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What really happened in Hannah's old town. All we heard was that there were rumours, but what if she made another set of tapes and sent them to people in her old town as well? It's better than it sounds… I hope. Please try it and let me know what you think.

Cassette 1, side A

Hello old friends. Bet you never thought you'd hear from me again. Well this will be the last time, it certainly may be the most memorable. In case you haven't noticed it's Hannah Baker here. Now before you all groan and hit the stop button and throw these tapes away, I suggest you listen. Because this is the last time you will ever hear my voice. I'm going to… Well, I'm not going to be around for much longer, let's put it that way. If you have received these tapes then it means that you are one of the reasons why or at least one of the reasons why my family and I felt it necessary to move somewhere new. We thought we'd get a fresh start. We didn't though.

I press stop. What has this got to do with me? Hannah left months ago. Probably about a year ago now. I'm not sure. I never counted. I hated her. She hated me. That's how it worked. We'd just glare at each other in the corridors and mouth snide comments at each other in class. How does that effect a decision to, well take her own life, ages later? She started it.

"Hey!" I stand up, there's a tall girl laughing at me. "What was that for?" I say.

"It was an accident." I grab my notebook off the floor.

"You could clearly see I was walking here." I snap and walk away.

Before the incident in 5th grade where she shoved me over, I never really spoke to Hannah Baker. She was a loner. Never really had many friends. I found her quite boring. After, the incident, she loathed me and I loathed her. Looking back it was pretty silly. I mean there was no harm done, why did I react so badly? I don't know. But I have a feeling she held a grudge if she's put me on this list. Or it could just be a joke. Just a laugh. I wouldn't be surprised if it was. I hit play again.

There are 6 of you. There are actually a lot more than six, but you six, none of them would have done it if it weren't for you six. I thought when we moved away, all this would stop, but in my new town, it just got worse. I have sent a different version of these tapes to people living there. People living there that also made the mistake of taking advantage of me twice. You don't need to worry about that though. There are 2 rules: 1, you listen, 2, you pass these tapes on. Hopefully neither will be easy for you. I have made a copy of these tapes, and they will be released in a very public manner if you don't pass them on, I will not be taken for granted. Again.

How can I be one amongst 6 other people, I wasn't half as bad as most.

So, Isaac, let's start with you. Isaac Kali, every girl, at some point has wanted you as their boyfriend. And I'll admit it, so did I. What's not to love, you're sporty and fun, right? Wrong. You led a secret life that no one ever knew about. Most of the time you were high, but you could just hide it well.

What? Isaac is the last person I'd expect to get high. He always seemed so, well straight. How did Hannah even find out/

I don't see a problem with getting high. Well I do, but that was your choice to make. I'm not going to stand here and tell you off for taking drugs. That's not what this is about. What this is about, is your actions towards me because of the drugs.

Most people think you are a bit obnoxious, I don't think you are, not really. It's how you hide the effects of the drugs.

I broke up with him because he was too obnoxious. I dated him and didn't even realise he took drugs. Was it because I wasn't looking, or because he was good at hiding it? I'll never know.

Anyway, let me take you for a trip down memory lane Isaac, then everyone else can discover what really happened that evening.

What evening?

Everyone else, other than us, will know it as the night I got arrested.

I've heard this story hundreds of times. It's pretty funny. Hannah got mega high at a party and then drove home, but she was giving Isaac a lift, but they were involved in a crash. The police realised she was high through some scientificy thing that checks to see if you have traces of illegal substances in you. Hannah was seriously high. And then she claimed it was Isaac's fault. She ended up with points off her license and a criminal record in then I think.

The night I realised that people only care about their own lives, it doesn't matter how they affect over people's. Why would it? As long as your life is going great, who cares about anyone else?

I had never planned on going to the party. I didn't have many friends, most people were rude towards me because I came from the rich end of town. But then Isaac approached me at the end of math and asked me if I was planning on going to the party on that night. I told him no, and tried to walk away, but he grabbed my wrist. He told me it'd be fun if we went together. At this point I should have just maybe made some excuse about a quiz I needed to study for and walked away.

Maybe none of this would have happened if I had. But at this point I had a major crush on Isaac. Sure, I knew he could be a jerk at times, but at that moment, all my worries seemed to slip away. Isaac wanted to go to a party with me? So I told him yes and asked if he wanted me to drive us there and he said yes and gave me his address. I said bye and walked away. But then you ran up to me a couple of seconds later, you said I should have your number in case something happened so I couldn't make it. It was a pretty bad excuse for giving me your number, but I accepted it and scribbled it down next to your address.

That evening, I picked you up and I drove us there. You grabbed a couple of cups of beer and we sat down in an empty room and chatted. Pretty soon the awkward gaps grew shorter and shorter and we were laughing as if we'd known each other all our lives.

Then he bought it out. The drugs. I tried to stop him. I told him no. He insisted though. And when I tried to run out the room, he locked the door. I tried swiping the powder onto the floor, but he moved it out the way in time

"Just relax Hannah, it's just a bit of fun. Let go of your worries for once." He said. Just relax. Right. You were trying to force me to take an illegal substance despite me repeatedly saying no, and then you tell me to relax about it.

Why does this matter anyway. She could have just yelled for help. Or just taken it and caught a lift with someone else.

So he forced me to take it and said we should head home. When I was driving back, I couldn't concentrate on the road. The drugs were really taking their toll. And then I didn't break in time around the corner. I wasn't really paying much attention to the road at the time. I was mainly cursing myself for being so naïve as to think Isaac would actually want me as his girlfriend.

Who would want Hannah Baker as their girlfriend? She was a loner. Never tried to fit in. Not once.

No one was injured fortunately, but the cops did a drugs test on me and I came up positive. I tried to explain, but no one listened. They didn't care that I had never done anything like this. They didn't care enough to even let me fight my case.

My parents grounded me for months. They wanted to believe me, I could tell, but there just wasn't evidence. So now you know. You know what really happened that night. I wasn't just trying to get Isaac in trouble. He set out that night intending me to get arrested. For what reason, I don't know. And I never will, but Isaac why did you have to go that far just to take down a peg or two? I didn't do anything to you. Ever. Sure I didn't hang out with you, but I wasn't rude to you or anything. I was innocent, and you just decided to wreck my life. My parents couldn't ever trust me after that. No one could. Which meant later on, when other things happened, I didn't have anyone to turn to.

It wasn't that big of a deal, Hannah was always so overdramatic about everything. A small offence of taking drugs when you're young isn't exactly going to wreck your whole life.

Turn the tape over to hear the next story.

I wait a few minutes before turning the tape over. I burst out laughing as the tape clicks to the end. This is utterly ridiculous. I take a packet of gum out of my pocket and take the last piece out. I drop it on my tongue and chew it slowly, letting the minty flavour spread across my mouth. I take the tape out and put it back in the other way around, getting up from the park bench I was sitting on.

"Hey Aria." I look around Rhys is standing there. I didn't notice him before. "What's so funny?" He must have heard me laughing at the ridiculousness of it all. I hope I didn't look stupid.

"Nothing." I smile "Just this thing I'm listening to."

"Can I hear?" He gestures his hand towards the earphone that is dangling from my ear. It must have fallen out at some point. I didn't notice when. I don't know why I don't want Rhys to listen, I just wanted to keep to myself, for now anyway.

"Oh, it's nothing." I say "You wouldn't get it anyway." He still looks like he's interested "It's a girl thing."

"Oh." He looks slightly uncomfortable, but at least he doesn't want to listen.

"Anyway, see you." I say, flicking my hair out of my eyes onto my hot back. I press play as I start walking.