Short Story Idea,,, What Do You Think? Read Count : 114

Category : Stories

Sub Category : YoungAdult
Short love story idea. Tell me what you think. 


Start off with the hero—18, homeless, drug addict, dad ran off because mom is a meth addict. She is killed by her dealer but feels he is at fault, too. 

One year later...
College freshman girl, in a new city of Austin, gets attacked by drunk, homeless man one night after class on her way back to her dorm. She is saved from being raped by mysterious guy about the same age as her. He runs off before she can say anything. She finds him the next day and stalks him to thank him. She follows him around asking if he can show her around the city. Annoyed, he finally agrees solely to get her off his back, plus he thinks she is kinda cute. 

They see each other everyday since he lives under a bridge that's on campus. Learning more about him each day, she ends up falling for him. He likes her but doesn't want her getting close because of his addiction and his "curse"—he believes anyone who gets close to him, dies. (His mom was killed by a hotshot given to her from him. He had picked up meth from her dealer for her not knowing the dope was laced with rat poison. Her dealer believed she had stolen from him, plus she had owed a lot of money and was tired of her. He feels to blame because he should've checked the dope first. His girlfriend had also passed away from another overdose a separate time.)

Throughout the girl’s life, things have been given to her, coming from a well to-do family. In contrast, he has had to take what he wants, coming from being poor and homeless. She helps him get straight—off of dope. 

One of his street 'family' friends overdoses and dies. He then relapses. She finds out how much of a drug addict he really is. She wants to help him. But he says no and to stay away because he doesn't want her to die too. 

Once he starts falling for her, she winds up in a bad car wreck with a friend. Her friend survives but she is seriously hurt. Doctors say she's not gonna make it so he goes to a secluded spot that seems familiar to him and does a big shot of dope to kill himself. 

But she wakes up from coma and flees the hospital to find him. She finds his body and calls 911, after pocketing his dope so the cops don't find it on him. (She was scared and wasn’t thinking straight.)

Afraid that he isn't going to make it. She goes back to that spot. Upset and curious, she tries the rest of his heroin. 

EMS end up reviving him. He wakes up and asks for her. They say she ran off. So he does, too, to search for her. Only to find her dead from an overdose. (Ironically, the secluded spot is familiar because it's the same place he initially saved her.)

A week later...
He see's another girl that looks exactly like her being attacked by the same drunk. He keeps walking. 
Life isn’t always a fairy tale. 


It’s sort of a modern day Romeo and Juliet, in a way, I think. How do you feel about it? Should I write it?

Comments

  • really great!

    Apr 11, 2018

  • Sounds good, agree about Romeo and Juliet analogy.

    Apr 11, 2018

  • Yes, please! 💜

    Apr 14, 2018

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