“Telling them now would change nothing, right? It is not as if i can undo what happened before. What is done is done and over with. I can’t change it and my confession would only let me have one more person that detested me” Ava thought as she paced around Marissa’s shopping centre.

She had said these same words to herself several times in the past few weeks, yet she couldn’t seem to let go of her guilty conscience. She had felt bad before, but then she had been feeling doubly guilty since the last time she had seen Bernard on her way from Ruby’s house.

She had tried to...