Another Life

Karen

I walk into the police station. I told my family the police needed a statement from me. So they dropped me off here. They bring me to a room. Karen is in there sitting a table handcuffed. They have me walk in. A police officer walks in with me and stands in the corner.

"Hi Sofie nice to see you again," Karen says as I sit down.

"Wish the feeling was mutual," I say. "Look everytime I see you. Your either trying to push me off a cliff steal my best friend shoot her or shoot me. Now I know I've never seen you before you have never seen me. Why do you keep doing this to me?" I ask. I see Karen's case file. I ask the officer if I can look through it. He nods.

They asked her why she wanted to hurt Zoey and me in our house. She responded with, I didn't want to hurt Zoey I just wanted to hurt Sofie. Why they ask. It's not for me she says. What do you mean they ask. I was hired. By who? They ask. Karen never answered. Turns out Karen is 23. What then why-? This doesn't make since.

"Who hired you?" I ask. She pauses for a moment thinking.

"Why do you want to know?" She asked.

"Because you tried to kill me. Whoever this is who hired you might do something else," I say.

"Look I can't tell you who but I can tell you. If I failed they would finish you off for good this time," Karen says.

"Please tell me who. I'm scared I don't want to die," I say.

"Then fight for your life," Karen says. I leave the room all that runs through my head is, fight for your life, fight for your life, fight for your life.

I walk towards the cliff. I text Zoey as I walk their to meet me there. I walk the trails. My paranoia is in my head because, I keep looking behind me. My mind is telling me to run.

I run for the cliff. I reach the cliff. I can end it right now. Whoever wants to kill me. Won't have to deal with me anymore. I can just end all the pain here and now. I can't. I can't force me to jump. Memories start rushing to my head. Karen trying to push me off the cliff. Trying to push her back so I don't die. Finally falling off the cliff. Heavy set of tears running down my face. I walk away from the cliff slowly. I run into someone and scream.

Thank God it's only Zoey. She looks terrible. She got no sleep last night. She couldn't sleep everytime she closed her eyes. She saw Karen pointing a gun at her. She ended up sleeping in my bed with me.

"Sofie wants wrong?" She asked. I told her what I went to the police station for really and what Karen said.

"We have to tell the police," She says.

"They always know," I say.

"Well aren't they going to do something?" She asked. I shake my head no.

"They said to stay home and be aware," I say. She looks out over the cliff. We both play two different memories in our head.

"We have to fight back," I say.

"But how?" Zoey asked.

"I don't know yet," I say.

Author notes

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