FIRST KILL

Depression had already set in to Linda's lonely and terrible life. Although she bullied people to make her feel better and to stay relevant but she was still very lonely, and very difficult.

She had to fend for herself emotionally, psychologically and mentally, no one was there for her. Her mother was too busy being the CEO and her father worked all day to avoid contact with his wife. Sometimes, he doesn't even come home.

What can make me feel better? I need something that would always make me happy. Linda always thought until one day, she ran into her school seniors taking hard drugs.

Every students would have ran back after seeing the seniors with drugs. The boys were also dangerous and part of the school nonentity. But Linda was in good terms with the the boys. She moves closer to the three of them and looks at them as they took the drugs.

On a large table before them was a bottle of alcohol, some cigarettes and some hard and dangerous substances. The boys were puffing, smoking, sniffing and drinking as they wished. Where they were, was an abandoned empty classroom that was usually used for home economics classes, but was later proposed to be used for something else but unfortunately, due to an issue or the other, the project wasn't completed.

The building was thereafter abandoned, it was centered a bit away from the building with classrooms and very close to the school gate. No one, would notice the boys there.

"Mamacita." The first boy calls. "What are you doing here?"

"I don't even know." Linda smiles. "can I have a taste?"

"No!" The second boy retorts.

"You are a girl, you shouldn't take things like this, it's bad for your health." The third boy furthers.

"Bad for my health? But you are taking it too."

"We actually take it to make us feel better." The third boy says as he lights another stick of cigarettes. "It helps us a lot."

Hearing it makes them feel better, Linda got interested immediately. She has been severely looking for something to make her feel better for a while now. "I need something to make me feel better too." Linda says and Carries the bottle of alcohol, gulping a lot at once.

"Hey!" The first boy exclaims.

"Stop it!" The second boy says and hurriedly collects the bottle from her. "You shouldn't drink like that, it's your first time."

"Do you want to get drunk and implicate us?" The first boy asks.

Linda didn't give any replies, the alcohol made her feel a little bit better but not totally better. She collects the cigarettes from the guys standing right next to her and puffs for a while, she did so well. It was as if she had been smoking for a while. And it made her feel very better. "You guys should have introduced me to this a long time ago." She says and she continues smoking the cigarettes.

The boys were at first shocked, but later they felt relaxed and went ahead with the flow. Linda sniffed a little of the substances, and again it was as if all her troubles disappeared.

"Do you like it?" The first boy asks again.

"Yes." Linda answers as she exhaled deeply. "I would be paying you guys now, you have to be supply these substances every time I need them."

Linda packs some of the substances and picks a pack of cigarettes, then exits the place. The rush take of alcohol made a little tipsy, but she was strong enough to control it. Though, she slept all through in the class but she didn't misbehave.

When she woke, it was almost closing hours, the alcohol gave her a very sound sleep. It's been ages since she slept like that.

Her parents weren't home when she returned from school, and she was very happy. Apart from the house maid and gate keeper no one else was at home. She matched straight to her room, sat on the floor, and brought out her cigarettes then begun smoking and also sniffing the substances, her excitement was too much that she didn't remember to lock her room door.

The house maid was cleaning her parents room, when she perceived something really strange. "Smoke? Who is smoking? I guess it's that good for nothing gate keeper." She rushes out to go to the gate keeper. But she notices the smoke was smoking from Linda's room. As Linda didn't remember to lock the door, she enters the room and was shocked to death with what she saw. "Linda?"

Linda looks at the maid and cursed beneath her breath. "Goddamnit!!"

"What are you doing?" The maid asks moving closer to her. "Why are you doing all these?"

"It's non of your business!" Linda retorts. "Make sure you don't mention this to my parents, is that clear?"

"I can't wait for them to come." The maid says and tries to collect the cigarettes.

Linda stands up and moves out of her room to the stairs area, still holding the cigarettes, the maid tries to collect it again and Linda pushed her hard that she fell and rolled over from the topmost part of the stair all the way down.

Linda was shocked to death. Yes, she pushed her but she wasn't expecting that to happen. She was only trying to prevent her from taking the cigarettes. "What have I done?" She ran to the maid and kicks her with her leg gently, but there was no response. She bends hurriedly to listen to her breath, but it already stopped. Linda covers her mouth with her both palms weeping hard. "I just killed someone!!"