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I watched her fall. She looked right at me and jumped. She stared me in the face and whispered I’m sorry. I remember her screaming and yelling and the way her arms and legs flailed around. The sounds keep echoing in my head, but I know which one I’ll remember more than any sound I’ve heard in life. It surpasses the sound of my mother singing me to sleep as a child and my own voice inside my head; I’ll remember her hitting the ground. The thud of her body slamming into the cement that ended her life. Her bones left in crumbs and her skin open. Her ice blue eyes will forever scar my mind. The horrified glare as she laid dead on the ground thirty stories beneath me shatters my heart. Why were they open? Why did her eyes have to stay open? I took the elevator from the roof to the hotel lobby. The whole way down I paced, slamming my fists against the walls. Aleyna and I used to laugh at elevator music. It was so different this time. That music drove me crazy. The way the happy tunes of a classical band could effortlessly play in the moment when my world fell apart. My legs shook and my …show more content…
She read her text from her mom and stumbled as she threw her phone across the room. I believe you, Aleyna. She knew something happened to her mother that made her change her mind; He must have hurt her. The way her eyes pierced me made me want to fall at her feet. She looked so scared, so helpless. She wanted to go back and see her mother, but Arnold’s crimes became too dangerous. I decided to take matters into my own hands. I called Arnold and tried to talk to him. His yelling projected through the phone like a beat up speaker and I had to convince him that I had the upper