jimmy’s POV
Annabelle grace. My bratty younger cousin. She made me so angry, why was she even here? To ruin everything; I planned to go into the city and walk over the harbor bridge with Shae. While I waited for her Bella came up to me ‘What have I done to you?’ she looked exhausted, I didn’t want a fight
‘Nothing.’ I mumbled in her direction.‘JUST FUCKING TELL ME JIMMY, WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU?!’ she screamed hysterically In my face, she was hungover and venerable.‘Bella stop it. You can’t hurt me anymore.’ I calmly said straight to her face
‘THE FUCK I CAN’T. WHAT DID I DO?’ she screamed again, Andy came out and wrapped his arms around her back protectively. By now everyone was awake and glaring at us from inside ‘Annabelle CALM DOWN’ I couldn’t help but yell at her.
‘NO. NO I WON’T. WHAT HAVE I DONE?!’She was crying and I had to say something, ‘YOU FUCKED UP MY LIFE!’ I yelled back at her. The tension was so thick, nobody dared to talk, nobody moved, nobody tried to stop us. ‘You hurt me so bad, I don’t think I could ever, ever forgive you Annabelle. And you KNOW EXACTLY what I’m talking about, you’ve just been too scared to tell anybody because of what they will think. Grow the Hell up. You know what you did to me, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY!’ my voice cracked and I held onto Shae, she had came out of nowhere for support. Bella had gone white ‘I swear I didn’t mean it, if I could undo it I would. I’m so sorry Jimmy.’ she started crying harder and leaned into Andy. ‘I swear Jimmy I didn’t mean it, I DIDN’T MEAN IT!’ she was getting hysterical again. I grabbed Shae’s hand and dragged her to my car. By the time we were heading towards Sydney I had calmed down enough to talk. The drive only took about an hour, but being alone with Shae again it felt so much shorter, it was the most relaxed I had been in days. When I finally told her what we were doing she was so excited.
Coming from Brisbane she’d never done anything like it. we walked along the path on the edge of the bridge hand in hand looking down at the water, as we got to the place where you go to get suited up she hugged me, the guide handed us suits, and attached ropes and all the safety stuff on, so by the time we were ready to go Shae was practically running up there. It was one of the best feelings in the world, being this high, seeing so far, feeling so insignificantly small. It made my problems seem smaller; Shae was walking in front of me but had her hand out, which I was holding. At the top I took photos but Shae wasn’t interested, she turned around and kissed me. Hard. It must have looked so normal to the guide, but this had to be one of the best kisses ever; up above the city and above the water, when she pulled away she was smiling her head off.When we got back down my mind started racing again, everything that happened lately; Everything this morning. It must have read on my face, because the next thing I knew Shae was wrapping her arms around me so hard it nearly hurt; but it made me feel more together ‘Jimmy, thank you so much. I love you.’ was all she said. I wanted to avoid Annabelle and everyone who would be angry at me when I got back, so we went shopping and had lunch. Shae told me she really wanted to see bondi beach, because when we stayed at Sonny’s we didn’t have time. Sitting In the sun at bondi in the afternoon, was nearly as good as climbing the harbor bridge. ‘Jimmy, this has been the best day!’
‘Well, you need a break from watching me set up stuff, as much as i need a break from doing it.’ I joked. She laughed. She kissed me again tasting like salt, like the afternoon, like happiness. When it was past 5 I couldn’t put it off any longer, and had to start driving back to the hell waiting for me at jumpnows.Driving up the road blasting music and singing along, with the girl who made me feel so happy, almost made me forget what was coming.
Walters POVAfter Jimmy had stormed off this morning, leaving me here with a bunch of people I hardly ever saw. It was really awkward, but Jimmy was really upset when he left, so I decided to wait for him. Just after 6 he pulled up out the front and Bella just about collapsed. I knew who she was now, why he was so angry; it took me all day to realise but I knew. I had a feeling Shaun or someone would have figured it out, but I couldn’t be sure. Bella pushed past me and straight up to Jimmy. He glared at her and walked straight past holding Shae protectively in front of him. ‘Come on Jimmy, that was in the past. SHE was in the past, move on and YOU grow up.’ her voice was cold but he just laughed at her.
‘YOU CAN PRETEND ALL YOU WANT, BUT MEL ISN’T COMING BACK.’ she screamed at the back of his head.
Now she had gone too far, nobody mentioned Melodie to Jimmy. He turned around to face her, ‘Maybe that’s because you and your selfish little ways killed her. YOU took her away Annabelle.’ he said calmly straight to her face. Melodie was Jimmy’s girlfriend when we went on schoolies, they were perfect together, only 18 and planning their whole future.
Bella was Jimmys cousin, he never told a soul this except me and a few other close friends. Bella couldn’t handle her so she killed her. Accidentally of course, but Jimmy never forgave her; now here she was, screaming at him, just making herself look worse. Bella obviously in shock turned even paler, stomping inside. Everyone knew about Melodie, but nobody knew who killed her, or how she died except me, Jimmy and Bella. Our dirty little holiday secret. I stepped in the door just as Bella was pushing to the middle of the room, crying and spitting out the first words in the story nobody needed to here.
