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The Crash-Personal Narrative

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Chapter Four In dreams I visited the scene of the crash. Marcus, dead, roses lying around his face. Handsome, even in death, but with cold, harsh edges. Much like his father — Grey was a fitting last name for him. The roses blossomed fiercely around his head. Thorns sprouted. Bad blood, old blood — they were the same thing for their family. To the left of him lay Darien. Equally pale, the blurred edges of him were barely touching. Yet he was alive, because the universe said so. Nurses rushed back and forth, tending to Darien. Marcus lay on the passenger side, lonely and chalk white. Nobody looked directly at him, nobody but me. His neck was bent at a grotesque angle, the head sitting loosely on his shoulders. Yet still nobody dared to …show more content…

The tired woman behind the counter smiling knowingly at us behind her glasses. The past hour was something strange. I had never seen the city so clearly before — all the lights, reflecting softly on the dampened air the rain had heralded. There was a festive feeling all around us. We continued to walk on the white pavement, the reflection from the wetness illuminating our hopes and fears. Talking about everything, we were heading towards nothing. We walked close enough that our hands sometimes brushed against each other, and a small shiver would run down our arms. We did this with the naïveté of first love, never bothering to acknowledge it, other than the occasional shared smile. “You write poems?” He asked, suddenly. The change of subject startled me a little bit, but mostly because nobody bothered to ask about poems. “Um.. yeah, sort of,” I replied, a little hesitantly. I liked to write what I considered to be poems. They were like short narratives, without the usual regard for punctuation and grammar and whatnot. “May I read some of them?” Kai seemed curious, the intimacy of which I wrote these pieces unknown to him. “You have lovely handwriting.” I blushed. Did he have no shame? I shook my head without

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