The Pink Pill.

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Now this is my health assignment. I thought I'd put it up, cause it definitely made my friends really upset and even myself I cried. I'd like someone to help me edit it and actually go through it and give me a serious review cause i would like to further this short and add more things on. Any suggestions are welcome :wink:

Rebekah:

Standing outside the nightclub was defiantly scary for a nineteen year old who really in a way should not be here at 11:30 at night. My dress ended a fair way up from my knees, giving me the chills and my legs had gained goosebumps. The dress also had no straps on it, so it wasn’t very supportive in the area in which did need support. The designing of this dress was stunning, and so it should be because it costs my mum a lot of money to get as a graduation present. Black lace trimmed the edges of the dress and outlined my body in a way that was really inappropriate, but really who cared. Red beads had been carefully shown in this dress and really gave the outfit edge. They glistened under the hovering lights that zoomed around the street in which the nightclub was located. I was second in line, but that changed to first as the group of slutty, blonde haired bimbos got ushered into the club by a slightly caramel skinned guy. As I got closer, I noticed he was hot, defiantly someone I went after. He protruded my thoughts about him by asking me a very basic question, “how old are you” his voice was strong and manly, I nearly drooled, but instead of embarrassing myself even more, I just went into my bag, pulled open my purse and flashed him the recently earned drivers’ license. To my disappointment, he just nodded and gestured me into the club. As I was walking up the stairs, I thought to myself ‘I’m going to have fun. Starting university next week will not be bad, so just relax Rebekah, just relax.’

Once inside it all was amazing. Gazing around, I had noticed a lot of things. Around you the nightclub was sparkling with life, lights mazed the place making it buzz with a different colour every second and you, after a while of focusing on only the lights, got a headache. People in the centre danced like lunatics to music that these days is considered ‘cool.’ The music was played from the DJ, located right off centre in the club and the guy who was controlling the music tonight was like a total freak. Turning away from the freak, I spotted the bar, and slipped past all the dancers. Once I had seated myself, I searched the back of the bar, but only saw a heap of alcohol. Suddenly out of nowhere the bar tender popped up, scaring half the life out of me. He winked at me before asking, “What can I get a beautiful young lady like you?”

I replied, “Just a pineapple martini, thanks,” and flashed him my award winning smile, and almost instantly he was rushing to make my order. I turned on my seat and scanned the crowd, only briefly and almost immediately I picked out a weird kind of guy that had covered his face, completely. He wasn’t facing me at first, but then his head snapped around and my vision focused on his dark eyes. It was like he expected me to know who he was and what…he was hiding. I snapped out of his gaze and changed my mind to something else. I moved my arm and nearly knocked over my martini that had been sitting there while I sat and stared at one guy, how pathetic. Finding the right guy was actually hard at these places and extremely rare as well. Scanning the area I did notice there were three kinds of guys at this particular night club tonight. Firstly, you had the try hards, which were last on my list. These guys are extremely unattractive and do not scare points with the ladies, even though they are super duper nice. Next up were the ‘Middle Guys’ who were my choice. Mmmmm, I thought to myself as I saw a Middle Guy dancing on the dance floor. Lastly, we have the complete jerks, who consequently have all the looks with them, but that is what helps them score because deep down, they are disgusting jerks. Male society was very hard to understand, but I seriously still believe that they have no trace of any brain in their tiny head. Still searching, I noticed the guy I had caught watching me, was still watching me. I freaked, grabbed my purse, gulped down my martini, but as I was about to get up and leave, I felt a hand tap me on the shoulder. My thoughts ran wild as I prayed to myself that it wasn’t the guy I had just been looking at, but I still turned my head. Surprisingly enough when I turned, my heart didn’t drop due to fear, it actually dropped because the guy right in front of me was melting it. Amazing enough, it was the Middle Guy I was kind of perving at earlier. He was tall, like god-like tall, and I could even smell him. Oh-mi-god! And those eyes gazed at me and I was transfixed within them, like hypnotized, they were that bloody nice. My senses were tingling and continued to tingle when he spoke to me, in a deep, seductive voice. “Hey. You want to dance with me?”

“Yeah, sure.” My answer sounded flirty, and I was defiantly meaning for it to be. He winked and held out his hand to indicate an open gesture. I quickly turned towards the bar, and banged the bench. The bar tender came up and leant on the bench.

“What can I do for you, another martini?” I shook my head and moved my purse forward.

“Could you mind this while I dance?”

“Yeah sure, just let me know when you need it back.” With this reply, I took the Middle Guy’s hand and let him lead me out onto the dance floor. Once out on the floor the music carried me away. I just dropped all the worries’ about next week and let this flow take me and make me a woman. My body responded with his and we were soon in sync. After what seemed like hours, he led me off the dance floor and went to get us both a drink. I watched me as he went and really thought how great of a guy he was, I thought maybe there was a future. I looked up to see where he was, so maybe I could go with him, but my path and vision was blocked by something dark. That man, that had been watching me while I was at the bar, had wedged me between the wall and himself. As much as I wanted to scream, I couldn’t, nothing could escape my mouth. He stood there looking at me, kind of weirdly too, but unpredictably shoved something into her hands. She looked down to see a bad full of pink pills, she glanced up, about to say that she really didn’t want to take these, and that she wanted him to leave her alone and let her have fun, but he cut in.

“They’ll help with the pain, trust me.” The smile that had followed that gave me the major creeps and I seriously wanted to get out of this place and consider never returning. He turned and stalked away and then the Middle Guy stepped between the paths that had once been enclosed, but I did feel a sign of relief. As the Middle Guy held up my drink and I took a sip of it, a headache broke out and whipped around my head viciously. I crouched into a fetal position and held my head in my hands.

“What’s wrong?” he asked in a concerned tone, I nodded and grabbed the drink. I turned my back to the Middle Guy and popped two of the little pink pills into her mouth and gulp them down with a good mouthful of martini.

“Nothing is wrong,” standing up and facing him, with a bright smile, “Just a little headache.”

