The Secret Gets Out Novels & Stories

The cats out of the bag. There's no turning back now. My best friend knows my deepest darkest secret. That could be a good or bad thing. If she lets her tongue slip, then Professor Oakley will have his livelihood taken away. I would get kicked out university but could take classes online at my mom's house. My punishment is far less severe.

"Pim! Pim!! Pim!!!" The phone beeped indicating a message. I clicked it and it read "Be ready, the game begins in 5 minutes." Immediately I read that my heart skipped and literally stopped beating for a few seconds and it took me seconds to regain myself. My lids patted, I let out a huge sigh as I prepared for the worst with confidence. The game; Can you keep a secret? Appeared on the screen.

It looks meek and harmless on the outside, but even his friends who could not hear the strange noise could feel a strange form of energy coming from it. “Are we supposed to go there,” Don asked. “It’s probably an old cupboard,” Alice added. “Funny, the Principal didn’t say anything about this,” Kirsten said suddenly. “Let’s see what’s behind this door,” said Van. Finally he will get to see what secret this door conceals. With shaking hand, he seizes the knob and swings the door open. And what they found startles them.

She got out the gun that she kept in her favourite jacket and aimed at the spot the key was supposed to go in. A touch on her shoulder made her turn around. Darral stood there with a small key in his hand and amusement on his face. "Your gun is not always a solution, March." She rolled her eyes and took the key from his hand. She jammed the key into its hole and twisted it. It made a pop sound and sprang up on it's own. Inside the little hidden box were magazines, cut outs and some pictures. Selena removed the pictures and Darral squatted next to her and took out the magazines.

“As you guessed, I’ve been secretly lusting after Eros since I started working for him now. Finally after 2 years of lusting and crushing on him, never would I ever imagine he would take notice of me but he did and it all started during this trip. I don't know if it's a fortunate event or one of regret now but we kinda started sleeping together. Dinners, everything couples do , We went to a beach, and he asked me out on a real date last night, and I thought we were getting on really well. So he takes me to this really nice restaurant, and then in the middle of it, he wants to leave. So, we leave and when I force him to tell me why he was being such a dick, he told me this awful story about—”

He looked at his son, standing submissively under the massive CEO's hand, and he knew he had lost. "You are making a mistake, Ethan," Richard said, his voice quiet. "A fatal mistake." "It is my life, Dad," Ethan replied, his voice steady. "I am staying with Daddy." Richard's jaw dropped. The color drained from his face as the word hung in the air. The security guards exchanged shocked glances. Marcus's grip on Ethan's neck tightened, a silent warning, but the damage was done. The secret was out. Marcus leaned down, his lips brushing against Ethan's ear. "You just outed yourself, boy. In front of your father and two strangers. There is no going back now."

Pretend I was invisible. But now? My stomach twisted, sure. My jaw clenched, yeah. But part of me wanted to scream, Cole kissed me. He wanted me. So shove it. Of course, I didn’t scream. I’m not completely suicidal. Still, I walked a little straighter. Cole passed me by third period. He didn’t look. Not once. Just brushed past with his crew, laughing at some dumb joke Kendal cracked. The buzzing inside me died. Right. Reality check: I was still his secret.

And then, the fire alarm rings. "Run," I scream. But I don't run. I stay. I stay for the end. The walls start to move. The secret room is opening. Liam screams. But it’s not for me. It’s for the truth. I watch him fall to his knees. The screen is showing everything. The funds. The accounts. The ghost. I stand up. "You were right, Liam." "I shouldn't have dug deep." "Because now," I lean in, my voice a whisper.

Do you really think backroom deals like that can stay hidden forever? Robert's pupils shrank. He never imagined that I, a brand-new hire, could know so much. These were absolute secrets within the agency! "What... what are you even talking about?" Robert completely dropped any pretense of decency and screamed with humiliated fury. Seeing that not only would I not take the fall, but I was exposing his secrets in public, he knew there was no peaceful way out of this. "Guards! Someone! Get the security guards in here!" At Robert's roar, the door to the private dining room burst open. Several of his lackeys who usually brown-nosed him came rushing in, along with four or five security guards.

When I woke the next morning, the space beside me was already cold. For the past five years, to keep Mom and Andre from discovering us, Kieran had always snuck into my room at 1:00 am and slipped away by 5:00 am. I used to ache for him, thinking about how exhausting it had to be to maintain our secret. Now, I realized the only person I should have pined for was myself. I had been living a lie for five years.