An hour later, at 3am, the party has thinned out after the accident.
Nobody knows what happened.
Some say they thought they saw Kyle go into a room with Quinn, some people saw him going in by himself.
A robbery, maybe, some are saying. A break in.
Nobody discusses how his mouth is ripped.
There’s talk of a knife.
Of a girl with black hair and wide eyes, the resident Goth of Grade 10, what’s her name? Sara? Saskia?
I smirk.

I am back in Saskia form of course.
Nobody knows where Quinn is.
People are worried about her.
Poor Quinn. Alive for just over 24 hours and still missed SO MUCH.
I want to be sick.

Prudence and Pearl have stayed.
They look on as a police car stops. The policeman talks to Sam, and her parents are there, comforting her.
I guess her party wasn’t the awesome jol she thought it would be.
Poor Sam. She just wants to be popular.
I think people will remember this party though.
In fact, I’m pretty sure they will.

People talk about what happened to Kyle for the next three weeks.
They talk about Quinn.
The Lightworkers are avoiding me.
They’re acting like I’m tainted.
I’m not, the world’s tainted. They just don’t see it.
They’re naïve. And their naivety lets bad things happen.

I have Chuma, I have Tam, I have me.
And we are going to keep doing this to people like Kyle.
If Parusha, Pearl, and Prudence want to stop me?
They’re going to have to kill me.

Tell us: What do you think of this story? Do you think the Lightworkers: Parusha, Pearl and Prudence will be able to stop Saskia?