The following is a story about the most singularly unique and
wonderful feeling in the world; love. On a cold January night in the
city of Jacksonville Beach, FL, I was walking alone on the beach just
to clear my head of the day's nonsense, when out of the dark, He
appeared. The first words out of JA's mouth were "got any smokes," and
I knew we would get along perfectly. When I pulled out my Camel Frosts,
he informed me that the only smokes he would ever touch were my beloved
frosties. I lit him up, and when I did, the orange tint of the flame
flickered across his yellow eyes, and he shot me a look so devilish
there could only be one meaning. We sprinted to the nearest Motel 8,
and got a room. We've been an item ever since.
The next morning, as I gazed into his face, I saw a hardness, forced
on him by years of brutality in prison. I traced the long, jagged scar
running from the outside corner of his left eye to the bottom of his
jawbone, and tried to guess what sort of instrument could have caused
it. A knife, maybe? No, it was too
messy for that. Maybe it had been done by a man's fingernails, during a
particularly violent sexual episode. His voice cut into my inner
delusions.
"I was fishing with my deadbeat dad for the first time in my life, and
when I tried to cast the hook, it lodged on my jaw and ripped all the
way up to my eye. My old man used the extra chunks for bait, and told
me to toughen up."
"Who the heck are you," I replied, as I rolled over, showing him my
back where I had a scar from an identical incident. JA's answer will
forever echo through my mind.
"Your soul mate."
That afternoon, we got ice cream and went to the park to learn about
each other. Our destiny was secure, both of us knew that, but there was
still the process of getting to know one another to get around. In our
discussions, we realized the reason for our instantaneous trust of each
other. The sign alignments of myself being a Taurus, and Him being a
Cancer are as tight knit as the undersized sweater my grandma made me last year.
We also realized that there is one place in the world that we could be
happy together; Massachusetts. We're moving there next week.
That nigh of the 27th of January, 2008 will forever remain etched in my
memory as the day I found my soul mate, my best friend, my lover, and
my everything. JA and I's relationship has been the best experience of
my life, and I truly pity everyone else, because I know within the
greatest depths of my heart that no one else could ever acquire the
closeness and harmony that we share.
What you just read was a 500 word 1st person narritive that I wrote for my English Comp class. In it I created a parody of the average relationship between adolescents and/or young adults. My biggest challenge in doing so was to make it obvious how absurd my logic was, and the only way I was able to highlight it was to make it an unorthidox relationship. enter homosexuality. I hope you were able to enjoy the wit of this piece as much as I was.
peer grading starts in 15 minutes.
Mike Molter.