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“March?!” Kayla laughs wildly, she grabs hold of the pillar and pulls herself up. She staggered and chuckles lightly. She rests her palm on the wall to steady herself.
March stands there, watching Kayla like she’s in a movie. She doesn’t understand why Kayla’s laughing so hard, even though she just got shot in her thigh.
“You…?” Kayla burst into a pearl of laughter, tears roll down the break of her eyes and she hastily wipes them off.
“What is the meaning of this, detective?” she looks everywhere for her gun, but it is too dark that she couldn’t see where she had dropped it.
March scoff, she find it insulting to be called that title after all she’s been doing.
“Detective? Yes!” March grin, “Currently? Nope!” she beams as if what she’s saying makes any sense to her, she tilts her head and puffs out air.
“I got fired!” she whines, rubbing the bottom of the gun on her head. “After all the excellent work that I did, it only took one scheme from my colleagues to get me fired!” she scoffed as if the incident is playing afresh in her head.
Kayla move a little closer to the pillar and rest her back against the wall. She’s getting weak but she’s fighting the urge to break down in front of March.
“So?” Kayla stretch out her arms, wondering how that justify the reason why she just got shot by her. One thing that baffles her is the fact that March could be pointing a gun at her, not when she’s there as her cover.
“I left the state!” she sigh, “when I newly got here, I met Mia by chance and she complain about how someone is going to cheat her. I guess we were both going through the same shit differently. So, I agree to help her get back what belongs to her.” March scoff, “that bitch!” she mumbles, tapping the gun on her head.
“Why did you shoot me? Stop saying bullshit and tell me why you fucking shot me!” Kayla demands, she hiss and carefully drags her foot towards March, closing the little gaps in between them.
“Because those bitch paid me to get rid of that fool and her fucking baby. But you kind of ruined my plans and you made me look like a loser for the second time!” March spat angrily, she grabs Kayla’s dress and glare into her eyes.
“That goddamn fucking bitch called me a loser because I failed to do what they paid me to do.” she push her away and Kayla hit her back on the pillar.
“Isn’t that what you are? A pathetic loser!” Kayla laughs, leaps and kicks March in the face.
That seems to come as a surprise to March, she falls to the floor and Kayla jumps on her. Kayla grabs a handful of her hair and lands a punch on her face.
“You bitch!” March struggle to break free from Kayla but it seems impossible.
“I thought you were a skilled cop, that’s why I seek your help,” Kayla yells and throws another punch to her face. “I wouldn’t have assigned you if I knew you were just a loser who sold her dignity for chump change.” she make to punch her again when there comes another gunshot with Melanie’s cries filling the air.Published by Nôv'elD/rama.Org.
“My Mel!” Kayla gasps, she looks around but couldn’t find anything better. She sneaks her hand to March’s boot and pulls out a knife.
March widens her eyes when the knife makes contact with her face.
“Next time, stand with the truth no matter how shitty it might be!” Kayla moves the knife to her leg and stab her on both legs.
“Ahh!” March moans, she tries to push Kayla off her but she got stabbed on her shoulders as well.
“If I were you, I will stop here and face the consequences of my wrongdoing.” Kayla throws the knife away and drags her foot to where the noise is coming from.
She traces the voice to the back of the big dark building. Her mouth drops open when she sees Mia, pointing her at Alfred who is seen shielding Melanie on the floor with blood oozing out of her tums.
The breeze blows, sending a chill down Kayla’s face as she watches her friend’s lifeless body lying peacefully on the floor on top of the cliff.
She shakes her head nervously and drags her foot towards them.
“It can’t be! No! It can’t be!” she mentally slaps herself as she drags her foot to where they were.
“Finally, I will finally find peace knowing the two of you are out of my life, I will be glad to hold a memorial for you every year.” Mia chuckles, she wraps her fingers around the gun and points it at Alfred’s skull.
“Goodbye, my dear, brother!” She grins darkly, shuts her lids and fires the gun three times at him.
“Ahh,” Kayla whimpers, she staggered backwards.
Alfred gets up from the floor with his eyes wide open in shock.
Mia gasp and move back, she expects to see Alfred on the floor in his pool of blood.
Melanie’s eyes were shutting on their own, she sees the blurry view of Kayla before completely drifting into the unconscious.
Alfred presses his palms on his mouth, his eyes bulge in terror.
Mia tries pulling the trigger but her hands were shaking and she couldn’t seem to hold the gun.
Kayla smiles sadly, tears roll down her eyes and she moves her gaze to see the bullet holes in her tums.
Alfred seems too shocked that he doesn’t know what to do at that moment.
“Please make sure you save her,” Kayla whispers before falling off the cliff and into the sea.
“Kayla!” Alfred yells, he rushes to grab her hands but she has already slipped before he could get to her.
“Kayla!” he yells at the top of his voice before falling to his knees.