“You sure?” he re-asked, probably just to make sure I was alright. I smiled even more.

“I’m very sure, let’s dance.” I reassured him. I then grabbed his hands and pulled him out onto the dance floor.
Over the next hour or two, a lot happened. First up, my head was filled with positive things, nothing was negative. I felt was high and mighty that I could do anything, even saved the world. My heart raced so hard, but it was a good racing, like it wanted to speed up and down and even it made me feel a little energetic. To feel even more in power I took more and more, having about 6 pills running through me, but the changes became bad. My body started locking and seizing up, I thought it was time for some air. I whispered in the Middle Guys ear that I was just heading outside to have a ‘smoke’, but really I was just going to try and cool myself down. Trying to leap out of the crowd of still moving bodies, I made it out, pushing open the back down, which led into an alley way, with one light. My senses were dead by this time, and my brain was slowly taking its toll and it was about to give up. I grabbed the wall and slid myself down it not even acknowledging that someone stepped into the alley. The footsteps rung in my ears as I heard them get closer and closer, but instead of walking past, they stopped at the feet of me. My body had shut down because as much as I wanted to squirm, this person grabbed me and laid me properly down. His hands creeped up my body and pulled down what a lot of people would call a ‘thong’, and I knew then, this was gonna end badly. I had no way of escaping, or at least defending myself. The nest thing I heard was what I was dreading the most. The sound of a pair of jeans’ zipper, and it was quickly over. I felt heaviness come down on my little body, and I panicked, then I was out.

Rick a.k.a the Middle Guy:

What is she doing, a smoke normally doesn’t take this long. I think I might check on her. I made my way through all the chicks and dudes, in pursuit for the back door, the exact one that I watched her walked out of. Rushing to make sure she was okay, I think I tripped a few times. My weight came against the door when I did eventually reach it and pushed it open. When my weight shifted and I ended up falling, was when I saw her sprawled on the ground, except she wasn’t alone. Whatever I saw was absolutely disgusting and I seriously hated guys for that. A creep was on top, obviously she forced to do something she didn’t want to, so I stood up and stalker over. When I reached their heaped bodies, I grabbed the top one (the guy) and threw him into the wall with such strength that I didn’t know I had. I picked her up by the shoulders and dragged her away from the creep and when she was placed aside and out of danger, I thumped over to the disgusting pig curled on the floor, holding his head. I gripped his head and yanked him upwards. I made sure that he was looking me in the eyes before I started bashing the crap out of this guy, who happened to inappropriately touch my ‘date’. I threw a fist right into his face, and surprised myself by hearing an agonizing crunch when my fist collected his face. I repeated this process about 20 times until I decided that; maybe, he was unconscious enough to think about his actions. I just hoped that the bruises would teach him a lesson. As I laying him down, not trying to making anything suspicious, I heard choking noises. Instantly without knowing, my head jerked towards the girl. Her body was throwing itself in every direction and I had a glimpse of white foam coming out of her mouth, as I ran to her side and held her close. I fumbled for my phone, not even bothering with the amount of shit coming out of her mouth, and the amount of blood her body. Once I had the phone, unlocked, I dialed 000, with shaky hands. While I heard the *bring bring* I checked the guy I bashed up was still unconscious on the floor, that removed the danger and then I rolled her body on it’s side, then a chick’s filled the other side of my phone. She asks, “Police, fire station, or ambulance?” and I nearly screamed ambulance, but I didn’t, I did it surprisingly calmly, for my situation. While she was connecting me through, I tapped her cheeks lightly, just thinking that maybe that would wake her up, but no response. I asked whether she could hear me, no response. I told her, politely, to open her eyes, still no response. I asked whether she knew her name, but no response. And with the last thing, I told her whether she could lightly squeeze my hand…and still no response. The ambulance line had connected and it was now a male on the other end. The first thing he asked was where he was located.

“Switch Nightclub, in Richmond, we are in the alley out the back of the club. Don’t know the exact address.”

“Okay. And what number are you calling from?”

“My phone, it’s a mobile phone. 0430469846.” While I was saying this to the guy, I had ripped a part of my shirt off and wrapped it tightly around my fingers. Holding my breath, I shoved my two fingers in her mouth and started scooping out the vomit and foam, it was gross. When I was sure that there wasn’t anything in there I started running through what happened, which the guy had asked me to go through with him. “Well I met this girl, and well, I have no clue what her name is, but still. We were dancing and all; I went off to get a drink and came back. She had a ‘little’ headache, as she said it was. Well, when I gave her drink to her, she turned her back to me and well, took something. After that she was fine, but she got worse and tired. She went to have a smoke, I followed her, concerned. She was on the alley ground being abused by a creep and then she went into fits,” I took a deep breath and could feel tears roll down my cheeks. As I was saying that whole thing to explain what happened, I was checking for a pulse. I couldn’t find one no matter how hard I felt or strained my eyes to see. She wasn’t breathing I panicked. And screamed “NO!” when the guy asked whether she conscious and then whether she was breathing.

“We will have an ambulance there shortly, keep trying to revive her, until we get to her and then hopefully things change, thank you.” And then he hung up. I clutched her body and dragged her to me. No matter how much me and this girl were strangers, I felt like I had made a connection with her. She was innocent, and no matter what happened, she did not deserve to die! I muttered that it would be fine, that she would be fine, but my mind told me that was utterly impossible and before I knew it the medics were rushing through that door with all their equipment. Some male medic had torn me and the girl apart and that’s when I planted myself at the end of the alley, staring at them, while they were whizzing away, trying to save her.

15 minutes gone, she hadn’t moved. her.

30 minutes passed and they were slowly starting to lost that thrive, but after 45 minutes, they gave up and they pulled the blanket over her head.

I stood up, and ran to where they were set up and yelled at their faces that they needed to do more, more work to her. They needed to help her. Instead of ignoring me, they grabbed my shoulders and yanked me to the truck, sitting me on the edge. Nothing would clam my mind. What were her parents going to do? She was so young, why? Who would tell the people who mattered the most to her that she had passed from this world? The emotion I was feeling was totally isolated, like disconnected. I felt as though no one else existed. I had let her die. That’s the only thing that had occupied my mind now.

