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.

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

immediately knew

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

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

she can see herself inside an

dirt, it was a mixture of dried blood, and a

she muffled a cry. But no matter how she tried concealing it, it still came out, although it sounds

and falling down.

to lightly slip because of the wet floor. Althea did not shout, nor did she cried

her blood soaked hands, but her eyes keeps on going back to the body that

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 anymore. But strangely, it's eyes were wide

were staring

and with a trembling voice, she cried

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begun to spin in both pain

wants to meet again, got into something that reminded her of the past she never want to visit

She regreted accepting this request of Charlotte again and again. If only

was as if

it robbed her energy. Her vision blurred and darken, and

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