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I never got the chance.
A large thump made the leaves vibrate with the sounds of crows reaching for the sky. The noise had frozen the very blood in my veins, petrifying me on the spot as I kept wondering what it could be.
It was something terrible. That I knew for sure.
But there was a strange silence that followed the seconds after.
Everyone was like a stone, waiting to see what was really going on, like wolves sniffing out the air.
Out of all possible outcomes, there was one I never saw coming.
The white snow beneath my feet turned fiery red.
A pool of red liquid covered the soil as screams began echoing all around us.
The moment diluted with the horror floating in my soul as I felt my bodyguard pushing me to the ground. ‘Get down!’ He was making a human shield of himself, trying to protect me in front of the imminent danger.
Though I wasn’t the one that needed protection.
My best friend was lying motionless on the ground, and despite the hand I stretched out to reach her, I could not go with her to the place she was heading.
And I couldn’t make her remain there with me either.
‘Jenna...’
Chapter 17
For a few seconds, all I could hear was a terrifying roar. Yet, it was just background noise compared to the thundering in my heart.
I felt I couldn’t breathe, and it wasn’t because of the bodyweight of the guard that was almost squashing me to the ground. It was because I was staring into Jenna’s eyes as they were losing the last flickers of life. They looked exactly like Ferris’s candles, losing the final battle and making room for the darkness to settle in.
‘Let me go,’ I screamed as hard as my lungs allowed me, trying to fight off my guard and check to see if my friend still had a pulse.
I sensed him move and, at that very instant, jerked myself from his grip to reach Jenna. But I didn’t seem to be going anywhere close to her. On the contrary, I began moving in the opposite direction, being dragged away by the man securing my protection.
‘Nooo.’ I tried kicking him off, but there wasn’t too much room for negotiations when it came to a man like him. He only obeyed direct orders. Those came from Brax and not me.
I kept kicking and screaming to be set free, but even if I had the smallest possibility of succeeding, Cole’s voice coming from somewhere behind me killed off any chances. ‘Get her out of here. Now!’ he roared, rushing towards Jenna while his own goon was following close behind, assuring his protection.
I was a fair distance away when I saw him leaning towards her body to search for a pulse, and in the few seconds he remained listening for any sign of a heartbeat, I still had a shadow of hope.
But then his head moved, slowly raising his gaze from the ground until it finally reached mine. It was devastatingly painful, not only because of what he was witnessing, but because he knew the effect it would have on me.
She was dead.
My friend hadn’t survived.
It all went blank from there on. Just shadows moving in my field of sight. Scared students running to their homes, cops flashing their red and blue lights like their presence could ever solve anything. And then there was Cole, securing me tightly against the defined shapes of his chest in useless attempts to protect me.
Things were clear.
Death comes when you least expect it.
Death doesn’t care about age or ethnicity or innocence.
It just comes to claim its toll, grabbing any soul in its way.
Red and blue lights began flashing somewhere in the distance as the apocalyptical humming was announcing the irrefutable end.
