Reasons to Live

Chapter One: Eulogy

They all watched as the scary girl wearing the combat boots with a knife sticking out of her chest stood with a shocked expression, as though she couldn't quite believe what had just happened.

'Oh,' she said flatly, as she looked down at the knife that pierced her heart.

Then they saw her expression change to one of disbelief to one of acceptance, like maybe she realised that this was always going to happen, like maybe she didn't care.

Jenny Ryans looked up into her killers eyes and nodded as though everything suddenly made sense to her.

They she crashed to the bottom of the stone steps where she died.