Killing Justice

Chapter 15

Thana: After killing Justice

Death is inevitable and comes in many forms. The first being my mother’s, Mary—that’s what I call her now, not Mum like Nabil and I used to—died from pulmonary embolism, that’s what my dad told me a few hours after he got an out of the blue call at a quarter past midnight. Then came Kayla’s death. A hit-and-run that left her broken, her stomach sliced open, blood oozing from the wound. Another form was Jasmine. The fall didn’t kill her, apparently; it was a blood clot that shot straight into her brain.

And now Justice but no one knows this, but all the same, by Monday morning, news of Justice’s disappearance has spread throughout the school like wildfire, seeping into every chat room, creating new hashtag posts every minute someone clueless gets a whiff of the gossip circulating.

Normalcy has become a thing of the past. Chaos and fear have desce