Fate

Fate [Prologue]

Harmony’s Point Of View

    We were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.

 

    That’s how we explained it to the detectives, our families, our friends. Simply enough it started and how it managed to turn into tragedy I will never fully understand.

 

     Overtime we just had to start accepting the fact, that bad things happen to good people. When we weren’t running for our lives, we spent hours, nights, days trying to figure out what we did, where we went wrong. How can good people end up like this? And the answer to that is there really is no answer.

 

    It’s when you look back you realize that even though you’re a good person, we all make bad choices. No matter how hard we try, no one can be perfect. But if we could just pause and think ahead we could save a lot. Maybe even a life. Or in this case, eight lives. If only we could know right when we need to know, what’s good for us and what’s bad. Eight lives that could have been saved. Just by one simple choice.

 

    Trying to stay positive in this, is like trying to light a candle in a rainstorm. No matter how much we tried to encourage each other, we all knew deep down nothing could be the same. This tunnel may have an end, but part of all of us will always be in the shadows.

Ryleigh‘s Point Of View

    Fate; An illusion people create so they can have hope. So they can believe that everything that happens in life isn’t simply by coincidence, by random. Fate is an illusion created so people don’t have to fear that in the end everything won’t turn out like it should. So people don’t have to fear that the end can be a cruel place.

    In life I’ve been told everything happens for a reason. That there is some kind of fate. I’ve been told that the good, the bad, and the things in-between all happen to reach some great conclusion, some wonderful end. I’ve been told things will eventually even out, that there is a fate. Until now, I’d never once, questioned it, this idea of a destiny,  but I guess someone's faith is never truly tested until it hits home.

    I was at the wrong place at the wrong time. Me, my 2 best friends (Harmony and Parker) and my boyfriend (Seth). We were at the wrong place at the wrong time and a string of countless horrible events occurred to us. Occurred to our families, and that makes it impossible for me to not question fate.

    It’s been six months since it happened and I now sit on a plane for a new start, but a part of me already knows that the past will follow me wherever I go.  I close my eyes. I try to let go of it all. I try to let go of this horrible memory, but I can’t. It’s six months later and the rain falls silently against the window of this plane, and the sky’s a dismal gray, just like that night, and I can’t help it. I can’t help but relive every last moment in my mind and I bet Harmony, Seth  and Parker can’t help it either.