JADE
Smoke floods my nostrils. My eyes slowly crack open. It hurts to even breathe. The tear that drops quickly dries on my face under the heat.
I whimper, trembling from where I’m trapped underneath the large chandelier. My right leg took the hit.
There’s debris around me. The roof of the building had collapsed right on us in a split second. I can’t turn my neck. A block missed my face by an inch.
Sai? Johanna? Tyler?
I’m worried sick about them, even while my life hangs by a thread. The flames cackling around me and damaging what’s left are the only sounds I can hear.
One minute, I was having such a great time, and the next, I’m on the verge of death again.
As if the universe couldn’t wait for my illness to kill me. It has brought my end forward.
I screw my eyes shut, each tear
