This is the first chapter of the novel I've been working on....
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TORN
Derek’s Perspective
I look down at the little rascal, soundly sleeping on the floor. What a decision… I think to myself. I can’t believe that Jesse is making me get rid of him… I bend down to get Bailey, Carter’s old stuffed rabbit, so I can keep SOMETHING of his to remind me of him. I feel bad having to wake him up, he usually has nightmares and rarely sleeps well, but I have to if I am to do my girlfriend’s willing. “Carter…” I whisper, “Wake up buddy!” He slowly opens his one eye and thumps his tail quietly. “That’s right! Today is a happy day!” Today is happy day… I think, trying to convince myself. What a lie. He slowly and unstably gets up onto his 3 grayish brown legs. His floppy ears perked up just the slightest little bit. He walks up to me and looks up as if he is trying to say, “Hey! What’s up? What are we gonna do today?”
His story always makes my eyes well. He has been abused his whole life, his first owner, he had a spoiled son who wanted to own and know everything. So, he naturally wanted a bow and Arrow as well as an instructor. However, the instructor was late to the first appointment so the man put him out of business. He never did come around to getting is son a new instructor, so I suppose that the 13-year-old-boy tried to teach himself. However, Carter must have been walking around the yard with him, and got in the way of an arrow. One eye left.
Another owner had one hari accidentally left Carter outside when they were about to leave for Phoenix, and ran over him with their car. 3 legs left.
I can only imagine the pain he has been through, and I know I’ll be adding to it sejak abandoning him.
“C’mon Carter,” I mutter as I drag myself down the ratty stairs in my old apartment and into my kitchen. I open the cream colored cabinet and got out the Cinnamon roti bakar Crunch. I open up my susu and fix my cereal.
I whistle 3 times to Carter, a trick that I taught him, so that he will fetch my computer for me. 3 minit later after staring at my overly-soggy cereal, I pull up Google Maps and try to decide where I should go to… abandon him. It should be pretty far away so I don’t see him on the side of the road one hari and pick him up…. I think. This place is perfect! I think. The Sonoran Desert… I think. Not too close, not too far! I then go onto Google cari and find out that coyotes live there!!!
Are coyotes related to wolves?? I think so… And I know that Serigala are related to dogs! So, sejak putting him in this desert with the coyotes, I might be placing him with his long Lost Great Aunt Susan!! That’d be great if I was reuniting him with family!! That’d be great! Now I don’t feel as bad having to drop him off there!! I think, finally convincing myself that I COULD leave Carter in good hands, hands that might just be his family! What a delightful thought.
I realize that Carter is watching me, and I’m suddenly worried that he knows what I’m planning. Then, I realize that he’s just staring at my Makanan and I had forgotten to feed him. I pull out his bag of dry kibble and pour it into his bowl that says “Bad to the Bone” with a little bone painted onto it. He happily ate his breakfast, unknowing of his fate-to-be…
1
TORN
Derek’s Perspective
I look down at the little rascal, soundly sleeping on the floor. What a decision… I think to myself. I can’t believe that Jesse is making me get rid of him… I bend down to get Bailey, Carter’s old stuffed rabbit, so I can keep SOMETHING of his to remind me of him. I feel bad having to wake him up, he usually has nightmares and rarely sleeps well, but I have to if I am to do my girlfriend’s willing. “Carter…” I whisper, “Wake up buddy!” He slowly opens his one eye and thumps his tail quietly. “That’s right! Today is a happy day!” Today is happy day… I think, trying to convince myself. What a lie. He slowly and unstably gets up onto his 3 grayish brown legs. His floppy ears perked up just the slightest little bit. He walks up to me and looks up as if he is trying to say, “Hey! What’s up? What are we gonna do today?”
His story always makes my eyes well. He has been abused his whole life, his first owner, he had a spoiled son who wanted to own and know everything. So, he naturally wanted a bow and Arrow as well as an instructor. However, the instructor was late to the first appointment so the man put him out of business. He never did come around to getting is son a new instructor, so I suppose that the 13-year-old-boy tried to teach himself. However, Carter must have been walking around the yard with him, and got in the way of an arrow. One eye left.
Another owner had one hari accidentally left Carter outside when they were about to leave for Phoenix, and ran over him with their car. 3 legs left.
I can only imagine the pain he has been through, and I know I’ll be adding to it sejak abandoning him.
“C’mon Carter,” I mutter as I drag myself down the ratty stairs in my old apartment and into my kitchen. I open the cream colored cabinet and got out the Cinnamon roti bakar Crunch. I open up my susu and fix my cereal.
