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 screamed from my lungs.

I ran towards my best friend, my sister, my other half. No no no no-no-no. I kept on chanting the same Word over and over again. 

"Ava!!!!!" I kept myself from sobbing as I dragged myself towards her trying to not get shot by the rival gang. The way to her feeling like an endless road that kept bringing me to the same spot over and over again. Her head turned towards me as she smiled a very sad smile. I ran towards her my body pushing itself to its limit. My breath was hitched my lungs were burning, my body soaring in excruciating pain for my other half.

 Finally, I reached her side. I fell to my knees. " Ava... Ava-, you have to stay with me... I'm so so so sorry- I'm so sorry.... please hold on. I'm going to get help please just hold on. This is my fault"

My hands were shivering as I got out my mobile phone. What was the number of the Ambulance again? Sh*t. Come on. Come on. 911 yeah that's it. I dialed the number as I waited for someone to answer. I was waiting for a few seconds but it felt like time was moving faster for Ava I saw as blood began to pool around her, I removed my scarf to stop the wound from bleeding. Come on, come on, come on. A sob left my throat.

"Hello, Emergency center how may I help you?" By now I was sobbing hysterically. The floor tainted with Ava's blood and my tears.

"Hello... please my Sister got shot..... please I'm begging you to come fast.... we are at an abandoned mall close to the city hall..... please."

"We will be right there Ma'am please make sure to stop the bleeding with a cloth, make sure she is awake she can not sleep, and make sure-" I looked down at my phone the battery died. Why now?  Crap crap crap. What the hell was the last thing she wanted to say????

 I tore off a part of my t-shirt holding it to my sister's wound, my white shirt now drenched in my own sister's blood. I waited for what felt like hours constantly sobbing, a few minutes passed and I saw that Ava was slowly leaving the thread that she was hanging unto.

"Ava stay with me, oh my God, please. Ava"  

I never prayed, I really never did but at a moment like this, I remembered all the sermons I attended as a Kid, trying, hoping that this would really work. I shut my eyes squeezing them. I kept repeating the same everytime.

Oh Lord, please help my sister, I promise I will go to church every Sunday, I promise that I will forever worship you, Lord. Please, I would give you anything, I am begging you.

"Jen." I heard somebody shout I looked up opening my once closed eyes to find Sebastian running towards me shooting people in the process.

He knelt in front of me and cussed. After we broke up she started to dislike him even though he was our boss. We heard her cough. I looked down, her once lively eyes looked lifeless, once again she coughed again blood coming up. I raised her head and laid it on my hand.

"Bug" she whispered her voice was hoarse. I smiled sadly at her giving her a reason to hold on. To stay and to smile with me. "Don't forget that I love you and you are the best person that was ever given to me, my other half, my sister, my love, my Bug, my little insect, please don't for-"

"Don't say that we are getting you out of here got it you go-"

"Shut up *cough* and let me talk. You have to promise to live your life after this and you will live your life to the fullest after I pass on. Live. Love. Hate. Regret. I want you to feel it all, and when we meet again in heaven we can talk about them *cough* about all your adventures in the world " She coughed again and now I was full-on crying.

"I said promise me, Bug" I was hearing the sirens from afar coming closer. The People spread around had fled from the mall while harmed once were carried away by their Gang members. Maggie was long gone so were the rest of them. I turned back to my sister who was barely hanging on.

"You will not die Ava don't say that please I beg you."

"Promise me now" her voice was stern but extremely weak. The Ambulance just parked and after a second they came rushing towards us with their stretcher.

" I promise." The people took her asking who was coming with I stood up looked around hoping to see a sign of any of my so-called family around the area, disappointed with them I finally spoke up.

"I'm coming with you." They put her in the car I told Sebastian to meet me at the hospital.

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They rolled her stretcher into the operating room .Sebastian and I have been waiting for a few hours when a doctor came out. 

"Ava Smith's family?"

"Here"

She came towards me and handed me a note which was in an envelope name written in cursive. I felt on the envelope and felt something hard in it too. I looked at her and furrowed my eyebrows. Huh?

"We found this in her pockets, and here are her clothes."

I nodded asking the next question that I dreaded with my life. "What about her is she okay?"

"I'm sorry, but she didn't make it"

Everything slowly dawned upon me. And do you know who was to blame? Me.

I broke down, I was a crying mess.

My 13-year-old best friend, my other half, my sister just died.

She was supposed to have her first date tomorrow night.

I sobbed my heart out.

I looked at the note. I didn't even think of reading it.

She was gone because of me.

Me. And no one else is to be blamed. 

Only. 

Me.

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