"You saw the text." Simon spoke as he laid next to Allison in his own bed. "Addy might have deleted it, but you saw it."

"Go away." Allison shook her head. "I can't do this anymore."

"You think Jake killed me." Simon spoke as he looked at her. "Remember all the times we had together. All the times that were taken away from us. All the things we'll never get to do again."

"Jesus!" Allison shouted, getting out of bed. "Leave me the fuck alone!"

"Remember all the times we had together. Remember all the times-" he started to repeat again, Allison pressed her hands to her ears as his voice echoed over them. "Remember-"

"Go away!" Allison screamed as she squeezed her eyes shut, pressing onto her ears so bad they started to throb painfully.

"Allison!" Bronwyn called from downstairs.

Allison stood up, Simon was gone. She ran to her stairs, looking down them. "What the hell are you doing?"

"Your door was unlocked." Bronwyn spoke, holding her phone up. "We have to talk."

"You saw it too?" she hurried down the stairs. "Did you talk to Addy?"

"She's gonna protect Jake." she shook her head. "But, I was talking to Maeve. I only have one class with Jake, and Simon wasn't close enough to me all day to put a random phone in my bag that got me detention. But Jake sat right behind me. He's always around Cooper and he's always around Addy."

"You think Jake could have been the one to call me anonymously?" Allison frowned her eyebrows. "How would he have my number?"

"I know you're not gonna like this, but please, don't run away." Brownyn begged. "I think that Simon still had something to do with this."

"Theres zero way he killed himself, Bronwyn. I know-knew him." she gave a nod.

"I know. I don't think he killed himself, but I think he was in on it with Jake." Brownyn gave her a nod of her head. "Simon had your phone number."

Allison's exhaled, looking around. "Did you talk to Nate? I heard you bailed him out."

"Meet us in the library second period." she spoke in return. "We're gonna figure this out."

"Wait, Bronwyn?" Allison stopped her from leaving. "Why doesn't Maeve like me?"

She sighed. "She does like you, it's just..."

"Just what?" Allison shook her head in confusion.

"Before you and Simon started talking, him and Maeve had a little something going on." she exhaled as Allison blinked. "When he met you, he ghosted her completely."

"Let's say that's true. He probably wouldn't hammered the thing to pieces by now." Cooper spoke as the remaining liars crowded in the library corner.

"I wouldn't." Nate shook his head. "Because that would make me very suspicious."

"I trust the criminal on this." Bronwyn exhaled.

"All right, look, if he still has the Xbox, maybe we can get our hands on it and look at the chats." Nate went on with a nod.

"We don't have the password." Cooper pointed out.

"Are we sure?" Brownyn rose her eyebrows. "The About That password was Allison."

"Yeah, but do you really think he made all his passwords my name?" she gave a knowing head shake. "It's too suspicious. Simon was smarter then that."

"It could be possible still." Nate pointed out.

"So, where's his X-box then?" Allison shook her head.

"In his bedroom at his dads house." Cooper spoke confidently for Jake.

"Is that where he's gonna throw his halloween party?" Brownyn rose a knowing eyebrow.

After tracking Addy down and spilling the plan to her, as well as informing Janae incase she needed to guess the password if it hadn't been Allison, the blonde stared at the five. "Are you fucking kidding me?"

"Here she goes." Allison hummed. "Back in Jakes clutches and thinks she's so much better then the rest of us."

"You seriously think Jake has been stalking us?" Addy gave a stupid look her way. "Come on, Allison. He's behind the creep Simon Says messages?"

"Well, remember what Janae said. Simon hated Cooper, Nate, and me, but he didn't hate you." Bronwyn pointed out as she looked her way. "So, whoever was working with him brought you into the fold. Just like Simon brought Allison into it, because she was his girlfriend, just like you were Jakes. He hated you."

"What if he hated you so much that he tried to frame you with that EpiPen?" Janae went in with Bronwyn theory. "And when that didn't work, he used it as a distraction to frame the most likely suspect. No offense."

"I've been called worse." Nate admitted as Allison patted his back.

"Why would Jake hate me before he even found out about TJ?" Addy spoke up as she met eyes with each of them.

"What if he knew before that?" Janae asked.

"Wait, so you're not only calling him a murderer, but also a total fucking pychopath who knew about my secret all along and pretended he didn't for, like, what, weeks? For what?"

"Sums it up pretty well." Allison nodded her head.

"Addy, I really don't know." Cooper spoke more gentle then Allison could. "But, clearly you have some questions if you sent us that pic, deleted it, and lied about it? Look, if there's nothing on the X-box, at least we know."

"You're so happy to point the finger at TJ and anyone else but the one person it makes a whole lot of sense about, you protect them." Allison said bitterly in her direction. "Sorry to burst your happy couple bubble, but some of us don't get to live out out fantasy because our boyfriend is dead! If Jake has anything to do with it, I deserve to fucking know and you should have the decency to at least understand."

