SECRET IN THE LAKE (BoyxBoy)

"I NEED YOUR HELP"

LUKE

I was running out of patience.

Who knew what they were doing to Jason. The clock was ticking and I had to know the truth.....fast.

It wasn't like I was very attached to Jas but he was my brother and I somehow felt that it was my responsibility to take care of him.
Dad was also using up all his resources to get him bailed out.

"Huh? Jason?" Andrew's eyes had grown wide with shock. "Why would they do that?"

"I.....I am not sure. I heard someone say that they found some evidence against Jas."

"Evidence??? What evidence?" He slowly sat up. His face had paled to a level where he looked anaemic.

"I don't know alright...all I know is that Jas can never kill anyone."

"Why?"

"What why?"

"Why are you so sure? He was never nice to anyone.......just because he is your brother....." He looked at me his eyes challenging me to say anything otherwise.

I sighed

"Look I know that you probably hate him or me or all of us but I really need to know what the hell happened that night. It's not because he is my brother but i just know that Jas cannot kill anyone, leave alone a girl on whom he has been crushing for so long. "

"Why do you think anything happened that night? It was almost a week back. The car was found today. Why are you connecting it to me?"

"I don't know.....I have a feeling. That day you looked so scared and the way you kept staring back at the lake as if you had seen a monster in there. What were you doing at that hour near the lake?"

"Look...though I am in no way answerable to you and it's a pretty personal thing, but since you helped me out that day, I will tell you. I had an argument with my mom and walked out of here, angry. I was just wondering around the lake to cool down my temper. I might have slipped and fallen in that ditch."

The way he spoke I knew that he wasn't lying but there was this strange expression on his face which was telling me that, it was not the whole truth.

"Fine! If you don't want to tell me then I will have a little chat with the sheriff...." I warned him.

"Are you threatening me? Go ahead and tell the Sheriff....or anyone else you want. But how will you prove that I was even there at the lake? Moreover, who are they gonna believe? You? The brother of the accused or poor little me who is completely new to the town and has already been bullied by your bother in public. Then the question arises....what were you doing at the lake? How do you even know that I was there?"

The idiot had a smug look on his face and the way he was talking seemed so rehearsed, as if he had already thought about all this. He would definitely deny being there at the lake at all if the situation arises.

"What are you trying to imply?" I said with gritted teeth as I could feel my patience slowly slipping.

"If you tell them anything about you being anywhere near that lake, they might think that you are an accomplice to the murder along with your brother."

"Carter!!!!!" I don't know how or when i had grabbed him by his collar and shoved him hard, his head hitting the headboard of the bed with a bang.

He winced in pain but still managed to glare at me and mutter
"It seems bullying innocent people is how the Sanders roll."😏

Slowly I unclasped my fingers from his shirt and moved back. What was i doing? This was so unlike me. I always considered myself the calmest person on earth, never rattled by anything. But somehow this guy had managed to bring out the devil in me.
He was definitely not as innocent as he looked. The little minx had the devil's brain.