Chapter 9

Aaron lay on the bed in his dimly lit bedroom, tears rushing down his face. A knock on the door disturbed him and a tearful Moira and John entered his room. Aaron sat up and wiped his eyes. Unable to find any words to say he motioned for them to sit down on his bed.

"Aaron love, I know that the last thing you want is us here..but please...Do you have any idea what happened to our beautiful boy?" Moira asked, her eyes filling with tears

Aaron shook his head "I-I just...I heard it...Then Cameron found me. Told me Adam was hurt."

"I heard Jimmy King had something to do with this?" John asked

"Adam's quad collided with his truck...Jimmy said Adam sped out into the road and he didn't even have a chance to stop. I don't understand. Why would Adam just drive straight infront of a lorry?"

"We were hoping you could tell us. Did you have an argument or anything?"

"No!" What are you trying to say? That it's my fault?"

"Aaron, Nothing's your fault lad. I'm not blaming you. I just wondered if he had been distracted by something or if he was angry and not thinking straight..I'm not blaming you for this."

"He came to see me and said.." Aaron stopped and sighed ".Me and Jackson had an argument. Adam came round after picking up his quad bike from the garage, telling me to sort it out with him. He left promising he would come and see me tomorrow... I'm really sorry you weren't there. I should have called you the minuite it happened but I thought he was going to be ok! Can you ever forgive me?" Aaron asked, sobbing

"Aaron, love..Don't be daft. None of us knew this was going to happen. You've got nothing to be sorry for. Either way he died in the arms of someone he cares about, someone he loves. You were his best friend Aaron and he would have been pleased you were there."

"I just want to get to the bottom of this. He wasn't even wearing his helmet! He ALWAYS wears it!"

"That stupid boy!" John fumed "How many times I've told him it's essential to wear it!"

"John This isn't helping!" Moira sobbed "We're never going to find out now why he didn't! We're never going know John!"

"We will. I'm not letting this go. Something happened to Adam. Something more than just driving out infront of that truck. I owe it to Adam! You can be damn sure I won't rest til I find out the truth."

"Aaron, Thank you for being there for our boy. We must go. We have to break the news to the girls and plan his..." John stopped mid-sentence as a tear rolled down his face. "If you need anything, or anyone, You know you can come to us."

"The same applies to you. I know we've never got on but..."

"I think Adam would want us to forget about all that. You're welcome at Butler's anytime you need to talk...At least someone was there for him at the end and that he didn't...he wasn't on his own."

Aaron nodded his head and watched them leave. the door closed behind them and greif took over Aaron's body once again and he buried his face into his pillow as emotional and heart breaking sobs took over his body.

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Jackson sighed as he ran his fingers through the grass. He'd been sitting in the same spot now for hours, trying to figure out what he could say to Aaron, How to make it ok, how to get Aaron back. He sighed and stood up and began slowly walking through the village. He arrived at the pub and entered through the double doors. He looked around. There were plenty of villagers in, but no-one was saying a word. He frowned when he saw Nicola and Carl were in the corner desperately trying to comfort an inconsolable Jimmy. Chas spotted him and got up form the table she was sitting at with Cain and Cameron. "Where have you been?" she asked in a hushed tone.

"Me and Aaron had an argument. I've been at the cricket pavillion. What's happened Chas? Is Aaron ok?"

"Far from it love. You better go up and see him."

"I'm the last person he wants to see right now."

"Whatever you've argued about is not important right now. I'm sorry you've had to hear this from me love. Adam died a couple of hours ago."

"What? No! How?"

"He crashed his quad bike. He sped out into the road infront of Jimmy's haulage van. Poor love he didn't even have the time to stop. Adam gave him no warning, no signal. He just came out of nowhere."

Jackson nodded and raced round to the back room, up the stairs and stopped dead infront of Aaron's closed bedroom door.

He knocked softly "Aaron? Aaron can I come in?"

"Piss off Jackson!"

"Babe, please let me in.."

"Don't call me "babe". You've lost the right to do that!"

"Aaron please! I've heard about Adam! You're not the only one hurting!"

Aaron's door swung open and he stood there, tears rolling down his face "Don't you dare make this about you!"

"I'm not! Have you been downstairs? Everyone is in that pub Aaron and they can't find the words to speak to each other!"

"I don't care about them! They're all a bunch of hypocrites. Quick to judge but the second someone dies they fawn all over them like they were best mates! Adam only had one best mate and that was me and now look what's happened to him!"

"What are you talking about?"

"What did I tell you? Can you remember? The night Clyde died? Everyone who gets close to me gets hurt!"

"Aaron this isn't your fault!"

"You know what? You're right. It's yours. Do you not think that I know Ed did this? If you hadn't fucking lied to me none of this would have happened! Ed had it in for Adam, I knew that! If you hadn't lied, I could of warned him, Made sure he was safe, I could have looked after him and I didn't, all because of your sick charade!"

"Aaron..I did it for you!"

"TELL THAT TO ADAM!"

"Aaron..." Jackson sobbed, moving forward and stroking Aaron's arm

"Don't...fucking touch me."

"Aaron, Ed wouldn't have done this!"

"Don't you dare stick up for him! Incase you haven't noticed, only four weeks ago he beat me up, stabbed me FOUR times and left me outside Bar West to die! Of course he did this!"

"Aaron you have no proof. It was just an accident."

"No...It wasn't. Adam wouldn't just "accidentally" drive infront of Jimmy King's haulage van! I'll get the bloody proof. However long it takes I'm going to prove he did this. And you...I don't care if I never see you again. Now get the hell out of this pub and get the hell out of my life!"

TBC