“Let me look for it now,” Joyce said. She’d practically pressed her ear against Natalie’s cell phone to listen. Upon hearing what the detective had said, she immediately bolted over to Natalie’s computer to search for the news online.

Natalie joined her. Watching as Joyce scoured the internet, she queried, “How is Jasmine now?”

“I don’t know. I didn’t go over to check on her. But from the solemn look on the policemen and paramedic’s faces, it’s likely that…”

The detective trailed off, leaving Natalie to draw her own conclusions.

Natalie’s hand curled up into a fist.

Jasmine’s room was on the twelfth floor. The average distance between each floor was a little less than ten feet. Twelve floors was a whole 120 feet from the ground.

Could anyone survive falling from that height?

“Got it!” Joyce cried. She’d found information about Jasmine’s suicide.

Natalie watched the video that played on the screen. The footage was extremely shaky and blurred. A passerby had probably captured it on his cell phone.

In the video, a disheveled-looking woman in a patient’s gown was sitting on the window ledge, facing inward. The next second, she had tumbled out and hurtled downward.

 

later. Her body violently convulsed twice, then lay still. A crimson pool gradually seeped out from beneath it and gathered around

She covered her eyes with

 

had grown visibly pale. With a trembling hand,

her hands from her

finally admitted, “I don’t know. Her figure looked very familiar, though, and

has really

surreal it all felt. However, she could not refute the evidence that she had just seen. It had happened regardless of whether Natalie was willing

ended. Natalie brought the phone to her ear and inhaled several times deeply before asking,

take a closer look,” the detective replied

a few feet forward when a car abruptly came to

man in a white coat got off the car and strode towards

the detective in his tracks. It

The coroner is

mouth went dry. It was a long time before she managed

stonily put her cell phone down on the table and

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