FRIENDS

ANEIKA (7:21 p.m.)

         Here we were yet again, on the other side of a crazed person with a loaded gun. I almost felt accustomed to it. My body felt numb to feeling and I couldn't tell whether it had been the coldness or the fact that I was scared. Tiffany and Zailie and now Khari stood beside me with both arms out to show that we werent going to test them.
     I felt idiotic trying to follow Cece up here to try and confront her. Before I had known it she had pulled out a gun and was aiming it at Zailie and I; She probably tricking Zailie up here before I, and the two of us what he'd as she texted our two other friend. Getting Tiffany up here by pretending to be John and Khari by pretending to be Mr. Breuer. Here we sat in her cage trapped on top of a roof in the cold. We were birds restricted in a small cage only difference, we couldn't fly away.

     She let out a cold harsh laugh that made all of us sorta jump whether emotionally or physically. "Finally I have you bitches where I want you."😈 her breathe was so harsh we could see it through the cold air.

     "Why's it always us?" Zailie threw her eyes in the air. I looked at the rest of my friends; Tiffany's face looked hard and stern as if she was lost in thought. She glanced at Khari for a bit and went back into tgought; Khari looked like he was swaying a bit but no less fear was on his face, and as for Zailie she looked beyond startled.

      "What the hell Cece, we were good until now, why are you doing this?" Zailie took a step closer to her which made Cece raise her lip.

     "Because you took something from me now I'm taking something from you." She planted her feet.

     "Our lives?" I asked almost yelling, Zailie shot me a 'shut up' glance as she edged closer.

      "Back up bitch, I'm not in the mood." She aimed it straight at Zailie as she started to fall back. Ok calm approach. No.

      "Your gonna kill us? But why?" Tiffany asked.

     "Because she's a psycho bitchhh." He slurred his last word.

     "Shut the fuck up. I'm not going to kill all of you are, just one of you." She moved the gun from one to the other. "That way it'll hurt the rest of you just as equally."

      "What the hell?" I said.

     "What'd we do ta you." Khari made a pouty face.

     "Are you really DRUNK right now?" Tiffany rolled her eyes.

      "Hey! Backstabbers don't get ta judge." He snapped at her. She looked away.

       "Shut up! You wanna know what you guys took from me? You took my boyfriend from me." She sounded like she was whining.

     "What?" Tiffany asked.

     "You took my baby Marcus from me now he's locked away in jail!"

     "Oh my god." I said more to myself. No wonder she was after us we had been the ones who had gotten her boyfriend put in jail as witnesses in the barn back in the fall.

      "Who?" Khari asked.

      "Tootsie." I said aloud avoiding all eye contact. I could feel everyone else's shock. But not as deep as mine. The girlfriend of the man who had shot my boyfriend stood here with a gun aimed at me. I've walked this road, next I get shot in the head, but I won't be as lucky. My anger started to boil up inside me like a pot of rice. Or a pan of popcorn, each cornel getting me closer to a breaking point. She pointed the gun at Zailie and started speaking to her. I was starting to black out, I couldn't even hear her, I couldn't feel the cold anymore, and fear became a foreign word.

          I guess you could say that trust isn't my forte, it was just the way that I was. Life was filled with evil and deceit and I promised myself that I would never be the victim to either or. I saw the world as a cold hard place where those with too much hope get hurt and let down. But in this moment I had made a revelation. That you cannot understand happiness until you've felt unhappiness. I could never know to trust unless I had faced deceit. I was so scared of letting myself down I was letting others down too. I thought that if you wanted to be happy you had to kick, claw and scratch for it. But in honesty, happiness was here all along. I had seen my boyfriend be shot and see him wake up from this coma all within the same year. I had learned to not trust girls like Cece and to rely on friends alot more within the same day. I was taken on this journey for a reason and up until now I didn't understand why me? But I knew that it was because I needed a chance to appreciate the things in my life.  My boyfriend who was never cheating and my family and my friends who've paved the way for me but this time it was my turn to show I cared. My turn to pave my own way.

      I lunged at Cece and a gunshot rang out.