Short Story: Serena´s Relationship with Ric

saying to her while she was in a coma. She said that she hated him because he made a promise that made her choose between him over her family. He starts yelling at himself on the bridge as she walks off. He tries to accept everything and walks off, but then a little later she comes running to him crying and he asks her how she knew. The both of them end up going back to her place to sleep and to talk about

The mother started the story not wanting her children or even really caring for them, they had a full time nanny and the mother had no interest in them. "She had bonny children, yet she felt they had been thrust upon her, and she could not love them. They looked at her coldly, as if they were finding fault with her. And hurriedly she felt she must cover up some fault in herself." She was dull to the way she felt and was negative towards and about her husband because she believed him to be unlucky and the reason for all the money problems they were having. She was negative and dark the whole time. She hardly had anything positive to say and it stayed that way until she finally received a great deal of money and that made her feel adequate again as a family. She changed her way of being and started to care more about her son and what was happening with him. She wanted to leave places to check on him and concer herself with how he was and if he was okay."Two nights before the Derby, she was at a big party in town, when one of her rushes of anxiety about her boy, her first-born, gripped her heart till she could hardly speak. She fought with the feeling, might and main, for she believed in common sense. But it was too strong. She had to leave the dance and go downstairs to telephone to the country." Her mood only changed after she got money and felt that she was good enough again, she valued herself on the outside look not what was really important. This just goes to

“I couldn't joke about the person who'd saved me from facing absolute heartbreak at home, who fed my family boxes of sweets,who ran to me worried that I was hurt if I asked for him. A month ago, I had looked at the TV and seen a stiff, distant, boring person-someone I couldn't imagine anyone loving. While he wasn't anything close to the person I did love, he was worthy of having someone to love in his life.”

The large cut on the right side of my forehead had begun to bleed again; my own blood threatening to choke me. “Calm down its ok. You're going through a rough phase that's all. Try to get some rest,” was all the comfort dad could manage before choking up into tears. He turned away as streaks of auburn curls lightly brushed against me, the owner tending to my wound. Rest, he says; not so easy when every time your eyes droop, the dreams begin. They have been getting worse, the closer I become in finding a way to bring her

Atwood demonstrates a sense of hatred and jealousy within Serena Joy, which is directed towards Offred as she is unintentionally an intruder and is invading Serena Joy’s private life. Eventually, this jealousy enables Serena Joy to try to obliviate Offred by “fixing it up with Nick”. Also, Serena Joy indicates that she is willing to “help” Offred by showing her a “picture”, “something you want”. However, all these actions are a result of Serena Joy’s self-interest and her manipulative personality, “there’s a hint of her former small-screen mannequin’s allure, flickering over her face like momentary static”. Consequently, Atwood highlights Serena Joy’s “roguish” actions caused by jealousy and a desire for revenge upon the very person who has been deprived her of possession of the Commander; she deliberately withheld the news of Offred’s lost daughter and the photograph that Offred has been longing for.

“The betrayal meant he couldn't trust her anymore, and his heart told him he couldn't forgive her.”

Serena Campbell, the Deputy Chief Executive of Holby City Hospital, a woman who was never afraid to speak her mind had been very quiet for the past fifty minutes whilst Guy dealt Ric the formalities. Her icy glare fell upon Guy, speaking everything that she felt about Ric's situation.

Everyday she struggles with people calling her the bad person, people not believing her, and people not forgiving her, like her own father. One day when Valerie’s mom texts her telling her she has to work late and to ride the bus home, she decides to walk a few miles to her dads firm. She was kind of skeptical of asking her dad for a ride but she figured it’d be a better alternative to riding the bus. When she arrives at the firm she sees something that made her mouth drop. She saw he dad gently place a hand on his secretary’s shoulder. He called her ‘Sweetheart’ and ‘Baby’, something he hadn’t done to her mom for years. I predicted that he had been having an affair on Valerie’s mom. A few chapters later I found out that my prediction was right. Valeri also found out the ominous truth of her fathers affair. Valerie’s dad told her mom everything and she wanted him out of the house. He told Valerie how much he loved Briley, his twenty-four year old secretary, and then said, “I was set to move in with her over the summer. We’d hoped to have been married been now. But the shooting…” (Brown 294). What made Valerie upset the most was the fact that he hid his anger towards her mom by covering it up with the shooting. He blamed Valerie for his distantness from the family but really he was out having an affair with his

My eyes are stinging from the bright florescent light hanging from the ceiling, like the feeling of uneasiness thats been settling in my chest since i woke up on this thin peice of foam. It smells used and pissy, it reminds me of the yoga matts we used in my middle school gym. If it wasnt for the dead bolted door and the cold concrete floor i'd have thought this small room with no windows would be a prime location for me and my two younger sisters to play hide and seek. There goes that feeling again reminding me that this is no game. I hear foot steps aproaching and someone playing with a key in the door. Serena is the youngest of the 3 of us but it's hard to tell she's only 11 because she's tall and plays basketball. Geraldine, . the middle

This morning lay no different, as Ric found himself engrossed in a copy of yesterday’s paper, Serena was applying her make-up and grumbling to herself; she much rather find herself finishing her latte in bed by Ric’s side, rather than having to sip away at the now lukewarm substance between trying to make herself presentable for work.

I would rather lose my tv than my cell phone. I could download netflix on my phone. I wouldn’t have to watch all the commercials. I could watch it at any time when if I wanted to. My dad would have to pay and not me.

She regretted not being there for Lavender in her last moments, for being too distracted to help her – maybe the moral support wouldn’t have helped her, but at least she could’ve said that she tried. It was something she knew she had no chance of redeeming now, but she couldn’t help but feel a peculiar stabbing pain in her chest at the thought of not being able to turn back time.

But now, she had to keep her focus on patching things up with her mother.

Ch. 2) Badgering Dominique for her response, Keating finally hears the reason in which Dominique acted upon Keating’s desires and expectations on her. Dominique, trying to be against herself, was simply acting as the world expected her to be.

One week had gone by, and that was all it took for Serena to lose her bright eyes, her charming personality, and her strong demeanour. In place stood a woman with dark, tired eyes, unclean and unmotivated, she had hardly left her bed, the world felt scary. She always knew, Ric's death would be hard on her, but she did not think it would be this hard and she was avoiding people at all costs.