Forbidden

Chapter 20

Shoot! What have u done? Why did I pick up the bloody phone! I paced for an answer to the predictable question,

Why do you sound like a girl Jake?

I stuttered for 2 minutes before a huge shout entered my ear from the phone.

Who are you!

Ok ok. I'm erm, Jakes cousin sister Elaine, I visited for the weekend and I'm leaving tomorrow.

Oh... Well could ya do me the biggest favour n pass da phone to shake ma man.

His attitude was daring and his voice contained a hint of danger. He used a lot is slang which I decided to ignore since I was trying to play an innocent foreign cousins' role. I slowly spoke and explained where 'Jake ma man' was.

He erm went to the shop to get me my ice lolli. Ha ha you know how hot the days are getting!

I squinted at myself as I could almost see the disbelief smeared all over this mans face on the other side of the line. He seemed to fake buy it and I decided to try and end the call so I would have time to scroll through their earlier messages before meeting up with the Officer again.

Erm yeah ok.... Just tell him when he gets back to give 'Mason' a ring.

Sure bye

I put down the phone on the counter. I decided maybe I should do some investigating myself first before actually handing the electronic evidence to the police.

I made my way downstairs to find mum and dad back home.

"Hey sweetie, you ready to see Officer Howard again?"

"Oh yeah, shoot. Completely forgot about that."

I made a gritted teeth look and tried to make my false act believing and I ended up happy since mum bought it.

I sniggered to myself as I followed dad into the kitchen for food. I took out a ready made tomato pasta and peeled off the lid. I was just about to put a big dolap of it into my mouth when mum screamed. In the shock, I dropped my pasta all over my brand new peach dress that I bought from topshop.

"Oh no! Well that's £45 gone down the drain!!" (A/N yes I'm British)

I ignored the huge orange stain on my lap which my spreading fast and hurried into the living room. Mum was sat in a tight curled up ball on the sofa, shivering like we were in the North Pole.

"Hey hey what's wrong?"

I asked her, but she continued to shake and quiver like she'd seen a ghost. Her teeth were chattering yet I could tell words were trying to spill out of her mouth, but fright took over and she couldn't do anything. I called dad down but he was already here. Somehow he managed to calm her down and actual words came out of her.

"I-I-I think I- I saw..... Rose"

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We decided a trip to the doctors wouldn't be any harm. I helped mum up the stairs when the nice looking nurse called us into her room. We walked through the narrow corridor and entered the small space. There were only 2 chairs, so dad kindly stood behind mum and I.

"So how can I help you today?"

"Well, recently my sister, their daughter,"

I started, gesturing to my parents,

"Committed suicide and erm well my mum hasn't been coping with it very well. She's been saying she's seen Rose, my sister."

"Okay, this is very common. Don't you worry about a thing. Can I ask a few questions which will help me to eg an idea of how connected you were with her and how hard it will be to let go?"

"Sure."

I decided to cheer the mood up and talk in a happy tone to cover the depressing one my mum was talking with.

"So how old was 'Rose' when she passed?"

"17"

"Was she a mothers daughter? Or fathers?"

"Mothers I think."

The lady kept asking questions and I kept answering in a calm way. I could tell mum was getting even more upset because all the answers were reminding her about Rose, so I decided to stop the questions.

"Sorry, erm but would you mind if we stopped the q&a please... My mums getting sadder I think."

"Sure, I think I know what to do..."

~*~

"Adoption?!?! Of an identical version of rose!? I would never do that, what sort of a mother would get over their child's death by getting a similar one!?"

Maybe the doctors wasn't the best idea... Mum was furious about the GP's recovery options so she ranted to us in the car journey home, which was unavoidable since we were in a tiny car with her going home.

I turned on the music in the gap she had stopped to take a breather and I guess the song calmed her down because for the rest of the way home, she was as quiet as a sleeping lion. Which was nice.

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