Your Friend
"I'll take you to heaven and back again
And I'm only Your Friend
My love will last until until the end
Cause I'll always be Your Friend
Oh yeah, Your Friend, hmm..."
It was only us three me, Edward and Reese in the hospital room. Edward and I sat opposite sides of the bed waiting for her to wake up, her broken arm now in a cast. I couldn't believe I owed this stranger so much that he'd actually found my sister and brought her home to us. I was really grateful but also curious as to whom he was to my sister.
"thanks for finding her" I said meeting his eyes.
"I should say thanks for telling me she was missing so I could find- I can't believe I let..." he was silent now.
"Is she still crying?" I asked looking up at her face.
She'd been crying in her sleep since she got to the hospital. It looked like she'd stopped now, I knew this was probably about Mom and Dad Edward looked guilty.
"It's not your fault it will do her some good, anyway it's about time" I said " She never cried, never mourned, do you know about our parents?"
He simply nodded
"Did she tell you how it happened?"
He shook his head.
"I'm afraid you've not seen the best of Reese she's only a fraction of the person she once was now and I guess you can partly understand why after losing her parents but it's not just that she blames herself for their death. You see back in England when she turned fifteen she entered her prime, she already had her three closest friends and she'd grown confident in herself. It was her first GCSE year and she was taking her favourite subjects Art and Drama and she was good at them too, really good. She made loads more friends and boys finally started to realise she existed so she had a couple of non- serious relationships between school performances and painting in her spare time.
However she made one friend who wasn't all he appeared. Reese is a good judge of character and she knew from the start that the guy wasn't stable but she felt sorry for him because he had no friends. His name was Freddie and to him she became an obsession. He followed her everywhere and he'd ring her mobile and as soon as she picked it up he'd put the phone down.
Eventually Reese got fed up and she told him to leave her alone. He knew that the fire alarms in our house didn't go off and that we were all deep sleeper and he decided that if she wouldn't have him in her life she may as well not be alive. He didn't count on the baby been in the house though which woke Reese up. But Reese still didn't manage to wake up Mom and Dad she thought they were safe and by the time she'd climbed out the window with the kid it was already too late. She stopped paint, she hasn't even picked up a pencil since then. He never acts not even to get her own way she's just not herself anymore"
Edward sat and listened quietly to Reese's story as if every detail was vitally important and needed to be remember when I had finished he just looked at her face.
