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English: Creative Writing<br />
Her Husbands Betrayal<br />
Ice balls fall from the<br />
mountaintop as the wind<br />
lifts strands of her hair.<br />
At this very moment, she’s standing<br />
alone thinking about how wonderful<br />
and remarkable this life can be.<br />
Her red heels duplicate the colour<br />
painted on her lips and attracts the<br />
attention of her black Adidas t-shirt.<br />
Her ripped jeans favour the public’s<br />
tastes and her smile is brighter than<br />
the stars in the sky. Her cosy coat<br />
delivers more comfort and wraps<br />
her warm from the bristling wind.<br />
People see her as Rapunzel, not<br />
because of some evil stepmother,<br />
or because she was trapped up in<br />
a castle but because of the long<br />
glowing hair that brings out the<br />
beauty in her. Her eyes turn lighter<br />
brown when it attracts the sun, until<br />
one night when she was just freely<br />
walking to her house she witnessed<br />
a scandalous matter!<br />
DUM...DUM...DUM... “WHO’S this?”<br />
“What is she doing with my<br />
HUSBAND?” “Why is she HERE ?”<br />
Difficult questions trace through<br />
her head as she drowns in a sea of<br />
grief. Her face fills with hate and<br />
torture; she can’t think but to be the<br />
bystander in this cruel view. Why?<br />
Why? How can someone who vowed<br />
will spend the rest of his years with<br />
her do something so horrible and<br />
disgusting?! She wipes the pain<br />
and tears off her face and stumbles<br />
down the stairs.<br />
She packs everything and puts all<br />
her clothes in a suitcase, and as she<br />
walks to the door, her husband runs<br />
to grab her. She drops the suitcase<br />
and the room abruptly turns quiet,<br />
he loosens his hand a bit, but this<br />
time she throws her emotion into<br />
his face before she left without a<br />
word or sound. As she drove away,<br />
her husband screams out her name<br />
with so much anger and contrite.<br />
The man she thought she loved<br />
turned out to be the monster in her<br />
dreams.<br />
About a month later, she’s living at<br />
her best friend’s house. She’s in the<br />
process of trying to forget the past<br />
and move on, but the pain always<br />
hits her.<br />
‘Her cosy coat<br />
delivers more<br />
comfort and<br />
wraps her<br />
warm from<br />
the bristling<br />
wind.’<br />
This hurt that she is carrying is<br />
so remorseful she can’t bear this<br />
burden. She feels abandoned and<br />
deceived from what’s happened,<br />
that a girl who people thought was<br />
so perfect and so beautiful would<br />
end up to be the one who suffers.<br />
After several years, she is now<br />
enjoying life with her best friend;<br />
she is trying to forgive herself for the<br />
blindness that let others betray her<br />
because sometimes a good heart<br />
cannot see the bad. She smiles<br />
through the pain and suffering but<br />
she will never forget that life is like<br />
a bicycle, to keep your balance you<br />
must keep moving on.<br />
- Herilla Salu<br />
48 Mangere College - 2018