By: André Grandier
The sun shone bright and hot up in a lovely, cloudless, blue sky. Karen Marquez and her friend Gracia trotted lazily on the track as they spoke
“So, how did he take it? Was it easy?” Gracia asked Karen eagerly.
“To be honest, it wasn’t easy,“ Karen confessed.
“When I told Sami I didn’t want to be his girlfriend anymore he got really upset”
“And what happened ?”Gracia said .
“Well…” Karen giggled. “He begged me not to dump him ! Can you believe it? What a looser !!”
“Totally” Gracia agreed. Gracia was Karen’s best friend. She was tall and tough, muscular and even mean and evil looking, her chocolate-toned skin matched her deep brown eyes which were also the same color as her short hair always tied back into a ponytail. Karen on the other hand had silky white skin, her glossy, brownish-dark hair was shoulder-length and her mischievous golden-brown eyes made her one of the prettiest girls in the whole school.
“I had to tell him I had a new boyfriend, but he told me something that frightened me”
“What ?” Gracia asked warily.
“He said that I belonged to him and that he wouldn’t accept this” Gracia burst out laughing.
“From what movie did he get that line? !” Then she repeated nastily in an high toned voice imitating Sami. “You belong to me ,I won’t accept this” The two friends burst out laughing hysterically. The sound of a whistle at distance made them turn. Mr. Valencia was calling the whole class to get changed, the two of them ran to the gym to change to their normal clothes, after that they went to fourth period. Karen had Geometry 1A and Gracia Biology. They waved goodbye to each other, oblivious that it will be the last.
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Karen tried hard to solve the area of a 12 by 15 rectangle when she felt a vibration in her pocket , carefully and making sure no one was looking she took out her cell phone. It was a message from Gracia. Karen read it.“Noemi I have to talk to u it’s very important I’ll meet you
At the Gym at 3:30 and please be there”
Confused by her friend’s message she wondered what she wanted. The last hour of class seemed eternal, Karen was eager to know what was that so important that Gracia needed to tell her. She couldn’t wait to the accorded time to know it so she decided to go right to her class at the end of the period. At last the bell rang. Karen stormed out the door surprised to see that the perfect bright, sunny day had turned cloudy and gray as if the day’s happiness had been driven away and now sadness was held in the atmosphere. No time to think about that Karen thought. She went straight to Mrs. Reynosa’s room, Gracia’s Biology teacher.
“Hi Mrs. Reynosa !” greeted Karen.
“Hi Karen how are you?” said Mrs. Reynosa warmly
“Good thanks, uhh, I was wondering if Gracia is still here?” Mrs. Reynosa scrutinized Noemi’s face then in a serious tone she said
“Graica didn’t come to class today” now Karen was really confused, she thanked Mrs. Reynosa and walked away. Still feeling her gaze hammering her neck Karen glanced at her wrist watch. It was 3:15. Karen hurried to the gym, on her way there she realized that the hallways were oddly empty , then she remembered that many people had gone to the football game Poly High School against Van Nuys High School. She wasn’t surprised to see that the gym was empty as well. Karen sat on a bicycle and waited, waited, and waited. Karen took a look at her watch. 4:10 pm already.
I am so out of here Karen thought bitterly. Just when she was about to leave she something very wrong and dreadful. Little drops of red blood stained the wooden floor her heart started to pound hard and fast in her chest as she started stoned at the red liquid. The drops led to a small closet in the corner of the gym. She walked toward it, slowly, warily. She hesitated. Finally, with a trembling hand she opened the closet.
Karen stepped back, shocked in mute horror. She wanted to scream but her throat felt as dry as dirt. She wanted to run but her feet were planted in the floor. Karen felt the dizzy faintness spread through her body. She looked away and covered her mouth to stop the vomit from coming out, then she looked back at the horrible image of Gracia’s dead body. Karen could still see the terror in Gracia’s lifeless eyes and purple face, her mouth was open uttering a silent scream. The deep wounds on her throat and stomach still bleeding, still fresh. Abruptly she turned and ran just to be stopped by a pair of big and strong arms. Dazzled she looked up to see her ex-boyfriend Sami looking lovingly at her
“I knew you’d come my love” said Sami. Terrified as she was she understood it all.
“What have you done you sick psychopath ?!! Why did you kill her? ! Why?!!!!” Sami’s face turned wild.
“ Don’t you understand?!! She wanted to separate us ! But don’t worry my darling we will be together for ever !!!!!”
Karen felt cold and warm all at the same time her body trembling all over, yet all of a sudden she felt rage surging up inside her. She turned her hand into a fist, looking vehemently at Sami, and with all her might threw blindly a punch at him aiming for the face, fortunately she had good aim. Karen’s fist came crashing against Sami’s nose, then ran out the door feeling as tired as if she had been running for hours.
The front door was locked. Desperately, she whirled around and ran to the back door which led to the lockers. Karen ran though the large rows of navy-blue lockers one after the other until finally she spotted the back exit door opened. Karen had reached out the door and was about to jump down the three steps before her when a pair of strong hands pushed her hard from behind, her hand surged for something to grab but found nothing but thin air. She raised her arms to cover her face, then heard the sickening snap as her body bashed against the cold hardness of the marble floor and almost instantly felt the excruciating pain. Karen reached out for her leg screaming wildly, her piercing screams echoing through the emptiness of the school. Quickly Sami covered Karen’s mouth tightly and dragged her back into the gym, back to the gruesome scene of her murdered friend.
“You and I will be together whether you like it or not” .Sami told Karen.
“YOU ARE SICK !!” Karen yelled twisting in pain as she was dragged. They finally got inside the Gym. Sami’s eyes shone with excitement.
“You are, and always be mine” Sami said sadistically as he licked Karen’s cheek and ripped her blouse open. Karen tried helplessly to get him off her, but all her efforts were in vain, hot wetness welled up in her eyes.
“Please Sami don’t do this !!” begged Karen.
“Shut up !!!!” screamed Sami. More pain swept over her when something cold and sharp penetrated her stomach, then it came crashing down again and again. Suddenly the pain faded away, she could feel nothing , nor the pain, nor Sami’s body over her, nor her body at all, just then her sight became blurry, and she was gone.
-- THE END.
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