Yuki Asahina

Korri

Tash Stares

Georgia Crossland

English

I had never really lived for myself, always determined to put others in front of me. However one day I met Lucia, and I didn’t notice how far I had gone till I noticed the bodies littering the ground.

I let the knife slip from my trembling hand, unable to glance at the faces of the lives I took. My heart pounded as I looked up at the sky, my breaths coming out in short gasps. I went too far.

“Good work,” I heard Lucia say. “Took you long enough to deal with them, huh?”

My eyes snapped to meet Lucia’s, her expression calm. I wasn’t calm. As my breathing slowed, I felt the anger bubbling deep in the pit of my stomach. We both knew this was on her, all of it. She was the reason they were all dead. For a moment, I wish I hadn’t dropped that knife.

Lucia had a way with words, eyes with tugged you in and threatened never to let you go. We scrambled, her right arm reaching the knife by my feet before I had chance to blink. "Oh honey- it was always meant to end this way." Her words cut me just like the knife was about to.

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