A Broken Sorrow

• Anaya Moetara-fruean, Grade 9
• Short Story
• 2017

I shake with pain as the sound vibrates through my body. Behind me I hear glass break. No, not just glass. The window from and which my he was standing all too close to the window. I turn in time to see him falling, tumbling until he plunges and lands headfirst on the concrete driveway merely fifty feet below. I run to him.

"I wish very much that it did not have to be this way" I say to him softly."I have only loved you yet a short time and now you are almost gone..." My voice fades as I find it difficult to breathe.

"I'll find you again" he tries to talk but his words slur and his lungs fill with blood until he chokes and takes his last breathe. His eyes close and pain and grief begin to fill me...