Hazard District

Hazard District 2nd Chapter

HAZARD DISTRICT

2nd Chapter

In the days that followed, Elisha was on the underground train on her way to meet a friend. It was in the morning; Elisha was pre-occupied with her music, bopping her head to the melodic sounds of the song. The train was at full speed packed with passengers inside, suddenly, hysterical screaming was heard from the other side of the section of the train Elisha was at. The sound was so loud; it prompted Elisha to remove her headphones to view the commotion. A woman was seen screaming manically on the floor as passengers gathered around her with two trying to comfort her. Elisha got up from her chair and cautiously moved forward to view the commotion.

‘NO...NO, WHY LORD, WHY?’ The lady barked as streams of tears flowed from her eyes.

‘Miss...Please, what’s going on?’ The elderly man that was trying to comfort her sympathetically asked

‘The devil is a FUCKING LIAR! My cousin...My COUSIN IS DEAD, OH MY...GOSH’ the lady whimpered in total shock and distress. Elisha felt it to be hard to watch.

‘What happened?’ One of the passengers, who was pregnant, asked

‘He was KILLED’ the lady cried. She then got up from the floor ‘FUCK THIS!’

The woman frantically ran towards the exit doors and started viciously booting it as the train was in motion. The elderly man ran towards her with all his might and dragged her away. She cried in his arms.

‘You...YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND’ She mutters ‘I need to get off this train, I need to be with Jacob...my cousin. LET ME GO’

‘The train is in motion, you can’t go anywhere’ the elderly man softly said. Elisha walked to the distressed lady.

‘I know how it is...For a family member to be killed wrongly’ Elisha begun ‘the confusion...the questions...the shock...I was like you this time two years ago. Its bullshit, but I’ll be a friend to you if I can’

‘Oh my...I’m too fucked in my head to ask questions. Please come and talk to me’ the lady pleaded. Elisha smiled and took the young lady by the arm, and they both had a seat. The young woman took deep breaths and wiped her face as she stared out of the window, looking at the atmosphere outside glide by as the train was cutting through the air.

‘I’m Elisha’ Elisha smiled

‘Roxanne’ Roxanne declared as the two women shook hands ‘No, I mean...I’m begging God to tell me this is a nightmare and that I will wake up. Fucking hell, man’

‘I feel your pain. I mean when my eldest brother died two years ago, my life, I felt, was shattered. I was very close to him; he’d go out of his way to do shit for me that my parents wouldn’t have done. I can tell Jacob was very close to you’

‘Even saying the word ‘was’ leaves me numb’ Roxanne declared, as she wiped her face once more.

‘Are you able to tell me what happened? Hope I’m not being too forward or anything?’ Elisha asked cautiously

‘Elisha, I’m too fucked to care. I’ll tell you anyway. He was killed by some drug lord or some shit’ Roxanne began ‘Oh my word...Oh my fucking word’.

Roxanne began to shiver which prompted Elisha to friendly give her a rub on her back

‘You got to pull through, man. For your family’s sake’

‘Easier said than done, I swear it’ Roxanne began ‘Anyway...it was last night. He’s the same sage as me, 19. He ain’t been in no trouble or gotten himself in some dodgy shit as far as I’m aware of. Obviously that wasn’t the case or he would still be alive. He swore to be that he had finished with cocaine. He didn’t have an addiction but I could tell it was forming so I helped him battle through it, to get his mind off of the drugs. I swear down, I thought it worked. I should’ve been there when he wanted me to come to some house party. It was a celebration that he had won his bowling tournament and he had a trophy’