Well, what else was I meant to think?

* * * * * * * * * * *

All I could do was duck my head low as I sat in the last row of seats in the funeral home. Well, she hadn’t told me her name, but now I knew. Rebekah. It meant a lot. It was so pretty; it rolled straight off the tongue and made your heart melt. I had been here for quite a while, just looking at the life long story line of photos her parents had provided. She was the cutest kid. So sweet and cute, playful and full of endless laughter. How much drugs can destroy your life and the ones around you is enormous, but it’s getting so common. I mean, I hadn’t even thought that she had taken ecstasy that night a week from this very day. It broke my heart to see her parents, friends, huddled together, crying and mourning their daughter/friends death. It was something that would brake a parents’ heart, and to think it was an accident. I lifted my head for two seconds and noticed that her tear streaked faced mother had been making her way down the lane way and was now in front of me. I stood up in respect and said my apologies, while giving her a hug. She looked at me curiously, though. “And how did you know Rebekah?” her eyes were deep; you could see the pain and agony sitting in clear plain sight.

“Just…,” what was I meant to say, the guy who witnessed you daughters deaths and nearly saved her life, but I just held my tongue and didn’t say anything except, “Just a very…recent friend,” her sad smile had shown.

“Well come here,” she pulled me into a hug. “Come with me and I’ll introduce you. They are just about to start the speeches. What’s your name again?”

“Rick.” And I followed her light hearted mother up the lane way, to those who deeply missed Rebeka.




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Hey Emilie, I would suggest hiding your author's note in a spoiler, especially when you have mistakes within it.

First: I can immediately see that you don't have enough paragraphs. Generally you start a new paragraph when you start writing about a new idea, or when someone new speaks.

Second: If this is your assignment, you are going to fail. This is not good. It is bad. I hope you haven't submitted this because there are so many errors and inconsistencies that truly makes this story absolutely painful to read.

Now, the review:

Standing outside the nightclub at 11:30 was defiantly definitely scary for a nineteen year old who really in a way should not be here at 11:30 at night. My dress ended a fair way up from my knees, giving me the chills and my legs had gained goosebumps. The dress also had no straps on it, so it wasn’t very supportive in the area in which did need support. The designing of this dress was stunning, and so it should be because it costs my mum a lot of money to get as a graduation present. Black lace trimmed the edges of the dress and outlined my body in a way that was really inappropriate, but really who cared. Red beads had been carefully shown sewn in this dress and really gave the outfit edge. They glistened under the hovering lights that zoomed around the street in which the nightclub was located.
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I was second in line, but that changed to first as the group of slutty, blonde haired bimbos got ushered into the club by a slightly caramel skinned guy. As I got closer, I noticed he was hot, defiantly definitely someone I went after. He protruded intruded upon my thoughts about him by asking me a very basic question, “how old are you” how old I was. His voice was strong and manly, I nearly drooled, but instead of embarrassing myself even more, I just went into my bag, pulled open my purse and flashed him the recently earned drivers’ license. To my disappointment, he just nodded and gestured me into the club. As I was walking up the stairs, I thought to myself I’m going to have fun. Starting university next week will not be bad, so just relax Rebekah, just relax.

So. For a first paragraph, this wasn't very entertaining. I think you spent way too long describing the dress, and the side-track story of thinking the bouncer was attractive was cliché and boring.

Once inside it all was amazing. Gazing around, I had noticed a lot of things. Around you me the nightclub was sparkling with life, lights mazed the place making it buzz with a different colour every second and you I, after a while of focusing on only the lights, got a headache. People in the centre danced like lunatics to music that these days is considered ‘cool.’The music was played from by the a DJ, located right off centre in the club and the guy who was controlling the music tonight was looked like a total freak. Turning away from the freak,
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I spotted the bar, and slipped past all the dancers. Once I had seated myself, I searched the back of the bar, but only saw a heap of alcohol. Suddenly out of nowhere the bar tender popped up, scaring half the life out of me. He winked at me before asking, “What can I get a beautiful young lady like you?”

Be careful of describing things too much. Too much bad description turns an okay story into an awful one.

I replied,“Just a pineapple martini, thanks,” and flashed him my award winning smile, and almost instantly he was rushing to make my order.
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I turned on my seat and scanned the crowd. only briefly and almost immediately I picked out a weird kind of guy that had covered his face, completely. He wasn’t facing me at first, but then his head snapped around and my vision focused on his dark eyes. It was like he expected me to know who he was and what…he was hiding. I snapped out of his gaze and changed my mind to something else. I moved my arm and nearly knocked over my martini that had been sitting there while I sat and stared at one guy, how pathetic. Finding the right guy was actually hard at these places and extremely rare as well. Scanning the area I did notice there were three kinds of guys at this particular night club tonight. Firstly, you had the try hards, which were last on my list. These guys are extremely unattractive and do not scare points with the ladies, even though they are super duper nice. Next up were the ‘Middle Guys’ who were my choice. Mmmmm, I thought to myself as I saw a Middle Guy dancing on the dance floor. Lastly, we have the complete jerks, who consequently have all the looks with them, but that is what helps them score because deep down, they are disgusting jerks. Male society was very hard to understand, but I seriously still believe that they have no trace of any brain in their tiny head. Still searching, I noticed the guy I had caught watching me, was still watching me. I freaked, grabbed my purse, gulped down my martini, but as I was about to get up and leave,

I felt a hand tap me on the shoulder. My thoughts ran wild as I prayed to myself that it wasn’t the guy I had just been looking at, but I still I turned my head. Surprisingly enough when I turned, my heart didn’t drop due to fear, it actually dropped because the guy right in front of me was melting it. Amazing enough, it was the Middle Guy I was kind of perving at earlier. He was tall, like god-like tall, and I could even smell him. Oh-mi-god! And those eyes gazed at me and I was transfixed within them, like hypnotized, they were that bloody nice. My senses were tingling and continued to tingle when he spoke to me, in a deep, seductive voice. “Hey. You want to dance with me?”

