(This one's gonna get reeeeeal angsty. Trigger warning for death and suicide.)
(Stephanie POV)
I ran out of my house at full speed.
I didn't bother turning off the TV in my bedroom.
I noticed my parents watching the broadcast still in the living room, starting to come around.
I barreled down the street, heading for Ken's house.
All I could do was hope.
Hope he was just unconscious.
Hope that it was just a glitch on the TV.
Hope he was still alive.
Desperately, I hammered on Kennith's door, begging, pleading.
"Kennith! Are you in there?"
"Kennith! Can you hear me?"
"Ken, please, God, answer me!"
"Kennith..."
After a lot of trying, I sank to the ground, utterly defeated.
Tears flowed down my cheeks in streams.
The neighbours who heard my yelling came out to see me.
A few of them were already crying, and they just cried more when they saw me.
After a short while, a couple of police cars and an ambulance arrived.
I couldn't bear to see his body, laid out on the stretcher, and covered with a white sheet.
There was a pool of blood left from where he laid.
I watched as a girl was walked out of the garage with a police officer.
Neither of us said anything, but a thousand words were shared through a single glance.
I looked at her with a feel of anger.
Betrayal.
I looked at her with a look that said, "I know you did it.
I know you were the one who drove him to that.
He would have never pulled a criminal stunt like that.
I know you killed him, you asshole."
I couldn't pin down what her look said, but she looked back at the floor after I looked at her.
Everyone left after that.
Except for me.
I was just left there, sobbing on the doorstep of my one true friend's house.
A police officer walked up to me.
"Excuse me, are you Stephanie Glass?"
I was too choked up to speak, so I just nodded.
"I'm terribly sorry, but you're needed for questioning back at the station."
I didn't say a word.
I just stood up.
It was better to go along than to fight it.
Neither of us spoke during the ride in the police car.
He understood I was upset.
I just pulled my knees up to my chest and cried.
