Hey everyone! Whooo! A new Emmerdale story! My third Emmerdale story! I got the idea for this based off a Glee story called Rachel's Reasons and I got the permission from the author of that story to write this story. Everything's planned, so there won't be any surprise cancellations like some of my previous stories. Although, I've never read the book, so things will be different, but sticking to the general idea. Some reasons will be relatively similar, but others wont. Please enjoy, follow/favorite if you like the story and leave me a review! :]

DISCLAIMER: I don't own Emmerdale, Thirteen Reasons Why or any of their characters!

I walk down the steps of my apartment as someone rings the doorbell and knocks twice, signaling they've left a package.

When I open the front door, a brown box wrapped with a red bow waits at the doorstep.

I pick it up and bring it inside, holding it close to my body, making sure it doesn't fall. I then go back up the stairs and into my own bedroom once more.

"Jasmine, who was at the door?" my roommate yells from her room across the hall.

"A package, Clara. And no, not for you." I say quickly, before her interest takes over.

She emerges at my bedroom door anyway and notices the package in my hands.

"Who from?"

"I dunno." I say honestly.

I look down at the package in my hands and read the tag on it.

"Debbie." I whisper, then look up at Clara. "It's from Debbie."

"Debbie.. As in the love of your life that.. took her own life.. a few weeks ago?" she asks softly, trying to avoid bring back emotions, but it doesn't work, and they all flood back anyway.

I feel the tears fall from my eyes and all the memories we ever had replay over and over.

"Yeah. Yeah, that's her." I say, my voice breaking.

"Well, what's in the box?"

I turn my attention back to the package and slowly un-wrap the bow, then open the box itself.

Inside are 13 CDs, each marked with a number, one through thirteen.

"Well?" Clara pushes.

"Um, just some CDs.."

"Right well, I'm going out. I'll be back later tonight, yeah?"

"Alright. Be safe."

"Thanks, mum." She says sarcastically as she walks out the door.

I find my old CD player and headphones, then put the first disk in. I put one headphone in each ear, take a deep breath, and push play.

"Hey everyone. Bet you're surprised to hear from me. Debbie Dingle, back from the dead. Well, not really. I mean, we all know that couldn't really happen. And even if it could.. I wouldn't want to. Not after all I've been through."

Oh God..

"This, what I'm doing here, is based off a book I read some time ago. It's called Thirteen Reasons Why. I know. 'Debbie Dingle read a book!' Well, yeah. I have. Surprise, surprise. If you haven't read it, do so."

I think I've read that.. In fact, I think I'm the one who showed it to her. Oh God, I inspired this.

"I got rid of the book a while ago so I don't remember the exact words, but I remember what I need to. If you're hearing this, you've just got a box from me, well, not me, but from me indirectly, and found the disks. They are marked from one to thirteen, each holding a different story from a different person, and each is a reason as to why I no longer walk this planet."

I'm a reason?

Obviously, I'm a reason, I've got the tapes. But what on Earth did I do to hurt her so much, she'd take her own life?

I mean.. I slept with her dad, sure. But.. she got past that.. right? I left her after being released.. but I didn't want to. It took everything I had to stay away from her, and now I absolutely have to.

"Listen to all the tapes, don't just be a jerk and skip to yours, because you won't know which one is yours. When you're done, send the package with all the disks to the person who's disk comes after yours. Like Hannah says in the book, "Lucky number thirteen can take these tapes straight to hell." And don't think you can just hold onto the tapes because you don't want anyone else to know what you did. I have a second set, entrusted in the hands of a loyal friend who isn't on here. If these tapes don't get to number thirteen, that loyal friend will release the second set to everyone in the entire village, and that's a lot of people. Way more than just thirteen people hearing the terrible things you've done."

"I promise, Debs, I won't. I'll listen to them all and make sure everyone gets theirs."

"That being said, let's get on here, yeah? Tape number one is for someone I thought was family, but clearly, they weren't. That's right. Tape number one is for you, Lisa.

Lisa Dingle? They were close! They were so close! She's her grandmother! Well.. I guess she wouldn't be on the tapes unless she did something.. Let's find out.