Melinda was my absolute best friend. And I ruined it. We did everything together. Anything either of us did, the other one did the same. From soccer, to pink nail polish, to simply what we ate for lunch. I ruined it. She went through everything with me: thick and thin. I ruined it. I should’ve known. The night of the party. That’s when it all happened. I should’ve went to find her in the woods because I knew she was drunk. I saw her running back to the house like something had happened to her. I saw her take her phone out of her pocket. I saw her hit three numbers. I saw her put her phone up her to ear. When the police showed up I automatically assumed the worst. I had assumed that Melinda called the cops on the party to get it shut down. I never even once thought that there …show more content…
I continued to blow her off and watch her struggle so my reputation wouldn’t be ruined. I feel all the guilt in the world. Melinda is all I think about. Every time I see her, which isn’t very often, my heart drops a little. I think I need to talk to her and befriend her again. No I shouldn’t, she probably doesn’t want to talk to me. She probably hates me. But I think she really needs someone. Ughh whatever I don’t want to complicate things, I’ll just leave her alone. I truly feel bad for her, but if I show kindness towards her, everyone will hate me. Sometimes I see Melinda hanging out around the janitor’s closet. I always want to talk to her and see how she’s doing, but I just can’t bring myself to knock on the old, rusting door to the janitor’s closet. I mean, what would I say? There is nothing to be said except that I’m sorry, but she wouldn’t believe me after how I’ve been treating her. If I talk to Melinda, people will see me and unfriend me like they did her. I can’t believe I’m saying this but if I talk to Melinda, my reputation will be ruined. Just like my friendship with Melinda. The friendship that I
Elizabeth Lavenza (later Elizabeth Frankenstein) is one of the main characters in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. She is a beautiful young girl; fragile and perfect in the eyes of all. Her father was a nobleman from Milan, while her mother was of German descent. Before she was adopted by the wealthy Frankenstein family, she lived with a poor family. After Alphonose and Caroline Frankenstein adopt Elizabeth, they lovingly raise her alongside their biological son, Victor Frankenstein, in hopes that the two will eventually get married. When Victor goes off to Ingolstadt college, Elizabeth writes letters to him that later become a crucial part of the story. It weaves together every piece of the story, holding together each individual
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First came the pride, an overwhelming sense of achievement, an accomplishment due to great ambition, but slowly and enduringly surged a world of guilt and confusion, the conscience which I once thought diminished, began to grow, soon defeating the title and its rewards. Slowly the unforgotten memories from that merciless night overcame me and I succumbed to the incessant and horrific images, the bloody dagger, a lifeless corpse. I wash, I scrub, I tear at the flesh on my hands, trying desperately to cleanse myself of the blood. But the filthy witness remains, stained, never to be removed.
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But then something changed, something vanished from her life. It took her a few days to sober up and figure this out, but when she did her heart, she didn’t know existed broke. Friends. Her good friends, the ones worth keeping for a lifetime and the ones that were supposed stay by your side left. They were gone one by one just exiting out of her life. Some of them were courteous enough to talk to her first, but most just ignored her and acted like she didn’t exist. The few that came to her all said the same thing. They told her how they didn’t want to see her die from her antics and that they weren’t going to watch her ruin her own life. She couldn’t understand why her once good friends were saying this. She thought she was