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The "Accident"     The pick-up bounced jarringly down the old dirt road. The driver sat up straight in the front seat, checking all over her elevate every few seconds to make indisputable that her cargo hadnt fallen bulge bulge out.* * * * *     She wasnt indisputable why she had done it, yet the fact was, she had and she did not indigence to bump caught. There was no way she could tell anyone, not even her go around friend. What was she supposed to do? Go to the police? Tell them that it was an "accident"? She wasnt sure how you "accidentally" stabbed someone 6 times in the back.     It had partially been his erroneousness in any case. If he hadnt make her so mad, she wouldnt have jokingly gotten the knife out of the kitchen drawer. Im going to kill you, she had said. But she didnt really mean it. Did she? Their argument got more heated, until he was screaming at her. And then he hit he r. She was too shocked to say anything. He had always been so gentle. She stared at him for a minute, and then he turned around to leave.     Shes not sure what came over her at that minute, she doesnt even remember what she was thinking. But she does remember jumping on him, and knocking him to the floor, and then taking her knife and plunging it in and out of his back. She had no recollection of what happened for the next 10 minutes, perhaps she blacked out, but when she finally stood up, she knew what she had to do. She walked out to the garage and got a tarp down off the shelf. Her father utilise it to cover the wood pile, but she figured he probably wouldnt hear it was gone for a while. She took the tarp back into the kitchen and rolled the body on to it, checking to make sure that she didnt get blood onto anything that would be noticeably stained. The enormous pool of blood on the floor would be a problem, but shed take care of that when she got back.&nb sp    She finally managed to get his body into the back of her truck. He had been a fairly good sized boy, and it was a struggle for her. She made sure that it was secure in the back, since the gate didnt always close right. She didnt want any accidental spills in the middle of the road.