Once Upon A Time... (1192 hits)
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Submitted by Ainkara (View user info) at 2005-08-27 12:29:27 EDT
Once upon a time there was a little girl . This little girl was most often called Bec by the people she knew. She had an imaginary friend whose name was Brad. The only problem was, this little girl wasn't so little. She was 19, old enough to realise that a girl her age with an imaginary friend wouldn't be looked upon with tolerance and understanding.
One day Bec got a job. She was a waitress. She was very happy with this job, and tried her hardest to do everything right and make some friends while she was there. She learned quickly and was at the very least competent. She was friends with a boy named Matt. Bec told Brad about Matt, and how she was happy that she had made a friend.
"I have a friend at work! His name is Matt, he's really nice," she said.
"Is he hot?"
"Umm... I guess so... I don't look at him that way. He's a friend."
"Hah! I bet he's hot."
Bec wondered for a second if Brad might be gay, but decided that since he was a figment of her imagination, he technically had no sexuality. And if he did, he'd probably like girls anyway.
Another person that Bec met at work was named Sandy. Bec got the feeling that Sandy didn't like her very much. She tended to yell at Bec if she saw her standing still for a second or two, regardless of how hard she had been working for the rest of the night. She also yelled at Bec for 'flirting' with Matt if she ever found them talking. Bec told Brad about Sandy too.
"I don't think Sandy at work likes me very much Brad..." she would say.
"Why's that? What's she like? I bet she's fat."
"She yells at me if she sees me standing around... Yet she stands around and does nothing herself. She stands in the bar talking about drugs with other staff, when there are customers in the restaurant. She yells at me for flirting with Matt when I talk to him..."
"She's fat isn't she."
"Well... she's a bigger girl, yes, but I wouldn't call her fat."
"That's just because you're too nice. I would though. She's fat. Come on, say it with me. Sandy is fat."
"Fine, Sandy is fat, you happy?"
"Yup. Very. You know, you shouldn't let her push you around like that. Next time she does it just yell right back at her. She thinks she can push you around, and she'll keep doing it until you show that she can't."
One day Sandy started yelling at Bec again. She said that Bec may as well go home if she had nothing to do. She said that she had been standing there flirting with Matt for half an hour, when she had been talking to him for no more than five. Bec left the kitchen and went to reset tables, trying not to cry. Then no more than two minutes later, she found Sandy talking to another employee and asking him whether he was 'rough or gentle'.
Later when she told Brad about this, he asked her why she hadn't yelled back.
"I couldn't Brad. It's not who I am..."
"You know what, I'm coming to work with you tomorrow."
"No, please..."
"I'm coming. That's it. No one talks to you that way."
The next night, Bec walked into work with Brad by her side. Of course, no one else could see him, but Bec knew he was there and she felt safe and secure with him by her side.
"I was right," he whispered in her ear, "She is fat. And short. She looks like a dwarf. Can't you just see her with a beard?"
Bec had to restrain a giggle as she walked past Sandy.
All night, Sandy did the same things she had been doing since she met Bec. Yelling at her for not working, for not doing what she was supposed to, for flirting with Matt when there was nothing to do.
Brad kept whispering in Bec's ear, telling her to fight back, to tell Sandy that she wouldn't be talked to that way. Bec held back. Finally when pushed too far, the most she could manage was a choked up 'leave me alone'. Sandy laughed at her.
Brad whispered. Bec smiled. And after work, she waited.
Sandy waddled out of the restaurant, and walked towards her car. As she opened the door, she was struck from behind. Bec looked at the fallen body at her feet, and with Brad watching over her, she continued to hit Sandy, harder and harder. Blood started to seep from her head, but Bec was beyond caring. She hit her back and her legs, but found that less satisfying that beating her head into a bloody mess. All the time she was hitting Sandy, tears were falling down Bec's face. Eventually, she threw down her weapon and ran into the night, Brad by her side.
"Brad, what did I do?"
"You stuck up for yourself. You struck back."
"I don't think I can live with myself..."
"Yeah you can. I'll always be here with you. I'll look after you."
Bec fell asleep in the arms of her imaginary friend, tears standing in her eyes and soaking into her cheeks. That night she was a little girl no longer.
Bec sat straight up in her bed, and looked over to Brad lying next to her.
"Jesus fuck, what the christ was that?"
"What is it? What's wrong?"
"I just had a really creepy dream..."
"It's ok babe, you're safe here. It was just a dream."
A little girl settled back down into her bed and regained her innocence as a dream faded from her mind.
A little girl smiled.
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Submitted by GaidinCanuck (user info) at 2005-08-28 17:20:12 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2005-08-28 12:49:05 EDT (#)
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*in mandurah
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2005-08-28 12:48:48 EDT (#)
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I'd like to try it if i ever end up in aus. is that i mandurah?
Submitted by Ainkara (user info) at 2005-08-28 09:23:59 EDT (#)
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Sells 'Italian' food. Not very authentic, just pizza and pasta type stuff. Called Neros. Only in WA at the moment. I think.
Submitted by Insanethemind (user info) at 2005-08-28 02:19:18 EDT (#)
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nice story bec.
I liked the ending especially.
What type of food does this place serve and where is it? Is it actually in Perth?
Submitted by Phallic_Cymbals (user info) at 2005-08-27 23:33:56 EDT (#)
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Yeh, finish it like it never happened... you killed her, didn't you.
Submitted by rad1101 (user info) at 2005-08-27 21:54:55 EDT (#)
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Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-08-27 16:25:28 (#)
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Did any of the people who +2ed this actually read it?
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nope.
then again, you get +2s and I don't actually read your stuff either.
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2005-08-27 19:29:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-08-27 16:25:28 (#)
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Did any of the people who +2ed this actually read it?
I read it. Thought it was cute. Especially the bloody pulpish head part.
Submitted by Chinaski (user info) at 2005-08-27 19:18:48 EDT (#)
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Have I told you you're very attractive?
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2005-08-27 18:59:26 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by Merlina (user info) at 2005-08-27 18:06:07 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by creep_firebombing (user info) at 2005-08-27 16:48:47 EDT (#)
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Skeet.
Submitted by FilthyAssistant (user info) at 2005-08-27 16:25:28 EDT (#)
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Did any of the people who +2ed this actually read it?
Submitted by Bigmike (user info) at 2005-08-27 16:18:46 EDT (#)
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Nice job.
Submitted by MANICMOTHER (user info) at 2005-08-27 14:38:57 EDT (#)
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Homer: We chained Hugo up in the attic like an animal and fed him a
bucket of fish heads once a week.
Marge: It saved out marriage!
Treehouse of Horror VII
Submitted by JewToast. (user info) at 2005-08-27 14:27:56 EDT (#)
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I would like to purchase you.
Submitted by NotSteve (user info) at 2005-08-27 12:51:20 EDT (#)
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Shove a catsup bottle up Sandy's ass - or whatever the Aussie equivalent of the number one condiment might be
Submitted by ess-arr (user info) at 2005-08-27 12:51:12 EDT (#)
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I was picturing a female version of danny Devito as the penguin when she waddled out to her car...
Submitted by GodChicken (user info) at 2005-08-27 12:49:27 EDT (#)
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fuck all the guys at work. Brad will be jealous and so will that nasty troll Sandy.
Then she will cry because nobody will talk to her at all.
Submitted by ArtificialInsanity (user info) at 2005-08-27 12:38:44 EDT (#)
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That's a crazy bitch!
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2005-08-27 12:36:38 EDT (#)
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good stuff
Submitted by bob (user info) at 2005-08-27 12:35:53 EDT (#)
Ranking: 2
woo! kick that bitch's ass!