This is an awful paragraph. I don't really know how to improve this story. You just really need to read over this. It's as if you wrote this story just as you would speak it. "He was tall, like god-like tall" is not something you should read in literature. The conjunction "like" here is used, like, so much, that like, it grates on my, like, nerves.

“Yeah, sure.” My answer sounded flirty, and I was defiantly meaning for it to be. He winked and held out his hand to indicate an open gesture. I quickly turned towards the bar, and banged the bench. The bar tender came up and leant on the bench.

Do you know the difference between defiantly and definitely?

“What can I do for you, another martini?” I shook my head and moved my purse forward.

“Could you mind this while I dance?”

“Yeah sure, just let me know when you need it back.”

Reality check - bars do not do this. They will not be liable if it gets stolen.

With this reply, I took the Middle Guy’s hand and let him lead me out onto the dance floor. Once out on the floor the music carried me away. I just dropped all the worries’ about next week and let this flow take me and make me a woman. My body responded with his and we were soon in sync.
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After what seemed like hours, he led me off the dance floor and went to get us both a drink. I watched me as he went and really thought how great of a guy he was, I thought maybe there was a future. I looked up to see where he was, so maybe I could go with him, but my path and vision was blocked by something dark. That man, that had been watching me while I was at the bar, had wedged me between the wall and himself. As much as I wanted to scream, I couldn’t, nothing could escape my mouth. He stood there looking at me, kind of weirdly too, but unpredictably shoved something into her hands. She looked down to see a bad full of pink pills, she glanced up, about to say that she really didn’t want to take these, and that she wanted him to leave her alone and let her have fun, but he cut in.

I am really confused right now. You've changed from first person, to second person to third person. First in the point of view "I", then "you" and now "her". You really need to proof read this and edit it.

“They’ll help with the pain, trust me.” The smile that had followed that gave me the major creeps and I seriously wanted to get out of this place and consider never returning. He turned and stalked away and then the Middle Guy stepped between the paths that had once been enclosed, but I did feel a sign of returned and I sighed in relief. As the Middle Guy held up my drink and I took a sip of it, a headache broke out and whipped around my head viciously. I crouched into a fetal feotal position and held my head in my hands.

This makes absolutely no sense. People don't just randomly have huge headaches like that.

“What’s wrong?” he asked in a concerned tone, I nodded and grabbed the drink. I turned my back to the Middle Guy and popped two of the little pink pills into her mouth and gulp them down with a good mouthful of martini.

??????????????????? Have you even read over this?

“Nothing is wrong,” I said standing up and facing him, with a bright smile, “Just a little headache.”

“You sure?” he re-asked again, probably just to make sure I was alright. I smiled even more.

“I’m very sure, let’s dance.” I reassured him. I then grabbed his hands and pulled him out onto the dance floor.

I have no idea why she took the pills. Has she no common sense? This is a girl who got into university. You have to have a brain to achieve that.

Over the next hour or two, a lot happened. First up, my head was filled with positive things, nothing was negative. I felt was high and mighty that I could do anything, even saved the world. My heart raced so hard, but it was a good racing, like it wanted to speed up and down and even it made me feel a little energetic. To feel even more in power I took more and more, eventually having about 6 six pills running through me, but the changes became bad. My body started locking and seizing up, I thought it was time for some air.
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I whispered in the Middle Guy's ear that I was just heading outside to have a ‘smoke’, but really I was just going to try and cool myself down. Trying to leap out of the crowd of still moving bodies, I made it out, pushing open the back downor, which led into an alley way, with one light. My senses were dead by this time, and my brain was slowly taking its toll and it was about to give up.
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I grabbed the wall and slid myself down it, not even acknowledging that as someone stepped into the alley. The footsteps rung in my ears as I heard them get closer and closer, but instead of walking past, they stopped at the feet of me my feet. My body had shut down because as much as I wanted to squirm, this person grabbed me and laid me properly down. His hands creeped up my body and pulled down what a lot of people would call a‘thong’ my thong, and I knew then, that this was gonna going to end badly. I had no way of escaping, or at least defending myself. The nest next thing I heard was what I was dreading the most. The sound of a pair of jeans’ zipper, and it was quickly over. I felt heaviness come down on my little body, and I panicked, then I was out.

Awful.

One: Nightclubs do not have "back doors". This is to prevent people from sneaking in and not paying.
Two: No one is stupid enough to take more than one pill to acquire more "power".
Three: You clearly have not read over your work. There are so many errors, and a lot of the sentences are painful to read.

What is she doing, a smoke normally doesn’t take this long. I think I might check on her. I made my way through all the chicks and dudes, in pursuit for the back door, the exact one that I watched her walked out of. Rushing to make sure she was okay, I think I tripped a few times.
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My weight came against the door when I did eventually reach it and pushed it open. When my weight shifted and I ended up falling,was when I saw her sprawled on the ground, except she wasn’t alone. Whatever I saw was absolutely disgusting and I seriously hated guys for that. A creep was on top, obviously she had been forced to do something she didn’t want to, so I stood up and stalker stalked over.
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When I reached their heaped bodies, I grabbed the top one (the guy) and threw him into the wall with such a strength that I didn’t know I had. I picked her up by the shoulders and dragged her away from the creep and when she was placed aside and out of danger, I thumped over to the disgusting pig curled on the floor, holding his head. I gripped his head and yanked him upwards. I made sure that he was looking me in the eyes before I started bashing the crap out of this guy, who happened to inappropriately touch my ‘date’. I threw a fist right into his face, and surprised myself by hearing an agonizing crunch when my fist collected his face. I repeated this process about 20 times until I decided that; maybe, he was unconscious enough to think about his actions. I just hoped that the bruises would teach him a lesson.
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As I was laying him down, not trying to making anything suspicious, I heard choking noises. Instantly without knowing, my head jerked towards the girl. Her body was throwing itself in every direction and I had a glimpse of white foam coming out of her mouth, as. I ran to her side and held her close.
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I fumbled for my phone, not even bothering with the amount of shit coming out of her mouth, and the amount of blood her body. Once I had the phone, unlocked, I dialed 000, with shaky hands. While I heard the *bring bring* dial tone, I checked the guy I bashed up was still unconscious on the floor. that removed the danger and then

