I sit up, glancing around. I check my watch. In twenty-four minutes, Jacob will kill another one of us. I think it'll be Jack, or me.

"Tegan, in twenty-four minutes, either Jack or I will be killed. You need to see Jacob and try to reason with him. In fifty-four minutes, the survivor of Jack and I or Stella will be killed. I think I know who might have killed him, but I'm not sure. We need to find out more from Jacob, and I need to see my best friend."

Tegan is stunned into silence.

"Who do you think it might be?" Jack asks.

I hesitate, then decide I can trust them. "Adam or Hailey." Tegan exhales loudly. "But I don't know. That's just a basic idea. I came up with that spontaneously."

"Doesn't Adam have an alibi? He was kissing Stella."

"They weren't kissing when Jacob fell."

Jack pauses, remembering this detail. "We have half an hour to save an innocent person. We have three hours until we're all dead." I pause. "Actually, I think he might save me for last. He can't be sure whether he can eliminate me. He saw me start to walk away. He definitely saw me yelling at him..." I trail off. 

I picture the list again. Not Cadie, not me, not Jack, not Tegan, not Stella... Hailey wouldn't even do that. Neither would Adam. Who would take it to such extremes? Who would murder Jacob? Who would murder their 14-year-old friend? I can't think of who would do it. If they had been drunk, we would have heard yelling before the push. No. This was calculated. Everyone but me was incredibly drunk. I have to find the one person who was only pretending to be drunk. Someone who's a good actor...

My thoughts are interrupted by Jack's voice.

"Um... Emma?" he calls. I turn to face him. He points into the shadows in the kitchen. I see his black robes.

"Jacob?" He comes out. I feel myself shaking with a mixture of pure fear and delight. "Jacob, I missed you so much!" I hesitate when I remember that he killed Cadie a few minutes ago. This isn't Jacob, I remind myself. Jack starts to back up against the wall. Tegan stays where he is, frozen. It's Jacob. It's his exact costumes, with the exact tears. It's his broken, bleeding body come back to life with the same wounds. He doesn't stop walking towards me. All of my instincts tell me to back away from my friend's murderer, but I want so badly to see him, I want so badly for the Jacob I knew to be back.

"Did you kill me?" he asks. His voice is rough and scratchy.

"Jacob, what are you talking about?" I ask, tears of delight, grief, and fear spilling out of my eyes. "I grieved over you for two years.

"Did you kill me?" he repeats. His tone sounds exactly the same.

"N... no!!" I stammer. He stands there, facing me. His hood sways a little bit. The air feels hot and sticky. I feel myself shaking and struggling to stay upright. Jacob, why would I kill you? Your death tore me apart. I could barely eat or sleep for months after your death! You were the most important person in the whole world to me. I couldn't find out who killed you, so I took them all out of my life. Please come back. Please be the person you were. Please stop this and come back with me. I want to say all of it and more, but I can't force my mouth open enough to say it.

I blink, and he's gone. Tegan and Jack are flat against the wall. Jack has collapsed, sitting on the ground, tears streaming from his eyes. His eyes are bright red and swollen with tears. They fall onto his Jason Bourne costume, making dark blotches on his leather jacket. Tegan sits there, stunned into silence.

"We need to get all of us out of here, no matter what happens to Jacob," Tegan says.

I stare at him. I don't want to be hearing this, but I kind of agree with him. "Jacob is our friend," Jack argues for me.

"He killed Cadie!! Besides, he can't exactly die twice."

"We can't split up," I mumble. They turn to me, staring. "We need to find the others, and figure out who it was that killed him. Then we hand them over, we get out of here, and we stay away from here."

"My parents might wonder why there's the dead body of one of my guests in my room, but okay," Tegan fumes. I start back upstairs, ignoring him. He rolls his eyes, following me. Jack hesitantly does the same.

"I guess Jacob's mind can't be changed?" he says as more of a statement than a question.

I try to remember where everyone was at that time. No. It couldn't have been Adam or Stella. I remember hesitantly that I had to push past them to get to the truck. No. Neither of them would have had time. They must have ran up to the cliff when he fell. Jack and Cadie aren't able to. Their personality wouldn't let them. So that leaves Hailey, Tegan and I. I hesitate. I had been a bit tipsy. But I wasn't at the cliff. How could I be doubting that I didn't push him off? But what if I made up the story to cope with it... it's possible, we were all drunk...

I shake my head, trying to shake the disturbing thought away. Tegan wouldn't do it. So that leaves Hailey. But does she even have to strength t push someone off a cliff? She has motive. Maybe he stumbled and she finished the job.

Besides, Hailey wouldn't ever pass up on a chance to get drunk, and whoever killed Jacob did.

Everyone has a reason why they couldn't have done it.

Jack gets up, walking away. Tegan turns to stop him, but doesn't even step forwards. Jack storms upstairs.

"We should... maybe... go after him," Tegan says. I shake my head. He walks up to me, staring into my eyes. "Look... I'm really sorry that this is happening." He takes my left hand in his right. I stare at our hands, and then at him. Tears cloud my vision. What is he doing? "Maybe... after this is all done... maybe we can... maybe I can... make it up to you." I don't reply. He moves his hand up and onto my cheek. I break away from him.

His smile fades. I stare at his costume. He's so childish. Not because he's dressed as a cartoon shark, but because he will try to kiss me literally right after his friend died in his own house.  Right after he saw his best friend for the first time in three years. 

"Stay away from me," I say.

"But..." he hesitates. "But I thought you were pansexual..."

"Yeah, I am. But that doesn't mean that I'm in love with you or something, Tegan." I shake my head. "I don't believe you." I break completely away from him and storm upstairs after Jack.

I don't believe him.

I don't believe any of this.