Faked

Faked(Cornelius James) Emma stood in the corner of the refreshment bar, standing with me, her best friend, Sydney, looking around for new customers. We were high school students, working for extra money. I came from a very wealthy family, Emma my best friend from grade 6, was from a poor family with no father, so her mum was to support her alone. her mother needed an operation. since she has no money for it she needs to work late and had hardly seen me. I too had a new boyfriend, Jason, a good looking guy with a talent in fixing cars. It was our first time being together in work this week.

“Isn’t that Carl and Elsa?! Didn’t they break up last Tuesday?” Emma looking surprised. “Seriously? They got back together I guess.” I said. Then I went to throw the garbage it was so heavy that I needed Emma’s help. We threw like 4 bags until it came that my bracelet was thrown inside the dump as well. As I leaned over I felt a hairy skin, guess what? It was a huge black sewer rat; I can’t believe I rubbed it. As soon as it was over Emma was talking me out of taking another chance in finding my bracelet in the dump. As it was very important to my family I had to find it. I took some time smelling the awful stench and finally I took a hold at the bracelet, Emma said “Come on then let’s get outta here! This place creeps me out” but as soon as I pulled it, it was stuck in a smooth leathery beautiful bag, I took the bag gave it to Emma and put the bracelet to my wrist. Emma looked blank as she opened the bag.

I asked “What is it Em?” then she answered with a pale voice “50 dollar bills, 50 dollar bills” I was so confused that I decided to take a peek myself. As I leaned over all I saw and the deeper I saw inside the bag was money. All of them were 50 dollar bills. Emma yelled “Holy cow! I could pay for my mother’s operation, buy myself some decent clothes and… and buy something that I really want!”but I felt it was just wrong to take other people’s money it was over a hundred thousand dollars in there, I argued “No Em we should report this to the police, this is just wrong, we can’t just take somebody’s money off their hands…” she didn’t listen and again said “but Syd I could actually pay for my mother’s operation, she really needs it, come on you are with me aren’t you?” then I finally agreed, because she had a point. We decided to hide it first, to see if someone was looking for it, if someone does we would report it to the police. We hid it under the willow tree in Fear Forest digging a hole beside it.

Both of us went home after that, we agreed not to tell anyone, not even our own parents. When got home I saw Jason tinkering my father’s car, I forgot that we were supposed to study together. Jason asked “Just on earth where have you been Syd? I’ve been waiting over an hour” I answered “Sorry I had to work late” he again said something “You are covered in mud, and if you are working late you would have called, this time u didn’t. Tell me the truth… have u been seeing another guy?” I exclaimed “No of course not! It’s not that it’s just I have been going out with Emma, and I promised not to say a word.” Jason wouldn’t give up and again asked me the truth finally I told him everything from the bracelet issue down to the digging. Jason’s eyes was wide open, saying “What?! Over a hundred thousand dollars?! You know what could I buy? A brand new car… you know what’s crazy? We could kill Emma and take the money for ourselves”. I was terrified to hear such horrid words “kill Emma? What did u mean? Are you serious?” Jason replied “of course not, it was just a movie Syd don’t worry”.

The next day we went to school, as I and Emma were on the tip of the stair, in a sudden Emma fell to the concrete stairs falling and falling to the end of the stairs. I was horrified to see my best friend laying down, still and closing her eyes. I swiftly come downstairs, there she was, still lying in the middle of the crowd and no one seems to care but me. As I looked and checked on her and making sure she was okay the school doctor came, I looked to the top of the stair and there he was, Jason, smiling and the next second he was out of sight. I thought to myself, was I imagining things or was I just seeing the truth about Jason? I was confused.