I rolled her body on its side, then a chick’s voice filled the other side of my phone.
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She asksed, “Police, fire station, or ambulance?” and I nearly screamed ambulance, but I didn’t, I did it surprisingly calmly, for my situation. While she was connecting me through, I tapped her cheeks lightly, just thinking that maybe that would wake her up, but no response. I asked whether she could hear me, no response. I told her, politely, to open her eyes, still no response. I asked whether she knew her name, but no response. And with the last thing, I told her whether she could lightly squeeze my hand…and still no response.
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The ambulance line had connected and it was now a male on the other end. The first thing he asked was where he was located.

One: Thoughts should be in italics.
Two: Rick just probably killed that guy by punching him in the face over twenty times after he broke the man's nose. A single bone fragment could penetrate the brain. Then Rick arranges the body so that it looked like something suspicious didn't happen. WTF. This is such terrible writing!
Three: Rick performs the checks that someone does on an injured person... when the main character is clearly unconscious. And then he keeps on asking and doing things as if expecting a response. What an idiot.

“Switch Nightclub, in Richmond, we are in the alley out the back of the club. Don’t know the exact address.”

“Okay. And what number are you calling from?”

“My phone, it’s a mobile phone. 0430469846.” While I was saying this to the guy, I had ripped a part of my shirt off and wrapped it tightly around my fingers. Holding my breath, I shoved my two fingers in her mouth and started scooping out the vomit and foam, it was gross. When I was sure that there wasn’t anything in there I started running through what happened, which the guy had asked me to go through with him.

This is probably the most accurate and best written part of the story.

“Well I met this girl, and well, I have no clue what her name is, but still. We were dancing and all; I went off to get a drink and came back. She had a ‘little’ headache, as she said it was. Well, when I gave her drink to her, she turned her back to me and well, took something. After that she was fine, but she got worse and tired. She went to have a smoke, I followed her, concerned. She was on the alley ground being abused by a creep and then she went into fits,” I took a deep breath and could feel tears roll down my cheeks. As I was saying that whole thing to explain what happened, I was checking for a pulse. I couldn’t find one no matter how hard I felt or strained my eyes to see. She wasn’t breathing I panicked. And screamed “NO!” when the guy asked whether she conscious and then whether she was breathing.

... This is just bad.

“We will have an ambulance there shortly, keep trying to revive her, until we get to her and then hopefully things change, thank you.” And then he hung up. I clutched her body and dragged her to me. No matter how much me and this girl we were strangers, I felt like I had made a connection with her. She was innocent, and no matter what happened, she did not deserve to die! I muttered that it would be fine, that she would be fine, but my mind told me that was utterly impossible. and Before I knew it the medics were rushing through that door with all their equipment. Some male medic had torn me and the girl apart and that’s when I planted myself at the end of the alley, staring at them, while they were whizzing away, trying to save her.

Why did they rush through a door?

15 minutes gone, she hadn’t moved. her.

30 minutes passed and they were slowly starting to lost that thrive, but after 45 minutes, they gave up and they pulled the blanket over her head.

What? Just... what.

I stood up, and ran to where they were set up and yelled at their faces that they needed to do more, more work to her. They needed to help her. Instead of ignoring me, t They grabbed my shoulders and yanked me to the truck, sitting me on the edge. Nothing would clam calm my mind. What were her parents going to do? She was so young, why? Who would tell the people who mattered the most to her that she had passed from this world? The emotion I was feeling was totally isolated, like disconnected. I felt as though no one else existed. I had let her die. That’s the only thing that had occupied my mind now.

Well, what else was I meant to think?


Okay.

Grammar:
Awful. You truly need to work on your use of syntax and when to use commas and full stops.

Plot:
Somewhat interesting, but completely full of holes. No one is stupid enough to accept pills from a random guy. No one is stupid enough to take them. No one is stupid enough to continue taking them. There are no such things as accessible back doors in night clubs.

Overall:
This needs a serious rehaul. You sincerely need to go over this and redo a whole heap of it. It's plain bad.

Reply to this thread with any comments or questions. I will gladly help you go over this more thoroughly if you like. Simply request a review at the link in my signature.

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Okay first off, right now i am so SO annoyed at 'seeminglymeaningless'. I could really, truly say some completely horrible things, but i'm not going to because i'm not like that.

Second, this is NOT horrible. Sure it does have alot of mistakes, but people learn off there mistakes. Personally, i thought this piece of work was really good. I found myself hooked right from the very start.
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As much as I wanted to scream, I couldn’t, nothing could escape my mouth. He stood there looking at me, kind of weirdly too, but unpredictably shoved something into her hands. She looked down to see a bad full of pink pills, she glanced up, about to say that she really didn’t want to take these, and that she wanted him to leave her alone and let her have fun, but he cut in.


You have swapped from First person POV to Second. Change all the hers, shes, etc. You arn't talking about someone else, you are making this story in your own POV, so you should be saying 'I'.

"What’s wrong?” he asked in a concerned tone, I nodded and grabbed the drink. I turned my back to the Middle Guy and popped two of the little pink pills into her mouth and gulp them down with a good mouthful of martini.

-- Okay, i know you are trying to get somewhere in this story. But maybe you should change the plot a little bit, because even though i thought 'seeminglymeaningless' was cruel, they did have a point. Why would she take random pills from a stranger ? Either this person is really, really stupid, or wants to die. So maybe, this is just a suggestion, instead of the guy handing her the pills he could just give the warning to her. She thinks its all weird, and she scared, and whatever. But she shrugs it off, and goes back to dance. But she leaves her drink on the bar (obvious mistake, but still, it happens) and she goes back to have a drink and then she starts to feel weird, because lets say the weird guy put the pills in her drink. Just a suggestion, you don't have to use it.

