Anna watched the sun come up for
the fifth day in a row. Sleep had eluded her since the accident. So did her
memory. Reaching up to touch the heavy bandage that was wrapped around her head
and was covering the bullet wound, Anna tried to remember what had happened.
She screwed her eyes shut and tried to make her brain work but all she could
recollect was the sound of a gunshot and a hot stinging pain on the side of her
head. The doctors had told her that despite the damage and the pain, the bullet
had merely grazed her. They had also said that she was lucky to be alive. Anna
wasn’t sure she agreed.
The
entirety of the sun was now breaking free of the horizon, spewing blood-red
rays of light across the sky. The residents of the San Fernando Valley below
Anna’s window were beginning to awaken. Anna watched on and wished that they
wouldn’t for somewhere in the city the person who had tried to murder her would
also be waking up. Some say that ignorance is bliss but Anna disagreed. She
knew that her shooter could return at any time to finish the job and her
amnesia made each moment that passed exponentially more agonizing than the pain
she felt in her head.
Anna got up and leaned her head
on the windowpane, looking down at the ground below her. She was currently on
the seventh floor of her apartment building which rested on top of a cliff that
dropped at least 100 feet lower. If she jumped from the window the fall to the
bottom would certainly kill her and end both pain from the wound and the
torment of her amnesia.
And then it came to her. The
thought of jumping from the window clicked on a part of her brain that made her
remember that her would-be-murderer was not
waking up right now. In fact, the person
was already awake for the shooter was she. Anna looked back out the window and
contemplated whether a second attempt at suicide was worth it.
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This post was based off of the following writing prompt: http://writetodone.com/2012/07/07/scene-stealers-writing-promt/
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