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My summer as my sister

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  I had been lying on my bed trying to fall asleep, when my sister Joy came home from her dance practice all excited. Her troupe had been selected to travel and perform abroad this summer, and as one of the leads, she would be a key performer, and it could lead to a scholarship to a dance school. That's when she was brought back down to earth by my mother, who said " That's such a great opportunity. but it's such a shame you will not be able to go, haven't you forgotten that you will be spending the summer with my great aunt, and some of your other distant cousins representing our family as she decides which part of her descendants she will be leaving her fortune to". I heard my sister breakdown in tears going on about how unfair it was, that this was her dreams that were being trampled on, while at the same time my mother was saying how much the family could benefit from the money. I didn't hear anything ore as at that point i fell asleep. I awoke the fol...

2 into 1 won't go

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   John and Sarah had been childhood sweethearts, and not long ago had gotten engaged and moved in together. They spend several weekends away looking at locations trying to find the perfect romantic spot where they could get married. However this was proving tricky, as neither could agree on a venue, there was always something that one or other found fault with.  It was on one of these trips that the pair got into one of the most heated rows they ever had, Sarah had, had enough and demanded that John take her home right there and then, she felt he was being too unreasonable with his latest venue turn down. As far as she was concerned it had ticked all the boxes, including almost everything he had suggested previously.  Driving along the cliff road, the row intensified, with each hurling abuse at the other, and in the midst of the row a deer shot out and ran across the path of their car. John swerved to avoid it, and lost control, the car plummeted down the cliff comi...

Keep your eyes on the Road

  John and Sara had been childhood sweethearts, and not long ago had gotten engaged and moved in together. They spend several weekends away looking at locations trying to find the perfect romantic spot where they could get married. However this was proving tricky, as neither could agree on a venue, there was always something that one or other found fault with.  It was on one of these trips that the pair got into one of the most heated rows they ever had, Sarah had, had enough and demanded that John take her home right there and then, she felt he was being too unreasonable with his latest venue turn down. As far as she was concerned it had ticked all the boxes, including almost everything he had suggested previously. Driving along the cliff road, the row intensified, with each hurling abuse at the other, and in the midst of the row a deer shot out and ran across the path of their car. John swerved to avoid it, and lost control, the car plummeted down the cliff coming to rest in...