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Secrets, Blackmail and Lies…

Chapter Eleven

The next day we'd all assembled around my locker. I opened it, and nothing seemed to jump out at me, so I leaned into it slightly. Then I saw something red, and noticed something was taped to the roof of my locker with red tape. I peeled off the tape and slammed my locker door shut before looking at it. I peeled the tape away from the object, crumpling it up in my hand and letting everyone see.

"It's a key." Shannon said, looking a little bored. I sighed and tucked it into my pocket with a shrug.

"I guess we'll find out what it's for later." I said, and we all headed off to class.

Later, we were all lounging around the Hardy's backyard when Greg glanced at us all. "Don't you find it a little creepy that this guy knows we're staying here all the time?"

"Just a little creepy." Van said, laying back in the grass and staring up at the clouds. Bree was laying beside him, eyes shut, and I thought that maybe she was asleep. Alifa and Punk were sitting close, talking quietly to one another, Shan and Jeff were play wrestling in the grass and Matt, Greg and I were watching. Suddenly Bree's eyes opened and she sat up with a yawn, standing up.

"I'm just gonna go get a drink…" She mumbled, heading inside. When she returned a few moments later she said, "Greg…" Softly and when he looked up at her she held out a red envelope with his name on it.

"Where'd this come from?" He asked, and she sighed.

"It was on the kitchen counter."

I heard Jeff growl in the background, he and Shannon had started to pay attention once they saw the envelope. "I'm not even gonna ask how that fucker got in the house AGAIN." Jeff mumbled angrily, watching Greg while he read it.

"I'm gonna need help with this…" He mumbled.

"Why?" Punk asked, he and Alifa were also now paying attention, though his arms were still wrapped around the girl.

"I need to get a key."

"Well we found Ada's didn't we?" Bree said gently, and Greg sighed.

"We had a better clue. Mine's in the football stadium, under a seat. No clue as to which."

"We'll find it Hurricane." Matt said reassuringly, and Greg seemed to calm a little bit, nodding some. "Let's just… go shower, and get some food and watch movies and shit." Matt said now, and with a collective sigh we all got up and headed inside.

When the lunch bell rang I felt Greg jerk beside me. "Would you relax?" I muttered as we left the classroom, "We'll find it." All of us arrived at the football stadium, wincing at the sight of the field. We all had a section to look through, and once we knew what was ours we started looking. After half an hour of looking under seat after seat after seat I heard Greg yell out "I GOT IT!!!" and we all met up outside of the stadium, finding that Greg held a similar key to the one I'd found.

We skipped the rest of our classes and headed towards my house rather than Matt and Jeff's. Their father was due home sometime today and we didn't want to get caught, but my mother wouldn't be home until at least an hour after school finished, so we wouldn't get busted. We were all sitting in the lounge room, a crappy movie on the TV behind us.

"I wonder what the keys are for…" Punk mused to himself, but got a response from Shan nonetheless.

"Obviously to open something," He opened his mouth as if to continue, but Greg cut him off.

"It's not a fucking treasure chest."

That shut us all up for about five minutes. I was the one who ventured to speak next. "Well at least this guy said the game is almost over, right?"

"Maybe, this guy is sick…" Matt muttered.

"We'll be fine… It's almost over." Jeff said, and Greg glared at him.

"How the fuck can you know that?"

"I don't, but one of us has to keep it together!" Jeff snapped right back.

"Please don't start…" I said softly, and Greg huffed but turned back to the TV. Jeff sighed and watched me for a moment before he too turned back to the TV.

The next day we were all sitting in the back of Ancient in a bored fashion, wondering where Alifa was. She'd gone to the toilet right before the bell rang for class and it had been a while. We were starting to worry when she walked in the door and rushed over to us, saying breathlessly, "I got the envelope. It was in my locker."

"Where's the key?" Punk whispered to her.

"Cafeteria, stuck to the bottom of our table. So we'd better hurry in there at lunch." She told us as she pulled out her work and started scribbling down what we'd missed.

At lunch Alifa was the first one at the table, and she was already eating when we got there. She flashed the key at us as we sat, and I dropped my head down onto Bree's shoulder with a yawn.

"Breester… wanna buy me lunch?" I asked hopefully.

"No."

I opened my mouth to whine, but before I could I heard someone say, "I'll buy you lunch if you want."

It was Jeff. I stared at him rather dumbly for a moment before I nodded, standing to go and get the food with him.

Once we were all fed we organised to stay at Phil's house for the weekend. He didn't live that far from the rest of us and his parents were going out on some kind of long weekend after work. The wouldn't get back until Monday. Where we were gonna stay on Monday, I don't know, but we'd figure something out.

Shannon pulled out one of his books near the end of lunch, opening it and then groaning. "This is getting lame."

We all looked at him and saw the envelope sitting there on the page. He picked it up and shut the book, opening it and pulling the letter out. "I gotta let everyone read it." He said when he'd finished, and handed it around the group.

Hello gang..

It seems like some of you are getting tired of our game… But I suppose that's just too bad, because soon we'll be upping the level. If you hate this you can only blame yourselves.

Have fun…

It was then I noticed there was a second letter in the envelope that Shan was reading. He groaned. "You gotta be kidding me…"

"What?" I asked, a little alarmed.

"I gotta get a key too. From the walk in freezer in the cafeteria."

All of us looked at him in shock. I guess Greg's and My clues and what we had to do to get our keys had been a walk in the park.

"Guess what we're doing tonight…" Matt muttered.

Author's Note: And another chapter! This is the third update I've given today… so maybe if you're lucky I'll give you a fourth. Hope you're enjoying this!

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