"Woah, I think i'd like this side of you." Simon spoke up from the other corner, grinning. "If I was alive."

"Look how that ended up with TJ." Addy said her way, grabbing her bag. "This is insane. It's Jake. And he's waiting for me."

"Addy. Addy." Janae followed her to the door. "Jake is a controlling sociopath! I mean, look at the way he manipulates you. He chooses the fucking flavor of your pancakes that you don't even like, okay? Addy, he doesn't love you. He loves having a puppet. That's what Simon was to him before Simon saw him for who he really is. Until he didn't, I guess."

The door opened, Jake walking in. "The fuck is going on here?"

"Study group." Nate rocked on his heels.

"What are you doing to my girlfriend?" Jake looked in disbelief.

"She looks perfectly fine to me." Allison shot bitterly his way.

"Why were you talking to Simon on Xbox?" Janae crossed her arms. "Addy told us. She saw the whole chat history with Anarchisk."

"You think that was Simon?" Jake looekd in disbelief.

"We know it was Simon, you piece of shit!" Allison yelled, Simon laughed from the corner.

"No, no, no. That was just some random Fortnite kid." Jake shook his head. "I mean, unless...was I being catfished by Simon? It was some weirdo who was just asking me a bunch of questions about people that he knew at school. I mean, was he looking for dirty or something?"

"I don't know, was he?" Allison glared.

"I didn't give him anything, if that's what you guys are thinking." Jake shook his head to defend himself again.

"Simon would never do that." Janae stated.

"Right, destroying peoples lives is just fine but of course he draws the line at cat fishing." Jake mocked with a nod of his head.

Allison grabbed the beaker on the chemistry lab, Bronwyn saw it. "Allison!"

She chunked it across the room, Nate grabbing her to hold her back as the beaker crashed behind Jakes head. "What the fuck!"

"You shut your mouth!" Allison shoved a finger in his direction.

"What exactly am I being accused of here?" he asked with a shrug.

"You know what the fuck you're-" Janae stared.

"Nothing!" Addy cut in, stopping the fellow blonde like Nate had Allison. "We were just looking into Simon, and then-"

"And now you're looking into me." Jake stated.

"No." Addy shook his head, walking to stand before him.

"Really?" Jake asked in disbelief as he looked around the room. "No."

He stormed out as Addy looked back in disbelief, scoffing and following him. They all followed as she called out for him.

"Stop, stop. I told myself that if this was gonna work, I was gonna have to learn how to trust you agaun." he turned around to stare at her, the rest of them falling in close behind. "And then I-And then- You're spying on my, Addy?"

"No, it wasn't like that." Addy spoke his way quickly. "Jake, I just saw it by accident and, yeah, I thought it was weird. But, then you explained it all and it makes sense that Simon was a total creep and did that."

Bronwyn and Nate grabbed Allison's wrist on sync.

"Look, it's either me or the people that have been filling your head with shit." Jake stated with a careless look. "It's your choice."

Addy turned back, looking back at the five behind her. She faced Jake again with a shrug, following him. Allison huffed as Janae looked at her. "I don't believe him. Do you?"

"Fuck no." she stated.

"Well, all right." Bronwyn braced herself. "If we're gonna crash this party, we're gonna need costumes."

"I think I can get in without crashing, so we can have an inside man." Allison inhaled, tilting her head. "Inside woman."

"TJ, huh?" Simon sat on Allison's bed as she got ready. "Don't you think you've used this boy enough?"

"Why do you care?" she asked in return, rubbing the red lipstick on her lips, smearing it across her cheek. "Are you gonna bother me this entire night?"

"I don't know, am I?" he rose his eyebrows, grinning her way. "The Joker, huh? Didn't we use to make fun of people that dressed up like The Joker every year?"

"Male Jokers." Allison cracked a faint grin, walking toward her closet.

"Oh, that's right." he hummed, following her. "You hate parties."

"True, but, i'm doing this for you." Allison inhaled as she buttoned her shirt up. "Everything i've ever done since the first day of school has been for you, Simon."

"Its too bad i'm still dead though, isn't it?" he asked, Allison looked his way. "Do you really think doing this is gonna fix anything?"

"I think so." Allison nodded her head. "It could help me move on."

"Do you want to move on?" he asked her again, leaning on the doorway. "You're scared you're gonna forget about me."

"Forget about you?" she scoffed. "I'm not- I literally will never be the same, ever again. I'll have that to remind me of you, believe me."

"Do you love me?" Simon asked, Allison turned and faced him. "Do you love me that much, Allison?"

The doorbell rung, making Allison look toward her closed. She turned back, looking at Simon as he rose his eyebrows. "There's TJ."

"I do love you." Allison inhaled as she nodded. "That's why i'm gonna end this."

Grabbing the gun off her dresser, Allison went down stairs.

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kylie speaks

ended jake with one throw