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Chapter 19: Questions and Answers

We all turned sharply to look at Lilly. She was pale and broken. You could still see the pain in her eyes; I remember seeing them when I first ran all the way to her room to stop her doing the unthinkable.

As soon as she saw that her daughter was awake, Mrs Truscott instantly went to Lilly's side. Lilly could see that she was struggling to be comfortable with her. Maybe because it was that she never felt connected with her lately or that fact that I had caught her trying to kill herself. Either way, I could see where she was coming from.

We all stood in silence for what seem ages. I knew we were all thinking the same thing. We were all bursting to say it but like me, they seem to think it was too early to question what had happened.

Never once in a million years did I think I would be in the situation I am in now but here I am, in a hospital room with my hands clasped behind my back, rocking back and ford on my feet. But now I can say I have. I glanced at Oliver who quickly avoided me. Lilly had clearly noticed the tension and the awkwardness in the air. She was deliberately avoided everyone's gazes, instead she found her monitor extremely interesting.

Minutes past.

I was waiting for someone to burst. Someone to shout out what we were all thinking for the last several minutes. In the end I knew it was going to be me but I had no idea how to phase the question. I decided it would be best to just remain quiet. I then decided to remain looking at Lilly, hoping that she would be the one to break the silence.

Lilly had seen that I was looking at her. She shifted her gaze onto me for a moment before looking at everyone else. Then it clicked for her, I could see it in the eyes. The realisation of it all, the reason why we didn't start asking questions about why she was hurt and why she didn't need to make up some story. She knew that we knew. However she, like us, was struggling to break the silence. But in the end she knew that she must and so did we by that matter.

We all burst at the same time.

"You know." Lilly said in a shaky voice.

"You idiot!" I shouted.

"What is wrong with you?" Oliver exclaimed.

"Why didn't you come to us?" Mr and Mrs Truscott cried.

"Did you have to sink so low?" Jackson said.

"You had people to talk to, why didn't you?" Dad said quietly.

"Was it really going to be worth it?" Mr Oken said, looking disgusted.

"Were you even sure this is what you wanted?" Mrs Oken said.

We all looked at each other afterwards. No one dared to laugh at the timing of it all. We just looked at Lilly, all of us demanding an answer. Lilly sighed. She knew she had to explain all the ins and outs of it.

"Alright I'll answer your questions if you answer mine." She said after a while.

"Questions?" Oliver sneered. "You don't deserve to have questions, we're the ones who do. We want answers!" He shouted the last bit.

"How about we ask one, she ask one?" I said trying to negotiate.

I didn't want a shouting match while we're in the hospital. I definitely didn't want our private business known all around the hospital.

"Fine." Oliver said while Lilly nodded.

"Who goes first?" Jackson asked. "Because I think we get to."

"I agree with you." I said. "We deserve to go first."

"Fine," Lilly sighed. "Hit me with your best shot. I'm ready to hear the disappointment."

"Okay," Mrs Truscott said. "Why didn't you come to us? We're here for you my love."

Lilly didn't want to answer that but it was I that came to her rescue. It was clearly a topic she didn't want to discuss with her parents. But in this situation, you need to talk to your parents. It's basically the first thing you do.

"Lilly didn't think you would understand." I mumbled.

Everyone looked at me before remembering my little speech before hand. Everyone looked at Lilly then at her parents.

"Is this true?" Mr Truscott demanded of his daughter.

"A bit." Lilly said in a very small voice.

"Well?"

"Well it's just that you guys had become so distance lately and if I came to you about anything you would shun me away."

Lilly seemed like she didn't want to give away anything more.

"My turn," She looked at Oliver. "Did you really mean what you said to me on the beach the other week?"

Oliver stayed still for a minute before he exploded.

"NO!" He said tearing at his hair. "I wish I would have said yes and if I did maybe I could have helped you but I thought….." He trailed off; evidently he like Lilly, didn't want others to know about their beach meeting.

"My turn," Oliver said. "And it fits in with your question. If I had said yes, would you have done it?"

"Hold on," Mr Truscott interrupted. "What is this thing?"

Lilly ignored her father before continuing.

"Maybe, there were other contributing factors. I really don't know."

