Chapter 73: Remember to run

Aurora stiffened.

"I didn't… I have been having lectures all day and I only just got back after having lunch at the restaurant," she ratted out at once, "I'm so sorry. I can get you to a hospital."

"We only just met, Aurora. Why do such a thing to me?"

Jocelyn shook her head, staggered and fell. Aurora was quick to catch her and gently laid her on the floor. The knife clattered to the ground next to her feet. She jumped away, her breathing heavy. She pulled out her phone and dialled the emergency line.

"Hello? Please, I need help. Someone has been stabbed…"

Afterwards, she called Zik, countless times but he never picked.

*

Ezekiel was trapped in his own mess. After his lectures, he had avoided going home for as long as could but somehow Cole and Adam had found him and forced him to return home with them. Now he sat next to Aris, forcing himself not to choke from the excessive smoke they breathed out.

"You wanna do some?" Cole asked, offering him a cigarette.

"No," he said with a shake