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from Contest #8

'I wouldn't do that if I were you,' she told me the first time we met. The love of my life said standing at the bottom of the hill while I was at the top on a handcrafted sled I had made just hours prior. My goal was to race down the hill and sled past the oncoming traffic at rush hour...I do not have to tell you that at the bottom of this tall and magnificent hill was a large open highway. My freinds had dared me to do it and the daredevil that I was I just had to do it...but then mary stood in my way. One of the few reason I have to live so I stopped my crazy antics, held her hand and walked away. Knowing that she was more important to me than anything else going on in my life.

Mary...Mary Thompson was once my heart's desire. We had done everything with each other and would do anything for each other. Her long flowing red hair was the reason I had got up in the morning and her innocent blue eyes were the reason my days had never took a turn for the worse. We had quite a future, Mary and I. We were both living in an apartment, working part time jobs all the while going to University to eventually graduate and make more money in our desired proffessions. We had chosen to move away from our parents because both our mothers and our fathers misunderstood our love for one another, they thought we were too young to be so in love and at the time we thought we were the wiser...if only I knew better.

I'm not quite sure how it happened but one night over dinner my darling Mary had confessed a horrible truth... she was pregnant. I cannot describe what I felt at that very moment, it's like I felt all my plans come to a complete ruin, it's like my life had just stopped. I quickly realized that there was a great solution to this problem, abortion! Yes that was it,that was the word that would free me from this treachorous curse that was forced upon me. I proceded to tell Mary, the girl who now was suddenly repulsing me more and more each time I saw her, about my great idea, but she quickly and without hesitation told me that is was not posssible because she was too far along. It was approximately one month since she found out about this burden.

Now my freinds, on the inside I was as cool as a cat but on the inside I was enraged with fear,anger and hate. Perhaps she had cheated on me with another man and was trying to pin this whole monstrosity on me to ruin my life and kill me on the inside. Perhaps she had purposely gotten herself pregnant to teach me some sort of lesson. How dare she give me the unkindly burden of a child to take care of! Didn't she realize this was going to ruin her life as much as mine! I tried my hardest not to snap at her as my head overcome with emotions so vile, twisted and wicked as what I have just told you. However in my head I knew that this "child" inside her womb had to be stopped before my dear Mary gave birth so I could be free to do as I please when I please. If a doctor wouldn't do the deed that would purify my heart and if Mary refused to have it done then I woud terminate it myself without their consent. Perhaps you will call me insane and condemn me but I dobt you have been in this position and I doub very deeply that you would not go mad is this load was resented to you in the manner it was to me.

T'was late at night when I decided it was timefor my actions to speak louder than my unearthly thoughts. I had bought a nice wooden bat a few hours earlier, a bat that I knew would do the trick well without making too much noise. I sent Mary off to bed and gave her a glass of water mixed with elephant tranquilizers to make sure she did not wake up in the middle of my wretched act and scream a scream that might cause the neighbours to call the police who might investigate the sound and eventually find her dead body hidden somewhere in the house and thus cause my arrest. Remember I didn't was to kill my beautiful Mary, just our unborn son who was causing a disturbance in my life. I crept upstairs quietly, each steep I took was quiety than the last. I crouched as I knelt before her bed trembling at the thought of the action that I was about to do. When I was a foot from her I raised my bat in attempt to swing but I stopped and realize that I couldn't do this horrible action, I could live with a child but I could not live with the guilt the horrendous action would bring.

I had made up my mind not to bring about the end of this unborn child when Mary woke up and gave an ear peircng scream that echoed throughout the quiet neighbourhood. I was shocked in fear, I looked over to the desk beside herben and saw her glass of water and elephant tranquilizers still full. I quickly grabbed the glass full of water and elephant tranquilizers and tried to force her to drink it before she got up so that she would pass out and I could find a psychic or something while she was pased out that could make her forget the whole incident ever happened. Fortunatelty some of the water managed to get into her mouth and down her throat but unfortunately I let go of the bat when I went to get the water and she swung at my head as hard as she could, knocking me out for a few moments. She managed to get up, down the stairs and outside before she collapsed at the front of the building from the effect of the tranquilizers. By the time I had reovered from the blow to my head the police and ambulance already had arrived. She had already told her side of the tale and when I managed to get out of my apartment I was surrounded by a dozen, maybe more, cops each armed with a gun pointed directly at my heart. So this is my confession... this is why I'm here...

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