Amy in danger

The day for the project was getting closer, Amy, Courtney, Christopher and Williams and the other people decided to meet and discuss the topics each one of them had in mind and how to express them, then they'd finally pick one

Each of them suggested a topic and explained how to express themselves through performance and writing. Amy didn't really talk much the entire time as it seemed her mind was elsewhere. Christopher and Courtney noticed and just as he opened his mouth wanting to ask her what the reason was, Courtney already beat him up to it and asked her directly without beating about the bush "Amy, what's wrong you haven't said a thing for some minutes now, are you okay? she asked concern written all over her face

Pulling herself out of the trance she was in she answered "ah, yes I'm fine. what were we talking about again?" she asked looking at Courtney who seemed to be overly worried for her friend lately since she heard what happened to her. she just hoped her friend wouldn't give up on life and continue to be strong

Sitting back normally in her chair and trying to gather emotions from Christopher's face but failed in doing so, she replied Amy "we were all suggesting topics for the upcoming project"

"oh I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention " she said

"By the way I think we can base this topic on, loneliness and love" she suggested making everyone keep their ears closer

"what do you mean?" William asked looking interested so as the other members

"what I mean is, we should base a writing and performance on a girl who seemed to be lonely all her life after facing countless challenges, but in the course of her lonely and dark life she found love" she said making everyone keep quiet and probably thinking about what she just finished saying

After some minutes and the others didn't say anything, she began to look worried and asked immediately "you guys don't like the idea?"

"No, no it's perfect, it's just that it's a better idea than what we have been proposing since and I think it's gonna fetch us good marks" William said and others agreed. Christopher just stared in awe at her and knew she probably wanted to use this to set herself free from whatever she's going through deep inside her. 'love tho?, has she found someone else she liked' he asked himself but shaked the idea off

"how then do we go about expressing loneliness and love?, I mean of course, we have an idea of the emotions and feelings we want to communicate to the judges, but how do we go about bringing these emotions to life" Christopher asked which put everyone into their thinking zone

After some minutes when no one came up with anything, they all just decided to go home and think carefully about it and discuss their suggestions later. They then exchanged numbers and left

******

That same evening

Amy finished off work early at about 8pm and quickly decided to go to the store to get some groceries which were finished at home. she proceeded to the store not too far from her workplace and went in to buy them

she finished shopping and headed to the bus stop waiting for the bus. Though she felt uneasy and scared giving the fact that the area seem kind of isolated and dark in a way. hiding her fears and her worries she clutched her bag tight and sat down on the bench. Few minutes after, the bus came and she entered

Sitting down, she looked around inside the bus and saw that she and one other girl were the only females in the bus and the rest were males, though they were about four if them, five if the driver was included

she sent her location to Courtney and christopher from time to time till she got down from the bus. Though the men looked spooky and kind of suspicious, she thanked God they didn't do anything bad to her

She was walking fast so as to get home fast when someone dragged her bag from nowhere and asked her to start removing all of her valuables and give it to him. he wore a mask but it wasn't hard to know it was a guy due to his voice. he had a small sharp knife in one hand and Amy's bag in the other, opened wide waiting for her to put her wristwatch, necklace an earrings

At this point she was irritated, not afraid or scared. she had learned taekwondo a bit when she was younger and she still remembered how to kick ass. She dropped the bag she got from the store and faced the man, ready to pick up a fight if that's what this thief wanted

when the thief saw that Amy had put up a fight instead of putting her stuffs inside the bag, he put the bag down and faced her head on, he was determined to collect these valuables and he wasn't going to leave without them

he came running at Amy pointing the knife towards her, she dodged and then kicked him in the stomach which made him stumble and fall. He stood up almost immediately and charged at Amy as though he really wanted to hurt her in any way, waving and pointing his knife at her but she kept dodging. She finally caught him and grabbed the hand he held the knife and was struggling to pull it out from his hand, and he was also trying very hard to hurt her as they kept drawing it back and forth. After some time when he saw he wouldn't be successful due to her strength, he reached into his pocket and brought out another knife and stabbed Amy right in her stomach.

she pulled back falling on the floor, holding her stomach in pain, the knife had gone so deep she could feel it piercing her harder with every slight movement she made. she looked up at the guy and noticed he didn't take her valuables and she was confused, she wanted to keep thinking on why he stabbed her but the pain was too much for her to beat. she laid back on the floor grabbing and holding on tight to the place where he stabbed, blood gushing out as if a tap had been opened, at this point she started feeling dizzy

The guy looked over her and said to her "it's better you know your place and stop roaming around Christopher" and left

she was confused as to what that meant, was he sent here to kill her?, or was he Christopher's ex lover?. she didn't know what to believe. she had become so weak and immediately thought that she had to call someone an let them know what happened. she dragged herself all to the middle of the road where her bag was, she had almost reached where it was, when she lost all her strength and blacked out

After some minutes, some passerbys who were on their way home saw a body on the floor. At first they had feared to get near but instantly went over when they noticed the body might be in danger. On moving closer, they saw that it was the body of a girl and they saw a knife stabbed deep into the stomach and we're scared. Some made calls to the police and luckily enough there was a nurse among them who immediately wore her gloves and removed the knife from the stomach and bandaged the wound so it wouldn't bleed so much anymore. she immediately called for an ambulance from the hospital she worked. she felt the body's pulse and immediately noted that she wasn't breathing properly anymore and her temperature had gone down making the body almost very cold

The ambulance arrived in no time and Amy was put on a stroller and taking into the vehicle, attaching drips to her hand and putting an oxygen mask over her nose so she could continue breathing. The nurse helped her pick her bag and the bag she got from the grocery store

Reaching the hospital, she was rushed to the emergency ward and they began operating on her immediately

******

Running into the hospital she asked the receptionist where the emergency ward is and told her Amy's full name. After checking her name in the computer, the nurse directed courtney to where the ward was located. Crying and running she prayed to God to keep Amy safe and free from any kind of danger

she stopped when she saw a woman sitting on the chair by the door crying heavily with no one beside her to comfort her. could this be Amy's step mom she asked herself. although she had seen her picture once when Amy showed her, she wasn't someone who memorized people's faces in her head

she moved closer to her and hugged her. Tracy looked up at who had hugged her, she figured it was the only friend Amy had in school Courtney.

"please, do not cry anymore, Amy would be fine, she's a fighter and I know it" Courtney said crying too

Tracy shaked her head and controlled the tears that were coming out. "you're Amy's friend right?" she asked Courtney

"yes, I am ma'am. I'm Courtney" she answered and took her hands off Tracy

"Thank you for being her friend" Tracy said smiling at her.

As they were talking and trying to comfort each other, Christopher rushed in asking immediately where Amy was and what happened to her. " she is currently inside the ward and we have also not heard anything from the doctor yet" Courtney replied

He looked as though his whole ward was paused. they met just some hours earlier, what could have happened to her?, he asked himself

They were all in their own worlds and thoughts when the doctor came...