Jamie's POV

I stared at the empty bed in front of me, what had he done? Had he killed her, sentenced her to death, for money? Did that make my father a murderer? Did that make me a murderer for not stopping him; did that mean I had killed my sister? Had I sentenced her to death? It hurt me to think that my twin may be gone, that she might have completely left my life forever. I wondered if Dad had told AJ yet, if he would actually deal with it properly or if he would leave me to mop up her tears like always.

I guess he had considered my older sister dead the moment that car hit her. He was only holding on to her for my sake. Maybe if I'd known, if I begged he would have kept holding on to her for my sake…

I collapsed down in tears. Five minutes ago, everything had been going so well, Jazz's play had got chosen, so we were all really excited about that, there was Ryan and I and Maddie had been looking up before this moment. But I got here to visit her and there was no one here, just an empty bed. Dad and I had had a massive argument yesterday about keeping her on life support, so it didn't take a genius to guess what had happened. At that moment AJ burst into the room, and looking full of joy with happiness that I envied so much. She ran up to me and jumped up to hug me, with a childish innocence.

"AJ… I have something to tell you." I slowly said, it was obvious my dad hadn't told her get. That figured, my Dad never did anything that was important. He would have had money to keep Maddie alive if he didn't spend it all on beer.

"Is it about Maddie…? I already know!" I looked at her in shock, she knew Maddie was dead and she was still happy like this?

"You know Maddie's dead?" I asked her and she shook her head.

"Maddie's not dead." She stated and rage boiled up inside of me, how could she say Maddie wasn't dead? What had dad told her, that Maddie had gone to live on a farm or something? Like she was a dog we'd had to put down.

"Sweetie, y…yes she is." I stammered.

"No." She shook her head again.

The rage inside of me exploded. "Of course she is! Because our Dad's a drunkard who wastes away his life on beer and alcohol, and you need to get it through your thick head that our sister is gone and she's not coming back! Maddie is dead. That is the truth! Our father killed our sister; it's one of the sad truths of life! Just face it, and grow up!" AJ looked at me trembling and shock her head again, a tear starting to fall down her cheek. And it hit me how I had just made my ten year old sister cry.

She ran out of the room in fits of tears and I heard a voice behind me. A voice that I thought I would never hear again.

"Jamie…" It called. And I was filled with joy.

Ryan's POV

Jamie was visiting his sister today so I went over to Aspen's. We all had rehearsal at Jazz's at one, so we got to skip school, as this was technically schoolwork. We'd have probably skipped anyway but this meant we didn't get in trouble at all.

Go Jazz! And this was a massive opportunity for all of us as well, especially Jazz, Nikki and Connor. I slipped my hand under the matt where Aspen kept her key, (she should really move that) and unlocked the door, letting myself in. I waved to Jade and Sam (Aspen's two cousins) as I walked past. The cousins were always hanging out somewhere afterschool, even if they didn't talk much in school. I headed to Aspen's room and did a double take when I saw her. She was all dressed up and to be honest she looked stunning, she had the perfect amount of make-up on, not too much, her hair was done up just right. She was wearing her denim jacket that she almost never wore because she was afraid of ruining it and the cutest little owl necklace ever.

"Where are you going?" I asked her, was she ditching Jazz for some random guy she hadn't told us about.

"Jazz's" She said confused "Isn't that where you're going?" She asked me. It looked like Aspen was dressed up for a date, and with a boy she really liked as well, not to rehearse a play.

"So why are you dressed like that…?"

"I feel like it!" Aspen suddenly got defensive.

I held up my hands and took a step back. "Woah! Where did that come from?" I asked/

"Nowhere, let's go." She told me quickly and headed towards the door.

"So Jazz got Nick to promise to leave us alone for the rehearsal." I told her and was surprised to see her face fall. A little evil smile formed on my face as I continued, "Oh, wait, Nick's not going to be home today." This time Aspen visibly slumped and she looked very disappointed. She also began to take of her denim jacket, but I stopped her, leading her outside.

"Bye!" I yelled to Jade and Sam on the way back out and they nodded, too engrossed in their movie to react to anything. That reminded me, they didn't have the day off… I guess they just decided to skip. Well, it wasn't as if they hadn't done it before.

Anyway, back to Aspen… I looked at her closely.

"You like Jazz's brother." I told her and she took a step back, showing shock for a split second then quickly masking it. She shook her head.

"Oh, yes you do…" I continued "Because I lied, Nick is going to be there." I told her and even she couldn't hide the massive smile that formed on her face. "Told you so." I said.

"Okay… okay I like Nick." She admitted and a huge smile grew on my face to match the one on hers.

"Oh My God!" I screamed and all the passers-by turned to look at me. I gave them a look which basically said. Don't you have anything better to do? And I turned my attention back to Aspen.

"Does Jazz know?" I asked her and she nodded.

"Unfortunately…" She said.

"And…"

"She said that she didn't care, as long as I left her out of it." I laughed

"Sounds like Jazz." I told her and then smiled, "Then let's go get you a boyfriend"

Well, I hope that was alright and that Ryan wasn't too OOC, but I think Jamie was fine… I had to give them both this chapter because I hadn't given them one in ages… I'm sorry there wasn't any Jamie/Ryan romance in it though. (Someone come up with a cool acronym for it! I can't think of one) And about the extra boy, I've realised that its not really neccessary, so sorry Wyatt, but I think it's fine. I'll keep him as a reserve though and I know the story keeps jumping around and right now I'm dealing with... Aphrodite, which I cut away from the middle of and skipped a day, Aspen/Nick and Nikki possibly moving so if one doesn't appear for a chapter or two is because I'm still dealing with the others.

Oh and Tabylynn/BellaRosa17 - you have to go annon. Sorry...