Fiction: Group 4
“I promise”
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“Are you okay? Do you need me to come over?” Keith asked.
No, She was not okay. Xina trusted her, Xina believed in her. A rash decision, a failed part as a sister had
cost her sister’s life, but what can she do now? It’s all over, she can’t come back,
“I’m fine.”
“You’re not fooling me at all, Rina - “Keith started
“Just stop. I’m fine, okay. I don’t need any consoling, “Rina snapped back. When she saw the shocked look
on her boyfriend’s face she looked down, shame faced. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean to-“
“Save it, I know how you’re feeling now. I’m not blaming you, but don’t feel too bad about yourself,
okay?” Keith said. He, like Rina is equally close to Xina, childhood friends at least. Keith has been taking
care of Rina and Xina like family. “You didn’t mean for it to happen, so... Don’t blame yourself.”
But he’s wrong. It was my fault. Rina thought bitterly. She could remember it like yesterday. The day her
world started falling apart.
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It was raining. Cars beside the rocky pavements whooshed pass like wild horses. The two sisters, each with a
bag of groceries in hand, walked on the rocky pavements, joking about when Rina was going to get
married. Out of a sudden, a man, obviously in a hurry, ran past Rina, knocking her in the process. The bag
of groceries, inside filled to the brim with Groceries goes flying up in the air, falling like a shower of rain on
the roads. Without looking up, Xina drops to her knees, picking up the food and putting it in the bag.
What happened next was unbearable to think. A loud honk, the smell of burning tires, and…
A scream
A scream embedded in Rina’s mind forever. The piercing scream that came from Xina before her body was
thrown back a few meters. Rina could only stare with her eyes open, her mind already forgetting how to
think. Gathering her thoughts, she crawled over to where her bloodied sister was.
“Oh my god, Oh my god, there’s been an accident! Someone! Someone call an ambulance!” She heard
someone say. She could hear the opening and closing of the car door as the driver- flustered, started to call
for the ambulance. The crowd formed around her was suffocating and unbearable to the least. The tears
from her eyes started to blur around her.
“Little girl? Little girl? Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?” a stranger had asked her. The words of
concern just drifted past her, not making it in her brain. All she could focus on was the bloody mess of her
sister.
“Xina…Xina… Talk to me Xina!!!” She pleaded her unconscious sister to reply.
Silence dropped like an anvil.
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“Beep------- Beep----------- Beep-----------“The steady beep of the monitor sounded
