You Can't Lie Anymore

Chapter-49

"What is this?", he asked while taking the journal in his hand, while he handed the laptop to me.

We took the journal and the laptop and headed to the car.

Sitting on my bed, we evaluated both our finding. He had the Journal while I had the laptop.

Carter is ............ was a computer genius and I tried to decrypt his personal files, but it was useless. I kept trying while Ryan shuffled through his pages.

"Shit", he said, his eyes at the journal, "You need to see this", he said.

Picking up the journal, I started reading the first line, and it read............

Carter:-

Sunday, 2019 (the day before Carter's roof accident)

" I don't know why I did it, but I just did. I don't know what came over me that day, but I didn't feel the guilt that I feel now.

I've started seeing him, Ethan, his eyes looking at me , making me feel like like a murderer, making me feel guilty of what I did. I reacted seeing him looking at me the way he did that day, when he lay n the hospital bed.

Adam wasn't at risk, he's got a rich dad, who can throw money at any one who raises just a finger at his son. But me who would have saved me ? No one. No one that I know of.

Why did we drink that night? Why did we drive the car? Why?

If only it had never happened.

I can't forget the woman I saw in the cave the 2nd time I visited. Maybe Olivia saw these hallucinations too. It wasn't a hallucination then, was it?

I see her, and Ethan multiple times now. When I'm eating, showering, or even when I'm talking.

I hate it, the guilt that I feel when I see his eyes. When I see her eyes. I don't know if it is my guilt that is eating my soul from the core, but I can't take it anymore."

Ryan looked at me as I read out the last entry in his dairy which was dated the night before he fell off the roof.

"This is the last", I said.

"There got to be more", Ryan said, as he ripped the journal from my hand and flipped the pages.

A folded piece of paper fell from the journal on the bed cover between Ryan and me. I took it in my hands, and took a heavy breath before opening it.

{

"The place it all started"

-CARTER

}

Was written on the little piece of paper.

"What can this be?", Ryan asked.

"I........... uhmmmm...... I don't know", I said while I tried to think what the little piece of information meant.

"You should sleep", my mom coming into the room. We kept the journal aside and I shifted it under the cover as she approached me. She didn't notice me doing it and I could be more thankful for that. She wouldn't had let us do what we were trying to do.

"Ryan, why don't you stay over today, it's late son", she said as she placed a hand on his head.

"Yes, thank you Mrs. Pierce", he said, my mom nodded and looked at me.

"Goodnight", she said hugging me, and she closed the door on her way out.

She was disturbed due to Carter's death as well, because our parents treated the 5 of us like their own.