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Author: Yemerej ongh
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JOJO'S POV

“Let me out of here!” An annoying female voice shrills followed by some thumping against metal.

“Shut up,” I groan against the excruciating pain all over my body.

Something hits my head and my eyes flash on the provocator.

“Wake up Bonehead.” She glares at me from the other side of the moving van we're trapped in and I know with every part of me that if she was just an inch closer, her soul would be staring up at this scene as it helplessly floats towards the place it belongs to. Hell.

I banish the thoughts from my head and fix her a smile, “It's such a disappointment to see you, Claire.”

“The feeling's mutual, Josephine. Come to think of it, you really seem familiar.”

She arches a thoughtful eyebrow, “Like we’ve met before. And we might've been friends.”

“Shut up, Claire. The idea of that sounds nauseating.”

The van we're in is bigger and older than the one I was dragged into at the hospital and there are lots of tools hanging on torn nets along the sides of the
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