It's been two weeks since Mariah's death, last week was her funeral.
So much has happened in those past two weeks. I still remember the night Aidan told me about Mariah.
~Flashback~
I had just got back from the best day of my life.
I had to go see my grandmother's lawyer to sort out the rest of her will. Cameron and my father glared at me when I entered the room, my mum on the other hand smiled and promised to meet up with me afterwards.
As promised my family received ten thousand pounds for keeping their end of the deal and I got my five thousand, but I wasn't bothered I already had twenty thousand in the bank.
Once the will was sorted out me and mum went shopping and she brought me loads of new clothes. I came home with five new pairs of jeans, three t-shirts, six strappy tops, three pairs of trainers, two pairs of boots, two coats and a Wii console. She must have spent over five hundred pounds on me.
After I put things in the wash and away, I went over to Mariah's apartment, ever since the trigger yesterday I've been checking up on her a lot.
I started to panic when no one answered the door.
'Oh, god,' I thought, 'please be alright.' I prayed.
When I walked back in my apartment Nathanael was sitting on the sofa, reading an old magazine.
"Do you know if Mariah and Aidan are alright?" I asked him, panic clearly stated in my tone.
He looked up and saw my panic, but shook his head. "Sorry, it's hard to keep track of people down here. I'm sure she's fine, especially if Aidan is with her." I had told Nathanael about the trigger as soon as I got home.
His reply was, 'just because you have a trigger doesn't mean the person always dies. All you trigger is, is something that tells you a person's life is in danger. I'm sure if Mariah was always round people she'll be fine.'
I had relaxed after, but that thought right now wasn't helping.
"How about we play some Wii Sports to keep your mind off them?" Nathanael asked hold up a Wii remote.
I nodded enthusiastically.
We played for hours, but still I didn't hear anyone next door. By ten I had tired myself out, plus it was Monday so I would have school.
I couldn't fall asleep, my mind kept wondering and worrying about Mariah. Where could she be?
I heard a faint tapping by eleven. I figured out after a loud knock that it was my front door. Grabbing my gown I wrapped it around me and answered the door.
My breath caught in my throat when I saw a teary, red-eyed Aidan at my door. I knew immediately what had happened. But I still had to ask.
"Aidan? What's wrong?" I struggled to get the words out. They were barely audible, but he still heard and answered in the same tone.
"Mariah...she's...dead."
I gasped, a sharp pain in chest and leaned against my door frame. Even though I already had guessed, the words hurt worse.
"H-h-how?" I sobbed.
"She...erm...s-s-she f-f-fe-fell down the s-stairs," his crying stuttered his words. "Doctors said, she broke her neck."
I gasped for breath as I wrapped my arms around him, "Oh god, Aidan. I'm so sorry," I cried into his shoulder.
"I was wondering if I could sleep on your sofa tonight. I can't go back to her apartment, not tonight. I just can't." I could feel his tears falling on the top of my head.
"Of, c-c-course," I stuttered, I took his hand and pulled him into my apartment, shutting the door behind him.
~End Flashback~
Aidan still hasn't gone back to Mariah's apartment. I didn't go to school on the Monday, so we went into the apartment together and grabbed him some clothes. He's been sleeping on my sofa since that night.
I had to go back to school on Wednesday after I got a phone call from them. I didn't want to go back or leave Aidan by himself but thankfully his foster mother came down, to sort arrangements for the funeral. Then again school could be better.
Of course school wasn't better, Stacy and clones couldn't help but irritate me again.
~Flashback~
Nathanael and I walked to school together, neither of us spoke. I really didn't want to go back today, I had explained to the administrator when they phoned that a friend had died in a horrible accident.
She understand that I needed a few days off for funeral but told me I needed to come back Wednesday because they were starting arrangements for exams.
We were early when we reached school, but went straight to English anyway.
When we got there Lucifer was already in his seat and standing next to him was...yep, you guessed it. Stacy.
Lucifer wasn't paying attention to her, he was watching the door and when Nathanael and I walked in he just watched me as I made my way to my seat.
"Oh, hey, freak. So you're back then? Where you been? Circus?" Stacy's annoying squeaky voice asked.
I ignored her and sat in my seat, Lucifer turned his head to look at me. I could see out the corner of my eyes he had a sad expression on his face.
Stacy soon gave up trying to make conversation with Lucifer and walked back to her seat, just as she sat down the bell rang and the class filled up.
English went by fast. I wasn't even paying attention to what Mr. Bron was saying. My mind kept wondering back to Aidan, I hope he's okay.
When the lesson finished, Nathanael, me and Lucifer all walked to my locker in silence. I was quite surprised Lucifer was making snide remarks or something to annoy the hell out of me.
