Hallucination And Loneliness

• Lily Wright, Grade 8
• Short Story
• 2022

Chapter 1
Everyone in hallowstreet gathered just outside watching as the house burnt down in flames. there I am crying out to my parents who were trapped inside. I had people around me trying to help me calm down but obviously, nothing was working seeing as I had just lost my parents. What made everything worse was just before the incident my parents and I got into a big fight over my stupid boyfriend who they didn’t like but then again I was a fool to think he liked me back…

I'm not sure why I ever liked him, I mean he was such a bully but I don't know, there was just something that made me fall crazy in love with him. It's not like I knew any better, I was only 16. I was planning to run away with him after the fight but then the fire started and I couldn't move from the shock that I was in. I think I blacked out a little because when I saw the light again, my boyfriend yelled at me to get up and stop crying. At that moment I knew that he didn't really love me and was just using me.

All of these bad thoughts came rushing into my head and made me really sick but I pulled it together and tried to figure out what was really happening here. The thoughts spun around in my head for about 5 minutes before I realized that before the fight I had invited my boyfriend over to hang out and tell my parents that we would be leaving together but just before we went to tell them, I remember him saying that he needs to use the bathroom and he was gone for a while. Then I remember starting to get suspicious when he came out of the bathroom and told me that we have to do this quickly and get out so they won't have time to call the police. I thought that was weird but then again I was so madly in love with him that I wasn’t really thinking about anything but running away with him to a place no one would find us. Well, that's what he told us we were going to do. The whole time this was all happening my gut was telling me that this was wrong and something bad was going to happen but I didn't listen to it. I should have because if I had listened to my gut my parents would still be here and I probably wouldn’t have even liked him. I just can’t believe that this all happened not so long ago I was 16 when this happened and now I'm 20. I will never forget that day, no one will. it was everywhere in the newspapers and I think that’s why I came to this counseling session. I think I'm finally ready to let go of the past,
To be continued…