Rebecca's Narrative

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Rebecca woke to the piercing sound of ambulance sirens, the smell of burning flesh and fuel eroding her nasal cavity, a night breeze so cold it made her stiff paralysed body shiver. She watched as the paramedics rushed over to her unconscious best friend, Alexis, the distressed look on the paramedic’s face worried her. Unable to move anything but her neck she looks to her left and watches as blood rushes from Xavier’s head and beside him lay her motionless brother with his head on the bonnet of the car and his feet in the passenger seat.

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