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