Remember

15. Attitude

Hall of fame - The script

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"Because he is a murderer.. my sister's murderer." I whispered the words that felt like daggers throughout my whole body. A sob esacaped my lips as I tried to bury that memory back deep inside of me. Sarah died because of him.. She is dead because of him.. She lost her life because of him.. She-

"Enough!" I sobbed and covered my ears to muffle the mantras of my subconscious. "Stop it.. please."

Now, I was a crying mess and locked in his farmhouse.. Could this night get any worse? Just as this thought crossed my mind, someone banged on the door. No.. not him.. please nooo!

-Joey's POV

Who the hell does she think she is to slap me like that? She probably forgot that she is at my place. Well, I'll just remind her then.

"Open the door Abigail." Muffled sounds were heard from the other side but nothing more. "My patience has its limits Abigail. Open the fucking door!" My voice had a threatening tone.

"W-what do you want?" I could deduce from her voice that she was crying but I didn't falter.

"I want you to open the door and get out of my place. NOW!" I replied harshly.

"Even I don't want to be here with you but.. what about Jenny?" After all this, she still has the guts to show me attitude.

"I'll put her in your car. Just get lost."

"She's wasted. I can't take her home in this state!"

"That's none of my business. Open the door now."

"In case you forgot, she is in this condition because of your freaking party!" How dare she put all the blame on me?

"So now this is also my fault? For your kind information, I didn't invite her!"

I heard her sigh loudly before she spoke up again. "Look, it's past midnight and I'm really tired. So let's finish this fight tomorrow, good night!"

"Are you deaf or dumb? I tell you to get out and you decide to settle over here?"

"Dream on bighead.. I'm not settling over here anytime soon. Now either you let me sleep or I scream and create a scene in front of the whole neighbourhood that you are trying to rape two innocent girls of whom one is already knocked out." Did she just blackmail me?

"Uggghhh.. Fine but in the morning we need to have a serious discussion!" She didn't reply but I think I heard her scoff. For safety precautions, I took the room right across hers and fell asleep with a red cheek, hurt ego and jumbled thoughts..

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"What do you think you're doing?" I asked half yawning to Abby who was messing around the kitchen.

"Searching for an aspirine," she replied bluntly.

"At 5 o'clock in the morning?"

"Jenny's awake and she has a hangover."

"Look in the bottom drawer on your left." I said without thinking. How do I know that? Was my memory... "Ahhh.. my head!" I winced as I felt a sting in my head and I pressed my temples softly.

"What's wrong? Are you okay? You need something? Do I've to call a doctor?" Abby was by my side and I could tell that she was really stressing out.

"I.. I'm fine. It was just a slight pain," I replied calmly as the stinging stopped.

"Ohh.." She backed away immediately. "I-I.. I'll be going."

"No wait! We had to talk, remember?" I grabbed her wrist to prevent her from walking away.

She sighed but didn't turn around. "Look, I'm not going to say sorry for the slap of yesterday because you deserve it."

"But I don't get it! I just asked a question! " I was exasperated.

"You changed my whole life.. rather destroyed it," she replied emotionless and freed herself from my grip forcefully before walking off.

After that encounter I didn't see her again as I went straight back to bed and when I woke up, she was gone. But her last words still haunted me even though I didn't understand anything..

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"Why are you so gloomy?" Britney asked while picking up an empty beer bottle. She, Nate, Lucy and Katie had come over to help me clean up later in the day. "Something happened with that girl?" she insisted worriedly but I could see a glint of jealousy in her voice.

"Abigail? Well actually.. uh..-"

"Speaking of which.. Is Jenny fine?" Nate chipped in.

I nodded hesitantly as Katie spoke up. "Who's she? And how do you know her?" The question was directed to Nate. Am I just hallucinating or is my sister actually jealous? Nate related yesterday's incident to her while Britney continued her inquiry.

"So what were you saying about.. Anabelle?"

"It's Abigail. She slapped me," I blurt out.

"What!?" they all said in unison.

"Well.. we kind of had a fight." I was trying to explain the situation to them without much details because I was quite embarassed.

"How dare she? She slapped you in your own place! I swear that I'm going to make her regret-" Britney was really flaring up.

"Woah.. calm down! It was a misunderstanding but it's sorted now.. just forget it," I lie. They all stay quiet but my sixth sense tells me that Britney isn't going to drop it so easily..

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For those wondering about how Sarah died because of Joey.. a bit of patience. It will be revealed soon enough but you'll have to wait. ;)

Sorry sweeties :*