Frank and Ava
Frank didn’t understand why he had been mistreated all his
life. His parents never paid attention to him and yelled at him if they did. Frank was born a
beautiful baby, but as he got older his parents would throw things at him.
Most of the time the thrown object was aimed at his face, scarring him for life. One scar in
particular ran over his eye and down his cheek. Frank had long black hair that he grew out to try and hide the scars.
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As one would imagine, Frank was an angry teenager. He wanted nothing
more than to know someone else was as lonely, ugly, and hurt as he was. Frank
had been eyeing this girl from his school for months now. Frank obsessed over
her, even stalked her. Frank knew where this girl lived, when she walked home,
what time she woke up in the morning, and even what time she went to bed. Frank was going to kidnap her and make her feel like he
did. She was beautiful, loved, and happy. He loathed that
about her and wanted to take it all away.
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It was a Friday evening and everyone knew the only thing to do in
this 35- mile-an-hour town was to go to the party the Stephensons threw every week. Ava loved going with her friends. She envied how rich the Stephensons were and how their parents even bought them alcohol for the parties. These
have been going on for six months now and it grew bigger every time. It was a great spot for the police to survey for drunk drivers and underaged drinking. Ava was feeling so alive tonight. She was wearing her
favorite shirt and going with her two best friends.
They arrived at the giant house and immediately jumped in to the
festivities. Ava was having a blast dancing and drinking. The music was so loud
she felt it in her heart as she jumped to the beat. Taking a break from the dancing, she went over to the table to pour herself another drink. When she reached
for the bottle of vodka, another hand swiped it first. She looked up and saw the emo boy, Frank.
“Oh, I am sorry, Frank,” Ava apologized. “I didn’t see you.”
“Yeah? No one ever does,” Frank murmured.
Ava felt like rolling her eyes. Frank always gave her the creeps
and was always wallowing in self-pity.
“Well, I’ll take this bottle instead,” Ava said.
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Frank was so nervous and excited he could hardly wait to grab her! Frank knew he couldn’t do anything inside, so he awkwardly took his drink and
went outside to wait by her car.
Frank walked outside, drink in hand. He saw the police walking
up to the house.
“Young man,” a police offer addressed Frank. “What do you have
there?”
Frank froze. "What
am I going to do? How will I get Ava alone if the police are here??"
“Um,” Frank started. “Noth, nothing…sir.”
“Mind if I take a look?” the police officer asked.
Frank tossed the drink in the officer’s face and
started to run away. The police officer quickly pulled out his taser and shot Frank.
Frank fell to the ground unable to move.
“Young man, you are under arrest.”
Frank could feel the cold handcuffs lock his hands together. "How was I so stupid??? How can I kidnap Ava
now? No! This ruins everything!!!"
“Officer, please. I overreacted. I didn’t mean to run. I
was scared,” Frank pleaded to the officer.
“I am just taking you in to call your parents and you can go home,” the officer explained.
Frank was overwhelmed with relief. Frank got in the police car and they drove off to the station. Once there
he waited for his parents to show up. Frank was excited about his parents
finding out about him being arrested. It was fun making them angry.
Frank's parents walked in with steam coming out of their ears.
Frank smiled to himself. Without saying a word to their questions he
walked out with them and into the car.
Author's Note:
I got my ideas for this story from the Ramayana. More specifically, I used the movie version of the Ramayana by Nina Paley. The main characters are the modern versions of Sita and Ravana. Sita in my story is Ava, a popular and beautiful girl. Ravana in my story is Frank. I made Frank a little darker than the actual character. I made him this way with a bad family background and more hateful thoughts. This was so I could better illustrate the reason he wants to kidnap Ava. I also wanted Frank to have something wrong with his appearance. This is because Ravana has ten heads. So in the story I had Frank have scars on his face.
In the Ramayana, Ravana kidnaps Sita and leaves her locked up in hopes he can get Sita to marry him. He does this even to the point that Sita begs for death. I did have a lot of contrast between Frank and Ravana, Frank being a troubled boy and Ravana being a lustful king. This was to make my story more believable. Ravana wasn’t a tortured child but was the ruler of a kingdom. I wanted Frank to be angry and have a reason to want to hurt someone. In the Ramayana, Ravana kidnapped Sita merely because of lust. Though this is a believable reason for kidnapping, I wanted something different.
