Here Lies Jane Doe

Spot the Difference

A video sent in from one UESider, see for yourself...

A video of Meredith and Sebastian kissing as a dare.

Secret, deleted. Know my name, keep the secrets- Jane Doe, kisses x

That Snapchat video surfaced on Friday evening, it was now Sunday night. I'd barely had a full conversation about it with Sebastian. He had ended up staying in one of the spare rooms at mine - I assumed he just didn't want to face his secret girlfriend, or even his dad.

Not that it was in the mainstream media or anything.

Sebastian loved the limelight of being the son of the mayor and the connections from the Spectator. His dad, on the other hand, was quick to encourage Sebastian to reel it in, to behave more appropriately. Mr Archibald had a well-founded fear of his image being smeared. Sebastian and his parents were watched with eagle eyes. People were just waiting for one of them to get caught up in a scandal.

It seemed as though Jane Doe could threaten everything for Sebastian.

But did our parents know about Jane Doe? She was still relatively small and that would not come to our parents' attention just yet. For all I knew, she might be gone in a week or two.

I still wanted to know more about Jane Doe though. Who was she and why was she doing this? There was no obvious motive so it didn't make sense right now, but maybe it would in time.

Keen to discover more about Jane Doe, I decided that the party group needed to be invited again. Deep down, I was hoping to unearth who filmed the video, because I just couldn't work it out. No one had their phones in their hand at the time, so it wasn't obvious who sent it in to Jane Doe. I couldn't even remember who was sitting where to work it out by the angle that it was filmed at.

I was sat at the dining room table working on an easy bit of algebra homework. Eager to get it done before the others arrived or before my mom started to pester me to study more, I cracked on. She wanted the best for me and Tiffany, so tried to be a big part of our school lives. Mom was the head of the PTA for Constance and always helped organising fundraisers with St Jude's. Not to mention she was always happy to donate an outfit from Waldorf Designs at a school auction.

"Hey Henry- I'm going to dash now..." Sebastian said, standing awkwardly in the doorway. "My parents will be wondering where I am."

"Wait Sebastian," I replied quickly. "I need you to talk to me about Jane Doe."

"No." He shut me down instantly. "I don't want to talk about it."

"Come on Sebastian. If this stuff escalates, then it would be easier if there were no secrets between us all, right?" I smiled, trying to be positive in this situation. "And you can't go because the others will be here to talk about Jane Doe. I invited Violet and Harper along. Vick said she might be late and Meredith wants to drag the Dustin-dustbin along. Not that I know what's up with them. Their relationship, I mean."

Sebastian rolled his eyes. "Henry- come on, don't do this. It isn't my place to say what my relationship is and who it is with. It's hers too!"

I couldn't believe that Sebastian was being so defensive, it was irrational and uncalled for. "Seb. We're best friends, you know you can tell me anything. Just talk to me, tell me who it is and then I can always have your back. No matter what Jane Doe throws our way."

Sebastian shook his head and I could see him debating everything in his mind. Clearly the identity of his new girlfriend could jeopardise a lot if word got out. There were way too many possible explanations as to why Sebastian wasn't telling me the whole story.