“What’s wrong?” he asked in a concerned tone, I nodded and grabbed the drink. I turned my back to the Middle Guy and popped two of the little pink pills into her mouth and gulp them down with a good mouthful of martini.

You've changed POV's again.

“Nothing is wrong,” standing up and facing him, with a bright smile, “Just a little headache.”


This doesn't really sound right to me. Maybe it would sound right like this, "Nothing is wrong,"i said, standing up to face him with a bright smile. "Just a little headache."

Over the next hour or two, a lot happened. First up, my head was filled with positive things, nothing was negative. I felt was high and mighty that I could do anything, even saved (should be, save) the world. I'd change this sentence. Maybe something like, 'I felt high and mighty, like i could do anything, maybe even save the world.' My heart raced so hard, but it was a good racing, like it wanted to speed up and down and even it made me feel a little energetic. I'd re-write this sentence. Maybe something like, 'My heart raced, the speed increasing every second, making me feel slightly energetic in a weird way.' To feel even more in power I took more and more, having about 6 pills running through me, but the changes became bad. My body started locking and seizing up, I thought it was time for some air. I whispered in the Middle Guys ear that I was just heading outside to have a ‘smoke’, but really I was just going to try and cool myself down. Trying to leap out of the crowd of still moving bodies, I made it out, pushing open the back down, which led into an alley way, with one light. This really doesn't make much sense. Maybe write it like this, 'Trying to leap out of the crowd of still moving bodies, i found myself stumbling and it was a struggle to keep myself up, but i eventually made it out. I flung the door open, which led into an alley way. One small light flickered on and off above my head.' (This way it gives you more of a description of what is around you, and also it divides the sentences up. Try using fullstops instead of commas. My senses were dead by this time, and my brain was slowly taking its toll and it was about to give up. I grabbed the wall and slid myself down itcomma not even acknowledging that someone stepped into the alley. The footsteps rung in my ears as I heard them get closer and closer, but instead of walking past, they stopped at the feet of me. My body had shut down because as much as I wanted to squirm, this person grabbed me and laid me properly down. His hands creeped up my body and pulled down what a lot of people would call a ‘thong’, and I knew then, this was gonna end badly. I had no way of escaping, or at least defending myself. The nest thing I heard was what I was dreading the most. The sound of a pair of jeans’ zipper, and it was quickly over. I felt heaviness come down on my little body, and I panicked, then I was out.


Okay, so the part with Rick. I found that you didn't really describe his emotions very well at the start. Instead of telling us that he found what he was looking at disgusting, SHOW us this. Maybe say something about he felt like he wanted to throw up, and he was in such shock for a moment he forgot how to move. Because right now everything he does sounds really superficial and juvenile. Dig deep into his emotions, imagine it's you that has found your friend being raped by some stranger. How would you feel ?
Also, stuff underlined i would take out.

I repeated this process about 20 times until I decided that; maybe, he was unconscious enough to think about his actions.

In a story you wouldn't say how many times you repeated things, because once again that is telling, not showing. Say something about Rick taking out all his disgust and anger with every pound of his fist hitting the mans face.Say he lost count of how many times he hit him, but there was blood pouring from his nose and mouth, and his eyes were already moving to a dark purple.

While she was connecting me through, I tapped her cheeks lightly, just thinking that maybe that would wake her up, but no response. I asked whether she could hear me, no response. I told her, politely, to open her eyes, still no response. I asked whether she knew her name, but no response. And with the last thing, I told her whether she could lightly squeeze my hand…and still no response.

I liked everything in green :) I could really imagine this, and i found it rather sad. Maybe you could add in how Rick felt about having no response from her.
The first sentence you might want to change just a bit. Becuase when it say he tapped her cheeks lightly, it sounds like he's tapping the ladys on the other side of the phone. So maybe, "While she was connecting me through, i tapped the girls cheeks lightly..."

She wasn’t breathingcomma I panicked. And screamed “NO!” when the guy asked whether she conscious and then whether she was breathing.


“Well I met this girl, and well, I have no clue what her name is, but still. We were dancing and all; I went off to get a drink and came back. She had a ‘little’ headache, as she said it was. Well, when I gave her drink to her, she turned her back to me and well, took something. After that she was fine, but she got worse and tired. She went to have a smoke, I followed her, concerned. She was on the alley ground being abused by a creep and then she went into fits,”


How old is Rick meant to be ? Because at the moment he sounds really, really young. Change this paragraph into him panicking, say something like, "She took something, she took something! I have no idea what, she's not moving. Theres blood and she's thrown up! I've only just met her, please help."

All I could do was duck my head low as I sat in the last row of seats in the funeral home. Well, she hadn’t told me her name, but now I knew. Rebekah. It meant a lot. It was so pretty; it rolled straight off the tongue and made your heart melt. I had been here for quite a while, just looking at the life long story line of photos her parents had provided. She was the cutest kid. So sweet and cute, playful and full of endless laughter. How much drugs can destroy your life and the ones around you is enormous, but it’s getting so common. << (I don't get that) I mean, I hadn’t even thought that she had taken ecstasy that night a week from this very day. It broke my heart to see her parents, friends, huddled together, crying and mourning their daughter/friends death. It was something that would brake a parents’ heart, and to think it was an accident. I lifted my head for two seconds and noticed that her tear streaked faced mother had been making her way down the lane way and was now in front of me. I stood up in respect and said my apologies, while giving her a hug. She looked at me curiously, though. “And how did you know Rebekah?” her eyes were deep; you could see the pain and agony sitting in clear plain sight.

