Okay so I kinda copied this off prongywong, but with a diff. book. Enjoy! Xxx it kinda depressed me to write this….

Ellie ~

Lee wasn’t my first time, and neither was Steve. Homer was. The night I broke up with Steve I was a mess. Mum and Dad had been fighting, there was a vicious draught which meant the farm was suffering and Steve and I had been fighting for a while.

I had known it was over, but to say it to him…it killed me. It was all I could do not to scream and yell and cry at that damn garden party. Fi and Corrie were at the party, and I wouldn’t have been able to talk about it there. I wasn’t really friends with Lee or Chris then, and Robyn and Steve were thick as thieves so I couldn’t go to her.

I left the party going to the only person I could, and that was Homer. He was never good at these things but when I started crying he held me and ran his fingers through my hair and kissed me and I kissed him back, and it just went on from there….

Homer ~

I never really liked Fi, at least not in the way she liked me. If she even did like me, I knew she was jealous of Ellie and Lee. And there was no one else, so I might as well just go along with it, right? Wrong. There was Ellie. The night we learnt of the war and I held her hand my heart felt like it was going to split my chest in two, but Lee ruined that again, didn’t he….

Fi ~

Until the war started I hated Ellie. I was so jealous of her, of what her and Homer had and I didn’t even like Homer! I never had any boys for close friends, my parents wouldn’t allow that.

I was never noticed at school, but everyone loved Ellie; everyone wanted to be friends with Ellie; everybody thoughts Ellie was so smart and pretty and funny.

Just because boys thought I was good looking, doesn’t mean they liked me. I heard jokes made about me: ‘Rich bitch, ‘Tight arse’, ‘Stuck up skank, ‘Skank? She wouldn’t know what sex was if it was shoved up her arse.’

When I found out Ellie and Lee had sex I was jealous, angry even. And I have no idea why.

Robyn ~

I don’t believe in god. Well, that is, I didn’t believe in god before the war. Funny isn’t it? You’d think that having my parents captured and possibly murdered and my home and country taken away from me would prove to me that there was nothing out there, nothing watching over me.

But if there was no greater purpose in life why on Earth would these people bother to take everything away from me and my family? No, there was a god.

And then Corrie was shot, but I still didn’t turn my back on God. If I just held onto my hope he’d bring her through, he’d take care of her. And that’s what I told myself when I saw her lying limply in Kevin’s arms as the life slowly left her.

I loved Corrie, her and Ellie were my best friends, but I hated Chris. And yet, when I saw his body down by the dam, mutilated and rotten, that was when hope left me. That was when I knew there was no god.

Corrie ~

Kevin and I had been together for a year before we told Ellie. I knew she hated him, I knew a lot of people hated him. I even hated him for a while, but I knew there was a different side to him. We had sex after two months of dating, and I never told Ellie.

Kevin ~

When I first started dating Corrie, it was just to get closer to Robyn. I loved Corrie, but I also loved Robyn, even though I knew only one of them would ever look at me. By the time we started telling people that Corrie and I were together, I was sure I was over Robyn. And then I had to spend months with her in hell, and it was maddening.

However, when Corrie was shot and Robyn tried to comfort me I would have given anything to have Robyn dead instead of Corrie wounded.

But somehow, when I saw Corrie’s grave stone I wasn’t as torn apart as when I watched Robyn die. I guess you can never really trust your heart…

Lee ~

After the war I disappeared for three days, leaving my brothers and sisters at one of mum’s friend’s places. I wasn’t planning to come back. I was going to go to Vietnam, and start a fresh.

Someone with my brain capacity would have no trouble looking after themselves, if I may say so myself. But looking after four younger siblings? It was a god send when Ellie moved in with me.

Half way to the airport, I stopped abruptly, swerving to the side of the road. I didn’t contemplate; I just turned around, picked up my brothers and sisters and didn’t return Mum’s friend’s calls wanting an explanation.

Chris ~

When I died I wasn’t drunk. I was very far from it. I only took the booze to make my death look like an accident, as I had a feeling my corpse and the car wreck would eventually be unearthed, but in truth it was suicide.

I wouldn’t have lived through the war, and if I had would I have wanted to? I had sent my mother spiraling into depression and I knew every time I looked into my dad’s eyes I was a disappointment. But guess what I saw as my life leaked away from me in the blood staining the ground near that dam? I saw their faces; I saw my mother crying and the disappointment in my dad’s eyes. And what did I do? I laughed. And that’s how Robyn found my body, with a laugh plastered on my face.

Gavin ~

I’m not deaf.