In one swift motion, I jumped off the chair and was about to go out the door when Krystle stepped in my way.

"Move," I said.

"What do you think you are doing?" she asked.

"I'm going to The Ridge," I replied, annoyed.

"That's a journey of more than eight hours! Bebe, atleast think about what you're doing."

"You're right, I should think. My best friend is probably dead and I should think." I squeezed my eyes shut, pretending to engrossed in deep thought and opened them after a few seconds. "Done. Am I allowed to go now?"

She rolled her eyes. "You're not."

"Who are you, my mother?" I snapped at her.

I pushed my way past her before she responded and hurried past the lake.

Who does she think she is? I thought angrily.

I turned right onto the main road and stopped abruptly. About five hundred metres ahead, a group of Kreaners stood together, talking.

Kreaners in Fayetown? I wondered. Sure, there were Kreaners in Fayetown, but not so many. Just enough to keep our population of one thousand in order.

I decided to use the other road. Anything to avoid them.

You didn't do anything. Why are you so scared? I asked myself.

I reached the bus station and walked up to the counter. "Ridge campus, please," I told the man there.

"Girlie, didn't ya hear? Ridge been attacked. The whole area been quarantined. No bloody bus goin' in or outta it," said the pudgy man, without even glancing up from his computer.

I bit my lip in frustration. Of course it'd be quarantined. The attack was a punch in the government's gut.

Still worrying about Beca, I headed home again. As my feet walked on the road they very well knew, I found myself almost praying out loud. Please don't let her be dead. Please let her be alive and happy and healthy and as annoying as ever.

"Hey!" a male voice called out. I snapped out of my daze and looked around. I silently cursed myself for being stupid enough to walk on the same road that I had kept away from to avoid the Kreaners.

"Yes?" I said.

"Where are you going?" the Kreaner asked.

"Home," I said coolly.

"Why were you out in the first place? It's not safe out here now, kid. We're about to put the whole city on lock down. Stay in."

"I- I'm sorry, I'll head home now," I apologised.

Whole city on lock down? What for?

***

I locked the doors and windows, as we were supposed to do in a lock down situation.

Snow lightly fell on the windows and the pavement outside. It was beautiful, but my mind was too preoccupied worrying about what happened at the Ridge to think about its beauty.

An hour passed. Two. Five. I was getting more and more frustrated.

The hours turned into days. Those red lights on the pavements outside that notified the public of a lock down didn't stop blinking.

Boredom started to settle in. Mrs. Carson sneaked in food through the back door, since we weren't supposed to leave our houses. I had no one to keep me company except for books, but after a while, I got bored of that too.

The days dragged on and on and on. Eat, read, sleep, repeat. I crossed days on the calendar, counting the days of lock down.

The process-of-doing-nothing-and-slowly-going-mad was going fine until the devil himself knocked on the door.

Had I known what waited for me on the other side, trust me, I would have grabbed a knife and hid in the attic.

But instead, I answered when I heard the word 'Kreaners'. Because they would have kicked the door down anyway.

"Why-," I began to say, but stopped myself in time. Being rude to Kreaners can have harsh results. I found that out the hard way. "How may I help you?"

"Are you Beatrix Maxinova?"

"Yes, why?" My stomach twisted into knots for no reason.

"You're wanted for questioning."

"Regarding what?" I tried to keep my tone normal.

"Regarding the death of Vinn Maxinova."

***

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