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Aurelia Alternate Ending

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Aurelia’s mother, an intelligent woman, looked around the room. There were no visible marks on his body. While Aurelia’s mother did this, Aurelia opened his shirt. His chest was bruised where his heart should be. “Myocardial contusion,” her mother, who was a doctor, gasped. “Doesn’t that only occur when someone suffers from extreme damage to their body?” Aurelia asked, upset. “It usually only happens during a CPR attempt, and usually doesn’t kill them,” Aurelia’s mother said. It appeared as if someone killed Aurelia’s father, and then tried to save him. She did not understand. “Hello?” called a voice. Adam, Aurelia thought, her mind jumping to the boy she had met the day before. She opened the door, and there he was. He looked upset. …show more content…

Worthless, that’s what you are, disposable,” Adam’s drunken father said, his words slurring together. Adam cowered in fear. He did not want to suffer from any more physical or emotional damage. His father came closer, holding a knife. He typically used this to create deep scars along Adam’s back. Adam ducked, and the knife went into the wall behind him. It was stuck. Adam’s father tried pulling it out, but he could not quite do it. Adam took this opportunity to take another knife from the knife drawer behind them. He wanted to do to his father as he did to him. He brought the knife near his father’s back, when his father backed up. The knife went through his neck. Adam was twelve, and a murderer. His mother saw it happen. He took the knife out of his father’s neck and shoved it through her …show more content…

She had not seen him do it, but she knew all the same. It was written all over his face, his flaws inscribed in his freckles, writing a story of guilt. Aurelia suffocated on air that would not reach her lungs. She believed that everything he said was probably half-hearted, half a lie, but she still wanted to believe in the half-truths. She wanted to fall in love for the first time, and she did not care if it was with a boy that did not need her, or want her. He had once told her that he could not bear to think about anyone hurting her, but last night had hurt her beyond any pain anyone had ever caused her, and she believed she had undergone a lot of pain throughout her life. She was ill, tears making her sicker, and she lay down in bed, holding her breath, trying to make herself pass out so that she would not have to deal with being awake with a broken heart. She waited, suffocating on sadness, and she wondered if she would die from a lack of oxygen. She did not know if her heart was still beating. She wanted to be in love, but more than that, she wanted him to love

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