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literally frozen in shock at the sight
before her. The girl, Eliza, from the night before was standing over the sink,
eyes red and puffy from crying at some point, and holding a small short knife,
a little bigger than a pocketknife but much smaller than a dagger or something,
in her hand to cut what looked like an X shape onto her wrist. The first line
of the X was already beginning to bleed, and it appeared Eliza was trying to
make the other line deeper since she hadn’t cut deep enough the first time.
    Malakha
looked at her, managing to ignore the laughter for a while as he tried to
figure out what to do. Her first instinct was to just walk out and pretend she
hadn’t seen anything. She figured as long as the girl wasn’t trying to kill
herself, why should she care. But in the back of her mind she wondered what if
the girl did kill herself whether by accident or on purpose? She would have
been able to prevent it.
    Before
Malakha could come to a decision, something seemed to snap in Eliza, and the
older girl looked at the knife and then back at Malakha before raising it and
charging at her with it.
    The
girl’s attack took Malakha by surprise, causing her to dodge out the way late
and when she did finally move, she was too slow and was caught in the shoulder
with the blade.
    Malakha
sucked in a sharp breath, falling sideways after Eliza pulled the knife out.
She clutched her bleeding shoulder, while looking at Eliza who pulled her arm
back to get ready to strike her again. Malakha managed to catch her hand and
hold it back, but Eliza was persistent and continued pressing her hand down
towards Malakha’s face. Eliza was so singularly focused on stabbing Malakha though,
that she forgot Malakha still had a free hand, a free hand that Malakha used to
pull a cheap dirty fight trick that she wasn’t sure would work or not. She
reached up and grabbed one of Eliza’s breasts, breasts that were thankfully
bigger than Malakha’s, and squeezed it as hard and painfully as she could.
    Eliza
yelled lifting herself off Malakha. Malakha let go of the girl’s breast and
tried to leave the bathroom again, but Eliza grabbed her by the ankle and
stabbed her in the back of her calf.
    Malakha
screamed and fell forward, hitting her head on the wall in the process. Eliza
began to pull her towards her by the ankle, while Malakha desperately tried to
grab hold of something. Her fingers caught on the other girl’s bag. She didn’t
know what was in it, but she hoped it was hard and heavy.
    With
the bag in hand, Malakha rolled over as far as she could and swung the bag at
Eliza’s face. Eliza let out a cry of surprise and sat up on her knees to move
her hair out her face, with the knife still raised. Malakha scrambled to her
feet while Eliza tried to gain her bearings and swung the bag at her head as
hard as she could once more. The girl fell sideways and hit her head on the
sink, causing her to lose consciousness and fall forward on the floor.
    Malakha
panted, dropping the bag as she stared at Eliza’s unconscious form. But that
wasn’t what bothered her. What bothered her was that she heard the laughing
again, but this time, it was laughter from more than one person.

 

Chapter Five
    Eliza’s Boyfriend

 
    The laughing
had stopped a while ago, but now Malakha was irritated for another reason
entirely as she sat in the infirmary with the doctor fussing over her.
    “I’m
fine. I promise. You wrapped up my cuts, so I would really like to get out of
here.”
    The
doctor raised a small light to one of her eyes, checking for a concussion since
Malakha had a large bump on her head from where she had hit her head on the
wall, a bump which she was currently holding ice to.
    “That’s
what you say, but better safe than sorry,” the woman insisted.
    Malakha
sighed, wanting to switch the arm that was holding the ice, but unable to since
her left shoulder was stiff from being stabbed.
    “Now
I’m going to need you to tell me again what