Please don’t depart me.

I search for, recognizing a paramedic coming into behind Lance, and I stand to hurry them. “Assist me, please!”

“We will take it from right here,” they inform Scarlet, however she doesn’t transfer. Her lips are transferring however nothing is popping out. She’s fully checked out.

I transfer on autopilot and pull her away, although my head tells me to let her keep it up. She stands off to the aspect, trying down at the place Nina bleeds.

I place my palms on the again of my head, praying to the gods that she can be okay. She needs to be okay. She promised me.

“Sc-car-let.”

“Keep fucking nonetheless!” Lance shouts at Joey from behind me.

“Put the gun down!” I hear the paramedic shout, forming a protect round Nina and getting low to the bottom.

I flip to see Joey barrelling in direction of Scarlet with the knife nonetheless clenched to his chest. “Nina! Oh god, N-nina. I-I’m so sorry!” Joey shrieks.

I flip as Lance’s voice shakes with warning. “Cease!”

“Sc-ar-l-let. I-I didn’t imply to, I—”

My physique jolts because the gun fires. I blink slowly, my coronary heart thudding quicker than any rhythm that’s wholesome as Joey’s physique crumbles to the bottom with a sickening thump.

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