Noah
“ is everything okay?” coral asks me, she is wearing a white shirt and blue long skirt. Me wearing the same colours as her, a coincidence.
She paces in the hospital hall, “ did she pick up the call?”
I look up in her direction, “ I haven’t seen her since last night coral “
She sits besides me. the hospital wall is a colour of dull blue, with silver seats in the halls . nurses and doctors rush in the pathway and wards. People enter inside ill, a lady rushes to an icu.
Jessica’s dad is in ward number 4.
“ how did it happen?”coral asks
“ I’d just called Jessica at midnight to check if she was fine, I didn’t receive no call back “ I look at her, “ I dropped by her house but she was not there and the door was open- I went inside to see, her dad was laying on the floor in the living room, I panicked and called the ambulance. Turned out it was a case of minor heart attack “
Coral gasps and look at ward no. 4, “ I hope he gets allright “
“ he will “ I repeat, “ god’s not that cruel”
“I hope” she says.
***
Emma comes rushing inside the hospital,
“ WHERE’S SHE?” she’s out of breathe when she says that, ‘ WHERE THE HELL IS SHE?”
I stand and tell her to sit, “ did you read-
“ I READ EVERY FUCKING MESSAGE. “
She is furious..not in an angry way..but she’s astonished. By her hoodie, I can see she came straight up to the hospital after reading my notification.
“ god “ she taps her feet, “ is her dad alright ?” she looks at me, “ is she allright ??”
“ I don’t know emm-“ before I finish, my phone rings and I hear a panicked voice,
“ I’M COMING! PLEASE DON’T LEAVE HIM ALONE. PLEASE I’M COMING”
“ jessi-“
She cuts the call before I can finish.
Coral and emma look at me. both dyed hair ladies asking me for answers, “ she’s coming” I say.
They breathe in the air of relief.
Coral calms emma down. I depart to the washroom, leaving both of them in charge.
Questions keep arising in my mind, and I have no answers.
Yet again, I’m stuck.
It takes me a moment to freshen myself up. When I open the door, I’m welcomed by the scream of a nurse.
***
I rush in the hall to find a nurse covering her eyes and pointing to a ward.
Ward number 4.
No no no no no no no no no no no no no
Jessica has arrived and by the look of her face-
Something bad has happened.
Please no, I plead when I walk towards the ward. People are gasping, doctors look worried.
I see lightning and rain in the nearby window when I reach closer. The sky is upset.
And when I finally look, my eyes plead to look away.
Mr. olive had a knife stabbed in his chest. He is dead.
Another murder.
Emma and coral both watch in despair, Jessica falls down on the ground.
I was wrong,
God can be too cruel.
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Tragedy of lies
Mystery / ThrillerJessica had been living normally until her friend, mia, commits suicide. Already overwhelmed by her past trauma, Jessica is disturbed. She doesn't accept it as to be a suicide and with her friend, noah, goes on a mission to find the murderer behind...
