Avani

Trust By Avani Jhanji

There I am laying there; dead I don’t know what to do. Its daylight now so I am going before someone finds me, but I will be back to get revenge on whoever did this to me. This all started out with one call from a caller whose name and number is unknown. No matter how much I try i can’t shake the voice from my head saying ‘meet me at the park at 12am, don’t bring anyone with you.’ I went to the park and looked around trying to find a face to the voice. There he is standing by the bushes staring at me with piercing green eyes but his face was covered I don’t know who it is but all I know is that I have to leave while I still have the chance. I turn around ready to run and then like a flash of lightning it’s over I’ve been shot. I’m thinking, I can never see my family and friends again, I’ll never find out who it was, everything is over. No one can help me now it’s all over.

My name is Sophie Park, I am 16 years old and I have an older brother who is 18, I am ghost, I died on July 16, 2003 at a park in Chicago. It has been a couple of days since then and now i have come back to get revenge. Whoever did this to me deserves to die. I am going back to the park to see if anybody has found any clues and if my family might be in danger. I don’t even know why someone would kill me I have never hurt or bothered anyone and i don’t have any enemies.

I have arrived at the park and I am standing over the spot with the outline of the body is. It is blocked by police tape and over by the bushes there is a shoeprint from the person who has committed this crime. I went down to the police station next and there was my childhood friend Masen he is my best friend and he has been since we were in grade 1.

“I didn’t do it, Sophie was my best friend I could never do that to her,” Masen was telling the police officer. He looked like he was about to pass out, i wonder why if he didn’t do it he shouldn’t be worried.

“ I don’t care if you did or you didn’t as long as you can prove you didn’t in court tomorrow your off the hook, but for now we have to keep you here because there is some evidence that it could have been you,” the officer explained to him. The officer’s name was Nate he had a stern look on his that by just looking at him you could tell he is not going to joke around.

Looks like court is tomorrow i guess i will have to make an appearance to see what happens. Court is the worst it’s so boring and takes really long if the case is big. I can see my parents and Masen’s parents next to mine. Masen is sitting with his lawyers and he looks worried. I can see Jace sitting there also I wonder what he is doing I never even talked to him and I doubt that he even knew i existed. Masen is pleading innocent and I know he is. So far his case isn’t looking so good they have brought out some evidence that shows he is guilty. They brought in a picture of the shoe print that matches his shoe, they brought his cell phone up which says that he called me at 9pm a couple minutes before the unknown number had called me. I know that he is not guilty and if he goes to jail it will be my entire fault because i was dumb enough to go to the park because i was being nosey. He should not have to pay for my mistakes.

Jace is asked to come up to the stand i don’t even know why he’s here. Masen’s lawyers said that he might have wanted to kill me because my brother was harassing his younger sister. They also brought in some evidence like the same shoes as Masen’s but they didn’t have any caller evidence. The jury had left to discuss who is guilty and who is innocent.

When the judge is about announce the guilty i can see from the corner of my eye Jace dashing for the door. The police grab him and the case is blown wide open. Jace is asked to speak and to explain why he had done it. “I wanted revenge for the things her brother did to my younger sister i never wanted to kill her i was going to shoot beside her head just to scare her but i was so nervous that i shoot her instead. I never meant to cause any harm i just wanted to make sure that her brother never touched my sister again. I was going to show her who i was but she was getting ready to run so i decided to shoot to scare her so she would stop and listen,” Jace explained with a look of regret on his face.

I am glad that whoever did this has got there punishment but i am sad that Jace went to jail when he never meant to harm me in the first place. I knew that Masen never did this because he couldn’t have he was my best friend and even if I am not alive I will always remember him and i hope he remembers me and all the good times we had throughout the years.