I was listening to my new record player that I had gotten for my birthday a week before the accident when my mom came upstairs and sat down on my bed like she just experienced a zombie apocalypse, she sighed and finally told me.
"sweetie, there's been an accident"
that's how it always starts: there's been an accident.
"Halley's been in an accident, she didn't make it" her voice broke.
"where's dad?" I asked
"he's at the hospital, I need you to get your shoes and coat" and like a child I did so.
We drove in silence to the hospital in forks. When we walked in mom told the receptionist why we were there and a doctor met us at the door. We followed him down several hallways and down a few floors until we stopped in front of two double doors labeled "morgue"
"honey, are you going to be okay?"
I shook my head. Like a zombie I walked through the doors and saw dad sitting in a chair next to a table. There she was, my sister, my twin, my best friend. Dad looked up came over to me and hugged me for a long time. When he finally let go, he led me over to the table where my sister was. I stood next to it and looked down at her for a few minutes not saying a word.
"can I have a minute alone?" I said in a whisper.
My parents nodded their heads and stepped out of the room. I took a deep breath and really looked at her. Her hair was a mess and she had bits of glass tangled in it. She would have hated the way she looked with all the dirt and glass stuck to her. I lifted a hand and started pulling the glass out and smoothing down her hair. Looking at her we didn't look anything alike. She was my twin and for the first time I couldn't recognize her. Then it hit me, she's gone. my sister, my Halley's gone and she's never coming back. She's never going to get mad at me for wearing her shoes or borrowing a dress, for using the last of the shampoo or secretly using her makeup. I cried, I really cried, my knees buckled and I hit the floor sobbing into my hands my parents rushed in wrapping their arms around me and we all cried. A few minutes later the doctor came back in and said it was time to go. My dad picked me off the floor and helped me through the hospital and out to the car. I ended up crying myself to sleep on the way home.
I woke up early, about 2am. I couldn't fall back asleep. I got up and paced around the house. I finally made my way back upstairs I stood in my doorway and looked at my sisters closed door. I opened it slowly and stepped inside. I walked over to her bed and crawled under the covers. I cried, again I fell asleep and woke up a few hours later and made my way downstairs, my parents were gone and I didn't want to be by myself.
I got dressed and started walking around the reservation. I ended up at the beach, it was deserted, I was all alone.
A while later, I headed back to the house, was I made my way up the sidewalk I saw embry sitting on my porch, with his head in his hands.
"hey" I said
"she's gone" was all he said.
I sat next to him and laid my head on his shoulder. He cried. Embry and Halley had been dating since freshman year, and were about to start our senior year in a few weeks. I invited him inside and we talked everything out. He stayed for dinner and left shortly after. Embry and I were hit and miss for the next few weeks and we even sat together at the funeral. Two weeks after the funeral embry came over around 6.
"hey what are you doing here?" I asked.
"there is a bonfire tonight, and all the guys are bugging me to get out of the house, I figured you would want to get out too?"
"you know what em, that sounds great"
I got dressed and we walked down to the beach. Everyone was hanging out and having a good time, a few hours in people started getting a little to out of hand and a little too drunk. I walked over to embry and was trying to tell him I was ready to go. I was standing next to him as he finished up talking to jared, he was an older guy but had been hanging around embry lately. When a guy named josh stumbled his way over to us.
"you know embry, your awfully lucky" he said
"and why's that?" em asked
"well cause of mel, you know, with her around you don't even have time to miss hal, mel is like a built in replacement."
Embry laughed "you know josh" embry lunged forward and tackled him to the ground and started to hit him. I got pushed back onto the ground as everyone tried to break them apart then a few of jareds friends pulled embry away into the woods and jared came after me and pulled me to my feet and as far away from the party as possible.
"Jared, jared wait"
"cant wait now, come one" he said making me run behind him
"Jared stop" I shouted pulling my hand out of his.
"melody, what are you doing come on"
"where are we going?"
"im taking you home"
"im not going home"
"what?"
"Jared im so tired of being home, my parent get so sad every time they see me. Every time I walk into the room my mother starts to cry, everyday they have to look into the face of the daughter they lost." I took a breath, "I just cant be there any more"
He sighed, "okay, fine. Come on"
He put his arm around my shoulder and we started walking in the opposite direction. He came up to a house and jared just walked in.
"oh come in mel, this is my place"
I walked in and there was a man sitting on the couch. He took one look at me said "shit" and left.
"whats his-"
"don t worry about it"
"alright then"
"so" jared said, "you can take the couch, im going to bed in here" he pointed to the first door, "if you need anything just holler" he smiled
"thanks again, for everything"
I woke up the next morning to the guys talking in the kitchen.
"I don't do orphans"
"dude, she's not an orphan. It was her sister"
"still she is a depressed, lonely little kid"
"you know, you're an ass. Entertain her I gotta go to work" jared sighed and walked out.
As soon as the door shut I heard the coffee table squeak. I opened my eyes to see jareds roommate sitting on it staring at me.
"im not an orphan" I said
"im not entertaining you"
"Melody"
"paul" he said then walked back into the kitchen.
I got up and followed him, "so, hungry?" I asked him
"always"
I rummaged through the cabinets and found some stuff to make breakfast. After it was done we sat in silence as we ate, I watched paul inhale his food like he hadn't eaten in months. He helped me clean up afterwards and we sat on the porch together and talked for a bit.
"you know, your not so bad for an orphan" he smirked
"not an orphan "
"yeah but still, your pretty cool"
"thanks, I guess.. Your not bad yourself.. Well except for the way you eat, that's pretty bad" I chuckled
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