The rain poured down, battering our backs with the heavy cold. Our bikes zoomed effortlessly over the wet pebbles and the trees whooshed rhythmically as the wind blew.
"I don't know if we can do the bonfire tonight," she said, as we approached the rows of houses.
"C'mon, I bet the sky's gonna be all rained out by tonight," I replied, waving my hand around.
We wheeled our bikes into her backyard and leaned them against the garden shed.
"Imogen?"
"Yeah?"
"I don't know about this..."
I walked up to her and placed my numb hands on her shivering shoulders and locked eyes with her. "We're going to do this. No. Matter. What."
She looked at the mud piling at her feet. I still had my eyes locked at where her eyes just where.
I shook myself out of a daze. "We're gonna celebrate your thirteenth birthday like no other birthday before," I continued, pacing around in the squishy grass.
"Really, you think so?" she asked, fiddling with her drenched hair.
"I know so," I replied with a wide grin.
"Imogen." She looked at me. "I love you." I looked back at her, glossy eyes and perfect face and stepped back.
"I...I..."
She suddenly ran off in the opposite direction.
I winced as the rain thrashed down harder.
"Shay?" I whispered as the thunderous sound of rain engulfed me.
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I'm Fine
Teen Fiction'I'm Fine.' Imgoen fears the day her past will come back to haunt her. Her stupidty, idiocy and the trauma of her childhood. She wants to forget it all, but when an old friend (and enemy) moves to her neighbourhood and school, keeping her secret is...
