Jimmy
Hannah’s party had ended almost a whole hour ago and she had hung around with her family to help them clear the place up and I came back from the walk I’d taken to cool myself off after her engagement. The fact that she was now betrothed to another man didn’t change how I felt for her in the slightest, I still loved her and I knew that she loved me too, that was never going to change, not for me anyway.

“She’s alone in there man,” Matt said as he and the other guys came filing out the front door of the warehouse loaded up with trash bags.

“Get in there before she takes off, talk to her,” Johnny smiled up at me, reaching up to clap me on the shoulder.

I nodded to them all before they headed off to dump the stuff, and then I turned and walked inside. Back in the room where the party had been held, Hannah sat on the middle of the dance floor, the room was completely void of any people except for her, and I could hear her humming softly to herself, sniffling here and there.

“Hey,” I spoke up, making my presence known and she jumped a little before turning around quickly, but when she saw me she smiled and swiped at her eyes “Why are you crying?” I asked, walking closer to her and dropping myself onto the floor beside her. She shook her head and smiled a little.

“It’s stupid,” She told me.

“If you’re crying it can’t be stupid,” I pushed.

“Everything is happening so soon, so much is changing and things are already too different, you know me, I’m not exactly a huge fan of change,”

“Do you mean the fact that you’re going to be a married woman sooner than you thought, or… something else,”

“All of the above,” She smiled a small, tight-lipped smile “I meant what I said earlier,” I furrowed my brows “I miss you, Jimmy.”

“I miss you, too, Hannah.” I sighed, wrapping my arm around her and pulling her close “What song were you humming a minute
ago?” I asked.

“A song I’ve been working on,” She shrugged, pulling a crumpled up piece of paper from under her dress where she must have shoved it before she turned around to see me “I know we don’t have any music assignments for another couple of months, but that doesn’t mean I don’t like writing songs anymore,”

“Can I hear it?” I asked.

“We don’t have any instruments,” She smiled, shaking her head.

“Hold that thought,” I said, holding up my finger before jumping to my feet and tearing back outside just in time to see Zack getting into his car “Zack!” I called out, making him stop in his tracks and turn around to look at me.

“What’s up man?” He asked.

“Please tell me you have your guitar in there,” I panted, jogging over to him.

“Yeah, I was planning on taking it to Matt’s with me tonight to work on some stuff for the band, why?”

“Can I borrow it?” I asked “I want Hannah to play me something and she won’t do it without music, I’ll drop by with it later on and give it back,”

He let out a laugh and reached into the back of his car.

“Here you go,” He handed it to me and made sure the pic was secure between the strings and the neck “Have a good night,”

I thanked him and rushed back inside and found Hannah where I had left her, only now she was tugging her shoes off of her feet and dropping them to the floor beside her with a heavy sigh.

“Here we go,” I beamed down at her, handing the guitar over before sitting beside her again.

“You convinced Zack to give you his guitar?”

“Not me,” I corrected her “You, you’re going to play your song for me,”

“You have to sing it with me,” She said, raising her eyebrows at me in question,”

“Show me where,”

She unfolded the piece of paper again and pointed to the verses she wanted me to sing and told me where I could work in some harmonies with her and then she started to play the guitar softly.

“I still remember the look on your face, lit through the darkness at 1.58, the words that you whispered for just us to know. You told me you loved me, so why did you go away? Away.”

Her voice was still so beautiful and I would never tire from hearing it, but she gestured for me to sing the next part.

“I do recall now, the smell of the rain, fresh on the pavement, you ran off the plain, that July ninth, the beat of my heart it jumped through my shirt, Hope you still feel my arms.”

“Now I’ll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes. All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss. I never thought we’d have a last kiss, I never imagined we’d end like this. Your name, forever the name on my lips.

She continued to sing, finally looking up to meet my eyes as a small smile tugged at her lips.

