The Payback or The Adventures and Pranks of Zachary O'Connor

Chapter Five: An Unlikely Alliance

I turned to face our surprise guest. I could tell it was a she from her voice, but I had no idea who.

"I'm assuming you two are the masterminds behind this?" the silhouette said. "Along with your two friends?"

"Who are you?" I asked.

"Answer my question first," the girl commanded.

"Fine, yes. We're behind it. But how did you know it was us?" I responded.

"You held the sign that said 'DICK', so I figured."

"And how do you know who we are?" Meghan asked.

"I saw you two rip off your hats behind the food hut," she replied.

"And as for who you are?" Meghan continued.

"Why don't you follow me into the light and see..." the voice said, and the silhouette disappeared.

I glanced at Meghan and followed the girl out of the shadows.

Who I saw standing in the parking lot was the last person I expected to see.

"Not who you expected?" Reagan Hamilton asked.

"No," I muttered.

Reagan was dressed in her cheerleading uniform, dirty blonde hair hanging down around her skinny frame. The most popular girl in the entire school was eyeing us warily. Her green eyes traveled over me and Meghan as if we were an exhibit at a museum. Her face showed a look of slight amusement, yet also boredom. Admittedly, she looked pretty hot. But I never thought that cuz I had been making out with Meghan two seconds beforehand.

"So, are you going to turn us in?" Meghan asked in despair.

"That depends," Reagan answered.

That conniving bastard...

"On what?" I questioned.

"I know that you've been wreaking havoc on Kate and Eric's lives on purpose," Reagan started, "but I don't know your motive. I just want you to keep on destroying people's lives."

"Andre, the Other Kate and Keegan?" I blurted out.

"Yes... How did you know?" she asked.

"Lucky guess," Meghan and I said in unison.

Reagan looked suspicious. We were treading in dangerous water now. If Reagan found out that we were getting paid to get revenge on people, she would guess that she would be on the list. Which she was. As it looked, she would keep our revenges a secret if we continued to carry them out. There was pretty much no downside. In fact, it might be easier if we had Reagan on our side since she knew these people.

"You were already going to get revenge on them, weren't you?"

"Yes," I replied.

"Aren't they your friends?" Meghan interrupted.

"I thought so, too," Reagan said.

"What happened?" I asked.

"They discarded me. All together, they can override me. And they did."

She sounded miserable, and it disgusted me. I had heard there had been a schism in the PP. Something about Kate and Eric. The PP taking sides. It sounded like they had all turned on Reagan. I thought I knew why.

"Lemme guess," I said. "You wanted to go out with Eric. He wanted to go out with you. You somehow set up the whole Kate and Jackson thing?"

She sat down on a curb. Nodded.