Assignment 1 - Some stones are better left unturned - existence - And then she jumped

Some stones are better left unturned. Everything the last couple of months had been put upside down and Linda felt there was no turning back for her. And still she had no idea how all this could have happened in the very first place. The longer she went through the recent events the more she knew that she was betrayed by those that were supposed to be closest to her. As she strolled down the road she faintly tried to remember how it all began.

It all began a couple of years ago when an old childhood friend contacted her again. But he had changed. Gone was the old James with his golden hair and the new James was more scarred man- both in the within and on the outside. He had been in jail and life hardship had taken their toll. But still she couldn’t help herself taking care of him. This later would prove to be a dire mistake since his past had not forgotten him. But then again after she realized what had go through she didn’t have to heart to shut the door for him like everyone else did before.

As the time went on it surfaced that James was in some economical defiance. He had been borrowing heavily from loan sharks and they were quick to catch up for lost payments. At first she didn’t know anything but as time went on James disappeared for longer periods and one evening she eventually found him with a bloodied shirt in the bathroom. Unable to explain what had happened to her he even made her believe it was his own through an accident. Ignorance sure is bliss and it was only a precursor what would come.

She continued down the road and was nearing the town’s main bridge. The importance of the bridge existence as it was it was the only way to cross the town river and therefore and had very important role in the town’s history. But it also had very grim history as the river stream here was very strong and it anything dropped in the water here would be lost. As Linda went forth she tried to remember the very recent events.

After the incident in the bathroom it only became worse for James. He was dragged in even more shady business to keep up with the payments in a never ending downward spiraling process. Soon he was unable to make payments at all. No money, and soon James would just disappear without a word. No good bye, he just vanished and no one knew where he had gone.

One day they came after her. It all happened only a few months ago when she walked the very same road she went down at this very moment. A car had stopped beside her and out stepped four large grown men and asked her about James whereabouts. Men she previously had been presented to through James as very close friends and now they were after him. Realizing that he had disappeared and now they wanted some usual payment. And naturally she was the first one they come after searching for him. And this was the kind of people how to make people start to talk.

And their brutal methods would become all too clear for Linda as she was forced into a car and drove to an abandoned building outside the town. And here untold measures were taken to make sure right information about James. It went on for several days and unfortunately she didn’t know anything and the scars left behind were unimaginable. As if it wasn’t enough they even took all her properties and wrecked her economy all together. A tragic turn of events by meeting a man had now shattered her life all together.

And here she was now walking at the old road through town. At the other end on the bridge he saw a group of men dumping something into the river. It was something plastic but it moved like some kind of larvae. At first she didn’t recognize them at all. But as she came closer she knew who they were. The she realized what they were dumping. It only took very few minutes until she realized what she wanted to do. And then she jumped.