Starting a new life...?

Death had seemed so unreal, impossible and distant before Amelia felt the pain of dying... The beginning of March, 1997 was cold and snowy in Olkusz, the days passed slowly - at that time Amelia was fed up with living in boring Olkusz and she considered the possibility of changing the job and moving to her hometown. She didn't want to live in a provincial place and be a teacher any longer, as she needed new opportunities and chances for better life. Her sister encouraged her to apply for the post of assistant of the vice-President of the Jagiellonian University in Cracow. After a long and tiresome interview, Amelia was informed that she was the best of all the candidates and got the job... If you had seen her wonderful smile, you would have known - how important, joyful it was for her. In three months she was going to start her career at the university - it seemed a marvellous perspective, because the job wasn't just fascinating - it was also well-paid. Two weeks after this interview Amelia was coming back from high school, when one of her colleagues (a teacher of Russian) asked her to drop in and visit her. Mind you, the woman (let's call her Irena) wasn't Amelia's friend at all - just one of many workmates, who weren't worth of being paid attention to. As she lived in a small block of flats in the same district, visiting her just for a while couldn't be a problem. That's why, Amelia decided to go to her for a small chat and a cup of tea. Their conversation had been nice until Irena's husband came back from work. It was a typical Polish macho, who couldn't imagine a meeting without alcohol and dirty words. He was talking nonsense about the politics and other issues.After a few minutes of "chatting" with this jerk, Amelia thought it didn't make sense to stay there. She felt so strange and uncomfortable with the couple that she said with a quiet voice; "It was really nice, thanks for the tea. But you know, I'm pretty busy and...I must go home...". To her astonishment, the couple reacted brutally - the man started strangling Amelia while his wife didn't let her move... it was a real nightmare, which seemed to last very long. Amelia was petrified with fear, for the first time in her life she had been behaving like a living corpse -as if nothing could have been done. In fact, she had only one wish- "let me die quickly, don't torture me, please..." But she wasn't able to say a word, though there was one word she wanted to scream: "WHY? " To be continued soon...