Happy Err day

"AHHHHHH" Linda screams before I put my palm over her mouth and she stares at me with wide eyes. I shake my head at her, mouthing the words "don't scream" and she nods before I take my hand off her mouth slowly while leaving my eyes fixed on her so that she doesn't do otherwise. After seeing that she had no intention of actually screaming again. I drop my hand and sigh while tugging at my hair as we both stare at the body on the floor.

"We killed him" Linda says while sobbing. "We killed him John"

" I know, I know, okay" I say running a hand down my face before I walk away from her and start prance around the room.

"What are we gonna do John? I don't want to go to jail" Linda says still sobbing and I place my face in my palms while cursing inaudibly.

"I don't know, Linda"

"You told me it was a harmless prank John, so why is Peter dead? Why?"

"I don't know Linda, gosh" I say before I rest my back on the wall, sliding slowly to the ground.

"This wasn't supposed to happen, it wasn't" I say running my hands through my hair. And that's the truth it wasn't supposed to.

Today was our best friend Peter's birthday. He didn't really dig parties that much or birthday celebrations and all that but we didn't care. We wanted to give him the best birthday of his life, one that he'd never forget.

But instead it became one we would never forget.

Peter wasn't a fan of parties but he did like fun as a whole, so we planned to prank him before revealing the real surprise to him. And so we arranged a something small to just play with him a little but it did a whole lot worse.

Linda set a trip wire with a mattrass in front of the trip wire so that when he fell, he would enter our apartment and land on the mattrass and after he got all angry and stuff we would surprise and let him know it was all a joke.

Cute huh?

Well, our plan kind of backfired and instead of falling inside he fell backwards and slammed his head onto the edge of the freaking pavement and died instantly. I didn't even know how to react when it all happened but shit, I totally regret trying to give someone a birthday he didn't even like celebrating at all.

I stare at his body and exhale before I placing my face in my palms again and sigh.

"We're gonna have to tell the cops" I say and I hear Linda make a funny noise while still sobbing.

"W..we can't tell the cops John, they'll take us to jail. I can't go to jail, my mum will hate me, my dad will never pay my tuiton and...and..."

"Well, this isn't about you" I say before taking my face out of my palm "This is about us doing the right thing. It was an accident Linda, we didn't do this on purpose"

"It is about me, I'm the one going to jail. And the cops don't know that, they don't know we didn't kill him. For all they know we could be two crazy teens trying to hurt some jealous ex or something" She screams while still crying.

"So what, you want us to fold our hands and pretend as if nothing ever happened?" I ask while standing up.

"Isn't that better?"

"No, it isn't. I know you're scared Linda but us trying to hide what happened will only make matters worse" I say and she tugs at her before she starts to prance around.

"Let's just hide the body" She says as she stops prancing making me stare at her with wide eyes.

"If we do that, we..we could be out of the clear. We'd just hide it and pretend as if nothing happened"

"That's the most disgusting and most sickest suggestion I have heard from you Linda. He is your friend Linda"

"Was my friend" She says pointing at the dead body "He's dead John and we killed him"

"I can't go to jail John, I can't"

"And you think I want too, huh? You think I want to get butt raped by a bunch of ugly looking men? No, I don't but hell I'll be damned if you think I'm gonna dump my best friends body somewhere and pretend like he isn't dead and I wasn't there when it happened. And besides, people will notice Peter was a really friendly guy, he had tons of friends, people will definitely notice he's absence"

"So, we'll tell them he went home cause he got sick" She says and I feel highly disgusted at her still trying to make this whole.thing look okay.

"But he's Mum, huh? He went home but he's Mum hasn't had contact with him. Are you even thinking about the amount of lives you can hurt just by us being stupid enough to not turn ourselves in. WE ARE basically the murderers if we do just that" I say before I drag my phone out of my pocket making Linda stare at me.

"What...What are you doing?" She asks me as I dial 911 and put the phone on my ear before it begins ringing.

"The right thing" I say before someone picks up after the third ring.

"911 what's your emergency?" a woman's voice ask over the phone making Linda's eyes widen.

"Yeah, I'd like to report a..." I'm cut off by Linda who grabs ahold of my phone and cuts the call while staring at me.

"WHAT THE F LINDA?" I say and she starts crying while holding the phone in her hand.

"I know wanting you to shut up is wrong, and will make things worse but if you're not willing to see what could happen to us, what could happen to me if you do this, then I'm not willing to stick around" She says as she starts to walk away, tossing my phone on a couch close to her.

"Linda, you.."

"I'm gonna find a better solution that doesn't involve me entering a slammer. Whether you're with me or not" She says with glossy eyes as tears fall freely from them before she leaves and slams the door shut. I sigh before I sit down on the floor and stare at the body.

I get that she's afraid, so am I. But, I don't want to believe that doing the things she wants me to do with the body will actually help our situation, I know for a fact things will become worse and who knows what could happen after that, definetely she'll have more things to worry about than her college tuition, probably bail. That's if bail is even granted to us of course.

What the hell will I do to fix this mess?