Her name was Orbit. That's what the doctors told her when she woke up in a room that smelled like death and white bed sheets that were covered in blood.
You have short term amnesia, they had said.
What they didn't explain was why there were cops outside her hospital room, or why the two adults near the wall were crying, arms clutching onto each other like a lifeline.
She had no clue what was going on, but she knew, just by the shattered look in their eyes that something tragic had happened to them.
Looking back at her hands, which she now realized were chained to the bed, and covered in blood, she shuddered.
What did she do?
One of the officers had separated himself from the squad, walking up to the edge of her bed. He carried himself in a way that radiated power, and although she willed herself to stay calm, her palms started to sweat.
"Orbit Fane," he announced gravely, looking straight through her eyes, mocking, morbid.
"You are under arrest for the murder of Calico River."
The adults cried harder.
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Orbit
Teen FictionOrbit is not a killer. At least, that's what she believes. After she wakes up in the hospital with blood on her hands and the cops outside the door, she is not the one that needs convincing. She has a week to prove her innocence. But when her short...