“I do remember the swing in your step. The life of the party, you’re showing off again, and I roll my eyes and then you pull me in. I’m not much for dancing, but for you I did.”

She nudged me again when she realised I was just watching her and listening, completely mesmerized so she had to remind me to sing.

“Because you love my handshake, meeting your father, said he loved how I walk with my hands in my pockets, how I’d kiss you when you were in the middle of saying something. I pray that you still miss those rude interruptions.”

“Now I’ll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes. All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss. I never thought we’d have a last kiss, I never imagined we’d end like this. Your name, forever the name on my lips.

She gestured for me to sing again, but this time she sang with me.

“So I’ll watch your life in pictures like I used to watch you sleep, and I’ll feel you forget me like I used to feel you breathe. And I’ll keep up with our old friends just to ask them how you are.”

“Hope it’s nice where you are. And I hope the sun shines and it’s a beautiful day, and something reminds you, you wish you had stayed.”

I placed my hand on her knee when she started to choke, so I sang again.

“I never planned on making you cry, but not letting go would be living a lie,”

“So I’ll go sit on the floor wearing your clothes. All that I know is I don’t know how to be something you miss. I never thought we’d have a last kiss, I never imagined we’d end like this. Your name, forever the name on my lips. Just like our last kiss, forever the name on my lips. Forever the name on my lips. Just like our last…”

I tugged the guitar out of her hand and pushed her onto her back on the floor and was hovering over the top of her in one fluid motion.

“I’m not letting you go just yet,” I whispered, my face a hair away from hers “I’m happy to live a lie,” And those were the last words
exchanged between us before my lips were against hers.
~~~~
Hannah
“I love you,” I whispered against Jimmy’s lips.

“I love you, too.” He whispered back, smiling against mine.

It took next to no time for us to be out of our clothes, and it didn’t matter where we were, sure, the middle of an abandoned warehouse wasn’t exactly where I imagined my first time with Jimmy being, but he was all that mattered right now so I couldn’t give a dam. Slowly, he pushed into me and it was easier than I’d expected when I first saw how big he was, but I was dripping with anticipation and I couldn’t wait any longer.

I clung tightly to him as we moved in unison, moving together, and every thrust pushed me closer to the point of no return, I could feel it building in the pit of my stomach as he kissed every inch of skin his lips could get to, telling me that he loved me over and over until I finally climaxed with a soft cry of his name. His end came right after mine and I felt him coating my insides, his gentle voice suddenly more gruff as my name fell from his lips.

We stayed in that moment for a while before he finally pulled out and laid on his back beside me and I rolled over and put my head on his chest. I grabbed out clothes and tossed them on top of us before flashing us into his bedroom and onto his bed. He smiled down at me widely.

“You’re so amazing,” He told me “And I promise you, I am going to do everything in my power to get you back,”
~~~~
It’s been three days since the party, three days since I turned eighteen, three days since Jimmy finally made love to me and three days since Erin went missing. I refused to let my uncle call the cops because that would only make things more complicated, but Tori couldn’t get anything on her no matter how hard she tried, her cell phone was off and I couldn’t get a hold of Sebastian anywhere, it was like he had vanished off the face of the earth.

“Hannah,” Dad sighed when I came jogging down the stairs, stuffing my painkillers into my bag “I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to be going back to school so early, the doctor recommended you use up all of your recovery time,”

Dad always worried about me, about everything and about nothing. I felt fine, sure, what I’d been through a few weeks ago was a pain in the ass and I’d actually been classed as dead, but since then I’ve turned eighteen and I’ve lost my virginity and had sex with Jimmy, I’m not a breakable doll.

“I’ll be fine,” I snapped at him, getting annoyed with the fact that he had been pushing me to stay at home since last night “I’m driving into school, the guys are all going to be with me every class of today so it’s not like I’m completely alone and I just want to find out if anyone knows where Erin ran off to the other night, and if they’ve seen her around or heard from her,”

He sighed loudly, a smile on his face, and then closed the distance between us and wrapped his arms around me in a warm and welcoming hug, I’d always loved his hugs.

