jumpnow’s POV
‘Can you come with me? I need to talk to you.’ before I could answer imogen was dragging me towards the stairs, heading for the roof of the building. When we got to the top floor she pulled me towards the corner and towards the womens bathroom, there was an closed sign on the door but she pushed it open. on the ground was some red splatters,
the word ‘regrets’ written in red stuff, the mirror smashed all over the floor. The red was blood. What the hell? Grabbing Imogen’s wrists I checked for signs she had done it but found nothing. Then it clicked. Shaun had gone outside with Imogen then Ashley had gone out. I didn’t see either of them all night, then they changed rooms. ’What have you done Imogen? Ashley’s just found someone she’s happy with.’She just looked at me like it wasn’t her fault. ‘I didn’t DO anything, the suicidal pyscho did it. All I did was kiss Shaun because he sounded like he loved me, she caught us, ran off, Shaun ran after her now he won’t speak to me.’ her tone was not happy, more annoyed than anything.Great, just what we needed, fighting. ‘Imogen… Ashley loves Shaun, Shaun loves Ashley you are NOT included in the picture. She needs him, he wants her. End of story.’ she poked her tongue out at me and sighed. ‘But he lead me on, he asked me to come, he really sounded like he loved me. Now I’m here for nothing.”Imogen what the fuck are you doing now? First you kiss me, now your trying to kiss Jumpnow and GET OUT!’
Imogen ran out of the room, Shauns voice cut through the cold air like a knife. Ok so I hadn’t noticed how close Imogen was standing to me but that was no reason to yell, he was holding a mop obviously coming to clean up Ashleys mess. Stepping away from the mess I watched Shaun pick up the pieces of mirror, mop up the blood. Wow, Shaun never cleaned up something that wasn’t his fault and usually blamed half his
mess on others. Diva. But here he was cleaning up someone elses attempted suicide. A few minutes later he was finished and disappeared down the stairs. I followed him, down and away from the rooms everyone else was in. ‘Shaun! What’s going on? Why can’t she clean up her own attempt to kill herself?’ Shaun turned around and glared at me ‘She can’t help it, you don’t know the whole story.’ he opened the door and slammed In my face.
Going back to the room everyone was getting ready before we had to leave for festival hall. I plugged in my GHD and
started straightening my hair. 45 minutes later we were all getting in hire cars and driving towards festival hall. Pulling up behind the venue there were about 10 people holding signs and cameras, they did their usual screaming thing and we had to run inside because the fans screaming attracted more fans, they were all screaming now. Inside I started my roadie jobs, started untangling amp chords and setting up the stage ‘Want some help?’ I turned around and saw Ashley
standing nervously, smiling at her I handed her Shauns box. ‘I’m sorry about Shaun telling you off before.’ her voice was soft and sweet, we untangled the chords and started setting up the stage. She was really
cute, how come I never noticed before? I didn’t notice when she came in yesterday and we talked, I didn’t notice when… I was checking out one of my best friends 17 year old girl friend, I just hope no body caught me doing it. But as lucky as I am Imogen did. She was coming over towards me, noticed Ashley and put 2 and 2 together ‘Hey why you checking out Shauns pyschopath?’ she practically yelled. I blushed and looked at the floor, Ashley walked off but I don’t think anyone heard.
She avoided me all afternoon while the bands did sound checks, got dressed and did their hair. By the time the first supports were
onstage she wouldn’t even look at me. Back stage Jimmy had turned up laughing and trailing a pretty blonde girl. So this was ‘her’ Jimmys
mysterious girlfriend. This was the first time I’ve ever seen her. Screams and clapping filled the air as I watched from the sidelines, it was nearly time for short stack to come on. Imogen came up behind me, her blond and red streaked hair shining in the light. She looked okay in her ripped tights and short purple dress with a black fake leather jacket. She was pretty, not my usual type of girl but I can’t deny she was cute. She winked at me and came closer. We watched the
guys do their set, andy spinning around with his bass tripped over an amp chord and fell flat on his face. Off the stage. Luckily there was a barrier separating the stage and the mosh or he would have been a lot more hurt then he was now. He stood up and blew kisses to the girls trying to climb over to him, before climbing back up onto the stage. Imogen was laughing in my ear, but it was Ashley I had my attention on. Okay so she’s off limits and belonged to Shaun but I was really starting to like her. She was standing with Jimmy and his friend, When Shaun ran off to change he shoved his guitar into my hands and ran up to Ashley. He gave her a sweaty hug, she screwed up her face, but hugged him back, he pulled off his jacket and shirt and pulled on a
dry one, This I could stand watching but, when he kissed her I had to
look away.
Imogen squeezed my hand, i wanted Ashley but I couldn’t have her. Ever. Shaun ran back towards the stage but stopped when he got to me, he stuck his finger up at Imogen and grabbed his guitar and a bottle of water before going back onto the stage. We watched the rest of the show in silence, by the time it was over I wasn’t in the mood to be nice. Shaun got everything, all the girls, anything he wanted, Ashley wasn’t even his type, I bet he just felt sorry for her. When most of the fans had gone I went onto the stage and started picking up the stuff that people had thrown on, glowsticks mostly. ‘Ohmygod!! It’s jumpnow!!!!’ I looked up and saw a couple of girls standing at the barrier. ‘can I get a photo with you please?’ smiling a little I jumped off the stage and over to the girls. Signing their things and getting a couple of pictures they were happy and walked away. Getting back up onto the stage I packed up the rest off the
stuff by myself. After short stack had signed stuff we left and went back to the hotel. Shaun and Ashley disappeared toward the shops, Imogen, Bella, Jimmy and his girlfriend Shae, Andy, Sonny and Bradie were going down to the beach. Yuck I hate the beach but I followed just because I didn’t want to be left there like a total loner. When we were walking down I noticed that everyone was dressed for swimming, in shorts and bikinis,
looking down at my ripped jeans and white shirt, I sighed. This was
not good, they were going to make me get in anyway. When we got down to the sand, they all ran off racing each other down to the water. Except Imogen. I was kinda starting to like her. she walked towards me ’Nice clothes choice.’ I smiled looking at her white bikini and striped boardshorts, she grabbed my hand and dragged me through the sand and down to the water. She was pretty strong for a short skinny girl but
I’m not that heavy I guess, she pushed me into the cool foamy water I grabbed her legs and pulled her under aswell, she screamed as she hit the water. It was cool but only knee deep, my skinnies were soaked and my white shirt probably see through. But for the first time since this
morning I wasn’t thinking about Ashley, pulling Imogen out into deeper
water with everyone else.
She looked at me and burst out laughing, guess my eyeliner was smudging from the water I stuck my tongue out at her. I was underwater the next thing I knew, water was rushing around
me bubbles everywhere, I managed to find my way back to the surface.
Looking at everyone else they were fine and laughing at me, looking
around me imogen was gone, fuck, where was she? About 20 metres away I
saw a blond blur. It was I her, I started swimming over towards her
