The Fate

The silence was creeping over the room. Not even the air conditioner was making a sound. Yet someone was screaming inside Renata’s brain. She kept groaning and groaning trying to lift the packet up from Hazel’s legs. The packet kept crushing Hazel. Her legs were turning into jelly.

Renata kept raising the packet but it was too heavy for her. Suddenly her hands slipped and the packet fell with a loud thud on Hazel. The packet burst open under the pressure and when the smoke dissipated, Hazel too was gone.

“Haze!!” shouted Renata and sat up breathing heavily. She kept catching her breath for a minute and trying to look around. She didn’t know where she was. All she knew was she had a nightmare.

She tried opening and closing her eyes to see better. It was not the Young Building, that building would be full of chatter by now and she would be surrounded by her people. Shit! Her people! Did they leave safely? Did Hazel get out? Where was she? It didn’t look like Ava Building either.

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