Gary didn't want to have secrets from Tom, especially after everything he had done to help him, but at the same time he didn't want to drag his best friend into an even deeper mess. It wasn't fair of him, and it was likely that it could endanger his life as well as that of his family, more so than he already had done.
“Oh this thing? My regular phone has been playing up a bit recently. You know about our financial situation, so I've used some of that money I had earned from that part time job to get myself that brick for emergencies. You know how those old phones can never die, and the battery lasts on them forever.” Gary smiled, still feeling hurt inside.
As for Tom, he didn't know how to feel. Gary had shared one of his biggest secrets with him, so why would he need to lie about a second phone.
“What about the police report? Did you say anything about me?” Gary asked, changing the subject.
“Actually I wanted to ask you about that. The whole thing was strange. You know that rich upperclassman Kai Hemper? He went ahead of all of us, but after he talked to them for a while, they all just let us go home. I thought he was just some rich kid, but just being rich shouldn't get you out of a situation like that. By the way, how do you know him?”
Scratching his head, Gary felt like he couldn't lie two times in a row, he was a bad liar in the first place, so he chose to stick to mostly the truth, without revealing anything extra.
“He was actually the one who introduced me to that part time job.”
Things were starting to add up to Tom, but he still didn't know why Kai, who couldn't have known Gary for too long, was so interested in him that his entire group, which seemed to include that sudden transfer Innu, had been willing to look for his best friend in the middle of the night.
A short while later and other students started to enter the classroom, unaware of the horrors Gary and Tom had lived through.
“…Blake...”
'Damn it, I completely forgot about this..'
Chapter end
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