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What if the tape got out in the public manner Hannah talked about? How would they get out? What would people think about the people in those tapes? Who would go to jail and who would lose their jobs? How big of a news would it become? How would Clay and the others feel about this? Would it be breaking chaos in within the small high school and town? How much of an impact would it be to hear Hannah's voice one more time? Most importantly how would people react upon hearing the stories Hannah had to say?

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Hannah's POV

As I looked from above I saw everyone in class except one student. Tony sneaked into the Principal's office and locked the door from inside he then got a chair and out it inclined against the door in a manner it no one else would be able to come in. He placed the first tape inside the tape recorder. He turned on the speaker.

"Hello," he said and heard his echo go throughout the school. "More than two weeks ago our classmate Hannah Baker died," everyone, the students, teachers, custodians, the office staff, including the Principal who was walking through the halls of his school paid attention to Tony's voice.

"She committed suicide. It was sad news to hear for most of us. It became harder for those few individuals that made her crazy enough to do it. Soon after her death she released 13 tapes and gave them to some of our students explaining why she had done it. If it didn't pass through all 13 people the tapes will get out and that's what's about to happen," as he said his last few words Justin, Alex, Jessica, Tyler, Courtney, Marcus, Zach, Ryan, Clay, Jenny and Bryce all freeze in their seats. Some are in the same class and look at each other.

From outside of the office the secretaries were trying to get in but it was no use because they didin't have the key to the door. One of them rushed out to find a custodian's key. My former classmates looked around and began whispering to each other. The Principal who in his morning rush forgot his office keys was walking faster to his office. This day was going smoothly for Tony, it's a day that would become big news in the small town of Crestmont.

Then suddenly everyone stopped talking, walking, pushing, absoulutely everything when Tony pushed the play button on the tape recorder. Justin's tape began.

"Hello, boys and girls. Hannah Baker here. Live and in stereo. No return engagements. No encores. And this time absolutely no requests,

"I hope you're ready, because I'm about to tell you the story of my life. More specifically why my life ended. And if you're listening to these tapes, you're one of the reasons why."

Tony helped himself and went on the principal's computer for some quality time with solitaire. Outside there was commotion all over the place. The secretaries and the Principal were discussing about calling the Police to stop this so called madness.

When Tony heard talks about the Police outside he prepared his plan B. He got his memory card and plugged it into the school computer where the list of e-mails of every, parent, staff, and students was stored. He prepared the e-mail which it said: The rest of Hannah Baker's story hear it if you want to. He then added the recordings he saved in his memory card and added every e-mail and with one click it was sent to all of them.

By the time teachers were ordered to get the kids out but all of them refused and stayed in the classrooms the tapes had been sent to everyone. Some began to say they would go to the school auditorium to finish hearing my story and some did go to avoid their teacher's nagging. Everyone wanted to hear except the people who already knew about the tapes. Justin, Alex, Jessica, Tyler, Courtney, Marcus, Zach, Ryan, Clay, Jenny and Bryce were the first to go back home.

In the hall they bumped into each other and looked at each other as if wondering who was the coward who didn't pass the tapes. Everyone was ashamed of how they were involved in all of this.

Clay snapped, "Who was it?"

They all stared at him. "This was supposed to be only for our ears. Who didn't follow the rules? Who?" He was angry and it was the first time any of them including me saw him like that.

He pushed Bryce, "Was it you?" Bryce pushed him back.

"Does it matter?" Bryce asked and he might have sounded fine but even I knew inside he wanted to scream.

"Yes, it does," Justin said. "The tapes are out and it's because of you."

"Didn't you do enough for one lifetime?" Jessica said almost in tears. "First me, then her and this?"

"I didn't think this would happen," he hesitated.

"Well it did," Jessica said hysterically pounding her fist against his chest as hard as she could but not hard enough.

"You know what after this," Courtney said, "I hope you do go to jail."

"For what?" He yelled. "I didn't do anything."

"You're just going to pretend that aren't you?" Zach said. "Face it, the tapes are out. You raped her and touched Hannah when she didn't want to. I stole her notes when she needed them the most. Marcus thought the date was a joke and tried to touch her. Jessica stopped being her friend when the rumors began. Justin turned their kiss in one big snowball, Alex helped build that snowball. Tyler invaded her privacy, Ryan stole her poem and people made it a big deal. Jenny crashed into the stop sign; Courtney was just a fake friend to her. And Clay," no one knew what to say about him. Out of all the tapes his seemed the most innocent. And I knew he didn't belong there.

"I could've helped her but I didn't," Clay answered. "But none of that changes things. We did what we did without thinking it."

"So what the hell do we do?" Courtney asked.

"Just like Hannah's death; nothing," Justin said.

One by one everyone left to their homes. By that time Cassette 1 Side A: Justin Foley's was done and Cassette 1 Side B: Alex Standall was beginning. Everyone was the auditorium hearing my voice telling the story and 12 people.

By the end of Cassette 1 Tony got on the speaker and said: "Teachers don't you think it is only fair for the students to know what happened to their classmate as consolation? It's only fair and besides Hannah wouldn't have left these tapes for no reason."

The teachers and Principal weren't too sure but decided to join the students and hear my story. By the end of Cassette 2 Side A: Jessica Davis, the reporters came with cameras and interviewed the staff and some of the students in the auditorium. Two reporters were sent to Justin's and Alex's house begging for an interview meanwhile a third reporter got the call to interview Jessica.

I never pictured it would be something huge like this but I secretly wanted it to be the way. On the local channels they were talking about the scandal that was going on in the school. More and more people drove to the school to either get their kids or stay and listen.

By the end of the day everyone knew about my death and the reasons behind them. Reporters went to the houses of the people in the list but none were lucky enough. Mr. Porter was at home when the door knocked he left way before his tape; Cassette 7 Side A. The reporters told him the story and he slammed the door in their face and went back inside to his family dinner. When his wife asked who was it? He responded by saying, "They have the wrong person."

When my parents came home from work and saw the news they were shocked as everyone else. My father wanted to kill everyone they mentioned especially Mr. Porter. My mother had no choice but to calm him down and make some tea for the nerves.

Everyone in town knew about the tapes and me and the 12 other people. If it weren't for Bryce none of this would happen. No one would have known about the tapes except for him, Tony and the rest of the list.

The following days were chaotic around town. My parents eventually moved because of all the press and the looks people gave them were enough so they began a new life without me in another town.

Mr. Porter kept his job he wasn't counselor anymore. Detectives were sent to investigate the rape mentioned in the tapes and eventually Bryce had to pass up college for jail sentence of about 5 years. The whole town gave Tyler Down weird looks and he was grateful when it came time to leave the town for out of state college. Jenny got a fine of 600$. As for everyone else on the list everyone knew the truth about them they were all treated rather badly but one. Clay wasn't treated like the others but he still beat himself up for it but Skye was there to help him. When his Senior year came he and Skye went off to college and rented a house near campus.

Slowly one by one left the small town of Crestmont trying to forget what they were part of. Most of them went on with their lives trying to forget and never looking back on the incidents that took place their. All but one; Clay Jensen. After he went to college he would come back every Thanksgiving, Christmas, 4th of July, Mother's Day, and Father's Day and everytim he did he went to either the movie theater. When the came and he had children he made the excuse of going to the park with them; where I had my first kiss.