Generation Baby

Chapter One: Still Torn Apart

2 years after Tilly's so-called Murderer was arrested and sent to Prison, Lauren and her family were finding it hard to deal with the brutal fact that Tilly was killed by someone that they knew and trusted.

And at the same time, they struggled with the brutal fact that Tilly was no longer here anymore. No longer can Lauren ask her sister for advice or even just cuddle her.

Lauren deeply regrets even to this day the way she treated her sister especially with the whole Martin drama between them. How she wished that she told TIlly the truth about Martin there and then. Maybe if she had then Tilly would still be alive.
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Lauren's point of view

She lays there in her sister's bedroom staring at the ceiling. This was the very bedroom that Tilly spent her last moments. The place she lived and died was kept as a shrine all these years.

Her family including Lauren herself struggles even now to move on. Her mother desperately wants her to move house, away from all the bad memories but she was too stubborn. She refused to move house away from her sister because she felt so close to her here.

Lauren hoped that by staying she would be able to deal with the guilt she carried over her sister's death. She didn't know that she was going to be killed that day but she blamed the wrong person for her death. Someone that Tilly claimed to love even though He was just as messed up as Lauren was and of course, Old enough to be her father.

Her phone buzzed in her pocket and right on cue, the guilt intensified when she saw who it was.

She growls at the screen and hangs up on him. "When will that guy ever take a hint? What part of I want nothing to do with you and I don't want to talk to you, Does he not understand? I might as well be speaking Greek."

She takes a deep breath in and counted to ten just like her counsellor told her to do.

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Her breathing was interrupted by a text message from Martin. She clicks on his name and reads the text that he sent her.

Lauren,
It's been two years now and I don't like the way we left things. I feel horrible knowing what happened to Tilly. Believe me, If I'd have known that he would suddenly flip out like that, that day then I would have put a stop to it.

I think about you all the time and what happened to Tilly. You are probably wondering why I'm still not in prison for Nathan's death. Well, you see the thing is, They wanted to believe me but because that the statute of limitations has passed they couldn't legally do that.

I know you think that I've gotten away with it. But the truth is I really haven't. Every time I close my eyes I see his face and Every time I close my eyes I see yours the day that Tilly died. I regret my actions when Nathan died and I regret even more that I brought that scumbag that killed Tilly into yours and your family's lives.

The truth is Money was the reason behind it. Not that I am trying to defend my actions. My brother George was doing it out of greed, I, on the other hand, was desperate to get enough to pay off my debts.

I didn't plan Nathan's murder to do this but after Nathan died and I let myself get close to you, George realised that I had an in. I could be in and out there before anyone even suspected.

But I dragged it on. As time went on I didn't want to do it anymore I told George that I was out of the plan and that I had fallen for you.

I know that you are disgusted in me just as you were back then and I know that I'm probably too old for you. But you can't deny who you fall for.