What Used to be a Quite Life I (677 hits)
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Submitted by Walrus_King <jamespeddle.at.hotmail.com> (View user info) at 2005-03-21 07:51:40 EST
"Sandra!?" My head was hurting and I was hung over when I received the call. Sandra was my ex-girlfriend.
"Can you come over, I need you" She said through the tears. There had been a time when we were happy together. We had our own flat, we were both working and everything was going great. I loved her and she loved me, it was the way things were.
Completely 100% bliss.
As things tend to go life started getting a little rocky, we had a few big rows and I ended up moving back with my parents. It was easier that way, besides I just couldn't give her the care she needed anymore. When I met her she was a bit of a state, the past few years of drugs will do that to you. She had been thrown out by her parents and was living around a friend of hers house. It took a while but by the time I was done showering her with all the attention and care I could give she had a respectable administration job, she was helping me to look after the flat and the outlook was good.
"Jesus Christ Sandra! What the hell happened to you?" I said as she answered the door, it wasn't a pretty sight. Her left eye was bruised with a cut underneath it, her right hand was cut up and had bits of gravel embedded in the mounds of skin and blood, also her left arm was bruised and grazed in addition to this her lip was bleeding.
"Julian, I met up with him, the park up the road." It was about all the sense I could get out of her but it made sense.
"That fucker's back!" For a second I was filled with rage but it quickly turned to concern.
"Ok let's sort you out then we can sort this cunt out." I led her over to the kitchen sink and ran a bowl of warm water. I reached into the cupboard under the sink and got my old first aid kit out. It's funny when I moved out I left the kit with her and said 'with the accidents you have you'll need this more than me' I got the dettol and some cotton swabs and started to wipe the cut under her eye. As she recoiled in pain I warned albeit a little to late.
"By the way this might sting a little." And continued to mop up, after sitting there under spot light removing pieces of gravel with a pair of tweezers and washing her hand out, I noticed that the hand she had kept deathly still for the last 15 minutes had a crooked swollen middle finger.
"Can you move that?" I questioned
"OW! FUCK!"
"I'll take that as a no then." I got some ice out of the freezer and put a bit on the counter-top.
"Put your hand on there with the finger on the ice." She did as she was told and I placed Ice both side and sitting on top of her finger,I then poured us both a large drink each and gave her one. After drinking mine I removed the ice and tried to comfort her with the following soothing words;
"This is going to hurt a fuckload" I then straightened her finger, A couple of surgically sterilised lollypop sticks and a bit of micropore later and he finger looked... Well like a bandaged mess, I attached it to her index finger with a lollypop stick in-between. We then sat on the sofa and chatted for a while. It's lucky that I worked in the hospital as a porter for the summer a couple of years ago. I would have never built up such a good first aid kit otherwise.
Julian was her ex-drug dealer, I had had an altercation with him in the past. Unfortunately Sandra had owed him quite a bit of money for quite a while and he wanted it back. I had previously told him to fuck off and things nearly came to blows then. We were 6 months on from that now; I guess I was being naive thinking that it would end there. Sandra had met up with him to come to some arrangement with the money and he had just laid into her.
I can't stand blokes that hit women, especially when it's someone that I have worked my arse off to protect and get on the straight and narrow, this could turn out to get complicated.
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Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-03-22 13:28:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2005-03-21 15:44:34 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I will forgive you the spelling because of the aforementioned dyslexia.
This is a story that is going to go somewhere, I just hope that it goes to a good place.
Submitted by HZRD (user info) at 2005-03-21 12:03:46 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
'Free Crack Giveaway'
"Tyrone, there's no crack here, this is an intervention"
"It's 5 o'clock! Am I late?"
anyway... i'm intrigued. mas, por favor.
Submitted by Walrus_King (user info) at 2005-03-21 11:47:28 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Submitted by Fabit (user info) at 2005-03-21 09:45:51 (#)
Ranking: 2
Full of aceness mate, does it relate to real life? Looking forward to part 2
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Part 2 is already written and ready to go, I'll post that tommorrow.
It is based on real life, part one did happen and most of part two happened but from there it is all loosely based.
I do have to apologise I do spell check and I try my best to proof read, but I am dyslexic so please excuse me for some of my errors, you'll notice that normally my spelling is correct but the word is wrong for example the title having the quite/quiet mixup.
Submitted by Dead_0hi0_Sky (user info) at 2005-03-21 10:50:44 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
it was the drugs! THE DRUGS,man!
i smoke rocks.
i smoke rocks.
Submitted by mrwolf (user info) at 2005-03-21 10:38:25 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
I then poured us both a large drink each and gave her one.
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I have a dirty mind so excuse me for laughing my head off at this bit...
Brilliant story though. wanna see part2 right now.
Submitted by Spam (user info) at 2005-03-21 10:21:26 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
No Comment
Submitted by Fleadh (user info) at 2005-03-21 09:50:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Been where you are now and just walk away man, No good will come of it.
The fact is you cant save her from herself no matter what you do.
Submitted by Fabit (user info) at 2005-03-21 09:45:51 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Full of aceness mate, does it relate to real life? Looking forward to part 2
Submitted by Jay_Bassman (user info) at 2005-03-21 09:27:21 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2005-03-21 08:10:31 (#)
Ranking: 2
Good beginning, but I think you meant "Quiet".
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You know, I had read this title a few times before I actually clicked on it to read it, and every time I read it as "Quiet". Now that you've pointes out the error, DJ, I can't stop seeing "Quite". Damn it all.
Submitted by Walrus_King (user info) at 2005-03-21 09:06:09 EST (#)
Ranking: 0
Bugger!! thanks DeathJester, I have to wonder why it is always the titles I fuck up.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2005-03-21 08:45:55 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Subtle and brutal at the same time - very good!
Submitted by snarf (user info) at 2005-03-21 08:30:17 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
liked it
Submitted by DeathJester (user info) at 2005-03-21 08:10:31 EST (#)
Ranking: 2
Good beginning, but I think you meant "Quiet".