I whistle 3 times to Carter, a trick that I taught him, so that he will fetch my computer for me. 3 minit later after staring at my overly-soggy cereal, I pull up Google Maps and try to decide where I should go to… abandon him. It should be pretty far away so I don’t see him on the side of the road one hari and pick him up…. I think. This place is perfect! I think. The Sonoran Desert… I think. Not too close, not too far! I then go onto Google cari and find out that coyotes live there!!!
Are coyotes related to wolves?? I think so… And I know that Serigala are related to dogs! So, sejak putting him in this desert with the coyotes, I might be placing him with his long Lost Great Aunt Susan!! That’d be great if I was reuniting him with family!! That’d be great! Now I don’t feel as bad having to drop him off there!! I think, finally convincing myself that I COULD leave Carter in good hands, hands that might just be his family! What a delightful thought.
I realize that Carter is watching me, and I’m suddenly worried that he knows what I’m planning. Then, I realize that he’s just staring at my Makanan and I had forgotten to feed him. I pull out his bag of dry kibble and pour it into his bowl that says “Bad to the Bone” with a little bone painted onto it. He happily ate his breakfast, unknowing of his fate-to-be…
It's sad
It's the truth
Fighting through what it is
But I'll be stronger
I've gone through
Mounds of pain
I've been through
The deepest waters
Nobody can change my past
It's the truth, and it changed me
Sad to even hear the truth
Sad to...say the truth
Reality's always sad
And no one's gonna escape it.
It's how I became who I am today
It's how I didn't brag.
Why does this have to happen?
Why did it have to end?
Why does the world have to be so confusing?
Why did the fun have to end?
The world's just a crazy place
And no one's gonna stop that thought
Cause I'm broken for good...
Because of...the truth.
It's the truth
Fighting through what it is
But I'll be stronger
I've gone through
Mounds of pain
I've been through
The deepest waters
Nobody can change my past
It's the truth, and it changed me
Sad to even hear the truth
Sad to...say the truth
Reality's always sad
And no one's gonna escape it.
It's how I became who I am today
It's how I didn't brag.
Why does this have to happen?
Why did it have to end?
Why does the world have to be so confusing?
Why did the fun have to end?
The world's just a crazy place
And no one's gonna stop that thought
Cause I'm broken for good...
Because of...the truth.
My terrifying enemy, Cat.
Tell me darling why anda cry,
Your tears stain the katil anda lay upon
Could it be anda miss the ones anda clung to so tight,
Nothing but a scared little fawn
The flames burnt away your past and future,
The hate did nothing but balance your grief
What now? That’s presents question,
Something so fragile like a branch being clung to sejak a leaf
Where is your mother little dove?
What happened to those loving others who filled your empty nest?
How many word of the world can anda rhyme with love?
Perhaps someday we will know with, proper care and rest
When pursuing dreams take chances and strive for nothing less than best
Then only then can anda be sure you’ve completed life’s most demanding quest
Your tears stain the katil anda lay upon
Could it be anda miss the ones anda clung to so tight,
Nothing but a scared little fawn
The flames burnt away your past and future,
The hate did nothing but balance your grief
What now? That’s presents question,
Something so fragile like a branch being clung to sejak a leaf
Where is your mother little dove?
What happened to those loving others who filled your empty nest?
How many word of the world can anda rhyme with love?
Perhaps someday we will know with, proper care and rest
When pursuing dreams take chances and strive for nothing less than best
Then only then can anda be sure you’ve completed life’s most demanding quest
Soar, soar
Soar beyond your wildest dreams.....
There's no limit
On how much anda can soar
No one can
Break your wings and kill you
Soar for the skies,
Don't let the feelin go
Just soar, soar like never before
No one's gonna stop you
From believin
There wasn't a time
When nobody could never soar
But there was a time
When people never believed
And tomorrow
Isn't the hari to fall
And nobody's gonna push anda down
Oh almighty eagle
We're gonna be the powerful eagles
We're not gonna let anyone
Be our ruler,
We're not anyone's slave
Almighty eagle
Oh soar, soar towards the sky's height
And soar toward your dream
Let nothing keep anda away
Almighty eagle
Soar beyond your wildest dreams
And we're gonna fly tonight
Let nobody keep us down.
Life can be hard. Especially for me, Lily West, your almost-average 16-year-old girl. Most people think it's weird I'm bald. Others think I'm going to die. Then there's the occasional person who tries to take pity upon me. I'd rather they not, because some say it like I'm a helpless little penyu on its back. Sometimes I wish I die already, and sometimes I wish that I was a completely different person. Yes, it's tough having cancer. I just wish that they would respect me for a person instead of a helpless little bug.
