Chapter Forty-FourJenna tried to kill herself. Not just once, a few times. And in different ways. First, she tied a long piece of the rope to the stairs and tried to hang herself. I caught her as she fell. Then she filled her pockets with stones and jumped into the canal. I dove in and brought her to the surface. She took too many tablets, I made her throw up. She stopped eating, I forced food on her. She stabbed herself, I fixed her wounds. It went over and over, each time getting worse and worse and she was getting more and more desperate. It replayed on a loop, her finding different ways to end it all. Until I woke up.
‘Morning.’ Dad takes a seat next to me at the breakfast bar.
‘Morning.’
‘Is Jen not up yet?’
‘Don’t think so.’ I scoop up the last of my cereal, chasing the final thr
