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door in her bedroom. I put my iPod on to drown the noise. The music soothed my head a little and it wasn’t too long until I drifted into a deep dreamless sleep.
     
     

 
     
    Chapter 2
     
     
     
    “Shannon wake up. Come on you have been asleep all morning.”
     
    Megan was shaking me, but I wasn’t ready to open my eyes yet.
     
    I did feel like I had been asleep all morning, my mouth was so dry that my tongue ached but that was nothing compared to the deep thudding inside my head. Maybe just a few more hours sleep would stop it? Then I remembered Megan was still shaking me at the bottom of my bed.
     
    “Megan please let me sleep?” I begged, but I knew it wouldn’t work.
     
    “No I have to talk… Oh my God he is so amazing. Did you know he stayed the night? He is so wonderful, and his body oh…” Megan seemed to get lost in her own little dream. I just used it as an excuse to sleep again. “Hey wake up,” Megan hit me hard on my thigh, laughing.
     
    “Ouch! Megan!” I was awake now.
     
    “Well that worked,” Megan giggled. “Oh Shannon, I think I am in love. He is just… I mean he is just… Well, he was…”
     
     “Get your words out Megan. You are making no sense at all, maybe it is love.” I pulled a face. “But you have only known him a week.”
     
    “That’s all you need, you know – sometimes you only need a minute.” I rolled my eyes like I hadn’t heard that before.
     
    I just looked at her. This was not the Megan I knew. She laughed at love and the concept of being with only one person. Why have only one when so many men wanted her? She had always called it a waste. Yet I could see it in her eyes, the hope that she had finally found him, the one to make her whole.
     
    “What are you thinking Shan?”
     
    “You don’t sound like yourself Megan that’s all.”
     
    “I know. I don’t feel like myself.” She almost had a glow about her as she became wrapped up in her thoughts from last night. Maybe she really had found the one, her soul mate. Although if she heard me talking like this she might laugh. I was the hopeless romantic.
     
     
    Months flew by in a whirlwind. Megan was so happy. Her life was complete as she began her first ever serious relationship with Charlie. I felt I knew Charlie as well as she did. Megan mentioned him in almost every conversation we had.
     
    I never minded that, her life was so much more exciting than my own. Three years we had been best friends, inseparable from the day we met. Even now I couldn’t really believe I was here. I wasn’t even sure I recognised myself anymore, but that was a good thing. I had been so different on that first day of work experience. I laughed to myself remembering the fateful day.
     
     
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    I was late. My long brown hair was drenched from the rain. I was pretty sure the make-up I had put on to try and enhance my green eyes would be running down my face. I knew I should have gone for waterproof mascara. I was right as I looked at my reflection in the window. I looked like a panda. I wiped as much away as I could with my hand, talking to myself.
     
    Why had I slept through my alarm? I knew how important today was. How much of an idiot could I be?
     
    I did the best I could with my face and decided to tie my hair back. It was a slight improvement, at least I wasn’t dripping all over my new blue shirt. I took a deep breath. I could do this, it was only work experience I told myself. Who cared if I didn’t know anyone, that everyone would be looking at me, ‘the new girl’. Suddenly my stomach turned like a washing machine on full spin. I couldn’t move. I gripped the wall for support. My nerves were taking over again. I panicked in any situation that wasn’t familiar to me. Today was one of those days.
     
    “Are you okay?” A voice asked as I looked up, trying hard to regulate my breathing. I must have looked so stupid. I saw her watching me with a concerned face. “It’s only that