Imogen’s POV
Bella walked through the open door, she was one of my best friends and I hated seeing her upset. She was enjoying herself so much until this morning when something came up between her and Jimmy. She was crying, walking straight up and hugging me, crying into my hair ‘im so so sorry ims’ she stuttered into my hair. She pulled away. ‘I KILLED MELODIE. OKAY HAPPY. IT WAS ME. I WOULD DO ANYTHING TO TAKE IT BACK’ she yelled hysterically to everyone in the room. Her pale skin shook with fear as jimmy came in the door.His eyes were cold, but his voice sound colder as he said ’annabelle killed melodie, you know why because my bratty little cousin couldnt stand not having my full fucking attention’. How someone could be yelling so calmly but cold and sharp was a mystery.‘BELLA YOU DIDNT TELL ME? I’m supposed to be the one you can tell anything to and YOU DIDNT TELL ME YOU KILLED SOMEONE?’ frustration took over, anger taking a grip on my judgement. ‘I’ve known you for 6 years. You didnt even bother to tell me you killed your own cousins girlfriend’ I spat in her face, pushing her out of the way and stamping out of the room. Jumpnow was behind me straight away, he sat patiently while I raged until I dissolved into tears. He let me cry on his shoulder and hug him until it felt like everything would be ok. He was silent the whole time except for a couple of “it’s ok”s and “let it out”s. I didn’t bother to think that maybe he was hurting over this too. he didn’t show anything but when bella came towards us, he pushed me behind him. ‘HAVENT YOU DONE ENOUGH?’ he yelled at her, maybe he wasn’t okay. Maybe he felt the same way I did. There was an edge to his voice, it sounded like he was trying to stay held together. He hugged me and when he pulled away, there was the faintest glint of tears in his eyes. bella wasn’t giving up with her “imogen please let me explain”s as she cried. I decided to hear her out. “explain” was all i could say to her. Jumpnow and I were sitting on the veranda on a hanging chair and when she started to talk, he grabbed my hand tighter.“James was at schoolies, the two days he spent on the coast with me and my mum. Melodie was beautiful, I was jealous of how he looked at her and how he talked to her. He really loved her, he used to look at me like i was his favourite person but after melodie he wouldnt even look at me twice. We went out to the beach to party one night, it was an ACCIDENT. Melodie had epilepsy and when she asked me to get her meds, I gave her the wrong ones. She had a fit while swimming drunk in the ocean and drowned. James never forgave me”
The whole time she spoke, Jumpnow was gripping my hand, Bella was still standing there looking at me. This was one of the people I told my deepest darkest secrets to; She lied to me. big time. ‘Bella, I need time to think’ I told her so she went back inside. Jumpnow was still gripping my hand which was going a funny purple colour and starting to throb painfully, he noticed me looking and the second he noticed, he dropped my hand. ‘sorry ims’ his voice cracked, looking up to his face. He was pale and looked just as close to tears as I felt. This melodie girl had obviously meant something to him, I hugged him tight and when he hugged me back, it felt like he was holding me together. ‘she killed her’ The tears down my cheeks were warm. ‘i know’ was all he said back. His whole body was shaking in my arms now and after holding himself back so long, he finally let a couple of tears slide down his face. I stopped hugging him and kissed him instead, the kiss tasted like salt, like misery, like anger.
Jumpnows POV
It felt like imogen was holding me together, holding all my anger and frustration inside. I couldn’t hold back anymore so i let the tears fall, Mel may have been Jimmy’s girlfriend but she was one of my best friends. I know bella was one of Imogen’s closest friends but I couldn’t be mad at imogen, she was just as upset as me. When she stopped hugging me and kissed me instead, it made me want her more, she was gorgeous. Shaun came out and broke us off. ‘I’m taking ash back to mine, I can’t be here right now’ he muttered and I noticed his eyes were red rimmed. Melodie had meant something different to each of us, we were all angry and upset so maybe time alone was not what we needed. Maybe it was. Andy was the worst off, Melodie had been one of his close friends and Bella was hanging off him and he loved her. Or he had. Bradie, Rachael and Andy took off, taking Bella with them so within half an hour, my house was empty except for Imogen. I wanted her but Bradie would kill me if he ever found out I touched her. I took her inside, groaning at the massive mess left inside with nobody left to clean it up but us. ‘fuck this is the last time I have a halloween party’ Imogen laughed at my face and rubbed at my hair. ‘its on bitch’ she squeaked and legged it up the hall way but before she got too far, she tripped over, falling flat on her face. She picked herself up. ‘ow’ she muttered looking down at her foot, her toenail had caught in the carpet and had been half ripped off. It was bleeding, after she washed the blood off and wrapped her toe in a bandaid i came closer. Blood made me feel sick. I realised we were going to have to clean it up before anything else so sighing i grabbed the vaccum cleaner from the cupboard.
