Seventy Nine

KATHY

The voice of the other woman yelling beside me made me realize she wasn’t just staring into thin air, but was dead.

Fear gripped the minute I held on to her shoulders as she fell to the floor making a loud sound.

“I can’t believe this” I said to myself remembering she looked fine a while ago and more like someone lost in her own thoughts but instead, she was completely out of life.

I tried fighting back the tears that were slowly rolling down my cheeks, as I also wondered why I was surprisingly in tears.

Her hands felt so cold in mine, that I was so scared holding on to them for long.

I took my hands and eyes off her as I yelled for Jess to call for the ambulance.

“Hurry!!” I yelled, shaking from seeing a dead woman lay in front of me.

Jess immediately ran out of the shed yelling to the guards calling out to them to bring in the stretcher.

I sat on the floor with the dead woman in my hands.

I was more than traumatized watching how lifeless she was in my arms.

I had my fingers to