Chapter 1 - There Is No Upper Hand
No one expected it to happen. I mean looking back there were signs, little hints here and there. But everything was realized too late. The news of what happened swept through Hollywood Arts like a tidal wave. Everyone was affected, everyone saddened. Sometimes it made me sick because all they knew was a name and the face of a person, how can they be sad when they didn't even know that for who they really were? What right did they have?
Part of me doesn't think it's real. It can't be real. Everything is a dream. But I know, with every fiber of my being that its not. What happened, has happened. Maybe I could have stopped it, but in reality I couldn't have stopped a train that was already in motion. Let alone a moving train that I couldn't even see. That doesn't make me feel any less guilty because although I didn't stop it, I was part of the reason it happened.
I remember where I was when we found out the news. The group of us, sitting at our usual lunch table, missing one of our own, worried about what had happened and why they were missing. There was a dull emptiness and no one spoke much just small meaningless conversations here and there.
I think we knew what the police were going to say before they said it. Knew before they came outside and made their way over to our table. Knew before they marched inside to find the principle or some other school official. Knew before they pulled into the parking lot. Knew before we could even see the cop car. Even so it was a hard blow when they said they found her body.
The wind felt like it was knocked out of me. I couldn't breathe, an uncomfortable silence seem to over take the Asphalt Café. It choked me and I wanted nothing more then to destroy it. I looked at my friends, they mirrored my emotions, the color was drained from their faces. Someone was talking. I tried to focus, it was the policeman. He was telling me what happened. I didn't care. The ending was the same. She was dead.
so here's the first chapter, what do you guys think? Its short but there should be longer chapters to come.
Who do you think is speaking? Better question, who do you think is dead and how?
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