Look After You {Sequel To Lost In Stereo}

Chapter Twenty Eight-Murmurs And Sirens

"To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure." -J.K. Rowling

Maybe, death is natural, or maybe it's not. Perhaps, if things had gone a little different I wouldn't be gasping for air, blood on my finger tips as I weakly touched my head.

"Fuck!" Someone cursed. "Someone call an ambulance!"

There's something weird about lying on the ground, blood covering your head and hands, your bones aching, people screaming to call an ambulance, your eye sight blurring as your lungs tightened. Maybe if something had gone differently...

I could hear people saying stuff around me, but my hearing was pretty much gone, the only sound I could hear was murmurs and sirens.

Murmurs and sirens.

Murmurs and sirens.

Murmurs and sirens.

I wish this bed was an island,

We could stay here in side it 'til the sun went down,

We'd turn these blankets to hammocks and we'd be hand and hand until the stars came out....

•FOUR HOURS EARLIER•

I drummed my fingers against the bench, not daring to say a word as dad looked at the letter that I'd found in mums diary.

I wasn't sure why I'd given it to him to look at, maybe it's because I thought Killian had tried to give it to him but dad said no, but going by the puzzled look on dad's face I knew he hadn't.

"I haven't seen this before in my life." Dad said bluntly. "And if you were smart you forget you saw it yourself."

"What? Why would I try and forget reading the one thing my mother left for me?" I snapped as I snatched the letter from his hands. Dad looked at me, an exasperated look on his face.

"I'm sorry honey, but your mother was a bitch. She was liar. And she certainly deserved what she got. I'm not saying-"

"I've got her diaries." I cut in. "I read her entries from when you guys dated, and I read the one she wrote when you dumped her."

Dad stared at me, before slightly nodding momentarily for me to continue.

"When you dumped her in the park." I said. "She was late for her period and she was gonna tell you that she thought she was pregnant but you dumped her and told her it was all for a dare and you had no feelings for her. So don't say that she's a liar, you were the one lying to her the whole time so you could get laid."

"Cristell Jayde." Dad snapped warningly his jaw locked at I twisted my hair around my finger.

"What? That's what happened-"

"Tellie."

I sighed, leaning slouching in the stool as I rested my head in my hand.

"Dad, the other day in Doncaster, at the cemetery, I went to go to mums grave, but this chick was there...and she said stuff and then uncle Kill-"

"Did you speak to him?" Dad cut in. I shrugged slightly as I chewed on my lip.

"Course...did you know he blames you for mum dying?"

"Yes-"

"Yeah but at the cemetery, this chick was there then Killian was here and he was talking to her and blah blah blah he had a go at me saying I shouldn't talk to strangers, then she's all like, I am no stranger than blah blah blah and she's like-"

"I have no idea what you just said." Dad cut in. I frowned slouching more in my seat before getting out of it.

"Can I drink Starbucks yet?" I asked partly whining.