Betrayal

 

“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope (American Playwright and Dramatist, b.1958)."  

I've never relayed on anyone for anything. Never had a best friend, never wanted one, and never asked anyone for help. I would always think that if I let people get too close to me, in the end I would be the one to get hurt in some way. I was always by myself, but I liked it that way. I would see people with there so called "best friends" but I knew one day they would betray them.

My eighth grade year I got involved in student council with the high school I was going to. I was one of four people that started this student council; there were two boys, another girl and me. We spent a lot of our time together, and I started hanging out with the girl a lot more. Before I knew it we started doing things that I saw other best friends doing. I was having fun and I started letting people into my life a lot easier now.

I actually started to like having someone to talk to all the time and go out and do things with, so we now considered each other best friends. We used to do everything together from getting in trouble to achieving academic rewards. Though, I was still not used to having a best friend. I was still kind of sketchy about how long this would last because nothing good lasted with me. “What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps (Euripides, Hecuba).”

She went to Afghanistan for the summer and we lost touch until she came back, but when she came back it wasn’t the same. She had this stuck up attitude and didn’t really act like my best friend, but we were still closer than other people.

Then her boyfriend started getting really jealous of how close we were and only wanted him and her to be close. So slowly I started seeing him come between us and she just let it happen. I didn’t really care because of course I knew it was going to happen. So I just started doing my own thing and she still couldn’t see that she let a guy she knew for four months get between her and her “best friend” that she knew a lot longer.

She would always ask me to hang out and I would just make up some excuse so that I wouldn’t have to put up with the drama. I didn’t mind losing my friend if she was just going to choose her boyfriend over me, but what made me mad is when she tried to turn everything around and blame it all on me. She was defending her boyfriend when he was the one that caused all this friction between us.

Although all these things were going on I still had her back and considered her my best friend. Well at least until her boyfriend pulled the last straw and she still defended him. After that I realized that I don’t even want to be her acquaintance. If he could say things so evil to me and her still say just forget about it is when I realized that she wasn’t a true best friend. To this day I think she still believes her boyfriend didn’t do anything wrong and wants me to act like nothing happened, and although people should forgive and forget things, this could never be one of those things. If my boyfriend had done that to her she would expect me to get rid of him right away, and before all of this I probably would have. So now I have just went back to my old ways not caring and not needing anyone. I guess I should have just stayed that way in the first place because betrayal is the worst thing to feel especially when it is from your so called “best friend”.

“One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised. Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope (American Playwright and Dramatist, b.1958)."

Movie Proposal

We all know and love the Twilight saga, what if we fast forward almost 17 years. The Cullen clan is still the same, Esme, Carlisle, Alice, Jasper, Emmitt, Rosalie, Edward and Bella. Things haven't changed much, Rosalie and Bella still don't quite get along and Alice is still trying to get Bella to dress more like a girl. Jacob is steady at 17 waiting for Reneesme, Bella and Edwards daughter who Jacob imprinted on, to become his age so they can live their lives happily and in love. The family is now living in Kodiak, Alaska. Reneesme's 17th birthday is slowly approaching and the family is trying to get everything together for this very special day. This party will be bigger than the graduation party they had years prior in their old place they used to call home, forks, Washington. There will be a DJ, a dance floor, streamers, banners, food of all kinds plus all of Reneesme's high school friends will be there and all the Vampires that gathered together to help defend the Cullen family against the Vulture years ago. This is what is hard about mixed parties, how do you keep Vampires away from humans if they are not "vegetarians" like the Cullen's. It is agreed and understood by all Vampires, they will feed before the party so they do not get an urge to purge on a human.

The party is going according to plan when a vampire catches the scent of a lovely blonde high school student and cannot resist. He charms her to take a walk with him into the woods. She trips over a bolder and scrapes her knee, just enough to draw blood! The scent is too sweet and the urge is too strong to stop!! The vampire, eyes red and teeth erect, lunges toward the girl and just as swift as she fell his teeth were penetrating her carotid artery. What he didn't know was that young girl's boyfriend had followed them and saw everything!

The boyfriend waited until the vampire was long gone then he ran! He ran as fast as his legs would take him back to the town. He told his father the sheriff what he had seen. At first his father didn't believe him but after putting a few clues together he finally caved. The sheriff, his son, and a few other towns people they trusted researched and researched. They dug up everything they could on how to kill vampires. They came across an interesting story of the Quileute tribe, they wondered how true it was. They took a trip down to forks to research further. They ran into a few men whose fathers knew the Cullen family. The Kodiak towns people talked with these men, Sam, Quil, Embry. While talking one of the Kodiak towns people snuck into Sam's room and stole a map of where all the werewolves can be found. The towns people found some werewolves and by lies convinced the wolves to help them destroy the Cullen's.

