Persuaded to Stay
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Thread Topic: Persuaded to Stay
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Characters: Cole and Laura
The theme was ‘Persuasion’.
Here we go:
Planting a final kiss on her forehead was the last thing he could do before running off, far away from the house, forever leaving the beauty and the dwelling.
Why had he left? Because.. He didn’t know. But if he was forced to answer, he’s say it was because he felt he was wasting her time.. And he didn’t want to feel that anymore. He had to leave her. It was cruel, if wasn’t the best thing to do, but he had to do it.
It was also quite idiotic to so such a thing, because if he truly loved the girl, he wouldn’t have left her. But he, being the moron he had always been called, and even proven to be, had left for the sake of her own time.
But there was also another thing he hid.. And it was how he was the bearer of bad luck and death.
He wasn’t some sort of demon, but he was believed to be one in his village. That’s why he ran away. It realized it now. He didn’t want her to suffer, if the beliefs were actually true. He himself thought it was true, because he had brought about so many crop failures to his family as a child, and death as well.
His name was Cole. That was the only thing that could be found out about that mysterious man, for in the village last names were really never taken into consideration.
But as he ran, bad luck started.
It could be said that he almost brought his own demise.
As he was running, he could hear the desperate cries of his wife.
“Cole! Cole! Where are you? Cole!†came the screams.
“Laura,†he had whispered, and his heart thumped. He knew he had to leave. If Laura found him.. She’d force him back into the world of mental torment. Not only did he fear torture for himself, but torture for his wife. He kept running, trying very desperately to get away from her.
But her cries got louder, and soon he found himself thinking..
It has to end, one way or another.
Then he knew what to do.
He ran towards the east, and before long, he became exhausted. But he kept forcing his legs to move.
And soon.. He collapsed. His breathing was heavy, his blue eyes half-lidded. He tried to force himself to crawl, but his body was completely worn out. So he waited it out. If Laura did find him, then so be it. Let him bring them torture. If she didn’t.. then that would be good. Not because he never wanted to return, because of what he had figured..
No bad luck. Not for someone as wonderful as her.
But her screams came, loud and clear. “Cole! I’ve found you!†she cried, running for his limp body. He wasn’t dead.. But if she hadn’t come for him, he would have perished of exhaustion and despair.
“Why did you do that? Why? Why? Why?†she cried, shaking the man by the shoulders.
He grinned slightly, the sheepish grin telling it all.
“You don’t get it. It’s all lies. Your village fed you lies. It was all a coincidence.†She brought him up forcefully, and the tears in her violet eyes became apparent to Cole. “You mean everything to me. And you know who’s the only one who’s going to suffer because you didn’t go off and kill yourself?â€
Cole was ready to answer ‘you’ but he stayed quiet.
“The villagers, because they couldn’t get you to be naïve enough so that you’d believe everything they’d say to you.â€
She then hugged him tightly, letting the tears mark her face.
He decided, after all, that he’d stay longer with his wife.. And until the day they died of illness, they lived happily.
Never again did he let the villagers of the past get to him.
There we went. 661 words of pure crap that somehow won the contest.
Hope you liked it anyway. -
-__- This took me half an hour to type.
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my porms were ignored too alice, don't worry -_-
that was EPIC SAUCE. NOT AWESOMESAUCE, EPIC SAUCE.
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