Post Death
Pre Death

The Jensen family sat at the breakfast table as they teenagers explained the events of the night before to Lainie and Matt. "They took all of our laptops, Clay's backpack-" Justin explained.

"And my phone." Clay finished.

Lainie sat down at the table directly across from her son. "And what, if anything, will they find on your phone?"

"A text... to Bryce." Clay spoke as he looked down at his lap.

"And what did it say, my dear brother?" Elizabeth asked, already knowing what it said. But she knew Clay did not want to tell his parents.

Clay looked up at his sister and sent her a glare. "Saying I want to kill him." Lainie makes expression changed to disappointment. "It was after homecoming and everything. I came home, and I was sitting here, and I was mad. That's all. It was just words. I deleted them, but..."

Lainie took in a deep breath before speaking again. "I will talk to Dennis this morning, and we will sit down with him after school. And you talk to no one about those texts or anything to do with the case." She looked over at Elizabeth and Justin. "That means you, too." The two nodded in response.

"Clay, did Bryce do anything to you?" Matt asked as he sat down. "Did he threaten you? Did he say something to you on the field that night?"

Clay looked down and shook his head. "No."

"Then why the text?" His father questioned him. Clay didn't actually have an answer for him.

*

"He ignored everything!" Jessica exclaimed as she rushed into the HO meeting place after talking to Principal Bolan. She had asked him to cancel the homecoming game to send a message. He refused even though he had received forty-seven voicemails from students telling him to cancel and saw a petition signed by over a third of the student body.

"Such bullshit." Casey groaned as she rolled her eyes.

Jessica looked over at all the girls at the table. "No more wasting our time. We need to do something huge."

"You're right, Madame President." Elizabeth smiled as she leaned onto the table, excited to hear more from her friend.

"The homecoming game is in two days. We need to get in there and get ur message out." Jessica explained to the members.

"You mean posters at the game?" Ani suggested.

Elizabeth scrunched her nose. "Posters are stupid."

"Yeah, fuck posters." Jessica shook her head. Ani nodded for Jessica to continue. "Bigger than that." The girl looked down at the table as she thought. "We need to show everyone that we are done being silent victims. That they are going to face our anger whether they want to or not."

The girls smiled, cheering Jessica on. Tyler furrowed his eyebrows, not exactly comfortable with the idea. "So, like, we'll be out there in front of all the football players?"

Jessica nodded. "In front of the whole wide world." Her and Elizabeth smiled and high fived each other. Ani looked concerned, but clapped anyways.

"I love it when you get fired up!" Casey laughed. "This is why we elected you."

*

Later that day, Elizabeth stood at her locker, piling some of her books inside when she felt arms wrap around her waist from behind her. "Hey, babygirl." As Elizabeth turned around and saw her boyfriend, Justin Foley, a smile landed across her face. "I missed you."

"You saw me two periods ago." Elizabeth giggled as she rolled her eyes.

Justin shrugged. "Two periods is a long time to go without seeing the love of my life."

Elizabeth's smile grew. "Why the fuck are you so corny."

"I thought you liked that I was corny."

"I do." The boy pressed his lips against Elizabeth's lightly pushing her up against the locker. She gasped as her back hit the hard surface, but kissed him back. Justin began to trail kisses down his girlfriend's neck, but she softly pushed him away. "Mr. Foley, we are in school."

Justin furrowed his eyebrows. "We've done worse things in this school." Elizabeth scoffed in response. "Anyways, you're coming to my game on Friday, right?" The girl nodded. "Good, I like it when you come to watch and cheer me on." Justin started to lean in to kiss her, but Elizabeth pressed a finger up to his lip.

"The things is I won't exactly be watching or cheering you on."

"What?" Justin was genuinely confused. Why else would she be going to the football game. She hates sports.

Elizabeth sighed. "Jessica has something planned for the game." Justin opened his mouth to ask what, but Elizabeth already began to tell him before he could ask. "I can't exactly tell you what, though."

"Are you guys fucking bombing the game?" Justin chuckled as he leaned against the locker next to Elizabeth's

The girl shrugged. "I can't tell you."

Justin's expression became serious. "Please tell me you aren't bombing the game."

"We aren't bombing the game."

"Thank god. I was fucking scared for my life for a second there." Justin looked down at the ground and then back up at his girlfriend. "Why can't you tell me?"

"Because this isn't about me, okay? It's bigger than that."

*

Elizabeth walked down the hall to her math class when she got pulled into an empty classroom by Jessica. "What the fuck are you doing? I have to get to class."

"I've been thinking about my activism and what I've been putting people through lately." Jessica began to ramble. "And, Bolan just gave me this ultimatum, and I'm starting to think that he's right." Elizabeth furrowed her eyebrows, confused by what Jessica meant. "This is a bad time for me to start drawing attention to myself."

"I don't really understand."

Jessica took a step closer to Elizabeth, lowering her voice. "I told Ani that you and I were together after Homecoming."

Elizabeth's eyes widened. "What?!"

"I panicked." Jessica looked down at the ground. "Really, I was home in bed, and that's what my dad told the cops which is why I can't be getting into any more trouble." Elizabeth sighed as she began to pace around the empty classroom. "If they start looking at me, if they start asking questions, it could look really bad for you."

"I literally did nothing. You're the one who fucking lied!" Elizabeth stopped walking as she yelled at her friend. "Why did you lie to Ani? And why didn't you tell me sooner? Like maybe right after it happened?"

Jessica groaned as she rubbed her temples. "Because, there's a lot going on, 'Liza. Can't you tell?!" Jessica's expression softened. "I'm just trying to help you."

Elizabeth shook her head. "You're just trying to make yourself not look guilty." Elizabeth started to walk out, but turned back to Jessica. "And, everything you just told me makes you look pretty guilty." She left Jessica in the empty room, alone.

*

"She was probably just trying to protect you, right?" Clay asked as him, Justin, and Elizabeth sat in the empty biology lab. Elizabeth was explaining to them everything Jessica had just told her.

"She fucking changed her story." Elizabeth shrugged. "She's saying she was in home at bed, but I have like five missed calls from her that night." Elizabeth showed the two boys the missed calls on her phone.

Justin took the phone, looking down at it. "Did she at least leave you messages?"

"Yeah, but it was mostly all 'call me back' or 'I really fucking need to talk to you'."

Clay crossed his arms over his chest. "When you talk to the cops the other day, did they ask you where you were that night?" Elizabeth nodded in response to her brother. "What did you tell them?"

"I told them the truth. That I was at home."

Justin took Elizabeth's hand in his. "Do you want to say that we were together?"

"Yeah."

"Wait, Justin." The pair looked up at Clay. "Did anyone see you that night at the docks?"

The boy shrugged. "Just the dealer I bought from."

Elizabeth looked down at the ground. "If we lie and then the cops find him and ask him, our story falls apart." She groaned. "Fuck."

Rewritten
Word Count - 1373

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