“I‘m not Marissa.” she said as I watched blood run down the side of her face.“ Oh god, I think you really hit your head really hard, your Marissa my girl friend and I’m Steve your boyfriend. We’ve been together for two years now.”1
I grabbed my hoodie from the back seat and pressed it to her forehead. I pressed hard so the bleeding would stop. My mind was racing a million times a minute. 2
“ Where is your cell Marissa I’ll call for help.” I pulled the hoodie way from her to see if the bleeding had stopped. Oh sweet relief it stopped but she had blood caked all in her sandy blonde hair. And on her face.3
“My name is Lacy not Marissa, but you can use my cell it’s in my purse in the back seat can you get it.” I turned around and felt for it but could find nothing.4
“ I think I have to get out to look for it.”5
I took off my seat belt and opened the car door then stepped out nothing was broking that was good. I opened the door and felt around the back seat. It was so dark out I could hardly see anything then I felt something soft , yep theirs the strap I found her purse.6
I stood up and felt with my hand for the cell, her wallet fell out and hit my foot I bent down to pick it up and just out of curiosity I looked at her driver license. It was hard to see in the dark then I remembered the cell and felt around in the purse this time my hand touched the cool slim razor. I opened it and held it to the license with the light I could see. I gasped as I read the name Lacy Tanner this can’t be right I thought.7
The picture looked like Marissa her height five-six that was right her weight a buck twenty that is right. Eyes blue yep the address is wrong and so is the birthday and the name should say Marissa Jenkins not Lacy Tanner.8
“whats going on here? you look like Marissa but your license says your Lacy.” 9
“hey! Give me my purse don’t you know that’s rude to go through someone’s stuff like that.”10
“But you’re my girlfriend, you never had a problem with it before.” I looked at her through the car window.
"Look I told you already my name is Lacy and I don't know who this Marissa chick is but it ain't me so stop calling me Marissa."
I had no clue what was going on here on minute I'm driving down the road with Marissa next to me the next we're in this gully.well im in a gully with a women who looks like my girlfriend sounds like her but tells me shes not.11
"All right then I must have hit my head. cuz I remember every thing, me and you comeing back from the lake I think I took a wrong turn and you told me to go back to the bar we saw. then bam we crashed."
I reached into the purse and felt the round shape of a makeup compact I opened it up and fliped the cell back open for light. The face I saw in the mirror was me, balck wavey hair, hazel eyes a strong chin with my five o'clock shadow.
As I was looking at myself the clouds parted and I looked at the purse in my hand it wasn’t Marissa’s purse but the phone was like hers. I scrolled down in the phone book but I didn’t know any of the names.Pictures I know she had pictures of us on her phone.the only one that was on their was dark and hard to see. It looked like Marissa it was a close up of her face she looked scared.12
“ What in the hell is going on here where is my girlfriend!If your not marissa then who in the hell are you.” I started to hyperventilate the next thing I knew I was wakening up on the cold ground and Marissa or Lacy who ever she was, was slapping my face telling me to wake up.13
“Oh god did I faint.” she helped me stand up,I cought a faint wiff of perfume,the same one she always wears Ralph Laurn Hot but it mingled with the copper smell of blood.14
“Yes you did but you’ll be ok I can’t get thru my phone it has no bars, looks like we walk to that bar."15
We walked for what seemed like forever. I was counting my blessings when the clouds parted and sone its silvery light so we could see the road. It was creepy, being out in the middle of nowhere. The dark trees srounded the dirt road we walked on, who knew what lurked in the dark. the whole way I kept trying the cell but no luck no bars.16
I have never been more happy to see a bar then I was the moment we walked over the hill and saw the it.Looking down below the at building it looked old and forlone. The few trucks parked around it looked like they had seen better days. 17
Once we got close I could hear music playing, I held the door open for Merssia, then followed her in. Their were six people inside the bartender, an middle aged woman with to much makeup, two young women on the small dance floor, and three young guys hooting and hollering at them.18
"Excuse me Miss, do you have a phone we could use We crashed back aways and my girlfriend needs medical help."
The women shook her head no "No phone sorry, but I get off in ten minutes I can drive you into the city."
" Oh that would be so cool of you." I flashed her my smile.
"My name is Steve and this is my girlfriend Merssia um I mean lacy."
I mouthed I think she really hit her head.
"Well it's nice to meet you both I'm Stacy, Stacy Gray and this is my bar The Backwood.
Author notes
I revised it not my best work But whatever you can take or leave it.
A contest entry
- Five Person Story!!!!!!! by Namoopf.
267 points, ended April 29, 2008, 3 entries
Bronze trophy winner
• next story in this contest, remove from contest
what do ya think
Comments
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Mmm, lovely way to start out with a mystery! Is she insane? Is this really Lucy? What's going on!
Very enjoyable read. A few grammar/structural iffies snagged my while I was reading (You're vs your, some punctuation) but overall, they weren't too distracting and I enjoyed reading the story.
Kudos for sharing; I'm glad I had a chance to read it.
Good luck in the contest!
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Hmmm...interesting. I'm not saying that this isn't good or anything, but I think you would do well with another character, not Steve. And what happened to introducing another character into the story? How does character number three enter?
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oops my bad...I forgot to put the third character in so I will go back and fix it.
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Good story. But what happened to the other car and man that was already helping her? This has none of the detail from the first.
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hi thanks for reading and commenting on my story. So I think how this contest works is that we read what the host wrote then we pick up were they leave off with our own verson of what happens next. Which is why they all start out the same but are differnt after that. Now I could be wrong but I hope not. Anyways thanks again for reading my story.
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