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Chapter Three: Farewell to a Friend

After all that had happened the day before, Kim closed herself up. She didn't speak with anyone. Not to her girlfriend nor to her dad. She spoke to no one. She couldn't. She couldn't make sense of what she had seen the day before. The sight of Amber's body was... traumatizing. Every time she would close her eyes, all she could see was Amber. Amber's corpse. In her bed. Again, and again. She could not sleep in her bed and was stuck staying on the couch in her living room. It wasn't really comfortable but she could not sleep in her bed. It was impossible. She wanted the visions to stop.

They didn't.

Maybe that's why Kim decided to go to a bar. To drown her feelings. And the visions. Everything. Of course, she wasn't twenty-one years old, but it was very easy to pass for an adult, and it helped that the bartenders didn't really care if the card looked fake. As long as they got paid, they were happy, and the more they gave out drinks, the more they got paid. So, she put on a bit of makeup and went to the bar.

She started drinking and for an unknown reason, flirted with a guy. She didn't even like guys. But there she was, about to kiss him. She didn't know his name, where he came from, nothing. All she knew was what he looked like; dirty blonde hair and green eyes. He was cute — not her type — but cute. Fortunately, she never got to the kissing part since her phone rang. And Kim being Kim, she took a look at it instead of actually kissing him. She looked at her phone and looked back up before rereading the message.

"S... sorry..." she said before running off. When she was a few streets away from the bar, Kim looked at her phone again. There it was. She hoped the message would have disappeared, but it didn't.

The words were still there, glowing on her screen, almost like a threat.

"Be careful, dear Kim. You don't wanna get pregnant... again. -A."

In news of the discovery, Jane wanted to get her mind off of things. She didn't want to think anymore. She knew drawing might help her, but she also knew that she might draw Amber and she didn't want that. So she went to the next best thing; shopping. Shopping cured everything. Well... maybe not everything, but a lot of things. And anyways, that was not the point ! The point was that shopping was the perfect thing to get her to forget... everything. Forget Amber, her death. Everything.

So she went shopping and she visited a lot of places, from the ones she liked the least to the ones she liked the most. On top of the list was Hanna's. Hanna's was the perfect place to buy dresses, rings, necklaces, shoes, all that she liked. All that she needed. Jane tried on a lot of clothes. She ended up loving one thing, a yellow dress that looked a lot like Belle's dress at the end of the Disney movie. The human version. She really liked that movie, even though Amber said it was childish. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't, she didn't care.

She went to the counter to buy the dress but, to her surprise, the card was declined.

"Try it again," she suggested nervously.

That's what he did, but it still didn't work. "I'm sorry miss, your card has been declined again," he said.

"Oh..." she wanted to say more, but her phone rang and she couldn't help herself to look at the message. She was surprised when she found out it was from an unknown sender. It rarely happened.

"What...?" she whispered, almost dropping her phone on the ground. That couldn't happen. She started running, leaving the dress on the counter and the cashier confused. She looked outside of the mall, thinking someone was spying on her, happy to see that the message had had the desired effect, but nothing, no one was looking at her.