You Can't Lie Anymore

Chapter-21

Being the smart one Adam figured out that we could see what happened to Carter on the school security cameras. Being the son of a trusty he had the access to the restricted area in the school, and in the staff lunch break we entered the security camera room to see the footage. Ryan downloaded the previous day's footage on the pen-drive, and then something unexpected happened.

Even though we had played our cards right, we heard someone approaching the door, and before the door opened, Adam pulled me behind the big wire box, such that I was between the wall and Adam, his body pressing against me.

He placed a hand on my mouth to make sure I don't make any sound when he pulled me.It felt like time stopped. All I could do right then was stare in those beautiful hazel brown eyes. He was looking at me intensely and he moved back as fast as he had pulled me, as soon as the guard left. I missed, missed the feeling of him being this close to me. I stood rooted to the spot. He took another step back, and when I looked behind him.

I saw Ryan, as he banged his head on the desk, under which he hid himself, in an attempt to get up. Adam turned to look at him as I laughed. We took the pen-drive and moved out from the room before any more guards would come. Neither of us could wait to watch the footage, so Ryan took out his laptop from his bag and we went to the parking lot to watch it where no one could detect what were we up to. We sat inside Adam's car, as it was the only 'more than 2 seat car', and we watched. What we saw was unbelievable.

Carter had tried to stabbed himself with a broken sharped edged railing in the boys room. The footage wasn't extremely clear, so we couldn't see his face clearly, but the way he did that wasn't normal. Something was so wrong. "Crap, I wish I hadn't seen this", Ryan said."Why did he stab himself, why in the world would he hurt himself", Adam said."First Olivia and now Carter, these two really need to talk it out man", Ryan said.

As far as I was concerned, I couldn't say anything after what I just saw. It seemed like a nightmare, worse than a nightmare. When you see your loved one's in pain, t really hurts and you do anything in the world to make it right, but when you have no cue why are they getting hurt, you feel helpless, and desperate, and that was exactly how I felt at that moment. Helpless and Desperate. Helpless as I had no clue as to what was up with him. And desperate to make everything right.

Adam opened the door of the back seat for me to get off, and that pulled me out of my thoughts. I looked at him and felt the helplessness on his face as well. We moved inside the school building and neither of us had the energy to say a word now.

The rest of the day we were together but each one of us were lost in their own thoughts.We seemed fine, we worked fine but we weren't fine. How could we be fine when one of us, tries to hurt himself and doesn't even remember that. Did he do it because of Olivia and doesn't want us to know so is lying? Maybe he is in depression? He loved her and we knew that. And I knew that what happened was probably because of what Olivia had done.

The two were the most adorable couple in school and in one week their world changed, our world changed when 2 of our best friends talk like they don't know each other. The atmosphere of friendship had changed into awkwardness between us whenever the 5 of us were together. And the friendship that we cherished seemed to be getting lost every past day. But friends stick together through think and thin. And this was enough to get me determined to get everything on track.

First things first, we needed to confront Carter of what was he thinking when he did that, and if he says he doesn't remember, then ....uhhmm..... we will see it then. Right now I need Ryan and Adam with me."Hey, come here", I called out to them as they were working with the volunteers in the center of the field while I was sitting on the stands.They looked at me, and nodded.

Meanwhile I texted Olivia,

Me-'How's Carter?'
Olivia-' Fine, discharged, we are taking him home'
Me-'see if you find any happy-paapy thing in his bag,drawer, anything'
Olivia-'As in?'Me-'Sleeping pills, drugs anything, just text me'
Olivia-'?'
Me-'Obey please, questions later'

After excusing themselves from the pack volunteers of girls that surrounded them, they walked in my direction.
"What if he was taking pills, or some unauthorized drugs?", I asked them.
"That can't be, we here are talking about Carter", Ryan said.
"Lately, it turns out we know nothing about him, so I don't know", Adam said.
"That's what I thought, Come on", I said and started moving towards the parking.
"We still have work to do, wait for us in the parking", Adam said.
"I'll be waiting as well", Ryan said giving his iconic smile.

Adam looked at us for a second and finally gave in, "I guess they can handle the rest, let's go."We got in Ryan's car. We reached the hospital in time to find the doctor who treated Carter. He gave us his medical reports as he was Adam's family doctor, along with his blood reports, which suggested the use of anti-depressants.

"See I knew it", I said looking at both of them.
"Why was he taking those?", Adam said.
"Olivia can be one reason", I said.
"She can be the only reason, or his dad maybe?", Ryan said after thinking for a minute.
"But his mom seemed fine, no issue there I guess", I said.
"We need to find out then", Adam said.