Boromir's Tomb

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Ruined. Gone, demolished. The house at the bottom of the hill was on the ground suffering in the ashes. The few things that I managed to grab were useless, except for my dog, Patch. The gold hair that stood on my head was covered in a deep shade of grey and black. I coughed a little bit and looked to my mom. She was in tears. Honest, the fire was an accident. I didn’t mean to lose my temper. It just kind of happened. She was yelling and my two siblings Amelia and Gerard joined her side and then my dad stepped in and started yelling at me too, so I got angry and knocked the candle over. I thought it was one of mom’s fake battery lit candles. Not this real one. And the house burned to the ground. “Celia! Are you kidding me?” My dad was the first to yell at me as the eight firefighters in our town made the fire scream when water came in contact with it. “Celia, you’re a moron! You couldn’t control your stupid temper and look at what you did” Amelia yelled. “You went too far this time, Celia.” Gerard spat. I knew I was in trouble because they kept spitting my name in vein. “Sorry.” I mu...

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