Introduction
Sirens.
They were a sound that he would never come to forget. To most people that might seem odd but to each their own. To him they were something more than another tragedy happening somewhere. It was a beacon to him, saying you failed at the one thing that almost everyone can do.
Everything was blurry. He could not focus and the blood that was everywhere wasn't helping. Not that he imagined it would, seeing ones blood coating the room around them would understandably cause a certain amount of panic.
But he couldn't even find it within himself to worry that he was going to die. It felt like that final string had been cut. And he was ready to let his life fly into the wind and just leave the possibility of justice for his killer to the police department. They would undoubtedly search before another case with a higher priority came along and he was pushed to the side and eventually was labeled cold case and shoved onto a shelf.
How strange, to not mind dying at only seventeen. But this had been a long time in the coming by his counts. It had been only a matter of when that man was going to snap, not if, it had never been if. He had known something was just going to break and lead to bad things the moment he saw him.
Foster homes were overrated anyway. If he even lived through this he wouldn't stay at one for the last four months before he hit eighteen. He'd just leave, be like a whisp in the wind and follow life to where it so deemed to take him.
Thinking this he didn't even flinch in the slightest when he heard the door give. Yelling and people touching him registered slightly, however he was too far gone by that point. Far too at peace with his situation for someone whom was about to become a murder victim. Both accepting that he might or might not die. And willingly admitting to the consequences of both of those options. Preferring neither but more than likely going to get the seemingly worse option, though still undeterred from his original thought.
Yes, Jake Alexander Helix was an odd boy alright. But he had always known this as well.