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It's cold.
A sickening chill has taken hold of my body.
A strange chill, you might say, because I feel like I'm suffocating.
My head aches.
Is it from hitting the floor or from the punch to my face?
My abdomen hurts, my chest too.
I've been stabbed. That's the reason. How many times? I don't remember.
I can't see the wounds, but I know they're there. Not that I want to see them, either; the pain, the burning, and the feeling of the blood seeping from them through my clothes, soaking the hand resting on my abdomen, are evidence enough.
I can feel my heart pounding, so fast, as if it were still fighting, as if it refused to let me lie on the ground. My breathing quickens as I bleed out on the floor.
I'm so lost, in every sense.
What time is it?... I know it's night. I know it's dark, I know no one will be looking for me at this hour. My parents are home, asleep. I should be in my room too, either sleeping or texting my friends: Roy and Robert.
Roy…Robert…
Oh God. Where are they?
I hope they've run away, or at least hidden. I don't want them to suffer the same fate as me.
Shouldn't I be upset?
If anything, I'm not.
The world around me seems to be moving, even though I can't see anything. Everything seems to be swaying or spinning. Dizziness. Thinking is getting harder and harder, breathing is getting more painful.
Mom, Dad, please forgive me. I should have known that sneaking out of the house at night would end badly. I should have stayed home. I should have been the voice of reason…
I'm losing strength. I want to feel calm. Maybe my friends are safe, maybe…maybe I bought them time to escape.
Everything is alright, everything is going to be alright. I try to calm myself down.
Now… I'm being dragged, I can't see who's doing it.
I suppose it's my murderer dragging me.
Murderer.
Have I already accepted my fate? Will I die tonight?
My blurred vision confirms it. I look at the night sky… how long have we been outside?
It doesn't matter anymore.
No, it doesn't matter anymore…
Still blurred, I can see the tiny glimmers that are the stars, and the light that is the moon.
Its light is the last thing I perceiv…