One Last Time

Chapter 5.1

After the encounter with Winston. I headed to school. Just as I was parking my car in my usual spot, I saw in the corner of my eyes Justin, Clay, and Tony walking up to me. "Y/N we need to talk," said Tony. "No I have to get to class as fast as possible." and with that, I left the three boys standing in the parking lot. I headed towards my locker to grab my books for my first lesson. For the first time since Monty's death, Winston wasn't waiting for me by my locker. I brushed it off knowing he won't show up today to school since he needs to prepare everything for tonight. I grabbed my stuff and closed my locker. Turning around I crashed into a hard chest. The fragrance the person was wearing smelled very familiar. It was none else than Scott Reed my ex-boyfriend who wanted to stop me from proving Monty's innocence. I stepped away and tried walking away but he grabbed my arm and I stood still not moving nor turning around to look at him. Suddenly Clay was standing in front of me. "We need to talk he said." "Fine." I finally gave in and to be honest I didn't want to attend Math class without Winston. I followed the four boys out of school. Finally, Scott spoke for the first time asking me to get into Tony's car, which I did.

We drove off to Tony's apartment. Caleb, Tony's boyfriend greeted us and asked me if I wanted to drink something to which I shook my head. I took a seat on the chair facing the four boys sitting on the couch. "I know Winston knows the truth and I know you know about what Monty did to Tyler." I kept starring blankly at the wall in front of me listening to Clay talking. "I know that you for a fact that you don't want to believe it and that you still see the good in him. You always did that and always will do that. You always managed to see the good in people even though some of them were evil or even monstrous. I know for a fact that Monty cared about you and I know that friendship; that your friendship was very strong and I envied you for the bond you two had for years until I found this connection with people through Hannah's death. Those people I learned to call friends and I'd do anything to protect them and to save them. Just like what you did for Monty and what you are still doing for him and Monty." Justin spoke and said "You need to know that that's what we are doing right now Y/N. It's not because we hate Monty, well we don't. Look Scott and I played baseball with Monty for years and somehow at one point in our lives he was our friend. But we've got other people to protect, other people we dearly love." "Monty is dead and you can't bring him back to life. You can't save someone who's already gone. We are trying to save someone's future and Monty... Monty is..." I interrupted Scott angrily "Monty what Scott? Monty what? Huh, You lied for so long and hide so much shit from me so don't you dare come here and speak poorly of Monty. Don't come here and tell me, Monty... You're not allowed to even mention him." "What they're trying to say is that you can't save Monty anymore," said Caleb touching my shoulder. A single tear slid down my face while I was starring at the wall in front of me. "What do you want me to do?" I asked with a shaking voice. "Help us stop Winston from revealing the truth." "No," I said standing up and walking out through the front door making sure to slam the door shut. Scott ran after me saying: "Y/N please." I turned around and said: "I think I've seen this film before and I didn't like the ending. So I'm not letting Winston down as I did to Monty." I turned back around and walked to the bus station and sat down on the bench waiting for the bus, which can take me back to school to get my car and head to the meeting point to help Winston and check on him.

Suddenly a familiar grey car pulled up It was Scott. He rolled his windows done and asked if I needed a ride to school, which I gladly accepted. I got into the car and We sat in uncomfortable silence until Scott decided to break the silence first. "Comfortable silence is overrated, don't you think?." I hummed in reply. "You've changed. It's like I never knew you or I just don't know you anymore." "Well, we always walked a very thin line," I replied. "Maybe," he said. " What went wrong Y/N?" "You're not my homeland anymore Scott." "Why did you destroy yourself and switched to a self-destruction modus?" I didn't say anything. " You are so blind Y/N and you don't see the mistakes you're making." "We aren't together anymore Scott so what am I defending?" The look in his eyes adds insults to my injuries. " I don't get your point. We aren't together anymore so who am I offending now?" "You left me so you could open a closed case and destroy living people's lives." " Is that what you think this is all about. Well, you're wrong. You never.. You didn't even hear me out when I tried telling you that I'm helping Winston. By the way, for your information, we wanted to know the truth for ourselves but you made it hard for us with all your lies, so we decided to also comfort Estella and Mrs. Walker and the moment the sheriff became involved you all made mistakes which led us to the truth and now I know that every single one of you is a liar. So don't you dare come here accusing me of ruining lives, because all of you ruined mine and will ruin Alex's, Zach's and Jessica's life. Alex will go to jail and maybe Zach too. Jessica might as well because she lied to the police. And that is all going to happen because you all couldn't shut up and keep a secret and trying to do just that made you reveal it more and more." There was silence again. Scott's grip on the steering wheel made his knuckles turn white. After a while, Scott said: "I never learned to read your mind. I hope I did could've noticed the madness going through you sooner. I wish I could've turned things around and help you instead of causing you more pain but I couldn't turn things around, cause you never gave a warning sign." " I gave so many signs," I replied. " You didn't even see the signs," I mumbled to myself. Once we arrived at school. I got out of Scott'S car and went to mine and drove off to meet Winston at the hut.