Speeding Cars
Here's the day you hoped would never come
Don't feed me violins
just run with me through roads of speeding cars.
The papercuts the cheating lovers
The coffee's never strong enough
i know you think it's more than just bad luck
There there baby
it's just text book stuff
it's in the ABC of growing up
Now now darling
oh don't lose your head
cause none of us were angels
(Speeding Cars - Imogen Heap)
Charlotte.
When I close my eyes I always go back to that place. Standing there the railings of the ship me and Emilia breathing in the smell of the sea like we where ten all over again. We longed for our childhood back.
When I was bed ridden I felt so scared that she was out there with him alone I needn't have feared though although her Aunt had tried to get rid of her personality it was still in there fierce and burning we'd kept each other alight.
I moaned and rolled over feeling the urge to hurl again when the door flew open and there she was red faced breathing heavily as if she'd ran here. I vomited into the bucket beside me then looked at her waiting for an explanation.
"You will not believe what I have just seen Charlotte" she said sitting on the edge of my bed.
I stared at her so not in the mood.
"My so called fiancé was fornicating with a woman from third class" she said.
I began to giggle as did she.
"Oh dear there goes my marriage" she said dramatically collapsing on my bed.
"How on earth are you going to tell your Aunt?" I asked.
She put her finger on her lip deep in thought.
"I really don't know" she confessed
"How are you feeling?" she asked me changing the topic.
"Like death" I answered
She grinned "Always with the drama"
"You better go before your Aunt starts looking for you; you've got your engagement party to attend"
"you mean I have actually got to go myself I just thought everyone celebrates without me" she said looking at me all innocent and naive.
I raised a wary eyebrow and a grin broke out on her face destroying all signs of former innocence. She stood up dusting off her red dress she headed for the door.
"Bye" she said quietly and just as the light hit her I could see the solitary tear trickle down her face.
We both knew that even with this information she had no way out of this marriage. She was either to marry or to be disowned and this world was a cruel, cruel place for a girl with no means. Of course was ill so she tried to hide her pain from me but I could see right through her. We were practically sisters there was no hiding.
I fell into a dreamless sleep not knowing that when I awoke the world would be upside down.
