The cold prickled my skin and I tilted my head and gazed at the sky. A lone star twinkled and the sky turned a darker shade of blue, the clouds started to darken and blended into the night.It was 6 and I would be lying if I said that I regretted what I did just a moment ago. I stared back at the small fancy restaurant. The food tasted bland anyway and the atmosphere in there was so bleak and sophisticated, I could’ve hurled myself.Not to mention the level of idiocy that short and chubby manager has. Fucking idiots roaming the Earth and contaminating the human race with their low IQ.At least we had a good time in the ring before hitting this place.“How about some McDonald’s huh? You seem like you could do with some food in your system after all that bickering and yelling in there.” Adam offered his jacket and I shook my head even though my knees were quiver lightly at the cold.Dammit, Mother Nature! Are you trying to

I wrenched my arm away as Adam tried to hold me back.Oh hell no. I just found out that the man I didn’t beat to a pulp the previous night killed my brother and almost ended my life in the process.Ain’t no asshole going to hold me back.Fuck this shit.I swiveled away from Adam and turned towards the guy. Someone’s dying tonight.When I was finally a couple of feet away from him, I could finally see how his eyes blazed with anger as if I have somehow offended him. I stared into the depth of his eyes, willing him to try and taunt me one more time.“What are you trying to say?” I managed to spit out whilst holding myself back on punching him. By now, it was a miracle that I haven’t pummeled him in.“I am the truck driver, you foolish bitch.” He snarled and although I expected the answer, it didn’t faze to throw me aback my knees buckling a little. But this doesn’t make sense. All of th

His eyes stared at me so intensely that he’s probably leaving a hole on my face. I gulped nervously at the sight of that look. This was not going to end well.“Okay, what do you want to know about?”“Those guys, three nights ago, they seemed to know you and you seemed to have recognized them.”A look from him and I knew he suspected something that I’m not ready to tell him yet. I didn’t want to share it with him because I knew he would make me stop fighting and stop accepting the money. I kept his gaze even though all I wanted to do was cower away from his stare and avoided his eyes. It was as if he could see right through me and in that flitting second, I felt truly vulnerable.I forced my eyes to remain neutral. Not expressionless enough for him to suspect something and not hard enough to tip him off that I was hiding something from him.The last thing I wanted him to do was stop accepting that money a

I stayed silent the whole time. I clenched my jaw and kept my heartbeat in check. I stuffed my hands into my hoodie’s pockets and shuffled on my foot, not sure on what to do.Sonia was still staring at me like I was some extinct animal and I felt my conscience growing antsy, the alarm bells were ringing inside my head and every instinct screamed at me to drop everything and get out of there, flee the state, change my name, forget my past and strike up a new start for myself.But no one could escape from their past.A girl can damn try. My conscience said in a snarky tone and I mentally agreed, thinking of all the things I could do to ensure a better escape from this life. I don’t want to spend the rest of my life in jail. They’ll find out, sooner or later but I’d prefer it to be the latter.She was still gaping at me and I casted a glance to the clock that was on the opposite wall from where we were standing, realizing tha

I walked out of the school, hoping to avoid Sonia and Maddison on the way. I kept my head lowered and eyes fixed on the ground.Once I stepped out of the building, the sun hit my eyes and blinded me momentarily, forcing my sight to adjust to the change of lighting and when I could finally see again, I looked around in search for Adam so that he can give me a ride home but I finally noticed that something was wrong.Something in my gut told me that this wasn’t good, that something bad was going to happen. I stayed rooted on the spot, trying to grasp the faint shouts and yells in the distance. I tried to pinpoint the direction they were coming from. My head whipped to the side, finally able to distinguish where the noises were coming from.Looking around and seeing that Adam hadn’t appeared yet, I made a fleeting decision and jogged around to the side of the school where the stadium was.The second I saw how big the crowd was, I knew so