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Simply Fate

August 17, 2009
By simply_fate BRONZE, Anaheim, California
simply_fate BRONZE, Anaheim, California
3 articles 3 photos 4 comments

Letters came everyday after Scottie left, but I never read them. My feelings for him left my heart the day he told me that she was pregnant. His father forced him to leave, and with the words ‘Fate I still love you, and I always will,’ he left.

It was a cold day in December, a year after Scottie left. Enough time had passed for my love for him to change into sheer contempt.

“Fate!” Jon yelled from across the hall. “Scottie is coming back.”

I froze. Those words were the ones I had once wished to hear, but now I knew that I would never be able to face him again.

“What?” I asked, in complete shock.

“Genevieve gave the baby up for adoption, and Scottie convinced Dad to let him come home.”

At that moment, I knew that I had to leave. There was no way I could stay, and go to school with the one guy I had spent the past year trying to forget.

“Thanks for the warning, Jon.”

“What are you going to do?” he asked.

“Leave, I suppose. You know I won’t be able to see him again.”

“You can’t just leave. He’ll just keeping looking for you, Fate.”
“Why would he want to find me?” I asked, hopelessly.

“Because, Fate, I still love you, and nothing can change that.”

“Scottie..” I whispered. Nothing had changed about him. His eyes, the first thing I noticed, were filled with complete sorrow and remorse. All the emotions, which I had repressed for the past year, overtook me, and all I could remember was how much I missed him, how much I needed him.

“I made a mistake, but please let me be with the one girl whom I never stopped thinking about since the day I left home. Everyday I thought of you; the memories of us were the reasons I was able to live. You were the sole reason I was able to make it through all the horrible days of Genevieve’s pregnancy. She even began to realize that I loved you. Fate, she gave the child up for adoption because she wanted me to be with you. Fate, please don’t leave me, I promise never to let you down.”

And with those words, my tears began to fall.


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on Jan. 15 2011 at 1:26 pm
msoccerm345 SILVER, Grimes, Iowa
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Favorite Quote:
You never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have.

i love this story!! i agree it could be longer but i think that the way it is is really good because it lets people interpret it their own way. I dont know if you were trying but the metaphor you made with the girls name (Fate) was absolutly amazing and added a lot to the story.

on Nov. 21 2010 at 10:59 pm
Novelist05 BRONZE, -, Other
3 articles 0 photos 29 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Live like you're going to die tomorrow and Learn like you're going to live forever"

i really liked it :)

continue writing :P


on Nov. 21 2010 at 12:24 pm
cupcakegirl10 BRONZE, Gurgaon, Other
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awwwwwwwwwwwwwww! <3

i loveeee thisss! :D

please write more?? :) im a sucker for love stories! :P


on Jul. 15 2010 at 12:45 pm
cheytylemae. BRONZE, Sherwood, Arkansas
2 articles 0 photos 6 comments

Favorite Quote:
"Two hopeful hearts, two lands apart. Together there's no end to what our dream can start.”
- Pocahontas

this was sweet, i love it.

on May. 8 2010 at 12:07 am
feartheuntypical GOLD, Nelson, Other
13 articles 0 photos 46 comments

Favorite Quote:
A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
- Thomas Mann

Wow, that is a really cool story.

on Jan. 24 2010 at 1:20 pm
simply_fate BRONZE, Anaheim, California
3 articles 3 photos 4 comments
hahaha nope

bayleegurl said...
on Jan. 24 2010 at 9:53 am
is it a true story??

on Sep. 18 2009 at 10:26 pm
choirchic101 SILVER, Norwalk, California
9 articles 0 photos 196 comments

Favorite Quote:
in order for God to use all of you you have to be completely broken

please write more. i loved it but was left hanging

Anjo! SILVER said...
on Sep. 13 2009 at 10:49 pm
Anjo! SILVER, Roseburg, Oregon
6 articles 0 photos 211 comments
seriously. can you write more? I seriously want to know what happens next. i feel left hangin!

on Sep. 13 2009 at 2:07 am
simply_fate BRONZE, Anaheim, California
3 articles 3 photos 4 comments
yah! it's all I've written for this story.. I might try to come up with more :)

on Sep. 13 2009 at 2:07 am
simply_fate BRONZE, Anaheim, California
3 articles 3 photos 4 comments
thanks!! :)

on Sep. 13 2009 at 2:06 am
simply_fate BRONZE, Anaheim, California
3 articles 3 photos 4 comments
aww thanks for the encouragement :)

Anjo! SILVER said...
on Sep. 13 2009 at 1:37 am
Anjo! SILVER, Roseburg, Oregon
6 articles 0 photos 211 comments
Wow, awesome. too short. I WANT MORE!

ToomuchtoAsk said...
on Sep. 8 2009 at 10:58 am
should be longer........it's really good.. lots of emotion

on Aug. 27 2009 at 12:20 pm
JacintaT BRONZE, Brisbane, Other
4 articles 0 photos 33 comments
I'd love to see this in a longer version, like to read more into this story.