to be interesting.

"First things first
I'ma say all the words inside my head
I'm fired up and tired of the way that things have been, oh ooh
The way that things have been, oh ooh
Second thing second
Don't you tell me what you think that I can be
I'm the one at the sail, I'm the master of my sea, oh ooh
The master of my sea, oh ooh
I was broken from a young age
Taking my sulking to the masses
Write down my poems for the few
That looked at me, took to me, shook to me, feeling me
Singing from heartache from the pain
Taking my message from the veins
Speaking my lesson from the brain
Seeing the beauty through the
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer

You break me down, you build me up, believer, believer

Oh let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from

You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
Third things third
Send a prayer to the ones up above
All the hate that you've heard has turned your spirit to a dove, oh ooh
Your spirit up above, oh ooh
I was choking in the crowd
Building my rain up in the cloud
Falling like ashes to the ground
Hoping my feelings, they would drown
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing
Inhibited, limited
'Til it broke up and it rained down
It rained down, like
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer

You break me down, you built me up, believer, believer

I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from

You made me a, you made me a believer, believer
Last things last
By the grace of the fire and the flames
You're the face of the future, the blood in my veins, oh ooh
The blood in my veins, oh ooh
But they never did, ever lived, ebbing and flowing
Inhibited, limited
'Til it broke up and it rained down
It rained down, like
You made me a, you made me a believer, believer

You break me down, you built me up, believer, believer

I let the bullets fly, oh let them rain
My life, my love, my drive, it came from

You made me a, you made me a believer, believer" I sang as Archie played it on his guitar, this wasn't as fast and intense as it was meant to be. It was so much calmer and sweeter since we didn't have intense music equipment. I opened my eyes and saw Kevin's mouth wide open, he reminded me of Georgia last night when I dance and then a shiver went down my spine, one of distaste and horrid memories.

"God McKenzie, you've got a voice and it's simply sweet" Veronica said which made me smile, I looked towards Archie and smiled a thankful smile for playing the guitar and helping me get Kevin off my back.

"Oh!, I just figured out how you might know the serpents McKenzie!" He said this which made me roll my eyes harder than I had ever done. He was still on this serpent business and his rant that I must know who they are or something about them but the answer was i simply didn't. "They wear a double headed snake on their jackets and have it as a tattoo" he said simply and my whole world came crashing down, I shot up and ran to my locker and opened it up and looked for my drawing, where was it?

What the hell, where was it?. This was ridiculous I know I had it yesterday in math, oh no. Did I pick it up?

"Looking for something" kevin said with an investigator smile, oh no.

"I have no clue what your on about Keller" I said to him trying to stay as calm as possible, was this why he pushed me so much about the serpents and my knowledge of them? He saw my drawing and thought I knew about them.

He pulls my drawing out from his bag. Oh no.
"So you have no clue what this is?" He asks while leaning against the locker next to mine. I quickly pulled it out of his hand.

"No Kevin I didn't, I saw it somewhere and thought it looked cool so I drew it, that okay?" I said to him rather hostile. He was pushing buttons that he had no clue what they lead too, I don't need a repeat of Malachai.

Just drop it Keller I thought to myself.