Chapter 105
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On Tuesday January 24th Eve was in the school's greenhouse. This new class, located on the school's roof, taught students how to grow their own food, and about photosynthesis. With this, they could actually make more oxygen. Suppossedly the Arks would have more advanced methods, but still a good idea to know how to do these things, in case the systems broke down. As the teacher explained this process Eve barely noticed Mena on the roof. A lot of students tried to transfer, especially to these life skill classes. Eve noticed when Mena walked dangerously close to the edge. She tried to tell her teacher, but it was too late. With no hesitation Mena walked right to the edge and jumped to her death. The school was soon talking about Mena's suicide. Teenage suicide was common, almost trendy, since 2/4. But doing it at school, that attracted attention. Eve decided to talk to Karen about it, at lunch. They didn't necessarily get along, but Karen had been Mena's friend. Eve wanted to be there for Karen now
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Eve: Are you okay?
Karen: I'll e fine.
Eve: I don't understand, I thought you were all happy.
Karen: We were. Mena wanted to marry her boyfriend. But he refused, even though she was pregnant with his kid.
Eve: He is an irresponsile jerk.
Karen: Are you going to start quoting your god, tell me my friend is in Hell?
Eve: I didn't ay that. I do mourn for Mena. I thought maybe you could use a friend.
Karen: I'm sorry. Mena really wanted a family, a husband, a baby. Even with ELE coming we thought we could do it. But motherhood, being responsible for another life. It's scary, and doing it in those shelters, I don't know.
Eve: We can help you. Me, dad, I want to be a big sister.
Karen: I'm not sure I can be a mother.