text: Me and my dad moved to Clifton from Douglas, just over two years ago after my mother died. My dad didn't want to live in the same house or town anymore, too many memories, I guess. I took it hard, but my dad was on the verge of a mental breakdown. So I bottled it up inside, for his sake. Starting off in a new school was tough. I didn't have many friends in my last school, but it was familiar. I struggled for the first two weeks till Aisling came over and introduce herself to me. She had seen a drawing I drew and wanted to compare her work with mine. We both loved horror comics, so we kind of hit it off straight away. It was nice to have someone to just talk about stuff again. I wasn't interested in Aisling in that way and I was almost sure she wasn't interested in me either. We were close friends, she was someone I could turn to. It was around the same time that I met Aisling, that I started talking to Eve. Eve was the most amazing girl I had ever talked to in my life. She just totally got me in every way possible. Talking to her got me through some of the hardest times in my life. If it wasn't for her I don't think I would still be here. I think we helped each other. She had a lot going on with her stepdad. That's why we had never met. He kept her locked away. She wasn't allowed talk to boys. If she dared to go against her stepfather's wishes, he would beat her. We always talk about running away together. I would imagine myself as her knight in shining armour, ready to whisk her off and ride off into the sunset, rescuing her from her wicked stepdad. I would of went to the ends of the world for her. We had talked every day on the computer and even on the phone. Then one day her messages stop. I knew she lived in the same town, But apart from that, I knew little else. I didn't know if I had said something to upset her or worse, something bad happened to her. I wished to God she was just upset with me. It had been over two weeks since I had heard anything from her. Then out of the blue, a message from her inbox popped up on my screen. “WE KNOW WHO YOU ARE.” At first, I thought it was Eve messing about with me. I replied back, angry with her for just ditching me like that without any explanation. “MY NAME IS AGENT GARRISON OF THE CIA.” I couldn't believe she was persisting with the joke. I was so angry at her at this stage. I couldn't understand why she was mocking me, feeling really pissed off I shut my computer down and went to bed. The next morning I wake up to my phone ringing. It was a private number, but it could have been Eve trying to ring me to apologise. The voice was female but slightly muffled as if they were trying to disguise their voice. The voice over the phone told me they had been watching me for some time now and that they knew everything about me. That it was only a matter of time till they took me out. I demanded to know who I was speaking to, but she just hung up. I was feeling very scared at this stage. Walking to and from school I couldn't escape the feeling I was being watched. When I got home there was another message. This time they asked what I knew about Eve’s stepdad. Apart from him being a piece of shit, I knew nothing about him. That's when they told me Eve had been murdered by her stepdad. I had that all familiar feeling of disbelief and despair wash over me. It was like the air had been sucked out of the room. Last time I had this feeling was when I was told my mother had died. They continued to tell me that Eve’s stepdad was part of a terrorist organisation. That Eve was helping them get evidence against her stepdad and that he must have found out and killed her. They told me, people, higher up, wanted me dead because I knew too much. But the agent I was talking to, had convinced them that I could help with the investigation. It all felt surreal. I felt so scared, all I wanted to do was scream for my dad but I couldn't get him involved. Agent Garrison swore me to secrecy. She told me they needed me to follow Eve’s stepdad and that it was at the highest level of national security. I felt trapped at this stage. I couldn't say no. If anything happened to me it would be the end of my father. I had to tell someone. That's when I decided to ask Aisling to help. I didn't tell her about the C.I.A, part. I just told her about Eve's stepdad We sat across from the address, Agent Garrison gave me. We watched him come and go from the house. I remember thinking how much I hated him. I thought about how if I killed him it wouldn't matter since he was a terrorist. I'd only be doing the country a favour. Apart from him moving boxes from the car. Nothing else caused us alarm. So we decided to call it a night. I offered to walk Aisling home but she said she had things to sort out and she would talk to me in school. I was slightly disappointed I had nothing to report back to Agent Garrison. So I decided to go to bed. I woke up to messages coming through on my computer and a load of missed calls on my phone. It was Agent Garrison and she was angry. She told me to look out my window. She asked me did a see a blue car and I did it was parked across from my house. She told they were watching me and that it was only a matter of time before they killed me and my father. I pleaded with her to tell me why. I did everything they had asked me to do. I pleaded for my father's life. I begged her to keep him out of it. She told me I shouldn't have got my friend Aisling involved. That she was a treat to national security. That a team had been dispatched to kill Aisling, her family, me and my dad. I begged and I pleaded for her life and the life of my dad. I said I would do anything. I even offered to kill myself. I was an emotional wreck at this stage. Agent Garrison told me to compose myself and that there was one way out of this. All I had to do was kill my friend and the lives of her family and the life of my dads would be spared. There had to be another way I begged. She was totally innocent in all this. I didn't even tell her about the C.I.A, I pleaded. But Agent Garrison insisted there was no other way and that she needed an answer straight away because the hit team were on there way. There was no other way out of this mess. I had no choice I had to kill her. Agent Garrison instructed me to be at a certain spot and that they would arrange for Aisling to be there. I was sent to a secluded spot at the back of the shopping centre in the town. I thought about running and just keep running until it stopped being real. But then I thought about my dad. Agent Garrisons voice was playing in my head. Telling me it had to be done. I must have stood there for over an hour, frozen with fear. I prayed she wouldn't show up. But she did, she was walking towards me smiling. I begged her to forgive me, I told her I loved her and I did. She kept walking towards me smiling. Then she wrapped her arms around me. As she whispered the words I love you into my ear. I plunge the knife deep into her chest. As the realisation of what I had just done was setting in, I ran and kept on running till I got home. My dad was standing in the hall as I burst through the front door. Shaking and covered in blood I collapse into his arms. I told him everything, about Eve, her stepdad, Agent Garrison, Aisling. I begged him to forgive me. Still shaking my dad wrapped me in a blanket and drove me down to the police station. He even brought my computer and phone. After the police had confirmed what I was telling them. They bring me into a room. They start pulling out pictures of Eve's stepdad. I tell them that he was the terrorist the C.I.A was tracking. I told them that's why Eve was murdered. I begged them to look at my message logs. Then they pull out the same picture of Eve’s stepdad. But the girl in the picture wasn't Eve, it was Aisling. That's when they told me, Eve’s stepdad was in fact, Aisling’s father. Then they hand me a letter which they tell me it’s Aisling’s suicide letter. First I want to apologise to everyone I love. If you are reading this letter it means I'm no longer alive. I know a lot of people will be upset at my demise. But I had no other way out. I didn't have the courage to kill myself so I concocted this plan to have myself murdered. I don't want Sean to get in any trouble, as this was planned from the moment I had met him. You were truly an amazing friend Sean. I loved you with all my heart. Eve’s stepdad truly was an evil man but it wasn't Eve he was abusing. I was let down by so many people I felt this was my only option. Sean, you are truly my knight in shining armour. I wished things could have been different between us. I love you with all my heart and I thank you for ending my pain.