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hysterical Yoyo was breaking down over the phone about the death of her friend
Shauna, I was still trying to wake up from my late Friday night and Yoyo seemed
to make no sense. She caught my attention at the mention of Shauna and
death in the same sentence when she repeated herself. I told her to slow
down and explain the situation as calmly as she could. The next set of
words that came from the other side of the telephone made me wish I was still
asleep and that all this was just in my dreams. According to Yoyo, Shauna
had been murdered in her home, the girls were supposed to meet up for lunch the
next day and Yoyo was suppose to have picked up Shauna from her place.
Yoyo got concerned when she could not reach her friend on any of her numbers,
at home or on her mobile. When she went over to her place to find out
what was going in she was amazed to find that the door though closed was not
locked. She walked in and found Shauna in her bed dead lying drenched in
blood. She was so shocked she ran out the house and called the police
straight away.
It turned out Shauna got stabbed to death
and was left for dead, nothing was stolen and it was still early days to
establish what had happened or who was responsible.
This was all so shocking
literally hours ago I was in the company of such a lovely lady full of life and
now she was murdered. It was such a shame and though I did not really
know her I knew enough to know that she did not deserve to go out like that.
It made me think for a while and wonder what would have had happened had I
stayed on. Would I have been another victim? My mind was still occupied
by how my life had changed and would have continued changing had Helen lived;
this was not another thing I would add to my conscience, leaving Shauna’s place
Friday night was the right and moral thing to do at the time. I could not
help thinking that had I stuck around and done what the generalized male is
expected to do this whole thing would have probably ended badly for the both of
us. Partial responsibility of Shaunas death was always going to hover
around me even though it was nowhere near my fault, maybe if I had stuck around
this would not have happened. My life continued to suck, its not like I did not
have enough on my plate as it was. Undoubtedly this messed up the rest of
my weekend all I had were thoughts of poor Shauna, she seemed like such a nice
girl I really wonder what it was that led to her demise.