The Undoing Of ares

The thing with the dead girl

We all gathered out side Lionel's house,
"The lights are out is he even home" I ask "doesn't matter" Alexis says he asked us to be here we all walk through the doors of Lionel's house.

"What the actual god damn fuck" I hear Nadia scream while breathing hard standing above us on a stair way is our professor Lionel Black and laying dead in front of us is a freshmen girl from our class her names Amy I think , Amelia ,wait no Amara. "Shes bleeding to death we need to call an ambulance" I pull out my phone and then Lionel says the words that make my stomach drop  I know your secrets all of your secrets actually ,that's enough to make me hang up.

There's no way he knows, he can't know about nick but then he says it I know about your step father Ares
And I know about your sister Nadia,
The rest of you all know why your here
Or should I proceed to exposing your darkest secrets.

I'm assuming by the looks on our collective faces that the others figured out this was no game, we all where completely frozen in fear ,the others aside I knew that if anyone ever got enough information, and could prove I killed Nick I would be locked away,the life I worked so hard for destroyed, so what ever Lionel wanted I would comply, "what do you want?" I looked at him feeling the lump grow in my throat ,knowing exactly what he wanted but I needed to hear him say it I needed to hear him admit he killed Amara . "get rid of her I've sent you directions in an email" do this and all your secrets go poof

Our phones ding at that exact time

Email from: @professorlionelblack
Subtext:how to get rid of the skeltons in your closet

•get rid of the dead thing tie ropes to to legs and bind them around rocks pull out the teeth poke out the eyes and cut off the hands and feet slit the point behind the knee to make the remaining blood spray out drop it in the lake

• tell no one

• continue with your day to day

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Its been two weeks and i can't get the sight of amara's lifeless body out of my mind naturally it's hard but it's even harder when there are missing posters with her face on it. Posters that remind me of what me and the others did.

I keep thinking about the last line of Lionels email: continue with your day to day lives like where supposed to pretend things are normal .

Apart of me thinks we should tell the police but if we tell Lionel will make sure we end up in prison with him .

I get dressed for class as I would every other day i walk to the cafe and order a large iced coffee to go as I'm waiting for my order I run into Tyson .

Hey Ty I say he looks like he hasn't slept ,messy hair ,under eye bags. Hey Ares Tyson bellows instantly perking up and I don't see how he can be happy to see me after what happened last night.

We stare at each other until it becomes awkward I should get to class I screech making an even more awkward exit

As I'm passing my way to class i see to people caring boxes followed by the police and my gut begins to hurt there her parents the parents of the girl we dismembered and threw in a lake and then Tyson is beside me I can't bring myself to think her name.

I begin walking again and when I get to class I lock eyes with Lionel he's smiling and looking at me like where old friends with a secret and it's terrifying more than flattering.

As Lionel begins lecturing I can't bring myself to pay attention I can't look at him I'm scared but I'm also angry how could someone do something like that and pretend it didn't happen and how he couldn't type her name in the email almost like he was dehumanizing her to make it okay I can't do this I'm going to the police tonight.

After class I walk to my apartment to calm my nerves as I wait for dark to go to the police station. When the sun sets I get dressed grab my keys and start my drive to the police station once I park outside I get a text from Lionel

Text: I'm always watching ares
And now it's time you learn a lesson

Silence gets you in a lot less trouble

And then I get a notification a news article

Accident of a major industry ceo nicholous green reopened after new evidence found now being deemed a homicide

Text: Let this be your warning ares if I go down we all go down.

My heart begins to thump and I restart my car and peel out the parking lot as fast as I can once I get to my room ,I dial the others once they all arrive

I tell them everything
And once I finish I tell them
We're being watched