tigresslilly (tigresslilly) wrote in scene2fic, @ 2007-08-10 20:15:00 |
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Playing around with the 2nd person narrative
So this is an exercise I did that sort of goes a long with a novel I'm writing called Escape Artist. This tidbit is in the 2nd person or the "you" voice. I was trying to get a better grip on where my main character's best friend was coming from and this is what came out. I'm pleased enough with it that I'd like to show it, but not pleased enough with it to try to do more than this. All this info and what not will never really be worked into the work it came from....I guess its really a bit of fanfiction written by the author of a still unfinished work....but anyhow.
title: None
author: tigresslilly (me)
Work: Orginal
Rating: G
Word Count: 534
You will watch you best friend grow silent and be very confused. After all, you've known her for a good two years and adversity usually makers her louder and more indignant than before.
When she stops returning your calls and deletes your emails before reading them, you'll begin to wonder what you've done. You haven't seen her all summer, and she hasn't tried to see you. You know she's going through a rough time with her boyfriend, she may have even broken up with him by now. You can't be sure. She won't pick up a phone and tell you what's going on.
You'll have no way of reaching her, and you will decide to let it go until you see her in the fall. This will prove to be a terrible idea on your part. You will expect her to move into the dorm room as your room mate, and when some bond chick with short hair you've never met before insists she's your room mate, you will know something is terribly wrong. You will call your friend right away, and again you will hit voice mail. You will know that she is deleting her voice mails because other wise your messages would have filled the voice mail by now. You will be angry at her, but you will be scared too.
You will leave the blond new and probably bad room mate to unpack at her own leisure, and you will search out your friend's boyfriend. It will be confirmed that he is an ex. It will infuriate you that this stranger will talk to you when your best friend won't. You'll be frustrated when he shakes his head at you and says “You see why we had to break up. She was so unstable and unpredictable. How can you base a relationship off of such carelessness?”
Of course you won't respond to him. After all, what can you say? Your friend has left you out of the loop, and with no information, you can't defend her from this attack. You're sure that the ex is being an ass. He's done something terrible. After all their break up is the only thing that you can think of, that might make your friend act this way.
The news will only get worse when you go down to housing services and realize your friend moved out of your room into a different dormitory facility without telling you. Why wouldn't she have called you? Certainly she has to know that you would have been on her side...Unless of course she's done something you can't side with.
And this idea will make you wonder. Because she has always been such a good clean stand up girl, what is it that she could have done that has her too scared to tell you about it. You know she does lots of things she doesn't share with you, and you let her think you don't know. She would be so embarrassed if you knew. But she's never stopped talking to you before. She's never ignored you before. You have no idea what to do. And what can you do, when a friend of yours won't respond to you?