The Weed War by Duke Kell

Author:Duke Kell [Kell, Duke]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 16

Mr. Borinski sits on the only piece of furniture left in his apartment when his little sister Claire enters the room.

"What have you done with all your stuff?" She looks around the empty room.

"I donated it of course."

She pauses, then comes over and kneels down in front of him, pleading with him, “So this is it? You’re going to let her death destroy you?"

"They killed her."

"B." She grabs his head and turns it toward hers. Tears flow down both of their faces. "She killed herself, B."

"What happened that night is what killed her. She just couldn’t live with the rape." His lower lip quivers and he weeps uncontrollably.

"I know it's hard."

"How could you possibly know?"

She knows he is right, but this is her older brother. "You’re right, I couldn't know, but I don't want to find out by losing my only brother."

"It's too late. My whole class is nearly done with the novel and it's only a matter of time before they come for me," he says, as he pulls up his shirt to expose a gun.

"That’s your plan?" She rolls her eyes. "You even know how to use that?"

He smiles and chuckles. "It's not even loaded, but they don't know that, and won't till it is too late."

"What if I called them and..."

He cut her off placing his finger up to her lips. "I need you to do something for me."

She wipes some of the tears away with her forearm. "What?"

"When it's over I need you to upload this to the web." He hands her a small portable drive.

"What is it?"

"It's a link to the video archive from my classroom. I redirected a feed to record in a secure server."

"Why?"

"People need to see it with their own eyes, and then maybe they will start to wake up."

"See what?"

"Everything, from the beginning, including all the class discussions and my assassination."

"Jesus, B., you know this won’t bring her back. You think she wanted to be a martyr?"

His face becomes stoic. "Yes, and I think if I would have done this before, she wouldn't have…" he gulps and weeps, "killed herself."

"Oh B., you can't blame yourself! What happened was not your fault."

"Claire, can you do this for me?"

"Won't I get in trouble?"

"Follow the instructions, and they won't be able to trace it to you."

"I don't know."

"If this goes viral it could spark a revolution. Remember the stories mom and dad used to tell us about the twentieth century? This could be the spark that ushers us back to that."

"Oh, B!"

"It's OK. Claire, look at me." As he says this, she looks up into his eyes." I am not afraid, and for the first time in a long time I have a purpose. Please, tell me you can do this."

Claire looks down at her hand and closes her fingers around the tiny drive, and assures her brother, "Yes...I can do this.”

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