“Just…,” what was I meant to say, the guy who witnessed you daughters deaths and nearly saved her life, but I just held my tongue and didn’t say anything except, “Just a very…recent friend,” her sad smile had shown. << LOVE that. Describes him so well.
“Well come here,” she pulled me into a hug. “Come with me and I’ll introduce you. They are just about to start the speeches. What’s your name again?”
“Rick.” And I followed her light hearted mother up the lane way, to those who deeply missed Rebeka.[/color]


Once again, underlined stuff, take out.

Overall
I did enjoy this piece. But, yes there is always a but :/, you have got quite alot of mistakes. Go through your storys before you post them on here, so you can avoid rude comments. You used commas where commas shouldn't be used. And maybe you should try describing things more. You seemed to be rushing things abit with the describing. Don't be afraid to put a fullstop. Also, some sentences didn't really make any sense, so go through and look at that as well.
Don't listen to 'seeminglymeaningless' this isn't BAD, as she so bluntly put it. And you should enter this in for your school work. BUT edit it first. You don't have to take all my suggestion, but you can if you want to.

If you would like any more help, just PM me, i'd be super glad to review anything else.
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Hi BornToShop. So, I noticed you had a few loud problems with my review. I address them here. I am also going to just quickly review it as well, because I enjoy reviewing things.

borntoshop wrote:Okay first off, right now i am so SO annoyed at 'seeminglymeaningless'. I could really, truly say some completely horrible things, but i'm not going to because i'm not like that.

When you are writing a review, it is best to make sure you lead by example. If you're not capitalizing your I's, then it's quite possible the person you reviewed is going to ignore you, or worse, copy you. I also supplied my name at the bottom of my review, as I always do, so you could have simply addressed me as Jai, instead of placing my username in quotation marks, indicating that the words in between said quotation marks are fake/false.

Also, what truly horrible things were you going to say? That I was right about my comments? Because you said that later on, and I'm glad you did concede that I was correct. No matter how unjustified my review was, it held several grains of truth. Would you rather have had this author simply believe all her friends who cried over this story, or would you have someone who is studying a Bachelor of Secondary Education, major in English, helping her? If this author had handed this in as her assignment, she would get a fail in the grammar section. If this was supposed to show some sort of "reaction" to taking a drug, and the only reaction stated is "I felt my heart racing and took more pills for the power trip", I'm sure that isn't accurate.


borntoshop wrote:Second, this is NOT horrible. Sure it does have alot of mistakes, but people learn off there mistakes.

People can't learn from their mistakes unless their mistakes are pointed out.

borntoshop wrote:But maybe you should change the plot a little bit, because even though i thought 'seeminglymeaningless' was cruel, they did have a point.

Oh really? You mean I didn't just write the above review solely to crush someone's dreams and aspirations as a writer?

borntoshop wrote:Go through your storys before you post them on here, so you can avoid rude comments.

Go over your reviews so that they live up the standards that you are trying to make the author take up.

borntoshop wrote:Don't listen to 'seeminglymeaningless' this isn't BAD, as she so bluntly put it.

My opinion is my own opinion. The last time I checked, Human Rights allowed for Free Speech. Amongst all my blunt comments were honest suggestions on why the story was bad and how she could change it for the better.

borntoshop wrote:And you should enter this in for your school work. BUT edit it first.

Honestly, as I said earlier, if she submitted this she would get a very low grade, perhaps even a fail. Your suggestion to submit this "but edit it first" is a tad flimsy. What if she just ran it through a spell checker and considered that "editing"?

Looking forward to your reply, Born.

- Jai
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I see where you are coming from, Jai. But we are younger than you and we don't have a degree in anything, we are allowed to make mistakes. Sure, she won't learn from her mistakes unless they are pointed out to her, but you didn't have to be so mean about it. People have feelings, you know? And i wouldn't be surprised if Emilie was quite hurt by all your comments.

Hi BornToShop. So, I noticed you had a few loud problems with my review. I address them here. I am also going to just quickly review it as well, because I enjoy reviewing things.

Yes, i don't doubt for one second that you enjoy reviewing things, but i also don't doubt that this was just a way to get at me, and all of my mistakes. But i have already been told by Snoink that you are not allowed to review others comments.

also supplied my name at the bottom of my review, as I always do, so you could have simply addressed me as Jai, instead of placing my username in quotation marks, indicating that the words in between said quotation marks are fake/false.

I am sorry about this. I didn't read all of your review, so therefore i did not see your name. When i put quotation marks around it, it wasn't meant to make it look fake/false i was just showing Emilie where the name was.

Oh really? You mean I didn't just write the above review solely to crush someone's dreams and aspirations as a writer?

I never thought for one second that, that was your plan. I just thought that you could have reviewed the piece with a little more respect.

Go over your reviews so that they live up the standards that you are trying to make the author take up.

Oh yes, here it is. The comment i was waiting for. I knew that i would make a mistake somewhere in this review that i would miss when i re-read. I'm sorry that i am not perfect.

I still have a lot to learn about grammar, punctuations, usage of paragraphs and about everything really. That's why i still go to school and am planning to make myself better. I bet you have a whole lot more experience up you sleeve than myself and thats why your review is probably better than mine. Because you are someone who is studying, Bachelor of Secondary Education, major in English. Congratulations. But i also have a right to express my opinions, and thats why i tried to help in my own way with reviewing this story.

Gracias,
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I'm in my first year of university. I didn't say my review was better than yours, I said that my review would hold more ground than that of friends crying over her work.

Check out this: topic64393.html

As you can tell by the date, I did exactly the same thing you did, and I got told off for it, and it wasn't very long ago. So yeah, we've been in the same boat, but I got told off by a mod in the end :P Slightly embarrassing. Just don't make comments about other people's reviews when you make your own. I learnt that the hard way, and you have too.

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I'm in my second year of high school, so we can both say you are way more experienced. And yes, you didn't say your review was better, but we both know it was.

And i'm sorry i started my review how i did. I guess i was just a little bit shocked at how you just said, "It was bad."
Didn't mean to offend you, or anything.

Tenga un buen dia. (have a good day)
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This is inappropriate.