When I closed my locker, a red rose appeared in front of my face.
Lucifer was staring at me with the same sad expression on his face, he didn't say anything to me as he offered me the rose.
I smiled and reached out to take it, just as a squeaky 'Ahem,' came from behind me.
I took the rose not even feeling the shock than ran throughout my body as I turned to face Stacy and clones. Something about her sneer ticked me off so badly I exploded.
"You know, slut? I've had enough of your crap. You really need to get over yourself and start to learn when a guy just isn't into you. Because what you do is not sexy it's slutty, but then again you are a just pure plastic Barbie. So you know what? Go ahead! Throw yourself around show people what a whore your really are. I see your future now: small flat, five kids, standing at corners...still.
"There's a difference between you and me. I'm not so desperate for sex that I would have sex with my own father, so do yourself a favor. Take your fake, worthless, plastic body and return to your little corner where the druggies and other whores hang out and go throw yourself round there. You never know you might actually find someone who actually likes you in slutty ways." I was inches from her face.
She had backed away from my yelling and was now leaning up against the window. I could see my reflection my eyes were burning pure fiery anger red.
I spun on my heel seeing Nathanael and the clones shocked faces and Lucifer's evil smirk, and walked to my next class.
Nobody said anything about my little outburst, during lesson and lunch I heard people whispering rumors about it.
Stacy was always glaring at me whenever I saw her, in the halls, in classes and at lunch. I knew she was planning a revenge, but I didn't care. Somehow I felt stronger and knew I would be able to handle whatever she threw at me.
~End Flashback~
NATHANAEL's P.O.V
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I couldn't believe what Serena said to Stacy. It wasn't like her, not one bit. Especially the red eyes. Those were Aimee's eyes.
Was she getting stronger?
I noticed out the corner of my eye, Lucifer had an evil glint in his eyes as they followed Serena, he also had his signature smirk on his face.
"What are you up to?" I asked him.
SERENA's P.O.V
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The rest of the week flew by quickly. Stacy still hadn't gotten revenge on me.
All weekend I helped Aidan and his foster mother get the funeral arrangements complete. Though we never cried around each other, we both knew it was hard to organize it.
Aidan and I had become a lot closer seeing he had pretty much moved himself into my apartment. I wasn't complaining though, although Mariah was my best friend, Aidan was still my friend. My only friend now.
I went back to school Monday and Tuesday, then on Wednesday was the funeral. Nathanael and Lucifer were going to come too, I don't know why Lucifer was coming, he had never met her.
~Flashback~
I woke up Wednesday morning, wishing it wasn't really Wednesday or even better that it wasn't the day I was burying my best friend. The first person to not think I was a freak.
The service was at noon and it was already ten thirty. I went into the bathroom and got a shower. When I came out I put on my black trousers and black top and grabbed my jacket for later.
When I walked into the living room I saw Aidan sitting on the sofa in a black suit with a white shirt. He had bags under his eyes were he wasn't sleeping properly and his hair was a mess. He was staring on the blank TV with no expression on his face.
I walked over to him and put my hand on his shoulder, still he didn't move.
"Have you eaten?" I asked, my voice was barely a whisper.
He shook his head. I walked towards the kitchen and quickly made some eggs on toast. We ate in silence, when we finished I quickly washed the dishes up, it was eleven thirty which meant the car would be here soon to pick us up.
Just then my front door opened and Nathanael and Lucifer walked in.
"Car's here," Nathanael said.
I nodded and walked back over to Aidan who hadn't moved a muscle. I took his hand and pulled him up. In a trance we walked out and down to the car.
Before I knew it we were in the church and the service was half way through. It was going slow but also fast. I couldn't hear a word the priest was saying. I was too focused on the shiny, black coffin that held the body of my friend. On top of the coffin was a framed picture of Mariah. She was smiling, so happy, so full of life.
I hadn't realized Aidan was up the front until he was in front of me, I could hear his words either. I knew I was crying but I had lost feeling of my face, I couldn't feel the tears anymore.
"...and then Serena came into her life."
My focus snapped onto Aidan at that moment. He was staring straight at me.
"We all know what Mariah was like, people ran from her. But not Serena, she was the first person to actually stay. The first night we met Serena she came over for dinner and when she went home, Mariah just wouldn't stop talking about her. She kept saying how God must have sent her an angel to befriend her, she was so happy."
I was struggling to breathe, tears flowed more quickly. I felt someone take my hand, I looked to see Nathanael with a few tears running down his cheek. I squeezed his hand, hard.
"You made my sister's life better. And I know that she would have been happy to die knowing she had a friend like you."
I felt a part of myself die.
~End Flashback~
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