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spending it with your mum?’
    ‘Yes, I was thinking of taking her away this year. Just me and her.’
    ‘That sounds nice.’
    ‘Somewhere hot, get her away from this lousy weather.’
    Mel laughed. They ordered another round of drinks, talked a lot more until Faith looked at the time.
    ‘Time for you to go?’ asked Mel.
    ‘I don’t want this to end, but I have meetings all morning tomorrow.’
    ‘I understand.’ She stood up.
    Faith did the same, and they embraced.
    ‘Good to see you,’ said Faith.
    ‘Yes, and I’ll see you next weekend.’
    ‘Yes. We can make it a girly night.’
    ‘I look forward to it.’
    They walked out of the bar and parted ways.
    ****
    He staggered out of the hotel room and to the car park. Logan had no business getting behind the wheel, but he’d done it many times before, and he’d been fine. He slid into the black Audi sports car, and started the engine. He sped off into the night and joined the motor way to his destination. He’d been okay for a moment, his speed high, the car in front of him was moving a little too slow.
    ‘Get out of the way!’ He muttered and hooted as he passed the car in the middle lane. 
    Logan zigzagged between traffic, annoyed that not everyone wanted to do his racing pace. He moved from the first lane and slid slimly between two cars and then zoomed into the fast lane. But he didn’t monitor his pace. The powerful machine overtook him and he underestimated the control he had. The Audi crashed into the barrier that separated the motorway traffic. The car flipped over, rolling a few times, missing a car and finally coming to a halt in the middle of the traffic. There were bright lights, on coming traffic crashed into each other and there were sounds of horns bleating, and smoke scurried into the dark sky. Logan shut out the sounds and lights. And soon all was peaceful.
    ****
    There had been a horrible crash on the motorway in the opposite direction to where Faith was going. She shuddered as she saw the red, blue and yellow lights of the emergency services.
    ‘That doesn’t look good,’ said her driver.
    ‘No it doesn’t. I hope everyone survived.’
    ‘I bet it’s a drunk driver.’
    ‘Possible, just hope they survived. It looked like a nasty accident.’ She sat back and looked into the night.
    Ten minutes later the car parked outside her luxurious home. She thanked the driver and stepped out. For some reason she couldn’t get the crash out of her mind. She could only imagine the families of those involved. She pulled the keys from her handbag and unlocked the door. The moment she was in, she keyed in the alarm code, but it had already been disabled. She panicked. Had she forgotten to put on the alarm before she’d left? She held her stomach a moment, she couldn’t remember.
    In the darkness she leaned into the door. There was something about the whole evening that felt heavy. First the man who had rudely asked for sex, then the horrible accident and now she felt the heaviness in the house. She flicked the light.
    ‘What the fuck?’
    It was a dim red colour. She’d never had red bulbs in her life.
    ‘Fuck.’ Panicked she fiddled for her mobile phone. This wasn’t her imagination. Something was definitely wrong.
    Just as she was about to make the call a dark figure with a hoodie approached her.
    ‘Oh god! Please, somebody help me!’ She tried to go for the door handle, but the figure pulled her away by the hair and she fell to the ground. ‘What do you want, money? I can give you money. Please, don’t hurt me.’
    He stepped to his left and picked up a petrol can.
    ‘Please, no, no…no!’
    He started to throw fuel over her. There was a constant rattling as the intruder did so.
    ‘PLEASEEESSSS!’ She pushed back, Pleeeeasse.’
    He threw the empty can to the side, pulled out a match box and lit the stick.
    ‘Oh god please.’
    She saw her life flash before her as her body caught flames. She rolled, screamed as the pain