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Hi Emilie! You've gotten a lot of advice so far, so I hope I'm not repeating the other comments! I haven't read the previous comments, so I probably am. Sorry about that!

I noticed a couple of grammar/spelling errors. Nothing big... actually, this read fairly easily! So that's definitely a good thing! :) You've obviously used spell check, so I kind of love you for that. However, spell check is evil and sometimes it "corrects" the wrong things. I found a couple of mistakes that spell check deceived you in, so I'll point it out. Again, it's nothing big! Plus, there were certain stylistic things that grammar check would ignore, so I'll point those out to you as well. :)

First of all! Defiantly vs. definitely. Basically? Defiantly is when you're being defiant and rebellious. Definitely is what you want. So, spell-check deceived you! :o But that's an easy fix. ;)

Third person vs. first person. I think you must have switched from third and first when you rewrote/edited it. And, for the most part, that was fine! But, sometimes you forgot to switch to first. Check these out:

As much as I wanted to scream, I couldn’t, nothing could escape my mouth. He stood there looking at me, kind of weirdly too, but unpredictably shoved something into her hands. She looked down to see a bad full of pink pills, she glanced up, about to say that she really didn’t want to take these, and that she wanted him to leave her alone and let her have fun, but he cut in.


It goes from I to she. So you're probably going to want to fix that!

“What’s wrong?” he asked in a concerned tone, I nodded and grabbed the drink. I turned my back to the Middle Guy and popped two of the little pink pills into her mouth and gulp them down with a good mouthful of martini.


Same thing here!

His hands creeped up my body and pulled down what a lot of people would call a ‘thong’,


I always thought that it was crept instead of creeped? It sounds better to me anyway. Anyway! The issue here is personal... it sounds clunky. I would rather you just say "pulled down my thong." And, if you don't like that, panties or g-string work. It's not crucial to the story, so you might as well cut to the chase. :)

The nest thing I heard was what I was dreading the most.


Next, not nest! Again, evil, evil spell-check! :o

While I heard the *bring bring*


Instead of having the *bring bring*, which sounds a bit weird, maybe something like "the call connected." I don't know, it just sounds a bit weird as it is!

15 minutes gone, she hadn’t moved. her.
30 minutes passed and they were slowly starting to lost that thrive, but after 45 minutes, they gave up and they pulled the blanket over her head.


I'm not quite certain what you're trying to say here.

Nothing would clam my mind.


I think you mean "calm."

All right! Those are the things that I found right there.

Now! Let's talk about the story, shall we? :D

Okay, so the pink pill. I didn't actually realize that this was ecstasy until you explicitly said it. So, I'm a bit of an idiot. XD

In any case! Although I realize that you're in a different country, I think it's expensive. So, why would they give her six pills? And, what about the symptoms of overdose? Since this is a health class, I would love to see more of this here! Especially since she does take six pills.

I am not sure about what it is over there, but if you call 911 (our emergency number) they will literally direct you through CPR. Just because the paramedics may come slower and really, every minute counts. So, I kind of wonder if they do that over there?

I don't know about you, but if it were my family, they would pretty much kill the person who gave her these pills and caused her to lose life. And Rick was there. I would totally blame Rick for it. Does it make sense? No. But grieving is that way.

So, basically, I really, really loved the girl part. Drugs are bad and she completely goes whacked out, so I'm not really buying Rick's part. It just doesn't seem realistic to me. Also, I think it's strange that a random guy just happens to be there. I think it's more likely that Rick would rape her. And... that sounds terrible, but it's true. Also, at this point, I'm even wondering whether it's even worth her getting raped at all. Over-dosing seems bad enough for me. But that's your call. ;)

So! More on the effects of the ecstasy (which should help your Health class grade!) and maybe less on Rick. ;)

Good luck on your assignment! :D
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Hey emiliedanae, welcome to YWS!

My general impression is that the story is hard to follow. Spelling errors and paragraph issues are mainly to blame, as well as a POV switch in the middle. All this combines to slow the flow of the story way down. The writing is like water flowing through a pipe; if there is too much goup in the water, the flow will slow down. If there is too much, the flow stops and the reader stops reading. Think of me as a plumber in that sense.

1. Spell and grammar check. Before you submit anything to anyone, it pays to run a spell check. There are so many spell checkers out there today, that not running one is a sign of carelessness. When a reader sees this many spelling errors, they conclude that the author didn't care, so why should they? YWS has one, so there is no excuse.

2. Character introduction. The first thing that you do is describe an awkward young woman in a dress. Then you go into more detail on the dress. And then you add more flourishes on the dress. Instead of establishing Rebekah's character, we've established Rebekah's dress. It's very distracting.

For a first paragraph, I'm more interested in the five main questions: who, what, where, when, and why? You don't have to answer them in that order or in the same sentence. Who is she (and, if applicable, who is she with)? What is she doing? Where is she? When is she there? Why is she there? This is what I call an establishing paragraph. Why? Because it establishes the assumptions the reader works off of. This is when you flesh out the details of who your character is and what their circumstances are.

3. One topic, several details.

If you want to keep all the details of the dress in; then you can still do that; just not in the first paragraph. Make a second paragraph and in that paragraph you can discuss all the meaning behind every last stitch. But these need to be separate from one another. For each paragraph there should be one distinct topic, with three or four details about that topic. You can even have more than four, provided they are about that topic. Having a paragraph with two distinct topics is like having a child with two heads... it's really disorienting.

4. Switching perspectives.

The disorientation made it difficult to follow the story, until we got to this:

Rich aka "The Middle Guy."

Whenever you switch perspectives like that, you need to start with another establishing paragraph. Without that establishing paragraph. Different characters have different circumstances, it is important that the reader become familiar with them.

That way, Rich's character can be fully "established" and then you won't have to refer to him as "The Middle Guy." If "The Middle Guy" failed to make an impression on us before, then that suggests some revision is in order.

By running spell checks, starting with establishing paragraphs, and keeping paragraphs to discussing a single topic, you can make the story much easier to follow.
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