The sky is alight. Blazing. The blue of it is almost gone; replaced with pink and orange. My eyes reflect the colour, every shining detail of them.
"Irey, get down stairs now!" Father screams. I can hear his over zealous rage. What a great alarm clock... I think.
"On my way," I call.
"Now!" I must be in some trouble then. I get down stairs to his purple faced glare. He is holding my back pack in his hands. Crap, he's found it. The one thing that I have ever kept secret. He opens the zip. my heart skips a beat. One beat is all it takes for his mood to change.
"You are an idiot! Do you think parents are stupid? I know what you are doing!" he screams.
"D-Dad, I-"
"Shut up! You aren't just grounded, I am condemning you to this house! The only times you are allowed to leave is for school!"
"That isn't-"
"I don't care! Go to your room!"
"Yes, Dad." His icy glare doesn't weaken. I hunch over and jog to my room. He found my knife! I can't believe it! My door doesn't shut fast enough as I hear a plate smash.
"Uuugggghhh!" I grunt into a soft pillow on my bed. I hear his loud stomps down on the first floor. My room is a mezzanine floor, barely a third storey.
"That son of a bitch has my knife! Ugh!" I need it. It's like nicotine or pot. Addictive. I pull up my long sleeve jersey. The almost transparent pink lines cover my forearms. My golden hair falls down over them. An idea sparks in my mind. I jump off my blue bed and run to the ornately framed mirror. I look into my deep green eyes, before plunging my fist into the reflective glass. Blood poors from deep slashes on her knuckles.
After fresh cuts cover my arms, I hear the phone ring. I run down stairs, forgetting that dad had left three hours ago. I pick up the cordless headset and take it into the living room.
"Hello, is this Irey Mullling?" a deep voice inquires.
"Y-Yeah... Is everything okay?"
"Well, there's been an accident," he says bluntly. Those five words were all I wanted to hear. I knew it was Dad. He's the only family I got left.
"Where," I say it, but it barely comes out as a question.
"Down in the city."
His directions were barely clear. But I found the scene. My heart went into overdrive. i saw Dad's car. A big truck.Why did it have to be a big truck? I think. An officer, probably the one from the phone, walks over. The sunset makes everything look relaxed. but how could it in this situation.
"Irey?" he inquires.
"Yeah," I say, "I know, he's been hurt, I might need to-"
"he hasn't just been hurt. Irey, he died."
"No, he can't have. We, we were arguing. I never... I never got to say goodbye..." I trail off.
"I know. He only just passed, he wanted me to give you this." He hands me a little black box. I look, uncertainly, at him. The box makes a faint squeak as I open it. Inside is a little charm. A crystal dove, shining brilliantly in the setting sun. Tears brim my eyes. This is the first gift my Father has ever given me. Never on birthdays, not even Christmas.
The sky is alight. Blazing. The blue of it is almost gone; replaced with pink and orange. My eyes reflect the colour, every shining detail of them.
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Final thoughts:
Not enough emotion.
Incidents come too quickly.
Yeah. That's it.
This is all my opinion so don't take it as a final judgement or something. Feel free to PM me if you have questions.
Sincerely,
Kara
Okay, so right now this story is basically a cliché time of a son that has just lost his dad. This story is not very descriptive and half of the stuff you put in is not necessary, so try and put in an edge to it.
I would like to see you carry on with this. Very creative idea, or, if you don't want to carry on with it, enter it into a story-book.
It would turn out nice.
xo
~Kayla/Smexx
The semi-colon is unnecessary here, a comma works just as well, if not better.
Missing a capital on the 'my', and the repetition of 'beat' is a bit clunky. Replace the 'One beat' by 'it', maybe? It conveys the same idea, and flows a bit more smoothly.
Should be 'pours'.
A couple more capitalization issues towards the end. The ending feels really rushed, to be honest. I can get that there's a certain degree of shock that may make it so the first reaction is not too dramatic, but surely having one's father dead would prompt some more feelings than just a 'I never got to say goodbye'?
Wow. That was really good, Ollie.