Happanad

18.

My eyes blurred making my surroundings very hazy.Deliberately and in the least amount of conscious that I had left, my hands made it's way to my profound yet painless head.

The pain in my head only seemed painless because the stinging pain in my arm was incredibly higher in comparison.Drifted memories and thoughts hoping through my head and then vanishing and reappearing again and again.No clear faces being shown.Only pain.

My emotions didn't seem to engulfed with neither all my memories nor my surrounding.Like a plague or a disease spreader, the suffering covered the circumference of my body from my arm.

Bending down in defeat from a battle I thought I could forget and move on from yet it made me smile bitterly of the irony of it having a weak affect on me once again.

I lost.

What's the point on living?

What seemed like death awakened me and I didn't know whether to welcome it or sprint far away from it.But where could I go.No one can run away from death.

It mercilessly claimed my body,I let it fly me away into the darkness.Any last words Areeba?

Yeah, I should've killed that bastard instead of Neil.

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Sania

Reece is walking left to right circulating the room while Josiah is sitting on Reece's bed.I walk in to find this situation not so surprising at all however I don't know if I can say the same for whatever's coming next.

Josiah has his laptop in his lap, fingers tapping away in search of the correct location of where Areeba could be.

I knew there is something wrong with this whole situation.Josiah is acting weird.I don't know this kid well but our previous conversation at the park seemed a little more relaxed.

But then again,we weren't in search of a missing friend on that day, who happen to be taken away by some psychopath!

I can't take it anymore!

"I think I know where she might be!"I burst out facing Reece.

From the corner of my eyes I can see Josiah's eyes cornering me.Reece stops right away with a confused expression. Still I continue.

"Reece let's go."At this moment I didn't care about his lost expression.We were going to find Areeba before anything happens.

"Wait up.Where you going?"Josiah speaks up right after I grab Reece's Oyster card from his side table place down flatly beside Josiah.

I have this anger inside of me.I don't care whether I'm right or wrong but this tantrum is purely caused by what I witnessed the other day.

Fake ID cards.

Josiah meeting Lucian.

I breathe in sharply and reply curtly, "Call us when you figure out something.We are going to look around the area, check out few places in case we find her."

"She left from the airport which is 2hrs away, you're not going to find her anywhere here."Josiah assertively responds yet keeping this bored expression on his face.

"How can you be so sure?"Narrowing my eye lids, I question him.

"I could ask you the same thing."He's wasting my time.Deliberately. To be honest, I don't see one thing in this guy that triggered Areeba's emotions.

"It's worth a try."Reece speaks out breaking this wall of tension and revulsion between Josiah and I.

I nod and follow him out the room.