Imogens pov
Jumpnow was packing my stuff while I said goodbye, it was the hardest thing I’d ever had to do. These people, I’d been through so much together that they were family, they were more than Belinda had ever been. But now she was threatening to report Bradie for ‘kidnap’ if I didn’t come home. I left the second hardest until last, Shaun. He was in ash’s room as usual. He was sitting cross legged on a chair next the her head, it was a side of him that nobody ever really saw but it was the side of him I saw no matter what. He had the guitar I saw in ash’s room once and he was singing. She was asleep, motionless but at least it gave me a chance to say goodbye alone. He looked up when the door clicked, he looked like he hadn’t slept in a week, he needed to shave. ‘I have to go, the whore wants me back’ i muttered and the room was silent. ‘I’m gunna miss you ims, you know that right?’ he said with a half smile and got up and gave me a hug. Sometimes it felt like I was closer to Shaun than Bradie, and sometimes I wished it was him I was related to. He was my best friend, as stupid as it was to admit it. It wasn’t awkward, it never was and I wish I never made such a fuss over everything that happened between us. Next thing I knew I was crying, a few tears slid down my nose, and quicker than lightning his lips were on mine.
It wasn’t the type of kiss that I got from jumpnow, it wasn’t the sort of kissing I’d seen him do to ash. It was light, quick and just friendly. It was the perfect way of saying goodbye, but I couldn’t go without teasing him one last time ‘you need to brush your teeth’ I told him when he broke off, he didn’t even blink ‘bitch’ ‘whore’ I retorted and slid out the door with just a whisper of goodbye. Bradie took me back to the hotel where I was meeting jumpnow to pick up my stuff. He hugged me harder than ever before, this was the most sensitive side I’d ever seen of him. ‘I love you ims’ he muttered in my ear before kissing me hard and breaking away. I could swear I saw a tear on his cheek. Bradie was driving me home, he wanted to try one last time to get me to stay. I heard jumpnow on the phone last night, he’d organized another tour that started in a week. The drive was awful, Bradie was concentrating and I fell asleep about half way and he woke me up when we were there. I directed him to the house, she was waiting out the front and ran at the car when it pulled up. She pulled me out of the car and held me, I didn’t want to touch her. I didn’t want to know her.
Bradie got my stuff out and gave me a hug, he promised me he wasn’t leaving me here, a week tops and I would be back with him. But Belinda was being a total bitch and refused to listen to Bradie at all. The words she screamed at him were the lowest form of insult, she just sounded bitchy ‘you stay the fuck away from her!’ she yelled and shoved me inside. I watched out the window as Bradie drove away, along with my happiness and hopes. Belinda tried to hug me ‘stay the fuck away from me!!’ I screamed and took my bag upstairs, slamming the door for effect. I opened my bag, on top was an envelope with Jumpnows hand writing on it. It was 4 pages long, his writing was messy and smudgy but it made me smile. He promised he was going to get me back. No matter who he had to go through.
