The Red Liquid

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"Every time things start to look up , everything comes crashing down on me again ....."

She tried , she tried desperately hard to open herself up to the reality of life and somehow thrive harder to do better .

Maya woke up on Sunday morning to her mother yelling. " Mayaaaaaaaa wake up , your tutor is here!!!!! " Maya sprang out of her bed , got changed and raced downstairs. Her tutor was sitting on her dining table ready to teach her . She suddenly stopped as soon as she saw who it was . A person she had never seen before , HE ? Yes , he had a tan complexion with starry black eyes .

Maya's mother ( Sophie Wills ) said , " Maya , meet your new tutor .... Ethan Walker . If you didn't know his mother and I are good friends , we were friends in college .... ". Maya couldn't necessarily hear the rest of her mother's story , she was stunned and stood in front of then in utter shock . Koby had a brother ? Maya being in complete shock and utterly overwhelmed , gave them a slight smile and sat down . Ethan , started their lesson by asking her a few questions about herself and she went on explaining , they then moved on to the in depth analysis of ' Macbeth ' by the great Shakespeare and likewise they moved on from subject to subject .

As the lessons continued she started to enjoy them and she started to understand them a bit better than she did at school , once their lesson was over . Ethan told Sophie " Mrs. Wills , your daughter is fine she just needs to work on how to present her answers other than that she knows her stuff . " He then have Maya a smile and left.

After Ethan had left the premises , Maya walked upstairs to her room . She realized that she hadn't switched her phone on since Friday night . She laid on her bed , and switched it on. As the annoying and blaring light struck her tan face. She sighed but as the notifications kept flowing in , her emotionless face turned to a slight smile. Noah and Sam has texted her and questioned her on her stressful and extremely confusing behavior. She didn't reply . Lily has begged her aimlessly to not tell Skye of her indefinite feelings for Josh . She simply sent her a "don't worry " . And annoyingly enough Josh has asked her for relationship advise , to be frank she didn't necessarily want to bother , so she subsequently left him on 'read' . And an unknown number with eight messages . It read :
" Hii Maya it's me Koby ...
hope u r doing ok ?
This is my no. btw ....
also if u r wondering Josh gave me ur no ....
lol 😂
Also just asking , Zoe is one of ur friends ryt ?
Is she single by any chance ?
Just curious ...."
Maya grinned and replied :
" hiiii Koby .... what's up ?? Thanks for asking . I am fine . It's weird that our first time talking was of me mostly crying 😭. It's cul tho . Zoe ? Huh ... pretty sure she is single . U wanna date her ? I suggest u ask Skye or Lily about her . I am trying not to get myself in the whole drama of setting people up ... sry .... nice talking to you tho ..."

She made sure not to mention her tutor to him . Koby has a brother ? Ethan . He was a very good teacher and she enjoyed learning under him . And Zoe .... he liked her , the one who said everything with a sense of sarcasm. Maya's depression had begun to cease and she hadn't had any anxiety attacks since the day before . She was starting to believe in herself again . Likewise Maya's mother has organized for Ethan to come to her house four times a week . Sunday , Tuesday , Thursday and Friday .

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As Monday graciously came around . Maya tried desperately hard to blend in with the crowd . She walked in to school . Again not a soul . She looked up at the sky , the blazing sun beating down on her tan face , she looked at her watch , it read 7:05 . She was late !

She raced down the scenic pathway with no time to spare . She ran into the classroom panting her hear out . She paused . Not a soul . She walked inside as she was breathing heavily . The timetable was written on the board ; ASSEMBLY, it read . Maya had no time to even put her chair down , so she dropped her bag flat on the floor of her classroom and raced to the hall . She saw all her friends sitting together . Zoe , Lily , Thea, Holly , Noah , Oliver and Skye . And Josh he was sitting with Koby in the row in front of them . She then scanned the room for Sam. He was not to be seen . She walked up to her friends and sat next to Zoe . And she whispered into her ear , with Lily and Skye eavesdropping . " I think Koby has a crush on you..." , she smiled and Lily told Maya " since you told Koby to ask one of us , he did and we set them up , he asked her out today .." . Maya seems so happy she squealed . It truly had been a while since she felt happy.

Assembly was over and they all walked back to class. Right before Maya was able to sit down . Noah and Oliver came running up to her . " Maya , I think you might want to see this. Sam .... he's in the bathroom .." . Maya raced alongside all of her friends to the boy's bathroom. The door was partially open and there were drops of a deep colored red liquid leading inside . At that moment the teachers arrived and Maya and Noah had already walked inside the bathroom .

Sam lay their with his uniform torn and dripping of blood . His hair was soaked in it as if he had been banging his head in the ground . His shoes and bag lay on the floor , with his books and pencil case dripping of the same red liquid ;blood . He was drenched in it . A knife had been placed beside him with minute stains of blood . And all that was left was a note titled "to Maya" . She rushed out of the bathroom after having seen the most gruesome sight ever . Noah and her Math teacher ( Mr. Dan) ran behind her and handed her the note . She grabbed it and strode away........she couldn't believe it ; her best friend had died!

Note from the author ;
Hiiii , thank you soo much for reading . And pls stayed tuned for the next update . 🌸

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