Dark
Prolouge
“So how does Ruby’s suicide have to with the topic of
the assginment, Ms. Orpha?..Ms. Orpah?..MS. ORPHA!?” I look
up to see my teacher. She is looking over my assignment. A three
paged short story originally assigned to be about society’s
fixation on perfection. I sigh, “Well, in the beginning her
mother asks her what she wants to be when she’s older. Ruby
answers dead. So therefore her mother’s oblivious ignorant
attitude towards the topic resulted in Ruby’s death.”
My teacher, Mrs. Burrows stands still for a moment but then furrows
her eyebrows, “And so I ask what does suicide have to do with
perfection.” I shake my head, “Suicide has everything
to do with perfection. Ruby felt suffocated in a world where
perfect was defined as the tall skinny blonde girls in magazines.
Where perfect wasn’t the average girl she was. Where boys
only like perfect girls. Not girls like her. In a world where she
was far from perfect. In our society her cries for help were
ignored because of her mother’s fixation on having the
‘perfect’ daughter, on having the perfect life. Ruby
was a victim of society’s fixation on perfection.” Mrs.
Burrows looks at me genuinely concerned, “Tommie, are you
alright? Is there something going on?” I hide my wrists, fake
a smile, and shake my head. She looks at me a little reluctantly
then goes on to say, “Well, okay, but unfortunately that
wasn’t what I had in mind about the assignment so I’m
going to have to ask you to redo it.” I nod and then get up
to collect my things. I am about to step out when Mrs. Burrows
says, “If you ever want to talk, you know where to find
me.” I mutter an okay and then head out the door, down the
hallway making sure to hit all the locks, and out the main
entrance. My name is Tommie Orpha, I am 15 years old and my mind is
a dark twisted place.
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Dark Prolouge “So how does Ruby’s suicide have to
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Aug 21, 2013 3:59pm
AnInsecureGirl · 1 decade ago
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