“The things you girls do for one another,” He chuckled “You’re just like your mothers,”

I grabbed a couple of bottles of water and stuffed them in my bag with my books, grabbed my keys off of the counter and rushed out the front door.
~~~~
When I pulled into the parking lot outside of the school and into my usual space, I felt like I had been thrown back in time to when I hated coming here, but my life was normal back then at least, well, it was as normal as life can be for a teenage witch, but now here I am, back at school and still trying to finish while engaged to a man I only met months ago.

The bell rang loudly snapping me out of my daze and I jumped out of my car and hurried into the building.

“Hannah!”

I turned around to the voice and came face to face with Matt who was the only person other than myself who was rushing up the empty corridor.

“Come on!” I laughed to him “We have English,”

Matt had always been one to make English class a laugh, and if I hadn’t loved English before then I certainly did once he was placed in my class. It got even better when I started hanging about with the guys when I first got with Jimmy, because now I was in on most of the jokes that were made in class.

The class was slow to begin with until we were assigned work to start on in class and have finished by the end of the week. Write a poem about something in your life, past, present or future. .

“Where’s Jimmy?” Matt asked me, leaning over to his right so he could almost whisper to me.

“I don’t know,” I shrugged “I haven’t seen him since the party,”

Matt was about to say something else when the classroom door burst open and Jimmy fell through it, panting for breath.

“Sorry,” He apologized, holding up his hands to the teacher “I overslept,”

He looked around the class and when he saw Matt and I he smiled widely and made his way to his seat which was still right beside me. He sat down and sandwiched me between his tall and lanky body and Matts tall and muscular body.

“Hey,” He greeted us both.

“Hi,” I blushed.

“Hey man,” Matt smirked.

“What are we doing?” Jimmy asked.

“Poetry,” I answered “Write a poem about something in your life, past, present or future,”

“You know what you’re going to write about yet?” Matt asked, trying to take a peek at my paper, but the only thing scribbled there were doodles of stick men.

“No,” I sighed “I’m more for songs than poetry,” There were a few moments of silence “Hey, did either of you see where Erin went during my party?” I asked.

“She went off somewhere with that… what’s his name?” Matt asked Jimmy.

“Christopher,” He answered.

“Yeah,” Matt nodded “She went off somewhere with him and she didn’t come back,”

“Shit!” I cursed loudly, louder than I meant to, earning myself a warning look from the teacher at the front of the class “If nobody saw her after that, then she’s still with him and probably has been for the last three days, and what I know about him isn’t good, the things he’s done to her before… she could be in danger, she could be dead or dying, hurt, buried somewhere she could-“

Jimmy cut off my rambling and stopped my panic attack before it got out of control by grabbing me and pulling me to him and holding me against his chest tightly.

“We’ll find her,” He promised “We will, and we’ll bring her home safe and sound,”
~~~~
I spent the rest of the day casually asking anyone who had been at the party if they’d seen Erin leaving the party or after the party, but none of them had, and thankfully they never thought it was weird that I was asking.

At the end of the school day I went back to all of mine and Erin’s classes and picked up all of the work that we had missed, that was more for my benefit, I’m sure Erin wouldn’t mind having some work unfinished, but I needed all of my coursework to be finished, completed and handed back to my teachers. I never used to miss a day of school and I’m missing weeks on end.

As I was walking back to my car I decided to try calling Erin again, and this time I got an answer.

“Erin, oh my God, where have you been?!” I yelled into the phone when it was answered.

“Calm down!” She groaned “It’s only been a few hours since I last saw you!”

“Erin, are you high or something?” I asked “It’s been fucking three days!”

There was silence for a moment, and then the line went dead. When I pulled the phone away from my ear I saw that she had in fact hung up on me, but soon my phone was beeping with a text from Tori.

