“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.

 

lay still. A crimson pool gradually

covered her eyes with her

 

Her face had grown visibly pale. With

was that really Jasmine?” Joyce lowered her hands from

once more before Natalie’s eyes. She opened her mouth, then finally admitted, “I don’t know.

really Jasmine? So she has really committed suicide!” Joyce gulped. It seemed

was overwhelmed by how 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 to believe it

that the call hadn’t ended. Natalie brought the phone to her ear and inhaled

Let me take a closer look,” the

made it a few feet forward when a car abruptly came to a halt right in

car and strode towards the

sight of the white coat stopped the detective in his tracks. It was enough proof in itself that the

Jasmine is dead. The coroner is already at the

mouth went dry. It was a long time before she managed to croak out her

her cell phone

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