You've Got Nothing To Lose (Except From Me And You) - Watty Awards 2011

You've Got Nothing To Lose (Except From Me And You) - Chapter 3

Jennifer was my sister. Hense the 'was'. She was shot dead before we had moved to Glasgow. That wasn't the full reason we moved, it was the day after Dad had told us we were moving that some asshole had shot her.

 We still buried her in Aberdeen, it was what she would have wanted. We looked a lot alike. In my opinion she was prettier than me though. We had the same blue eyes and the same dark hair colour. She was four years older than me, so it would have been her twenty-first birthday this year.

 It had been a few months since her death, but I still wasn't over it. I mean, I was coping. Sure, i'd had a rough patch where I done a few things I regret. But I was past that now. Just the feeling of emptiness was still there.

 And it probably always would be.

 Plus, the fact I had found her lying there in the alley dead, didn't exactly help matters.

 That's what the dream was, a repeat of the night I found her. I don't know how I knew where she was, but something made me go down that alley. It was probably instinct, from that, morning I had noticed that something was off. That something bad had happened or was going to happen.

And I knew I wouldn't have been able to stop it.

 They still hadn't caught the guy who had shot Jennifer. At this rate, I didn't think they ever would.

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 "Hayley! Get up!" My Dad shouted from down stairs. Groggily, I opened my heavy eyelids and pushed the covers of my body. I really couldn't be arsed with school.

 I most definitely was not a morning person.

 I immediately brushed out my hair then walked into the hall. I reached into the cupboard outside the bathroom and picked out a large towel and a small towel for my hair. "Argh!" I complained when I realised that the bathroom door was locked.

 Angrily, I pounded my fist on the door. "Noah hurry up!" I snapped loudly. He grunted in reply and I walked back into my room while I waited.

 I made my bed quickly and set out the clothes I wanted to wear today on it afterwards. Plugging in my docking station, I set my iPod on it then tuned it on shuffle.

 Then I heard the bathroom door unlock. I stretched and trudged towards the bathroom, grabbing my discarded towels on the way. "Took ya long enough!" I said to Noah as he walked out of the bathroom. He just stuck his tongue out at me and went to his room.

 After I had showered, I wrapped the smaller towel around my hair and the larger one around my body. The shower had woken me up. As showers do.

 Just as I entered my bedroom, my favourite song came on. It was All I Want by A Day To Remember. I immediately started singing along loudly as I dried my body off a little.

This song had always made me feel better. A Day To Remember always did. It pretty much explained how I felt about life. They weren't my favourite band of all time, they were my second favourite. You Me At Six were my favourite of all time.

 I sat down in front of my mirror and plugged in my hairdryer. Yawning, I turned the hair dryer on and started to dry my hair.

 Within five minutes, it was completely dry.

 And curly.

 Yay (sarcasm).

 I got dressed in my "These Lips Belong To Someone Else" You Me At Six shirt and black skinny jeans. I pulled on socks then my red high tops and sat down in front of my mirror again.