I’m getting something on Erin, do you know what’s going on? – T

I quickly typed my reply.

Finally got her on her cell, she hung up on me though, do you know where she is? – H

It wasn’t until I was in my car and pulling out of the parking lot that she texted me back.

Wherever she was, she isn’t there now, she seems to be heading in the direction of your place, go there and wait for her, call me if you need anything – T

I was halfway home when the heavens opened up and started raining down on us. I could barely see the road through the rain, but I wasn’t planning on slowing down, I needed to get to Erin and give her a piece of my mind.

When I finally reached my house, Erin was speeding down the street and when I quickly pulled into the empty driveway I cut her off and she slammed on the breaks. We both jumped out of the cars at the same time and she started yelling at me about almost causing an accident, but I rushed over to her, slapped her across the face as hard as I possibly could, making her yelp, before pulling her into a bone crushing hug which she instantly returned.

We stood there, in the middle of the street holding each other, breathing heavily while being pelted by the rain.

“Where did you go?” I asked into her shoulder.

“You told me that I should give into Christopher,” She told me, making me frown “And I did, we had sex and I don’t know where the last three days have gone,”

“I didn’t tell you to do that,” I frowned harder, pulling away from her.

“Yes you did,” She insisted “I dragged you off after the proposal and you told me that I should just do it,”

“I don’t remember what I did right after I said that I would marry Sebastian,” I told her honestly “Whenever I try to think about it, it’s all black,”

“Like, another blackout?” She asked, and I nodded “He didn’t take his breath back?” I shook my head.

“I never got the chance to ask him to take it back before he proposed,”

“He used you and told me to fuck Christopher!” She exclaimed, wrapping her arms around herself.

I growled loudly, almost animalistic, as I stormed into the house and started screaming for Sebastian.

“Get your ass our here right now you son of a bitch!” I roared as I looked around my living room.

“What’s the matter, Princess?” I spun around at the sound of his voice and saw him coming through the door behind Erin before
she dropped herself onto the sofa and tried to hold back her tears.

“Take it back,” I demanded, but he just gave me a confused look “Your fucking breath, it’s still in me and you’re using it to possess me, I’m blacking out, losing memory and you’re making me do things to people and convince Erin to do things that she might have
eventually done on her own,”

“Alright,” He shrugged “I’ll take it back, that means no more possession fun for me, but I have to warn you that you will have some side effects for… well I don’t know how long they’ll last since it’s been in there for a while?”

“What?” I snapped.

“I gave you some of my breath for a confidence boost, to take away your anxiety and your OCD, and taking it away so suddenly will only make your problems a hundred times worse than before,”

“I don’t care,” I told him confidently “Now get this shit out of my body and let me deal with the consequences on my own, or I will not marry you, I swear.”

He didn’t say another word as he wrapped his arms around my waist and tugged me against him, his lips were an inch away from mine and he breathed deeply and I suddenly felt out of breath, like I was suffocating. Erin jumped out of her seat and I could see the terror on her face out of the corner of my eye, and when I looked down I could see the black smoke leaving my body and entering his.

After a few minutes of feeling like I couldn’t breathe, he vanished into thin air and I was dropped to the ground, gasping for breath. I could feel the panic rising in my body, I could feel all of my old compulsions coming back at me tenfold, this really wasn’t going to be pretty.

I closed my eyes and when I opened them again I was in my bedroom and a few seconds later Erin was knocking on my door, asking me to let her in.

“Just go home, Erin.” I pleaded “I’ll call you later tonight, I promise, just please let me get this under control for a while,”

“Alright,” She sighed, and I heard the soft thud of her forehead landing on the wood of my door “I’ll speak to you later, love you.”

“Love you, too.”

Notes

Looks like Hannah and Jimmy's best way to communicate is through music, how sweet.
Kinda gave myself feels writing the first half of this, but I hope you all like this chapter anyway!

More to come from the amazing E! <3

~LMV