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Switching Lanes
Chapter 11
What? This person couldn't be the killer. No way.
"Wait for me." We heard another voice. Whoa, things were getting weirder and weirder.
"Don't start without me." He grinned, standing next to the other person.
Wait a second. Things were way to confusing. There was just no way. Some insane person we didn't know, maybe. But Dan and Keith?
First , the last time they'd worked together on anything , was when Dan bought Keith's auto shop. And that didn't last very long.
"No way," Lucas looked more hurt then anything, "Keith?"
We'd all been shocked to learn about Dan initially, but Keith too? Keith was anti-Dan, the good guy.
"Sorry, Luke, things just never work out the way I planned them too." He shrugged.
"Okay, let's tell the story from out point of view." Dan chuckled , looking at our surprised faces.
"Why don't you, Danny Boy?"
"My pleasure, Older Brother. It started when everything in our lives began going wrong. Deb divorced me, Karen turned down Keith's proposal. That kind of stuff. We started talking to each other more, and indulging in each other's problems. That's when we came up with the idea. Revenge."
"But what'd we ever do to you?" I spat out angrily.
"Oh Brooke , it's not what you did. More like your parents."
"Our parents?" Jake made a face.
Keith laughed. "Jake, what could be the worst thing to happen to a parent?"
"To lose their children." Peyton nodded, letting a few tears fall from her eyes.
No, P. Sawyer, Be strong. I was silently begging she would be strong, so I wouldn't have to be anymore.
"Everyone that's been killed? Their parents have done something to make our lives worse then before. Except for Helen. She was just bad timing."
"Everything clear?" Dan clapped his hands together.
"Crystal." I mumbled.
"Where's Nathan's girl?" Dan asked Keith , and we all looked up. Could Haley still be alive?
"She hasn't shown up yet." Keith shrugged his shoulders.
"Wait." Dan rolled his eyes as Jake raised his hands.
"What do you want?"
"How did you pull off everything you did?"
"What are you talking about?
"Pulling Brooke underneath the water, Getting us all to fall asleep.." Jake trailed off.
"Brooke's incident was the most fun of them all. You don't know this , but Keith's an amazing swimmer. Can hold his breath for over four minutes. We had him get in right before Brooke was thrown in , and by the time she'd been pulled out , Keith swam as fast as he could back to the opposite dock , and while everyone was fussing over Brooke, he disappeared into the woods. You to fall asleep? We let something off in the car right before you got in. We also put nose plugs in. Me slumped over the wheel, Brooke? Simply my good acting." He laughed again , clamping a hand over his brother's shoulder.
Suddenly everything fit together. I could think of things that all the parents of the people that had been murdered had done. Mouth's parents hadn't purchased a car from Dan, and instead had gone to his rival , and spread the word of how much better that company was, causing Dan to lose clients. Theresa's parents had given Keith a car to fix , and when something had gone wrong, they blamed his fixing , and he had been sentenced to give them sixty thousand dollars for damage to Theresa while driving. Tim's parents had been suck up's to Dan, but had also been gossipers, spreading the news of Karen's pregnancy around town.
And even us. Our parents had done stuff to give them reason too. Nothing major, but , that was the point. Revenge on anyone that had caused anything to go wrong. Deb had divorced Dan. Karen had not accepted Keith's proposal. Peyton's dad had told some friends about Nathan's bad behavior, which had gotten around to Whitey, who in turn, suspended Nathan for two weeks. Haley's parents had allowed Nathan and Haley to get married. Jake's dad had married Jake's mom, who was one of Keith's crushes in high school besides Karen. And me, My dad owned the other best Car Dealership in Tree Hill, Davis Automobiles.
But their reasons were stupid.
"Guys!" Oh shit. We all heard a voice from behind us , and everyone turned.
It was Haley. She looked kind of weak , but she had a smile on her face. She was walking towards us, waving her arms up in the air.
"Run!" I shouted , and soon, Lucas, Peyton, and Jake were yelling too.
But she wasn't fast enough. Keith grabbed her , pulling her towards us.
"What's going on?" She asked me as she got closer.
"Short version. Dan and Keith want revenge against our parents , so they're killing us."
"That makes no sense."
"Yeah, we know." Lucas muttered, looking around.
"So how are you going to do it? Just gun us down, or whatever? Find a way soon, because it's getting colder." There was the Peyton I knew. Full on attitude.
"We haven't decided yet."
"But we're thinking of tying you all to trees directly across from each other, so you can see each other die."
I laughed bitterly. "Wouldn't that be fun?"
"For us." Keith laughed.