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Where you find it

September 6, 2010
By mskullgirl GOLD, Waban, Massachusetts
mskullgirl GOLD, Waban, Massachusetts
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Favorite Quote:
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allen Poe


She never thought she could fall in love.

He didn’t know love existed. What do you expect, considering the family he’d come from?

She was angry at everyone and everything. The world hated her so she hated it right back. Life had taken her parents and her friends from her and after a while she stopped caring. What more could it take away from her?

He was lonely. His parents got him all the things he could ever want. But he knew since he was very small that they did not love him. He wondered sometimes if they even loved each other.

They weren’t supposed to meet. They weren’t supposed to become friends. She had shut people out of her life and he had only ever thought for himself. Why should he care about anyone? No one ever cared about him.

It was a library, the place they first meet. She loved to read. When she read she could escape her life, go anywhere; see anything but that didn’t soften the blow when she came back down to earth.

He read to escape too. In books he read about normal families who cared for each other, loved each other. And he would laugh, thinking no such thing was possible. But deep down he would give anything to be part of one of them.

No one knows who saw who first. No one knows which came first wind or rain but they know they are there. They didn’t talk when they meet, just stared. Green eyes meet grey.

They came again and looked again but still they didn’t talk. They didn’t need to. Days and weeks passed and still they didn’t talk.

Then one day she was sitting in the park and he came by. He sat beside her and they didn’t talk. They looked instead at the setting sun.

Then all at once it all came out.

She told him how much it hurt each day just to get out of bed.

He told her how alone he felt even in crowds of people.

She told him how much she wanted it all to end.

And he told her not to give up.

Don’t give up. Don’t give up.

And slowly the walls they’d built to block out life started to crumble. They let in pain, oh yes they was pain. But they also let in sunlight. And they’d almost forgotten how beautiful it was.

She didn’t think that she could fall in love.

He didn’t know love existed.

But some how they found it.


The author's comments:
I read a different story with the same sot ofvibe and I think this shows that two people can help each other evern in the worst situations

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on Oct. 1 2010 at 8:20 pm
__horizon133 PLATINUM, Portage, Michigan
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Favorite Quote:
"laugh, and the world laughs with you. laugh hysterically, and for no apparent reason, and they will leave you alone." anonymous

 full of emotion and very well writin. well done

on Sep. 11 2010 at 9:21 am
mskullgirl GOLD, Waban, Massachusetts
14 articles 0 photos 33 comments

Favorite Quote:
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream -Edgar Allen Poe

Thanks I like this one too

on Sep. 10 2010 at 12:32 pm
singergurl12 GOLD, Jacksonville, Florida
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Favorite Quote:
Fairy tales are true, not because they tell us dragons exist, but because they tell us dragons can be beaten.

I LOVE THIS

you give the characters such a voice, and your imagery is AMAZING! keep writing!!!