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Chapter 4: Hear Me
Nathan followed Detective Larson and Detective Tunney to Damian's house. They rang the doorbell and waited for an answer. Damian's father answered the door. "What can I help you with?" he asked. "I'm detective Larson this is Detective Tunney, we're here to talk to your son."
"What he do this time?"
"Well we don't know if he's done anything," he said. Nathan scoffed, "he killed me, that's what he did." Detective Larson continued, "we're just here to ask him some questions. A boy at his school went missing last night and we're just asking everyone questions."
"He's out back," Mr. West said and closed the door. Detective Tunney looked at Detective Larson, "you know about Damian?"
"Yeah, he was picked up yesterday for that jewelry store robbery."
"How'd he get out?"
"His dad. He has a court date next month." They both walked around out back and saw Damian sitting in one of the chairs smoking. "Damian?" he looked up at them, "who's asking?"
"I'm Detective Larson, this is Detective Tunney, we're here to ask you some questions about where you were last night."
"Why does it matter?"
"Nathan Scott went missing last night."
"Did he? Huh, too bad."
"You wouldn't know anything about that would you?"
"Nope, I was hanging out with my friends last night."
"Do they know that?"
"Well they were there, I know they're not the smartest guys but they're not that stupid." Detective Tunney looked at Damian and said, "we hear you had some problems with Nathan and his friends, and someone called to turn you in for the jewelry store robbery. Did you think it was him?"
"I don't know what you're talking about." Nathan came and stood in front of Damian, "you killed me because you thought I turned you in?! You really are an idiot!" Damian looked at the detectives and said, "are we done here because I have some homework to do."
"Oh," Detective Larson said, "good idea do your homework on Friday so your weekends free. Well we'll let you get to it." They walked around out front to their car, "you buy that?" she asked.
"No, we'll just make sure to keep an eye on him. We should get that search party out to the woods soon, I'm gonna call his friend and tell her about it I'm sure she'd want to be there."
"Ok and his brother?"
"You want to call his mom and let them know?"
"Sure."
Nathan went back to his house he was standing in his kitchen looking out the window at the bird feeder that hung outside the window. A yellow bird flew right into the window and fell down on the window ledge. Nathan looked at the bird, it was laying on it's back and breathing fast. He then felt something on his shoulder. He looked on his right shoulder and saw the bird that had just hit the window. He picked it up and held it in his hands, he looked out the window at the bird on the ledge, it was still breathing. It started breathing faster then stopped and it's eyes closed. Nathan looked down at his hands and the bird was gone. "I'm alive, holy crap, I'm alive!"
He ran out of the house and to the woods as fast as he could. He saw the detectives and his friends and other people from school that were all looking for him. He didn't know what he would do to try and get their attention. He walked up to Haley because he knew she had heard him earlier, he just knew. "Haley," she didn't look at him or even in his direction, "Haley listen to me." She was standing right near the storm drain. "Haley come on listen to me." Skills walked over to her, "Hales, you alright?" she nodded her head. He put his arm around her shoulders and they kept walking. A man with an evidence sniffing dog was walking near him. The dog looked in Nathan's direction and tilted his head to the side. "You can see me can't you?" Nathan asked. The dog walked closer to him, and so did the man. The dog looked down and saw the watch that Nathan was wearing last night. "He found something!" the man yelled. Nathan was trying to bring the dog closer to the storm drain. The man picked up the watch and put it in an evidence bag. Nathan was still trying to get the dog near the drain, "come on boy, come on!" The dog took a step closer but then turned and went the other direction. The man got up and followed him, "come on I think he's on to something!" Nathan shook his head and let out a frustrated sigh, "damn it!"
Nathan looked back up and saw Mouth. He was looking in the direction of the drain and he looked sad. Nathan looked at him closely trying to figure out what he could possibly be thinking about. Detective Tunney saw Mouth stop and she looked at him, "are you ok?" she asked. He nodded and kept walking. She thought there was something going on with him.
The search in the woods only lasted for a few hours and they didn't find anything other than his watch. Haley went back up to her car and got in it and started on her way home. Nathan was sitting in the seat next to her. He needed away to get her attention. He tried to think of something then he looked down at the radio, he wondered if it would actually play if he turned it on. 'Worth a shot,' he thought. He turned it on and all of a sudden 'Secret' by Maroon 5 began playing. She jumped in surprise and looked at the radio. She quickly turned it off. He sighed and turned it back on, only this time 'Headlights' by Dispatch began. She shook her head, "what the hell?"
We're steppin' into shelter
Movin' out of shadow
We made some wrong moves
Along the wayOh we might have strayed
Will I forget your face
She turned off the radio again. He sighed, "come on Hales, don't you think it's odd that your radio is just turning on by itself, come on Haley." 'One more time.' he thought. He turned on the radio again and 'Wake Up' by Story of the Year began.
