BOONDOCKS FALLEN ANGELS

THREE: EASY ESCAPE

"Some people can use death as and escape from their guilt, problems, and depression"
- ANONYMOUS

A girl with jet black hair that wore leather bodysuit. Was lurking in the shadows.

She watched her victim for months. He was a tall white man. His wife divorced him the week before. She wasn't interested in him but the value that he holds as collateral damage. She wanted THEIR attention. She knew the ins and outs of her victims house.

She watched as her victim went to the kitchen for his second nightly beer to get drunk. She planned to go in at this exact time. When he came back into the living room he met eyes with the darker haired girl.

"W-Who the hell are you werid looking lady! Hell happened to y-you're e...eye" he slurred to her.

"Doesn't matter you'll be dead anyways" she told him.

The man was about to say something else but she didn't wanna hear it so she kept it quick and simple. She stabbed him in the stomach and pulled the knife out. He started gasping for air as he felt his life slipping.

"Pathetic excuse for a man" she snarled as she began to leave.
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RING! RING! RING!

Cindy groaned as she looked for her phone on the nightstand.

"Hello?" Cindy asked into the phone.

"Is this Cynthia McPherson?" The man asked on the phone.

"Whose asking" Cindy asked.

"Woodcrest police Ms.McPherson" the officer said.

"Man what I do now ?" Cindy complained.

"Nothing, we just wanted to send our condolences because your father was found murdered in his house" the man said with sympathy laced in his voice.

Cindy sat their quiet for a while.

"Ms.McPherson" the man said.

She hung the phone up in his face. She didn't know how to feel for a few minutes. She came to realization with her feelings.

'Is this how Mauriah and Jazmine felt when they left' Cindy thought. Cindy was angry with him he found a way out of his misery and it was through death.

Cindy was upset she didn't even know she was in the hallway. She was upset so she began to pick up random things and throw it. It didn't make her feel better. She felt like jumping off the nearest building. Why did his death have an effect on her it was unfair.

Everyone in the house came to the source of the noise to find Cindy on the ground in tears. Mauriah and Jazmine sat next to her.

"You know you gotta tell us why you're in pain" Mauriah said sadly smiling at Cindy.

"H-He left without owning up to his mistakes and wrong doings he escaped his pain!" Cindy sobbed.

"What happened? Did he die of natural causes?" Jazmine asked.

"Murdered" Cindy mumbled to them. They were all quiet to consume the information. "How did y'all feel when they left" Cindy asked them.

Jazmine didn't talk about her father a lot but she felt like opening up because they never did. The others sat down to listen because it's not everyday you get to hear these three speak about their past.

"He got depressed and stopped caring about work, about life, and about me. I thought I wasn't good because of him and her". Jazmine told them. "So when he left me I was mad of course because he didn't fight to live. He use to promise me he'll stop and get better. He gave up on me and I thought I just wasn't worth for anyone to live for" Jazmine quivered as she spoke feeling tears go down her eyes.

Another wave of silence fell upon them. Until everyone looked over at Mauriah to share. Mauriah looked away assuming they would just leave her be until she turned her head back to see them still looking at her. She sighed and put her head into her knees.

"I use to convince myself that he was the perfect father. I knew he was a monster but I just wanted my father. He made promises to me that he didn't keep but I always believed. I was angry that his only escape from the guilt of what he did to me and others was death." Mauriah confessed to them.

The three girls just sat their sobbing for a while. They looked up at everyone else.

"Tell anyone about this well ghost you for the rest of your lives" Cindy  joked but was also serious.
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