It was too gentle to call a chill, but if you know California’s subtle seasons the air was unmistakably fall. Eddie looked out over the penthouse balcony at the boats in the marina and the fading pastels over the point. He smelled the Plumeria on his hands. For a moment—just long enough that when he looked up the sunset had deepened, and then it was gone—he wished he hadn’t pushed her.
Plumeria is a genus of flowering plants in the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. It contains seven or eight species of mainly deciduous shrubs and small trees. Wikipedia
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ReplyDeleteWhatever it was, it blew my mind open with the different scenarios that could be attached to the writing. They could be in love with each other but both of them are married. Their partners both believe that they are out of state on a business trip, in reality both are in a a beautiful hotel suit surrounded by the smell of plumeria. He is in love with her and she is in love with him. She had recently found out she's pregnant with his child. Neither of them can bare the pain of their other family through, they decide to take drugs and jump off the top of the hotel. Holdings hands, looking at the side walk, she counts to three, he felt her smooth hand slip out of his.
ReplyDeleteThats the type of story I would assume would be the beginning of beginning 1.
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ReplyDeleteToday, May 7th, Eddie Martinez has murdered his girlfriend. It occured at about 8 o clock in the evening. He is in regional jail cell 0001, thinking about what he has done. The motive for throwing her over the pointy rocky cliff is still very vague. All that is known is that she suffered a penetration deep enough to take her life away. She also suffered some cuts, bruises, a concussion to the brain, and some severe skeletal damage to the spine and hips.
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ReplyDeleteIt was too gentle to call a chill, but if you know California’s subtle seasons the air was unmistakably fall. Eddie looked out over the penthouse balcony at the boats in the marina and the fading pastels over the point. He smelled the Plumeria on his hands. For a moment—just long enough that when he looked up the sunset had deepened, and then it was gone—he wished he hadn’t pushed her.
He regrets it every second he breaths, in fact it brings tears to his eyes. "Why was I so stupid in the past?" he says to himself as he stares blankly at the sea. Twenty years ago Eddie never thought he would know what it felt like to regret something. If only he had the knowledge and understand of life he did now, he wouldn't regret abandoning his three week old daughter and girlfriend. If only they could understand he had to leave, there was no choice. "I was so caught up in all the drugs, money, and the power of being one of the biggest gangs in the city... I was so caught up I didn't realize that one day I wish I could have a family. I thought life would be fun living on my own... Partying and doing whatever I wanted when I wanted." He thought to himself. Eddie wished he could share this gorgeous, outstanding, huge, significant... empty... house (that he bought with his money he made from slanging drugs) with them.
It begins to get cold, he decides that it was getting late and to head insecure to get some sleep.
As soon as Eddie's head touched his pillow he began to dream. He dreamt of him starring at a young lady in some kind of office. He doesn't know what this office or who this girl is but she looks familiar.
[4:00am] Eddie wakes up frightened from what sounded like someone was trying to break into his house. He loads up one of his guns and slowly crept over to his front door, when he opens it he sees cops. Instead of making a run for it he gave himself up. Eddie sat the gun on the floor and walked outside and put his hands in the air.
[6:00am] He sits in an office waiting for a lawyer to come talk to him. As he sits in a chair he noticed a young lady walking toward him. But this wasn't just any young lady... this young lady was the one from his dream.
The young lady from his dream walks up to him and says, "Hi Eddie, I'm your lawyer Karen Rodriguez." At the very instant Eddie's whole world slowed down, he could hear his heart beating, he can feel his palms starting to sweat. She had beautiful hazel eyes, long wavy brown hair, and the most beautiful smile in the world. "She looks just like her mother he thought." as he began to shake his daughters hand.
After years of a horrible, hateful relationship, he killed her. Immediately his heart was full of remorse. Even though their relationship was dead for quite some time, the woman Eddie fell in love with was dead at the bottom of the stairs. He started to reminisce all the good times they had. All the laughter, the love, and the joy was gone, the only thing that is left is the pain. Not the pain of their relationship being dead for a while but rather the pain of knowing that the only woman who had ever loved him was dean and her blood is on his hands now.
ReplyDeleteEddie walked back into his house and went straight to his liquor cabinet. Hours passed by as he drank bottle after bottle. The pain he was trying to mask was only growing stronger. Even more time passed and in his drunken mind frame he started to yell at his wife who was still laying motionless at the bottom of the stairs. But during his ranting at the deceased corps he remembered how she would tell him to turn to God during hard times. So eddie ran to his dresser drawer and grabbed his old dusty Bible. He walked back to his liquor cabinet grabbed a bottle and sat down to read. after drinking half of the bottle he opened the book to a random page and started to read at the top of the page.
After reading only one verse, he tore it out of the Bible, stood up and walked out to the balcony. He climbed up to the railing with the verse in one hand and the bottle in the other. He finished the bottle and looked up to the night sky. with one lonely tear running down his cheek, he opened his mouth and said," I'm sorry", and jumped to his death. When the police found his the next day, they grabbed the piece of paper out of his hand which read," Leviticus 24:20 ' Fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, as he has caused disfigurement to a man, so shall it be done to him'"