When Fate Decided to Play its Part

CHAPTER FIFTY-EIGHT:

Bang, Bang! (2)

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Althea was relieved after knowing that there was someone who was listening to them and guiding them towards safety, also, she was glad that she have someone to tell about the fake bomb threats of these people.

She doesn't have her phone and she was running, as well as Tyler, she did not considered asking him about his phone earlier since they have no time to dial someone's number while running. But to think he was already on call, it makes things convenient for them.

"That suffice-" she said between her breathes. "Tell her that they are only-"

She caught the man on the corner of her eyes running towards them with the gun on his left hand. The gun's muzzle was lowered on the floor and it swung with his hand as he runs towards them.

He opened his mouth and Althea thought he will just shout for them to stop running again like what he did earlier, but he did not.

Althea's eyes widen when he pulled into a full stop and pointed the gun towards her direction. Her eyes we're like binoculars zooming in towards the man's fingers as he put them on the trigger then, pulled them to fire.

[Bang!]

Everything happened for a split second but it feels like eternity for Althea as her body tried to dodge the in coming bullet but she physically can't and can never will, like how the majority of humanity can't.

The lone bullet sliced through the air before colliding with her body, then digging through her flesh. It was funny how she can almost hear her flesh tearing apart.

body; on the side of her stomach. She used her left hand to cover it and laid the other hand

immediately knew

groaned as she feels her blood rapidly draining from her face. It was as if all of her blood were draining out from her body via the hole that was dug into her body. Large beads of sweats

down and watched the horrifying sight of her palm and dress being soaked with red liquid. Her aquamarine eyes lost its focus on the sigjt

split second, she can see herself inside an abandon factory, sitting on

now, instead of just dirt, it was a mixture of dried blood,

no matter how she tried concealing it, it

were blurry as her tears keeps on coming and falling down. She was soaked with

to lightly slip because of the wet floor. Althea did not shout, nor did she cried in surprise. She just quickly pulled back her balance and sat up

look at her blood soaked hands, but her eyes keeps on

the wound on the body's waist and chest as it was facing

on the floor, unmoving. The up and down movement that indicates of breathing was not there

they were staring at

up even more, and with a trembling voice, she cried out.

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mind begun to spin in both pain

well up from her eyes and she wanted to cry about how shitty is this night. She came across with the people she never wants to meet again, got into something that reminded her of the past she never want to visit again, got rescued by the guy she, again, doesn't want to see, and then got shot and now,

regreted accepting this request of Charlotte again and again. If only she could turn back the clock, she would never answer that

it was as if

was throbbing in pain, it robbed her energy.

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