This is most likely going to be a short story.
Chapter 1
Jace's POV
"I'm surprised you even care, I mean there's nothing you can do about it now." Aline said, trying to sound careless but with a tone of weariness behind that betrayed her words.
"Yeah, well, I do. It's our fault." I replied over the phone. "She would be alive if it wasn't for us." All I felt was regret. Why did I have to be such a jerk? Why didn't I stop it? It was never a good idea to begin with!
"But we can't bring her back and... We shouldn't dwell on it any longer. I mean what else can we do?"
"What do you mean 'what else can we do?', we killed her! I went to the funeral. I saw her parents cry their eyes out. It's all I can think about, we killed their child." I voice shook at the end.
"Jace, we went to school with her, that's it. We have to get passed this. It was just an accident!" Aline pleaded wanting nothing more than for me to drop it and act as though nothing happened. If I had moved on then she could too.
"Yeah, sure whatever. Look, I gotta go. I'll talk to you tomorrow." I said dismissively, hanging up the phone after her muttered goodbye.
It had been three days since the trial ended. Me, Aline, Izzy, and Alec had all been charged and the only reason we won't go to jail is because we're still in high school. Alec was eighteen and the rest of us are seventeen. Were midway through junior year and have our whole futures ahead of us. The court case was considered manslaughter and we all got marks on our record but no real punishments are coming to us. I kind of wish there was so that I wouldn't feel as guilty.
I was laying down on my bed just looking up at the ceiling for a while as I recalled the nightmarish memories of her death. All it was was a simple prank. We were at a party and we thought it was a great idea at a time, that it would be hilarious. Of course now, after we had our laughs,-except there were no laughs to begin with- I saw how stupid and dangerous the situation was. It was around five months ago and it was a senior party that few juniors were invited to just to add numbers. Idris is a small seaside town.
Kaelie was a nice girl, she was outgoing and always wore a dress with curled blonde hair. However she did have a record of dating a few too many guys, but she wasn't a terrible person. She was a senior and she had invited me and Alec to the party, since we were in the football, basketball, and baseball teams. The fact that I was a juniors didn't exactly matter to our popularity status, we were still the cool kids. Aline, being my on-again-off-again girlfriend, obviously came and Izzy was attractive, she was always invited to the parties.
We were meat-heads that got just passing grades and bullied people. We thought it would be funny to play a prank and Kaelie was on board. We set it up and picked a victim. We supposedly 'though it out' but really if we had we wouldn't have done it. We picked a junior that we could embarrass and wouldn't have to worry about returning the joke, so we picked Clary. We didn't know her that well but we knew she was a honor roll student who had a thing for art. She was invited to the parties because she was dating a senior, Sebastian. He was a football and basketball player so I knew him and he was a pretty nice guy; I knew they had been dating for like a year now and we have pranked and joked about her once or twice before but that's the most I knew.
Anyways the prank went as planned, however she tried to get away and off the deck of some seniors house, she fell off. There was about a 50 foot fall into complete darkness and then a roll down a steep rocky hill and to the small private docks of the ocean. Completely unsafe right? It was some rich guys cliff side house, the railing was high enough and completely safe but she still fell over.
Around ten people witnessed and they went into hysterics while the police were called. A ton of her blood had been all over the hill and her body fell over the dock. The next day they took her body out and apparently it was bad. Face gashed and broken bones. Her reddish hair the only thing to stand for it.
As you can imagine, it was a closed casket.
It only got worse after that. Newspaper articles, shrines, school counselors, everybody was horrified, and then the funeral and the court case.
I would never pull a prank ever again. Nor would anybody else who went to Idris High School.