Life is Strange 2: Unexpected Trials

Chapter 5 of Episode 2, enjoy.

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Episode 2: Doubts

Chapter 5

Wednesday 2nd November 2016

It was yet another day at school and Sean was on edge once again, perhaps more so than ever. He fidgeted, pulling at his clothes, a dark red T-shirt and black pants with a pair of sneakers.

"Dude, you are seriously tense." Ellery remarked.

The others nodded in agreement, looking at him worriedly. They had all dressed casually, the weather turning colder but still reasonably mild. Ellery in a light green T-shirt with sweatpants, Eric wore a purple hoodie with light blue jeans, Adam was in a grey T-shirt under a red and black flannel and jeans and Harv wore a white T-shirt and black cargo pants. Apart from Adam who wore boots, all the boys were in sneakers.

"It's, I..." He began.

Lyla shook her head. "Sean, please, relax."

He looked at her, like the others she dressed simply in a grey T-shirt, leggings and black sneakers.

"How can I when…?" He began but trailed off.

He glared as he finally spotted Derek Anderson. He stood out in his ripped jeans, orange long sleeve top and boots. Sean looked around worriedly and soon spotted Jenn, looking lovely in a black sleeveless top, black shorts and flats, her hair in a bun again and finally back to its usual red shade.

Sean could see it plain as day, Derek was talking to his friends, smirking over in Jenn's direction, clearly setting himself up, determined to get Jenn in bed, to win his little 'contest'. Jenn looked oblivious to whatever Derek had planned, standing at the other side of the cafeteria. Jenn looked up at that point and locked eyes with Sean, she smiled at him. Sean managed to smile back, but inside he felt conflicted. Looking back to Derek he made up his mind, he knew he had to act.

"Sean." Lyla hissed.

But he ignored her, shocking the rest of the group as he stood up and began to approach Derek. Derek didn't even notice Sean's approach until Sean was there. Derek's friends also turned, noticing him too.

"Diaz..."

Sean shook his head. "Don't act dumb, I know what you're up to. This is sick."

Derek shook his head. "What the fuck are you talking about, you don't know what…?"

"You know what I mean, that journal you have, your little competition to sleep with girls for points, trying to make yourselves look big in front of your friends. Your little list of the best ten girls..." Sean snapped.

By now Lyla, Jenn and Sean's other friends had approached, as had Natalie, clad in a black sweater with matching leggings and simple converse.

"Sean, what…?" Jenn began, surprising him.

Derek took advantage of this. "Oh please, you're just jealous Diaz. Don't listen to him Jenn; he just wants to sleep with you and..."

Sean snapped. "Oh trying to blame me for your actions. How do you explain the list then, where you have Jenn listed as the girl who gets you the most points for sleeping with, with Natalie and Lyla second and third too? How do you explain these?"

There were gasps of shock from everyone present, including the three mentioned girls as Sean revealed the pictures on his phone of the journal.

Derek glared, as did his friends, all of them looking furious, Derek then stepped up and snarled.

"Like that's suitable proof Diaz, that's just your word, for all we know you wrote that and are trying to frame me." Derek snarled.

Sean shrugged. "Does that look like my handwriting?"

Derek froze, realizing Sean was right, it was going to be difficult to dispute that, easy to prove that it wasn't Sean's writing. He looked over at Jenn, seeing the anger and disgust on her face and clearly saw his chances slipping away. He reacted the only other way he could. He became aggressive and lashed out, Sean yelled as he hit the ground, clutching at his face as Derek head butted him. But then, at that moment, the tables turned.

"Well, what have we here, I think this is even bigger proof."

All attention turned to Lyla, the one who had spoken, and saw she had swiped Derek's journal from his backpack, she began reading for it, to the whole student body. Even though Derek and his friends were outraged by this, but it was too late. With their sick twisted game exposed, everyone was against them.

Word was buzzing around the school after this, as an upshot of the truth being exposed, Derek and his friends had been called to the Principal's office, certainly there was going to be trouble for them. Nobody knew yet how much trouble they were in, but it was certain to be considerable. Sean grimaced at the pain in his face, yet, to his amazement, Jenn was kneeling right next to him, doing her best to tend to his injuries.

"Jenn, I..."

Jenn just smiled. "Sean that was, so nice and amazing, taking a stand and exposing something as sick as that twisted game. I can't believe they'd do that, to all those girls."

That caught Sean's attention, Jenn's concern was with the other girls, not herself. "I just, it was the right thing to do. I..."

He felt his face heat up as he considered what else he was to say. He could see a faint pink bloom on Jenn's cheeks too and remembered what Lyla had said.

"Um, Jenn, I uh...I've got something I need to tell you, something important." He said, the words just spilling out.

Jenn smiled softly. "Sean, you...are you saying what I think you're saying?"

Sean bit his lip and replied. "I...I've had strong feeling for you, for a while now, I just never had the courage to say them, until now. I...I love you and I, I was hoping we could..."

He got his answer, when Jenn suddenly kissed him, he was surprised at first but quickly recovered and kissed back.

Lyla couldn't help but smile as she saw this, shaking her head.

'Well it's about time.' She thought to herself.

It was then she heard an unexpected voice next to her. "I see they finally realized, took them long enough."

She turned and her mouth went dry, there was Natalie standing there.

"Oh, hey." She said, cursing herself. 'Smooth Lyla, real smooth.'

But to her relief, Natalie smiled. "So um, you remember how we spoke a few days ago, you were trying to tell me something."

Lyla bit her lip, could this be her chance, she hoped so. "Let's um...discuss it in private?"

To her joy, Natalie agreed and led the way. Meanwhile, with lunch over, Sean headed for his next class, his face feeling much better, he smiled as he looked over at Jenn, heading to her class, she smiled back. He had to admit, he felt unsure what to expect next. But he knew one thing, he was glad he had exposed the truth and was also overjoyed to have finally told Jenn of his feelings. He was even more elated to know she felt the same way and that they were together at last.

End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.