"We just hook up occasionally, Brianna. No one needs to know about this. Especially after you cheated on Monty... with me."
"And now the whole school possibly knows, Scott. Because of a dead girl."
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"About the tapes? Sheri told me this morning when she-"
"No, about what she's saying on them" Scott cuts me off.
"I've heard all of them just a little after she... passed", my voice dying down at the end.
"I mean", and he comes closer, his voice turning down only for me to hear," what she says on Bryce's tape. About these two 'witnesses'..."
I clear my throat," I uhm- Yeah I know" Having a hard time facing the boy in front of me, my eyes look anywhere but him.
"Why did you never tell me about them?" he asks me, almost pleadingly.
"Scott, wait, how do you know about this? Have you listened too?"
"No, well kinda. Some kids were playing Bryce's tape out loud and that's when I heard. I thought she... didn't see us?"
I sigh, feeling ashamed and trying to hide behind my locker door.
"Well apparently she did. But what does it change? We're still horrible people nonetheless"
"Yeah, but, now everyone knows that someone saw what happened to her that night. What if they fucking find out? Monty would kill us!" Scott whisper yells, looking around in frustration to see if anybody heard.
I close my locker door before replying," I have no idea okay? I wasn't expecting for the tapes to get leaked, ever. I didn't come up with a plan."
"Who knows about this?" his eyes locked on mine, pleading for an answer.
"Sheri... Bryce, that's it. Look, when Clay listened to them, he was going apeshit about this part. Asking everyone if they knew about two witnesses."
"So then he probably asked Bryce too and he didn't tell him, I'm guessing..."
"No, Scott. Because we had that shit on him! And now that literally everybody knows and he only has something on us and we're fucked!"
Our whisper yelling finally dies down, both of us unsure what to say. But Scott breaks the short silence.
"We should.. talk about this somewhere else, later. I'll see you at the ribbon cutting." I nod and mouth him a bye, before heading to the girls changing room.
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Sitting at lunch with Sheri, we talk about the ceremony from earlier today. Marcus Cole called Bryce Walker a rapist, in front on his parents, girlfriend and the entire student body.
It goes unnoticeable how almost everyone keeps looking at my best friend, knowing that she's the reason that someone died.
"Jeez these kids have no manners, staring and all," I tell her, giving an evil to look to the observers,"Doesn't it bother you?"
"Are you serious right now? You know, they should be staring at you too." She packs up her bag and leaves, clearly agitated.
But she was right. Why didn't Hannah mention mine, or Scott's name? I wasn't necessarily friends with her, but I thought she knew who I was. Did she leave us out on the tapes on purpose? Or did she really not recognize our faces?
