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Tragic Misunderstandingby Chelsea HughesThis is the sick, but still oh so tragic love story about Linda Davidson and Larry Wilkinson. Both attend Portland High;Linda 16 while on the other hand Larry is 19. The year is 1964, in Portland Maine. The two love birds had history together,with Mr. Reed. They always sat next to each other, even worked together on everything… and I mean everything. Theselove birds have known each other since they were in middle school. Only way that was possible was because Larry got heldback a few too many times, yet Linda fell in love and helped him with his classes just so they could keep going throughschool together. Linda was never found without Larry by her side.Once they hit ninth grade. That’s when they started to date, since Larry only yet confessed his love in the summer of eighthgrade. Yet Linda was still happier than ever. Now with the love of her dreams… so everyone thought, including Larry.Years later, they are seniors in high school.Linda and Larry decided to go to the homecoming dance, and the after party their best friend had planned. Everythingwas going great at the dance, until Linda saw Larry circled by girls. As he smiled and flirted, she ran off without makinga scene. Kept her pain hidden, as her heart ripped to shreds. Time after time she has told him about the girls and how shefeels about it, but yet he never listens. So the pain gets worse, as she bottles it all up in the tiny mindset of nothingness.Her mind was racing while sitting next to him in the car, not even moving… but were supposed to be going home. He thenturns to me asking me why I’m hiding my face, as the light tears flow down I look at me … just to whisper, “the girls”.What about them, he grunts. The heavy brighter smiles, the laughs, the long looks in their eyes. Where’s that with me?The love for me? Shown to others, for why. Because I’m upset, hurt, not wanting to talk? You give my attention to otherfemales.You keep saying you’ll change, but here we are. Months later still in the same boat. Hiding in the bathroom, tub overflowingwith water, as I sit there trying to see while my vision goes blank. You come in, stop it before it gets worse. I try to pushyou away, but it doesn’t work. You yell at me for my outrageous behavior, while what you do is even worse.You told me to end it with you, but I never truly wanted to. We started off so amazing so strong, yet somehow you found away to hurt me… somehow someway… even after promises on top of promises. As my heart aches I end up blacking out..My mind keeps racing, but yet, I’m not really breathing. Am I still even alive? As I look over, I see the one I dread seeing. Ilook around me as if I’m in my own home, the kitchen I believe. But as I looked around, my lover wasn’t actually standing,nor sitting. It was as if he was propped up. I kept looking around, piles of blood, and a bloody knife? I went over to him, hewasn’t breathing.. I was hallucinating, I couldn’t have actually killed him.. I loved him more than anything. Once I startedcrying out screaming. Police showed up, but they never saw me or him.Weeks have passed, hours upon hours as well. As my eyes slowly open, I’m in a hospital room, without my lover. Doctorstold me I’ve been unconscious for almost a month, as well as my lover found dead exactly in our own kitchen. But theydon’t know who the killer was. If i told them it was me, they would have thought I was going even more insane, especiallysince I just came from being in a coma.Since my home is a literal crime scene. I went home to stay with my parents, still unable to process anything. I wish life waseasier. I never wanted him gone. I cry every night as I try to figure out this mystery. As if I feel it was truly me that killedhim. No, it couldn’t have been, even the doctor said I was there during that time frame.As weeks pass, I hear his voice. Outside my window? So I took a look. Was it really him? It couldn’t have been. Was Idreaming? But as I came closer, I realized it really was, he explained everything. Just as people think he faked his death, itwas really his twin brother, that he had to hide from the world. I felt terrible for the words I just heard. He then apologizedabout everything, and said I didn’t know the whole story with him and the girls. He was trying to plan and find the perfectwedding ring for me.BEN DAVIS HS- The end -GIANT VISIONS JANUARY 202311
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