Oliver nodded.

"So how was it?" Lilly asked.

"What?" I asked her back, I was confused.

"The party. I overheard you and Oliver talking about having a party."

So my dream-self had been right again. Lilly had overheard us talking about the party but she didn't know half of it.

"We never had it, it was supposed to be today but obviously we had to cancel it." Oliver said.

"That's not what she wants to know." I said.

Everyone looked at me.

"She wants to know why we were throwing a party without her."

"How did-" Lilly started but I cut her off.

"We were planning a surprise party for you!" I said. "We knew we hadn't seen you in a bit so we arranged this. It was too make up for our behaviour. You would have known that if you had asked."

"So wanting to be partners with Oliver, you keeping this from me, was just to make sure I was surprised?" Lilly said sounding surprised herself.

"Yes." I nodded. "Guess you aren't losing your best friends like you thought."

"Before I ask my question, does anyone have a question?' Lilly asked.

"We want to know the story." Mr Oken said, talking for the first time in a while.

And so Lilly told them. She was speaking into her blankets as she did though. I already knew everything she was telling them. All this time I just thought it was coincidence but I know better now. My dream was some kind of vision. What would have happened if Lilly had gone through with it.

Nobody moved or said anything while Lilly was speaking. Not once sound was heard as Lilly was talking. Not once in my life had I been in a situation with virtually no noise. It was kind of creepy.

When Lilly finished talking, everyone didn't know what to say or do. It was if they were hoping that someone else would save them. But nobody did. I knew that Lilly had a few questions of her own so I didn't dare to speak. Everyone else was still in shock from the story that we were just told.

We all realised where Lilly was coming from. It was clear from her side of the story. She didn't make the decision lightly. She thought she was doing the best thing for her. She had obviously put some thought into the idea.

"Did you know what Damien was doing?" Lilly asked into the silence after a moment.

Mr and Mrs Truscott shook their heads.

"What about your girlfriend? Any idea what she was up too?" Lilly asked again.

Again they shook their heads.

"You are so oblivious." Lilly muttered and as she did I heard Mrs Truscott let out a small whimper.

"Why did he change? He was so good to me a couple of years ago." Lilly said desperately. "Why did he have to change?"

"We thought you didn't you to know what your brother had become." Mr Truscott said. "We thought you didn't need to know."

"Well you thought wrong." I said. "Look at what's it done."

"I see that now." Mr Truscott said impatiently.

"So what was it?" Lilly asked.

"Several months ago, your brother was a party." Mrs Truscott began.

I could see where this was going, it was too obvious, too cliché. It always starts at a party and then…..well we all know.

"One of his friends had some drugs and convinced Damien that it was not going to do any harm. Well of course it did. All drugs do in the end." Mr Truscott said.

"So what happened?" I asked.

"He turned to a life of crime after he ran out of money. Dropped out of University too I might add."

Nobody had anything to add. We went back to standing in silence.

"What I want to know," Lilly said, once again, breaking the silence. "Is how Miley knew what I was up too."

Everyone turned to look at me this time. I could tell it was on their minds as well as Lilly's. I cleared my throat and turned to look at them.

"Well, I had this kind of dream." I said. "I told you about it earlier. I don't what it was or why I had. I reckon that it was some kind of vision."

"What was in this dream?" Lilly enquired.

"Well it was me trying to find out why you had committed suicide."

"How?" Oliver asked.

"I found Lilly's diary and I read some of the entries. It gave me clues and I put the pieces together."

"You read my diary?"

"Well yeah, sorry." I mumbled.

"It's okay, it was bound to happen now that my secret it out. Tell me more." Lilly said.

And so I told her everything. I spoke for nearly half an hour, explaining what had happened. The part that really shocked them was when I told them that I had seen Lilly's ghost or phantom. It shocked me too, now that I think about it. When I finally stopped, everyone looked at me.

"That makes no sense." Oliver said and I nodded.

I guess we were all trying to make sense of it but I guess not all questions are answered but I believe the answer will come one day.

A/N: Well it has certainly been a while. Sorry I have been really busy with my mocks, studying and I have final exams coming up. But tonight I wanted to write so I decided to write this. It's nearly finished. Please review =)