I brought Emma home, took care of her for a few hours until she woke up and said “Jason pushed me.” I exclaimed “what?! How could you think of such things?” Emma said “I felt him push me down the stairs; I felt his hands on my shoulder”. The next day me and Jason went out to get some dinner, I asked him straightforward “did you or did not push Emma from the stairs?” he answered immediately “I didn’t I swear, it was an accident I was walking nearby and someone tripped over me and I hold on to Emma, I felt real bad after that because it wasn’t in purpose, I swear.” I cried “But I saw you smiling over Emma while she was on the ground!” Jason said “no I didn’t it may look alike but I swear I wasn’t smiling, how could I? Even though we were not the best of friends I still would not do that.” I again replied “you have to make it up for her, explain it to her how it was an accident” “fine, I’ll go to her house tomorrow, and I’ll explain it to her and I’ll fix her car, how does that sound?” Jason suggested. I said “that’s great, you should do that!”

The day after that Emma called and said “Hey Syd, Jason came by and he explained everything, and what’s great, he fixed my car! It purrs like a kitten. How about if we go to the mall or something?” “That’s a great idea, sure” I replied.

I took a bath, wore something nice and went to her house, we took a ride across Fear Street, 1 block, 2 blocks and suddenly Emma couldn’t stop the car “the brakes! It isn’t working!” I immediately thought of something that would either kill us or save us, I pulled the emergency brake, the car whirled around, I could smell burning rubber, Emma said “the break was fine before Jason came by…” I exclaimed “what’s that supposed to mean? Jason had explained, and you still blame him?” it’s just that I tried it before he fixed my car, the brakes were fine. I’d better check the car myself” Emma went out and checked the brakes, she called me and said “yep, u see it? It’s a clean cut, the brakes were cut.” Then we had to call the tow.

The next day we discussed that we should find a way to stop Jason. Finally both of us agreed that the only way to stop him from killing Emma was to give him a share of the money. We called Jason to come over and we explained it to him, 33 thousand dollars. Of course he said yes without questioning, he wanted to see the money late at night, so we decided to let him see it. We went to the Fear Forest, to the willow tree where we hid it. I stayed back at the car because it was raining, Emma and Jason went to see it, after some time I heard Emma yelling “stop it Jason! Stop it!” I immediately went out, what I saw was both of them were fighting over the money, Emma swings her shovel to his head, Jason’s eyes rolled up, turning white and pale, the kneels down, and fell to the muddy ground. I closed my mouth, my eyes were full of terror, Jason was dead.

Emma suggested we should hide the body, she borrowed my belt to tie him with a big rock and sink his body to the bottom of the lake, and I was too scared to even move that I couldn’t help Emma.

Soon after she was done we all went home muddy, terrified of what we had done. At night I couldn’t sleep thinking of what happened. The way Jason fell to the ground; it was terrifying to even hear his name. Just right then I saw Jason, standing, wet, muddy, with his eyes full of hate as he was accusing me, hating me, he stood in front of my bed, looking down on me, I… I couldn’t say a word nor, breathe. Then my father came, “Sydney? Honey? Are you okay? I heard you screaming…” “I’m okay dad, it was just a bad dream” “okay Syd go back to sleep.” But I was too scared to go back to sleep, but finally I managed to sleep.

I told Emma what happened and she didn’t say a word, I opened my locker and there was an envelope; I took a cutter and sliced opened it. It was a ring; what’s more the ring bears the name JP “Jason Phillip”. I was so scared that my hands were shaking and Emma said “what is it?” I said “the ring… it was Jason’s” Emma too began to feel scared; I could see it in her eyes. I’ve been seeing things until I had gone mad, I had been hallucinating things that weren’t supposed to be there

And I was put her in mental hospital until I could get better; I saw Emma crying and couldn’t speak a word as my cell door was closing. But just a second before the door close I could see her grin, smiling as I was out there alone.

Turns out Emma had been planning this all along, pretending to have accidents, accusing Jason; it was all planned down to faking Jason’s death. Jason was not dead, it all started since we found the money, Jason cheated on me with Emma.

Both of them took the money, and were ready to spend it, until…
They found out that the money was fake money.