Her Death, Their Sinful Secret

h? You look like yo

at me, her head ti

so overwhelming I couldn' t speak. The memory of her

naged to say, my voice hoar

old her she was going to die, she' d think

I said, my mind racing.

some soup from the dining hall?"

fine. You go. D

closed behind her, I

keep her on the line, keep her talking, kee

ber in my conta

twice, then we

Chloe. Leav

ight to voicemail. She must hav

y knew something. I scrolled th

ell

eed to ask you something

" she asked, a note

you? Has she said anything

se on the other

y said slowly. "Finals are stressing every

one who texted me. But right now, she was just anothe

It' s nothing," I

alone

ning classes were already gone. The building felt eerily empty, amplifying my

no time at all. What was I supposed to do?

They were still there. The source of the whole nightmare. If I could get them,

ake them. She would n

Sarah

from happening.

p and brutal. The flashing lights. The yello

. She fell from

y arrived at after the fact now played out in my mind with horrifying clarit

nausea was

let that happe

iday evening. I had three days. But what if my being here, m

tainty wa

it here and wait.

thering to lock the door. I sprinted down the stairs, ta

ght. Students were walking to class, chatting,

sychology, in Hamilton Hall.

had to see her, to make sure she was okay. I didn' t have a plan

amilton Hall, a large, iv

en I s

the building. People were pointing upwards, t

od ran

o

was Wednesday. It was

h the onlookers, my th

oked

w a flas

ie. The one she' d been

she was just a sha

e was f

aw her face, her eyes wide wi

ust for

ning, final so

erupted

ring at the spot wh

oo late

The world dissolved into a meaningless blur of noise and light. The onl