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Submitted to Contest #67
Jillian was walking to school, when she heard a sound nearby in the alleyway. She didn’t think much of it, she thought it could just be the animals rummaging through the garbage, but that wasn’t the case for Jillian. A gunshot went off, this made her jump and cover her mouth. Too curious for her own good, she decided to investigate, no matter how scared she was right now. She crouched down beside the green dumpster and peeked around. She saw a man pointing a gun at a guy that looked about the same as her, she was sixteen. Bang...
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