Bloodstained Vigil

CADE

Cole disappears through the emergency doors without finishing his sentence. His eyes rolled back, his body went limp, and six people descended on him at once.

Hazel sits beside me with her hands pressed between her knees, trembling so hard that the metal legs of her chair rattle faintly against the floor.

Cole's blood is drying beneath my fingernails.

Some of it is smeared across my sle