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It's now been a week since I left the hospital and my family are getting annoyingly overprotective. My mum and dad come up to my room every ten minutes to ask if I'm alright. Luke and Maddie are trying to constantly get me out of the house. All the rest of the family, aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents, keep coming round to the house and pretend they are here for a friendly visit. Yeah, right.
I'm a ticking time bomb and they are here to see if I have detonated yet.
Doctor Lawrence said my brain scan revealed that I have developed an 'abnormality'. This means that for now, apart from my broken leg and a few cuts and bruises, my health is fine. Though at any moment my brain could switch and nobody knows how extensive the damage could be. The damage is most likely to be done when I'm under pressure or stress, so I have been locked up in my bedroom since I left hospital, my parents not wanting me to go to school. All week I have been sat thinking about one thing, well one person; Jeremy Valentine.
Since the hospital I haven't been able to see him, with me not being able to see him at school and after school he has to go straight home, where his father always is. However tonight his father is away to Denver for 'business' and Jeremy will finally get to cook me that vegan meal he promised me.
I'm already dressed and ready to go. Unfortunalty I can only wear a T-shirt and jeans, as I don't want my parents getting suspicious about where I'm going.
I turn on the bed and reach for the crutches propped up by my bed. Slowly I lift myself off the bed and use my crutches to get me across my room to my wardrobe. I reach for my blue coat and see a pale pink skater dress I would have loved to wear to Jeremy's but my parents would be suspicious as I am only meant to be going to Lucy's.
As I awkwardly drag myself down the stairs, still not use to the crutches, I overhear my name and pause at the bottom of the stairs to listen in.
"Amelia can't keep herself locked away forever." It's my brother's voice and I can tell he is angry.
"She is going out to Lucy's tonight." My dad responds, clearly trying to diffuse the situation.
"That's one night and I bet you will be worried about her the whole time, thinking something has happened to her. Amz has to go out; live her life and she can't if all of you constantly think she is going to get hurt."
"We have to take what Dr Lawrence said seriously; who knows what could happen to her."
This is ridiculous; they have all seemed to taken it upon themselves to sort my life without even consulting me. I walk into the room and immediately all eyes turn to me, looking guilty.
"Darlin'…" My mum starts but I cut her off, not wanting to hear their lame excuses.
"It's nice to see that you all clearly think I'm some sort of accident waiting to happen, but I really don't need your help. I'm older enough to sort out my own life thanks. Now I'm gonna go to Lucy's, see you guys later."
They all stare at me speechless and I walk towards the without another word. I reach for the door handle when Maddie says.
"Do you want a lift there?" Her tone is pleading and almost desperate. I turn to her and I know I shouldn't say it but I say it anyway.
"Yeah, because that ended up so well last time, didn't it?"
I close the front door to the sounds of gasps from my parents and sobbing from Maddie, which is followed my Luke shouting my name but I carry on regardless.
Lucy's house is only a few roads from mine so my family don't think much of me walking there. Jeremy's house however is fair walk away on a good day but on crutches it's almost an impossible task, so I arranged for Jeremy to pick me up the next street down.
I see Jeremy stood by a black jeep and once he sees me he quickly rushes to me.
"Hey baby." He smiles and I feel a smile spreading on my face too.
"Hey, I didn't know you had your own car, thought you just had the motorbike."
"Nope, I have both. I usually ride the motorbike but I didn't think that would be such a good idea considering your leg." He said as he opened the passenger door for me and helped me in.
"You're so lucky; my parents won't give me a car until my seventeenth." I say as Jeremy starts the car.
"Well you're more than welcome to use my car whenever you want." He says as he pulls out into the road.
"It actually tastes amazing." I say as I try some of the vegan stir fry Jeremy made and it's the complete truth. This tofu stuff is great!
"I'm glad you think so, have you ever tried to be vegetarian or vegan before?"
I choked on food as I tried to stifle a laugh. "In my house? Being a vegetarian is impossible, being a vegan would be even worse. It's only my aunt Phee that is a vegetarian. "
"There's still tons of food you can eat."
"Hmm, maybe I could try it. But in the hospital you said you eat pizza's, which has cheese on it and vegans can't eat cheese can they? Cheese is still a product made from an animal."
"Yeah, you caught me there. Pizza is the only exception I will make but I make sure it doesn't have meat on it though."
"You, cheat." I joke and we both laugh. There is something I am dying to ask Jeremy but I can't form the words and spoil this happiness.
"What is it?" Jeremy questions and I'm quick to deny.
"What?"
"There is clearly something bothering you, what is it? You can talk to me about anything."
"Will you stop reading into my mind?"
"I don't have to; it's written all over your face."
I sigh in defeat and ask the question, dreading Jeremy's answer.
"Who…who did you know…Kill?" My voice quavers as my body tenses in anticipation. Jeremy clears his throat and then answers.
"It was this random guy. It was a couple years back now and he was threatening my dad with a gun so I managed to get the gun off him and I shot him. I wanted to just stop him, I didn't want him dead. My dad told me that day that I reminded him of him when he was younger and that he was proud of me; it was the first time he ever showed any care towards me. I later found that the guy was some drug dealer who had some score to settle with my dad. My dad told me the world was better without scum like that guy but it doesn't make me feel any better." Jeremy looked so scared and guilty in such a desperate way that I just wanted to take him away from the rest of the world. It's the first time I have ever seen him look vulnerable.
I reach for his hand and hold it in mine. "Your dad was right, that guy sounds like one of the scum my family try to track down. You have nothing to feel guilty over."
"But my dad is one of those guys, worse than them."
"Well, well, son is that any way to talk about your father?" We both turn to see Jeremy's dad stood at the doorway looking smug and we soon realised he wasn't alone. Three other men stepped into the room all holding guns and wearing a mess with at your own risk look on their faces.
I started to panic and I turned to Jeremy for some sort of understanding on the situation but he looked as confused as me.
"Dad, what are you doing?" He demanded, getting up and standing in front of me.
Jeremy's dad started to respond but I couldn't hear as I suddenly felt sick and my hearing and sight went out of focus. I could only catch the end of the sentence, which only sent more fear through me.
"Your pretty little soulfinder is our bargaining chip, son."
As complete fear and panic set in, I started to cough and I look to my hand to find crimson blood splattered on it. I continue to cough more, resulting in more blood being spewed.
"Amelia!" Jeremy shouts but by this point my vision has faded to blackness and I drop to the floor.
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