The shot echoed through the room, making Jake’s ears ring. It had been a while since he took part in a gun fight inside a closed space, and his tears were too much, and Bert’s movement was too much.
Jake knew what he had done, but even still, he couldn cope with the fact that what he did to Bert made him a murderer.
Erything was too much...
“J-Jake...” Bertrand’s voice rang through his ears, but Jake refused to look no matter what.
He would snap if anyone ever made him look at what he’d just done.
He was Bert’s friend from even before he could think of himself as a social functioning person.
Still... Jake shot him out of anxiety, out of fear.
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