The Kodiak towns people and the wolves headed back to Kodiak to pay the Cullen's a visit, but Alice saw them coming. The Cullen's thought they were prepared but they were definitely out numbered! When the towns people got to the Cullen house a great fight broke loose and humans and werewolves were getting slaughtered left and right. Bella caught a glimpse of a werewolf dragging Reneesme into the woods with three men following them, she and Jake chased after them. Bella took care of the three humans and saved Reneesme while Jake was fighting the other wolf. Bella, after saving her daughter, went to help Jake blood was everywhere, this was the hardest beast Bella and Jake had ever faced but nothing prepared Bella for what happened next. A bigger werewolf jumped out and attacked Bella leaving her on the ground. At the same time Alice sees Bella is in trouble and tells Edward, Edward runs off to find and save his wife as he has done so many times before. Jacob finally kills the two other wolves and goes to check on Bella. As Bella lay there in her own pool of blood Edward arrives to see Jacob, covered in blood, (as a werewolf) standing over his wife's body. Edwards eyes blacken in anger and his heart breaks in anguish, he leaps forward...

A Brave Moment

April 25, 2008 was the quietest moment in my life. I don't mean hypothetically either, on that night I thought my life was definitely going to come to an end. It's really hard for me to bring this thought up again but before that night my family and I had been going through a really hard time. I gave up on everything, and I had started to make some bad choices.

I don't really remember much. All I remember was my body in pain, the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. At that moment the whole world was quiet and everything stopped. It was like I was on the outside looking in. My body was shaking with cold sweats. My mind racing, trying to scream, trying to get out of this mess, but all I could do was lay there, motionless.

I can't really say why this was all happening, but I can say that it was all because of me and my actions. If only I had been stronger. I did a good job of hiding what was really going on and even now no one really knows. My parents didn't know what happened and thought it was because of a whole different reason. I wanted to tell them but I didn't think they would have understood.

I finally got through it but I would never wish for anyone to feel this pain. My family and I are doing better now, I'm making better choices, and we're not fighting as much. I'm just glad to be here.

After that my parents wouldn’t let me forget about the mistake I had made, so I finally got the courage to tell them what really happened so that maybe they would let it go. They say that the first step to recovery is to admit that you have a problem, and I believe that admitting to something so that you could get help is really brave, and every person can do it.

It is so easy to do what is wrong. I think this is because you actually have to work to succeed. I used to try not to think about what I was doing because if I thought too much about it I would start feeling guilty. Now I look back and I am glad that I decided to get help. I haven’t done too many brave things in my life, but I think I could say that this is one of the bravest things I have done.

Time Travel

     

      Although time travel has been a common plot device in fiction since the 19th century, I have found something that makes this fictional idea possible. You may not believe me, which is fine, because recently I have been present in so many previous historical events that I could tell you what truly happened. I have also been in some future events that may soon even be in the history books. Although I have accomplished what I was originally set out to do, which was build a functional time machine, I still have not achieved my primary goal which is to go into the past and live with the dinosaurs.

Ever since I was little I would imagine what it would be like if I lived with dinosaurs and now that I have my time machine I can actually find out what it is like. I bet your thinking that if I have already been to so many places with my machine then why not just hurry and go see the dinosaurs? Well, see someone can’t just go live with a bunch of flesh eating creatures; I have to have my plans set perfect. I have been planning this trip since I figured out that my invention worked, and I am almost ready to finally go.

Being so close to achieving my childhood dream, my nerves are getting the best of me. Now I imagine that I can study their actions and come back and tell exactly how they lived. I want to find out everything about them, how they lived, what they did to survive, and the real reason to why they are now extinct. I just want to see if what it says in the history book is actually true. Sometimes I imagine though, that if I do go through with this and people find out about it then they might be so greedy they’ll use my machine to find things that would only benefit them.

This time machine is the best thing that I could have ever invented, after I go see the dinosaurs then I will probably use this machine to sail with Christopher Columbus when he founded the Americas, march with Martin Luther King Jr., and then to go inside a mummy’s tomb.

With everything a time travel machine can do, why stop there. Maybe I can even go to the future and find cures to some of the incurable diseases today. Since I have a time machine I wouldn’t only use it for the things that I want to see in the world, but I would also use it to try to change the world back to the way it was before mankind started making some decisions that hurt our planet.