The driver, The Girlfriend and Me

Newspaper

I decided it would be a clever idea to get a plane home. I had more than enough money to pay for a flight.

***

"Are you Sophie Barker?"

"That's me"

"Oh my god! You're in the newspaper!"

"What? Recently or when they found out about the baby?"

"Today's post! Not the headline but you're in it!"

"I'll check it out when I get home. Thank you for informing me"

"It's fine"

I was very scared about why I was now in the paper. I tried to push it to the back of my mind. It was pretty easy to do as every half an hour or so I only thought about one thing.

I need to pee

I need to pee

I need to pee

I need to pee

Right until I was back in England. Then I still needed to pee.

***

I opened my front door and threw my bags on the floor. I went into the living room to find my sister sat on the sofa.

"Alice? What are you doing here? Either way it's great to see you!"

She had a sad look on her face. It wasn't a look I wanted to see.

"Can you explain this to me?" She said harshly, holding up the newspaper the girl on the plane had showed me.

Remember Sophie barker? The woman pregnant with Nico Hulkenbergs child? She may make out like she's prim and proper with no flies on her at all. Well, she's completely different to that. A few days ago, an anonymous source released to us that Sophie has been keeping a huge secret about her parents from her younger sister. The source told us that she has been keeping a secret about her parents deaths. Sophie (25) allegedly told her sister Alice, ten at the time, that her parents had been put into prison for assaulting them as children. Ten years on, she has still never told her. Their parents died after taking a corner way to fast and plummeting off the side of a cliff. The cars fuel tank was punctured, setting the car alight instantly. Since the day they died Alice has never known anything different to them being imprisoned. Sophie now has a lot on her hands. Carrying the baby and telling alive the truth about their parents.

I stayed silent. I couldn't say anything to make the situation better. If I'd have said anything, it would have made the situation so much worse.

"Explain to me. What happened?"

"Oh Alice"

"For ten years I've been convinced that they were in prison for assaulting us throughout our childhood. How could you do this?"

"Alice, you were ten. How could I tell a ten year old that their parents had committed suicide?!"

"You should have just said! How could you Sophie?"

"I was protecting you! You would hate me more if I told you I drove them to it! That its my fault!"

"What the hell did you do?!"

"I told them that I wanted them dead"

"You bitch. How could you?! No answer? I didn't think so"

"I was going to tell you when you were a bit older that they had died in prison. I just couldn't bring myself to do it"

"So you've lied to me for ten years about my parents"

"They both write us suicide letters. I've still got them both"

"I want to see mine"

"You can't Alice"

"Why can't I?"

"I'm not going to let you"

"What to make you stop me?"

"I don't know. But I don't want you to read it"

"Why not?! They were my parents!"

"I was hoping by telling you that they were in prison you would forget about them! Maybe mention them once or twice!"

"How was I going to forget my parents?!"

"I don't know okay!"

"You should have told me!"

"I was living with the fact that I'd killed them!"

"Their not the only family members you're going to lose"

She stood up and walked closer to me.

"You self obsessed slut" she added.

Alice was so much smaller than me but looks often deceive people. Especially in this case.

As I wasn't expecting it, she shoved me into a wall, it was so hard that I yelped in pain. She slapped me stupidly hard across the face.

They won't be the only family members you lose.

I realised what she meant by 'members'. But it was already too late. She aimed a punch at my stomach as the door flew open.

"Alice! Do not do this!" Jolyon yelled. Carmen followed behind him. Tears were streaming down my face as I tried to reason with my sister.

"Alice! Please! Thats a life in there. A new life that Sophie and Nico both want. Don't do this" she said.

But she didn't listen. I closed my eyes and waited for the impact. The impact that never came. I felt a thud at my feet. Then a scream. Then the slamming of a door.

I put my head down and braced myself for what I could be about to witness. Carmen was running down the street after Alice. Which meant the thud...was Jolyon.