𝐃𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐥𝐲 𝐒𝐞𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐬

𝐒𝐈𝐗

𝐌𝐘 𝐄𝐘𝐄𝐒 had seen enough.

I rush back into the house after feeling an urgent need to be sick as I felt the alcohol unsettling in my stomach. I run through the hallway and burst into the downstairs bathroom before throwing up straight into it. I was coughing up sick for about forty seconds until I finally find peace. I flush the toilet and slam the lid down before unravelling a bit of toilet roll and wiping my mouth. I sniffle and shut my eyes, pressing my wrist against my forehead, the tissue crumpled up tightly in my clenched hand. I hated being sick it was honestly one of the most horrible feeling ever.

Quickly, after cleaning myself up, I wobbly stand back up, using the wall for support and make my way back out into the chaos of the house. A lot of people were mostly outside now but I see girls crying and rushing towards the front door, holding onto each other.

I grab my phone at that point, the tears blocking my vision and go into the Uber app straight away and immediately order one to go home. Within a minute it confirms and the driver was five minutes away. I shove my phone back into my pocket at that point just as Tom comes into view.

"Selena." he starts.

I flick my eyes at him and study him. "What just happened?"

Around me, I could still hear the screams and crying from everyone, a random girl telling her friends that someone had just died. I couldn't bring myself to say anything else and neither could Tom, we just stood in silence. The music had stopped now so it was bad enough when the screams were all you could hear.

After about five minutes, I see blue flashing lights from the window and open the front door and the horrible high pierced siren from it until it came to a complete stop. My head was absolutely pounding and my eyes felt super heavy. I just needed to go home.

"Doooo you want to come back to mine, Sel?" Tom asks as I take my phone back out of my pocket and key into it.

"I've got an Uber," I mumble, looking down at the screen and seeing it was here. "It's here I'm gonna go."

"Sel." Tom starts as I begin to walk out of the front door and back out into the night air. As I stumble out the driveway the paramedics walk past me and then two police cars pull up, luckily I wasn't the only one leaving the house either, a few other people were stumbling out and sauntering down the street. My feet were starting to hurt and everything just ached. My head was starting to pound and everything got rapidly dizzy again.

I see the registration of my Uber and it was parked just a few feet in front of the first police car and I soon clamber into it as soon as I reach it. I don't bother with the seatbelt and slump into the seat. My whole mind went completely blank as the driver starts to drive down the street.

"What's happened there then?" The driver asks in his thick welsh accent, obviously questioning the ambulance and police cars.

I don't answer him and just stare ahead at the seat in front of me.