You've don't know what you've got
Until it's gone, until it's gone
Away
One by one the pieces fall
She pulled over and rested her head against the wheel. "Alright, I'm listening," she said, "whatever is doing this, whatever you want, I'm listening." Nathan smiled, "I'm out there Hales, and I need your help." She shook her head and started on her way home again. He put his hand on her shoulder when he saw she was about to cry. "It's ok Hales."
When they got to her house he followed her up to her room. He didn't feel like going home and being by himself. He sat down on her bed and faced the wall so he couldn't see her. She went to her draw and pulled out a blue tank top and blue pajama shorts. He wanted to turn around and look at her but he knew he couldn't. She put on the pajama shorts and was about to put on her tank top. He looked over his shoulder for a second and saw her putting the tank top on. 'Stop looking, you're being a pervert,' he told himself. He heard her door open and then he heard the sink in the bathroom turn on. He walked over to the door and watched her brush her teeth. He smiled when he saw how precise she was being. He leaned against the door frame and watched her. She finished and turned the water off. She walked past him and bumped into him but she didn't even know it.
She walked into her room and turned on her iPod that was plugged into her iHome. 'Waking Dream' by Natalie Walker began to play. She laid down and her bed but then sat up again. He watched her get up and grab his sweatshirt and put it on. It was way to big for her, but he liked the look of her in it. She turned the lights off and laid in the darkness, oblivious to the fact he was laying right next to her. She rolled over so she was facing him. "Haley, I know you can hear me, I know you can." She moved her head so it was like she was looking straight at him. "I'm out there and I'm dying. I need you to help me Haley. You're the only person who can help me. I don't know why you can hear me but I know you can. Please help me." She began to cry just thinking about him. She could hear him. She knew somehow he was talking to her. "Nathan," she said, "where are you?" She soon fell asleep with him right next to her.
Mouth was walking down the sidewalk on his way home when he saw Damian, Felix and Matt. "Did they find anything?" Felix asked. "They found his watch," Mouth replied, "I don't want to do this anymore. Nathan was my friend, I'm going to the police."
"You can't do that, if you go to the police you'll go to jail too. You were there and didn't do anything about it."
"I didn't beat him until he stopped breathing, that's all on you." Damian walked closer to him and said, "you wanna end up like him? Fine go to the police then." Mouth looked down and he didn't know what to say. He hated himself right now. He wished he could take it all back. None of this was supposed to happen. He should have never told Damian it was Nathan. He didn't know he was going to be home. That didn't make it ok and he knew that. Nathan was his friend and he completely sold him out. If he could he would trade places with Nathan, he honestly would. Mouth began to walk home. He was about to turn a corner when Felix grabbed him. "Did you know the cops are following you?" Mouth shook his head, "no I didn't know." Detective Tunney was in her car following Mouth but she didn't know where he went. "Look Mouth, you were right about going to the cops, but we can't, there gonna find his body because we didn't hide it well enough. We need to move his body."
"No, I don't want any part of this anymore."
"You don't have a choice. Look Mouth, I'm really sorry about what happened to Nathan because you know what? I turned Damian in. I should stopped him but I didn't because I was only looking out for myself. We need to move his body or you, me and Matt are all gonna go down for this."
Felix and Mouth drove down to the woods and got Nathan's body from the storm drain. They didn't even notice that he was still barely breathing.
Nathan and Haley woke up in the morning when Brooke came into her room. "Hey Hales."
"Hey Brooke."
"You ok?"
"Not really, I'm worried about Nathan."
"Me too. What if you were right, what if something did happen to him? What if, what if he's-'
"He's not, I know he's not. It's like I can hear him. He's talking to me, and I feel like he's with me, ya know? It sounds crazy but I can feel him with me."
"But what if he's not?"
"He is, I know it."
"I hope you're right Hales."
"I am."
That day Haley was in her room and the doorbell rang. She went downstairs to answer it and it was Damian. "What the hell do you want?" she asked. Nathan felt his temper rising just by seeing him and the fact he was here to talk to Haley, pissed him off even more. "I heard about Nathan, that's really too bad."
"What do you care? You hated him."
"Yeah maybe but just thought I'd let you know what a shame it is. Hey so have they should found his body yet?"
"Shut up, he's alive."
"Probably not."
"He is! I know it. Why don't you just leave?"
"If you say so. Give my condolences to his family."
"Go to hell." She slammed the door and slid down to the ground. Nathan sat down next to her and put his hand on her back to comfort her. "He did it Haley." She shook her head. "Haley, it was Damian, do you hear me." She stood up and went back to her room and shut the door. He sat there on the floor wondering how long it would take for her to really hear him.
Damn you Damian West! I hope you guys like this chapter and that it had some good information in it. Please leave me a review! Thanks
Em
