ani's

previous night, rocking my now stiff body and ignoring the

ignored them, I couldn't seem to think, or t

ends and wailing. I knew I wasn't supposed to think like this bu

oorway or the way she did it so expertly that her mascara didn't smudge that bothered me,

pen and I could hear the loud voices of seve

e undertakers pass, and in curiosity I looked up only to find a gro

opped the coffins to the ground and pried it open, I immediate

t was

t but the burns they had sustained was so much it w

was so intense that I had to hold onto the coffins for

I had been suddenly kept in

r now cold bodies that laid stiffly in the boxes.

ven bulge. I felt fresh tears build up in my eyes but I did nothing to stop them

until I felt someone tug at my arm gently. Looking up, I foun

t felt bad for thinking she was faking it... almost. That w

uldn't help but notice the way people stared at us... p

t when suddenly I heard someone mention som

tion to the middle aged man who had said it

uldn't believe that they would easily regard Joyner as t

were the same set of people my fath

y, cursing at death for taking my father an

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e dead and buried, and ever since it has bee

nute from intense sadness; some of them still brought in flowers and gif

am and I in like we were his daughters. He offered to cater

nfair but still a little ni

my surroundings. I still had flashes of moments my par

into dancing even though he knew she couldn't distingui

ile momentarily, allowing me to relive in the sweetness I had experienced in the past when sud

ntruder had been only to come face to face with Alpha Joyner w

nched

a few steps towards me while I

ser!" I yelled, bac

o where I stood against the wall. "You know what I want from y

pha

the two of us present." He quickly interrupted me w

I cried softly, "Do not,

cutting me off. "You can never be like a daughter to me when al

of the dark look which had suddenly formed in his

bid to make him have a rethink about what he was trying to

r...when there are a few oth

s down my spine; but I couldn't believe that th

longer in its keyhole, and turned to look at him in fear only to find him wa

triumph still evident on his face while I wait