Friendship on the line

Chapter 64

Chapter 64

*Nathan’s POV*

I was just about to get to sleep when I heard loud sobbing and crying. I sat up and saw Kerry. In tears. “Kerry? What’s wrong?” I asked. She cried harder. I gulped something was not right. “Kerry, come here” I tell her and she slowly staggers towards me and sits on the sofa next to me. “What has happened?” I softly asked her. “T..tii.aa…. Shee..eee no oh God no…. She, shes g-gonne” she was so upset “What do you mean she is gone?” I asked her. She looked at me with sad sorrow eyes. “She is dead Nathan. Max and I found her, lying in her bath tub. She’s gone!” she shouted. What?! This can’t be true! It just can’t be true! I haven’t seen her since the accident. No, this can’t be! Kerry cried louder and I embraced her with a hug. We both cried. Cried for Tia, cried for Amelie. She now won’t know both of her parents properly unless Conor will get to have custody of her…. Conor. He doesn’t know yet. “We need to tell Conor” I tell Kerry “but he is in prison. The police will tell him. He will probably get told by them” Kerry said with a shaky breath. We still had hold of each other “I doubt it. The police don’t share everything. Plus I think we need to show support to him despite the fact he knocked me out” I told her. She nodded. “Okay, we will go tomorrow.. I just miss her so much! We were friends since Junior school. I never got to say sorry and make up and now she is dead! Gone forever” she started to cry again. We both cried so much we cried ourselves to sleep. She had her head resting on my chest and I gently stroked her back. These next few weeks are going to be tough. For everyone but especially Conor and definitely Kerry. She was devastated.

*Kerry’s POV*

(Dream)

I was early in the morning. I woke up in an unfamiliar place. It was dark and gloomy room with no doors or windows. I was boxed in and no one was around. I banged at the walls wanting to be free and that’s when I felt and cold breeze go past me. I turned around to see Tia stood in front of me. “Tia. You are alive?” I questioned. She shook her head and laughed “you wouldn’t care if I was. You think I am a nobody!” she shouted. Her ghostly figure stood over me and despite the fact she looked ghostly I could feel her as she pushed me over. I landed badly and hurt my ankle. “You are the reason why I am dead. You ruined everything. You shouldn’t of phone the police. I loved Conor and you took him away from me!” she shouted again. I cried and I cried. “And you know what I am going to do now?” she questioned me. I quivered as out of nowhere she pulled out a gun. WHERE THE HELL DID THAT COME FROM! “Make you pay for what you brought upon me” she said pointing the gun too me………………………………….

(End of dream)

“NO!!!!” I screamed awake panting and crying. I woke Nathan up. “hey babe. It’s ok calm down shhhhhh” he said hugging me as I cried and cried “what happened?” he asked “I…I had a nightmare…. Tia….. She was goi..ing to kill me……. It’s my fault she is dead! I have been such a shit friend to her!!” I wailed. Nathan comforted me “shhhhhh it’s ok. It’s not your fault. Come on. Shhh it was just a bad dream” he comforted me wiping the tears from my eyes. “I love you Kerry. Nothing was your fault” he told me. I sniffed and nodded and we hugged again before he got up “Nathan you be careful. You have only just came out of hospital I told him” he sighed “yes I know but I need a cuppa and you need a coffee” he said kissing my forehead. As he made us our drinks I looked at the time. 10AM. There was a knock at the door. I got up and answered it. Stood before me was a lady who had hold of Amelie. She must have been a social worker and a male police officer. “Miss Thorpe? I am PC Luca and this is Miss Forster from social services. May we come in?” the police officer asked “yes, yes of course. You will have to excuse the mess. We kind of fell asleep on the sofa last night” I explained to them. “Would you like a drink?” I asked. I tried to be nice but in actual fact I was so worried what the police were going to say. “No its fine. We are not stopping for long” PC Luca said. Nathan walked in. “Uh, PC Luca Miss Forster this is my boyfriend Nathan Sykes” I told him. He said hello and shook their hands obviously after putting our drinks down. We all took a seat. “Miss Thorpe Mr Sykes. As you know Tia Austin committed suicide last night. Evidence shows she drowned herself in the bathtub and lost oxygen.” PC Luca explained. Nathan put his arm around me. “We just thought you have the right to know and that we are not doing any further investigation into what brought on her death. We knew she was stressed out about all things and we are not blaming it on anyone. It was her choice and we have to end it there. Sorry for your loss. I knew she was a good friend of yours” PC Luca told me. I nodded “Thanks…. It’s going to be hard” I admitted. “So how come you have brought Amelie round?” Nathan questioned Miss Forster “well, Amelie, after being checked over by doctors since she was left alone for a long while, has no family to go to.” Miss Forster explained “is she ok?” Nathan asked. “Yes she is fine. She just needed to be fed and changed and that was it.” “well surely there is a foster care family she can go too?” I asked. Miss Forster nodded “yes, yes there is but we thought. Since you two are a very well established couple I think Tia would be happy if you take on the care of her?” Miss Forster asked. Nathan and I looked at each other. Shocked and Surprised “Well.. What about Conor? Is he happy about it” Nathan asked “he, unfortunately has no say in it. He will be in prison for a long while” the officer told us……

After a long time thinking about it we decided to be guardians of Amelie. It was the least we could do to say sorry to Tia for how much of a jerk I had been. We signed paperwork and took all of Amelie’s belongings. Miss Forster passed Amelie to Nathan and then they left. “Well then, we better go see daddy. Tell them what has happened to mummy” I whispered to Amelie “Mama?” Amelie gurgled. Nathan and I looked at each other with sorry eyes. Knowing that Amelie was about 12 months and she wasn’t going to see her mum ever again. It was devastating. We put on her little pink coat and took her car seat. Nathan put her in it and strapped her up before we got into the front seats “you ready for this?” I asked Nathan “I am. Are you?” he asked me. I nodded “yeah. I just hope he will let us talk to him”