Cheating Death

MICHEAL

"How do we tell her that Marion is dead?" Jamie asks me, I have no idea, Bella would be so devastated and she has been through so much already, why did Marion fucking have to die now, the bastard.

"I don't know", I reply him just as I hear the car stop at the front of the house.

The front door opens and Bella steps inside, she walks straight up to me and pecks me on the lips, then walks upstairs without saying a word to either I or Jamie.

Jamie gestures to me asking if Bella is okay, probably scared of her hearing him, 

" yeah, excuse me" I say to him and head upstairs.

I see Bella sitting absentmindedly at her favourite spot by the window on the armchair, she doesn't look at me as I come in, her gaze is on nothing in particular.

"What's wrong?" I ask her but get no reply.

"I'm fine" she finally says, no she's not, she's not fine.

"You know, don't you?"