All eyes, except for Clare's, shot down to Eli. Clare just stared blankly at the covered plate of food in front of her.
"You're behind this aren't you?" KC accused. "This seems like something you'd do if you got the chance. You're the one that got Fitz in Juvie, so who's to say you aren't doing this?"
Eli stood up. "How the hell can you blame me for this?" he shouted back. "Listen to yourself! Do you honestly think I'd try and kill people?"
"How can we not?" Bianca spoke up. "How do we know this isn't some kind of Gothic cult thing? What if you're using us as sacrifices for some dumb ritual?"
"Where do you get off accusing people?" Fiona shot back. "You've got enough motive to kill everyone, too. You hate everyone here."
"How do we know you're not behind this?" Alli shot to Fiona. "Word got out that you tried to kill yourself in New York and we all know about your deal with alcohol. You're fucking crazy. You'd have to be to pull some crazy shit like this off."
KC's stomach started growling. Fuuuuck I'm hungry, he groaned to himself. He looked at his covered plate. That steak is smelling pretty damn good right now. I bet no one will care if I eat it. They're probably gonna be too busy arguing.
And with that, he slowly slid the top off his plate making sure no one was watching (as if they would be) and dug into his steak.
Oh God, he thought to himself as he ate. It's so good! KC was too busy eating that he didn't care about the drool running down his face. It was just too delicious.
"Well what about you, Alli?" Clare fired. "You seem to hold grudges a lot. We all know there's no way in hell you're forgiving Drew for cheating on you or Bianca for everything she's done to you. According to whoever's behind that voice box, you have a grudge against me, too. You've done a lot of crazy stuff for the people you have grudges against. Maybe you're behind this."
Clare's words hurt three people. Herself, Drew, and Alli. They hurt herself because she'd come to terms that Alli probably hated her for the things she'd done in the past. They hurt Drew because the wound of Alli leaving him was still all too fresh; the words just added salt to his wounds. They hurt Alli worst of all because she realized Clare didn't trust her anymore. Clare didn't care about her anymore. Clare actually believed Alli could be a murderer.
"Save it, Jesus Freak," Drew countered. He was gonna give Clare a taste of her own medicine. "Whoever that was called us all sinners. It was probably you making a recording. I heard about your sister…what was her name…Darcy. I heard about how much of a religious nut she was. She probably planned something like this and you're just taking up where she left off. You just want to weed out all the sinner and try to play God."
Clare jumped out of her seat, across Bianca, and slapped Drew hard across the face. As she did so, she knocked Bianca's drink into her lap. Bianca shot up and started yelling at Clare who had now moved to where Drew was and started attacking him.
As if on queue, everyone started fussing and fighting. Alli was trying to pull Clare away from Drew but Clare pushed her away. As Eli took Alli's place in trying to remove Clare, somehow Bianca and Alli started getting into a verbal fight while Fiona and Adam both sat rubbing their temples. No one noticed KC stuffing his face with the food on his now uncovered plate.
"Everyone shut up!" Adam screamed at the top of his lungs. Everyone stopped moving and all eyes went to him. His opened his eyes to meet Alli's, Drew's, Bianca's, Eli's, and Clare's. KC was too interested in his food to care.
"Shut the hell up and sit down," Adam ordered. "You're all acting like idiots and your screaming at each other is giving me a worse headache than I already had. If you guys are afraid of getting killed, then maybe you should try to work together to find a way out of here instead of biting each other's-"
Violent coughing interrupted him. Adam looked past Fiona to KC who was holding his throat and coughing like a chain smoker. Suddenly, he shot up out of his chair, gasping for air.
"Don't just stand there!" Clare shouted to the group as she rushed to KC. "Someone call 911!"
Everyone searched the pockets of their jeans and their purses to find their phones. "I can't find my phone!" Bianca shouted. "Mine's gone, too," Drew told them all.
Clare searched her pockets and found nothing. She patted KC down to find his phone.
She didn't pay attention to his stomach as it started to swell. Then as she was pulling away from him, his stomach exploded and sprayed blood all over her body.
Everyone screamed at the loud noise of KC's stomach exploding and Fiona threw up as she saw KC's organs falling out onto the floor with sickening thuds.
KC looked down at his stomach in shock then fell backwards. Alli shrieked as he fell backwards but no one could find their legs and run to help him. KC hit the ground hard and was unable to move. As everything around him grew black, he knew he only had seconds left.
"Clare," he whispered with the little strength he had left. She gasped and crawled up to his face. His eyes were getting weak; he could only distantly see her tear and blood stained face.
"Yes?" she said softly. KC managed to move his lips into a smile. "Tell Jenna," he began. Blood spurted from his mouth, slightly choking him. "Tell Jenna….I lo-love…her…" And with that last word, he died.
