Crescent Fall

Chapter 9: What happened to Alex

Is been a week since the incident and the whole of Crescent fall high was like a graveyard, students moved like zombies and the time seems to be ever so slow. Every student had heard of what happened well half of it, what they had heard was 'Alex Paris was stabbed and found bleeding in the middle of the park, late at night'. They also heard she's currently being hospitalized and in coma right now.

Alex wasn't even social or friendly with other students but yet she was popular and greatly admired, people visited her and dropped flowers and get well soon card. Her locker was also decorated with stickers and cards sticking out of it.

Mari and the gang were greatly affected by it, mostly Mari cause she took Alex as a sister. Arielle was the worst of them all, she was a mess and wouldn't leave her twin side not once, she didn't even attend school throughout the week cause she was a sobbing mess.

Mari remembered the day of the incident so vividly. Her and Arielle were bouncing with excitement and waiting for Alex to come back from her date and gist them how it went. They were sitting patiently on Arielle bed gisting about random things to pass time. But Alex never came home that night, she didn't walk through the Paris gate, she didn't walk through her room door not even through her window. It was unlike her to stay that late, then they thought she had gone home with Jason but that's not also not like Alex. After an hour or so of waiting, their elder sister Amelia had called to meet her at the hospital.

She couldn't even get the image of Alex out of her head. Alex looked so pale and lifeless on her hospital bed with the weird wires connected on her body and then the oxygen pipe going down her throat. Mari cried seeing her best friend in that state, her heart was beating really fast and sometimes it would beat so faintly it made Mari scared but the doctors reassured her that Alex would be ok. The doctors had said they found a substance that was coated on the body of the dagger, and apparently it's not good for the human system so it acts like a mild poison to them more like an allergy, which also causes the shutting down of their system, but they reassured her that they have drained out the poison in her blood stream all she needs it's rest. But none of her organs was affected except the liver, but it was luck that her liver wasn't damaged.

Alex had been in coma for eight days.
At that point in time she wished Alex was a werewolf so she would heal faster.

The police has also been on the case ever since trying to find out who did it. They questioned Jason since he was the last person to be seen with her that day, but he manipulated his way out of it.

Mari knew who did it, it wasn't a hunch or she suspects, she knows Jason was the one who tried to kill her. Who else would have access to the emerald dagger other than Carla and who also was the last person to be with Alex.

Mari also noticed Jason's emotion throughout the week, other students may think his grieving because his obsessed with Alex. But Mari also sense guilt beneath that grief, she hated Jason for that.

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"How's Alex doing", Hannah asked. They were all settling down on their sits for class.

"Same thing. The doctors said her heartbeat is becoming stable now", Mari said. They all nodded. The girls looked tired but Mari looked worse, she looked so worn out, with her unbrushed hair and eye bags.

"I heard there's a new girl in school", said Cleo trying to lighten the mood up.

"Oh yeah, she's a sophomore though and she's really pretty and her name is Jasmine", said Liv who took out a brush from her bag to brush Mari's hair.

"Thank you", Mari whispered.

"No worries", Liv said with a smile.

"The girl is weird", Hannah said licking her lollipop.