Scarred: A Short Story

I stand and stare in disbelief as the car’s bonnet is crumpled into the bulky metal pole on the side of the road. My limbs are numb and I am drenched from head to toe. The glistening droplets continuously drip off the tip of my nose as I realize how much trouble I’m going to get into. The wind wails around me as if it’s saying “you’re going to be in so much trouble”. I suddenly get back into the car and attempt to reverse the car so no one will see the car rammed into the power pole. Mum and Dad's pristine new car. Scratched. Dented. Ruined.

After wait for a few minutes they called my name and we walked me down the hall and to the X-Ray room. They made me take off my boot and stand on this weird X-Ray and I had to set my foot on this weird square. I was really scared because I didn't want it to be broke again or worse. They took me back into the waiting room when the doctor came in and had the X-Rays. He said the my foot

Being forced to believe in something that you don’t believe in, looked at as nothing but property, and beaten are some events that some humans don’t want to be put through. Written by Ellen Hopkins, Burned, is a make believe novel that follows Pattyn Von Stratten, through her ups and downs as she struggles to find who she really is. Through all the uphill battles she thought that she found it, but always questioned herself if she found the new Pattyn.

We were doing some wiring on some parts of the house, so I had to take the wire and stretch it to hook on the nails, so it ended up looking like a horizontal zig zag. One of my friends Garrett told me I need to pull it tighter. So I took the hammer and started pulling. Before I knew it the wire snapped and hit me right on my left cheek by my mouth. It hurt pretty bad, some of my friends started freaking out and asking me if I was okay. I didn’t think it was that bad, so I touched my hand to it and when I looked at my hand it was super bloody so I started panicking. I went up to one of the leaders that worked with the medical stuff and first she rinsed it with hydrogen peroxide since I touched it and then put a butterfly bandage to close the

The hood of the car pop off and something jump in. I was too scared to look so I sat there and started crying.

Luckily, there were grownups outside, and they called for my grandmother and mother. Grandma and Mom heard them calling because fortunately their window was down in the car at the time. They hurried up and pulled back in the driveway. They ran to see what the commotion was and why they were getting called back to the yard. My great uncle pulled the sticky bush out of my jaw and there was a big hole. It was leaking blood. Eventually, all the people outside were startled because they literally could see through my jaw. I bled through all my clothes and all the ones that were given to me. I was rushed, in my grandmother’s car, and to the

A few hours later, my uncle said we had to go to sleep. He asked me to turn off the lights. So I went to turn the lights off. Suddenly, I tripped over my cousin and hit a really sharp corner of a wall. There was so much blood on the wall and my forehead! I was crying so much that tears ran down all the way to my chest. My grandma said it was too late at night to go to the hospital.

My family and me were heading down to Louisiana to visit my grandpa for thanks giving for the third time in my life. I was very excited to see him because i don't see him very often. But this trip was going to be special. My dad told me that we were going to do something fun but wouldn't tell me. On are drive there we saw so many different animals like horses, ox and donkeys. When we finally arrived in Louisiana after a long drive we drove to my grandpas house, we stopped by a sonic because we haven't ate in a long time. After we ate we spent the night over our grandpas house we headed to the museum of modern art. The scenery was pretty good there.

Immediately I knew what happened. With my quick thinking, I grabbed my cell phone and I hopped into the bathroom. Trying my best not to get blood on the clean carpet. I sat on the edge of the bathtub and turned on the water. While the water washed the fresh blood, I called my dad on my phone. I heard his thunderous footsteps coming down the hallway. He swung open the door and wrapped my foot in a towel.

It was as if I was going to be running a marathon. The only thing was I wasn’t running on the ground or on the basketball court. I was running on the bleachers. I was just having a wonderful time when all of a sudden, Wham, I fall on my hands and knees. One of my hands landed on a loose nail that happened to be in the bleachers. That hand happened to be my right hand. There was a big cut full of blood on my hand. I know I was screaming when my hand was cut. My parents took me to the Winneshiek Medical Center in Decorah to get my hand fixed. I believe my hand was going to get glued. So the doctor does his thing. I’m not sure, but I assume I was probably given a tetanus shot. That I can’t confirm, but when people get cut by rusty nails it seems like the thing to do. Anyway I get the large cut on my hand glued together. The cut was located right below the thumb on the palm of my right hand. To this day a scar remains in the same spot where my hand was cut

On the first weekend in october dad and me were tearing down an old shed. On such a beautiful day. You didn’t have to bundle up for the cold. Then when dad wanted to work on the top side of the building and the only way to do that was to get off the ground at least seven feet. So I when to go get the skid steer and lifted him off the ground and I went to go tear off the siding on the far side of the shed. When I had to move him I had to walk around the other side of the building and climb in the skid loader and move it. Did it a couple time. Then when I was walking on a two by six and there was a nail sticking up and went right through my rubber boot, my sock, and then into my left foot. After noticing that it was there i lifted my foot and took my boot and sock off within a couple seconds. It had started to bleed and dad told me to let it bleed. Now we are all worried of the last time I got my tetanus shot.

after it rains and I looked out my window and i could see the shore, well fast

Bryon and Mark were watching a few games while M&M stared into a package of M&M’s. Bryon asked M&M what he was doing. He had him look in the M&M bag. M&M got up and said “I have to go home now, I’ll see you guys later.” Mark objected “We just got here.” M&M said “I only came along for the walk, and now I have to go home.”

Heading to my great-grandparents on my grandpa’s side was a tad bit different. We still met with my grandparents, but we drove straight my great-grandparents’ house in Princeton. After arriving, I treated myself to a few wrapped caramel candies my great-grandma always kept on the kitchen counter then slipped into the living room to watch cartoons or play dollies or solve thousand piece puzzles with my great-grandma. My family stayed much later to play poker here than my other great-grandma’s house, so I often found myself falling asleep to the soothing sound of late night cartoons.

A spark of flint, then a burst of flame and the Bic lighter was alive, glowing like a serpent’s eye. It had finally come to this. Things were going so well too: I had money, dreams, a whole future figured out. Now I was a drunken liar, facing criminal charges and jail time; sadly I was only nineteen. Hungover with a broken knuckle and no memory of how it happened, to top it all off my butterfly knife, a deadly weapon made for surgically precise combat, was missing. Were the cops looking for me? And arrested before my next trial would send me to prison for sure. My only real option was to quit drinking, but if I did I'd have to face reality; however I would have to do it alone. I had to decide.