Chapter 149 - Twisting Words
Chapter 149 – Twisting Words
__Phone call__
"Wait, really?"
"Yes, let me tell you," I started twisting the story between Noah and Thomas to fit my narrations, so I could convince Elise without leaking Noah's sexuality, "You see, Noah and Thomas are childhood friends, and they have been great friends since."
"Even before Jorge and Jackson befriended Thomas, Noah and Thomas have always been close to each other. That's why, when Jackson and Jorge started pulling Thomas into their weird stunts, Noah got worried."
"At first, he continues to befriend Thomas and helped him in any way possible, either by covering up or providing something for Thomas and his gang. But at some point, he finally got tired after realizing that it's just not worth it to cover something obviously wrong."
"So that's why he told Thomas that he refused to help anymore, and if they keep doing those bullying, beating, and crazy stunts, Noah would report them to the police or the principal."
"And they beat him up for that?" Elise asked.
"Yes, that's the whole story why Noah becomes one of the victims right now."
"Hmmm…" Elise seemed to be considering it for a moment. "Honestly, this is far from what I imagined. But at the same time, this is more grounded and realistic, I guess…."
"Huh? What kind of idea is in your head?"
"Well, mine was outlandish. I really thought that Noah had a big crush on Thomas. They have done it plenty of times. That's why Noah got into this dependent but one-sided relationship with Thomas and did everything to help him."
"But in the end, he felt that it was wrong and want to 'break-up,' or whatever you want to call it," Elise said.
Holy shit. Elise was 90% correct about everything. What kind of psychic ability she has to guess this close to the truth?! I needed that one too!
"W—Well, obviously, that's a bit outlandish, don't you think?" I said nervously.
"Indeed, that's why I feel like your explanation is more realistic," Elise sighed. "Anyway, you told me that we will use Noah as bait. Please elaborate on why would we use him. I mean, he is a man! Wouldn't that be ineffective? If we use a woman as the victim, then the effect on the news would be more sensational."
"I know, it will be sensational and garner more pity. But… using a man in this would be more beneficial because it's scandalous," while I was explaining this to Elise, I was also thinking about a good method to emotionally bait Thomas, so he would be agitated and start attacking Noah Jameson.
"Scandalous? But, he is a man…."
"Of course, but from what I heard from the gossip in sophomore. Thomas and Noah are gossiped to be gay couples, and Thomas didn't like that rumor, right?"
"Yeah, I heard that he hates it. He is a true homophobic, so I'm not really surprised," Elise mentioned. "He called any man who wears a pink shirt as faggot or nasty gay. Can you believe that?"
"Ouch, that's so homophobic, OMG!" I acted surprised. Of course, I was rolling my eyes when I said that. Because from Noah's story, this guy was basically homophobic who fuck with man.
Pretty sure that he was gay himself, but he didn't want to admit it and was scared that he'd get bullied for being one. That was why he acted so defensive around Noah.
"Listen, Elise, we can use his homophobia as a tool to make him emotionally distressed, to make him rage!" I tried to convince Elise about my plan. And it seemed to confuse her even more.
"What do you mean using his homophobia? Don't tell me that you're planning to instruct a man to kiss him so it'd trigger his extreme reaction."
"Oh, of course not that extreme. I think if we instruct Noah to do that, he won't be alive by the time the involuntary witness comes," I denied. Of course, that was way too extreme, and I was sure that Noah wouldn't survive after that. "I will instruct Noah to say that he has proof of Thomas fucking him for real, going full homerun on him. Noah will threaten Thomas that he will share the video with the whole school if he doesn't stop bullying him."
"But you see, Jackson and Jorge don't know that Thomas is also gay. Do you catch what will Thomas do?"
"Ah, I get it. Thomas will try to deny it as much as possible and start beating Noah out of anger, but of course, he won't be beating him too much, or else Jorge and Jackson will get suspicious of him," Elise hypothesized. "And when Noah got beaten, Miss Brittany Alba will come and interrupt everyone by her presence, basically turning her into an involuntary witness. And Thomas and the gang couldn't just run away, because if they do, then Noah could just tell Miss Brittany Alba that Thomas is beating him because of a sex tape between both of them."
Elise's hypothesis was pretty much what I planned so far. With this, Thomas and his gang would be too panicked. If they didn't beat and threaten Miss Brittany Alba, she would tell the school board and probably share it on social media instead.
Those three were masters of intimidation. They'd probably return to their instinct to intimidate Miss Alba, so she wouldn't tell anyone, or she'd be killed or something.
"And when they are threatening Miss Alba, we have everything recorded and shared to social media. We should also make the title bombastic, like—three students beating a defenseless teacher because one had a sex tape with another man," I explained more, and Elise gasped.
"Wow, Emmy, that's so evil—nice!"
"Haha! Of course!"
"But, how about Noah? He is just a volunteer here. Of course, we don't want him to be snared in this case, right?"
"You're right…." I accidentally missed a vital part of this mission. Of course, I don't want anyone to know about Noah's identity. "How about we ask Noah to put on a mask, so nobody will notice him. We should also do this mission before dusk after the school is over and nobody is around, I think. If it's in the middle of the night, I'm afraid the camera won't catch the face of those three stooges."
"True, then we should do this after school. It will also coincide with Miss Alba because she will stay in school before going out. If we can somehow convince Miss Alba to come at the right time, then I think the mission will be a big success," Elise agreed with me.
Now the question was about Miss Alba. What kind of trick I could use to lure Miss Alba. I meant, the one in my mind right now was to give her a 'love letter' from Noah, so she could meet him after school for some 'fun.'
But I wondered if it would work well. My biggest question was how to make it less of gambling. Because if Miss Alba failed to show up on time, then it was all wasted effort.
"We need to make sure that Miss Alba came on time because if she fails to show up… and we should also eliminate all probability of her failing to show up," I said, giving instruction to Elise. "Any idea?"
"Miss Alba loves Noah because of his good look. If you want to use him to bait Miss Alba, you can do that as well," Elise gave out his idea, which was literally the same as what I was thinking before.
"We don't know if she will be on time if we give her a love letter from Noah," I said. "We cannot have any margin of error here, Elise. This is literally the most important part."
"Hmm…" Elise went silent for a moment, and I was also thinking hard, trying to find a way to find a plan. Because this was actually difficult, especially for me, who had zero ideas about Miss Alba's habit since she was in sophomore classes.
And I barely talked with her in my previous life since I was not her 'competition,' knowing how ugly I was.
"I will find a way," Elise said. "This should be my task because she teaches me. I think I can form a plan. Just give me time."
"You can handle this one?" I asked.
"Yes, I can. I mean, you've done so much for me, Emmy. Let me handle this one, don't worry, I am also competent."
"That—I don't have any doubt about you. You're definitely the most competent person I've met in our school."
Elise chuckled slightly and then excused herself because she wanted to hang up on me.
__Phone call ends__
I took a deep breath after a long day today. Now the plan had been set, I just hoped that Elise could find a concrete way to lure Miss Alba.. She was the key of this mission.