CHAPTER SIXTY NINE - WHENEVER YOU'RE READY

AALIYAH

You could say death gives one a whole new perspective about life, never will i have agreed till i as there-

-hanging in the imbalance between life and death, swirling in an oblivion that held the truth.

And there's just something about that, that changes you, that is if, you make it out.

If you make it back.

But the real truth is, you have to have tasted death to understand the true meaning of life.

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TWO WEEKS EARLIER

I shut my eyes, shaking frantically at the sound of the gunshot that managed to pierce right above me.

He groaned, clutching his bleeding wound as he placed the gun to the table in anger before hitting me across my face with his feet. 

"This was not how it was supposed to end" He muttered, blood spilling through my lips as i rolled.

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