Something Unexpected

Mid-Friday afternoon, Amanda Hamptonson walked out of her boyfriends' house with her beautiful brown hair pulled back into a ponytail, wearing blue jeans and a tee-shirt, and looking beautiful, as she did everyday, with no make-up.1

As she walked down the street she thought to herself, "That felt different than I thought it was going to. I expected to feel at least a little bit guilty, but instead I feel great, better than I have in a long time."2

Her parents were out of town for the weekend, and since she wasn't very anxious to go home to an empty house, she decided to stop and get a burger at "THE BURGER PALACE." 3

"Hello and welcome to THE BURGER PALACE, what would you like to order?" asked the teenage boy, with blond hair, behind the counter.4

"I'll have a cheese burger, and a small cola," said Amanda as she handed him a five dollar bill.5

Amanda sat down at a table and waited for her food to be brought to her. As she sat, she began to re-think the afternoon's occurrences. 6

She had gone over to her boyfriend, Mike's house after school, like she did almost everyday, but that's where things began to change. She began to think about how it would feel to kill someone, she also wondered how she would do it.7

They were sitting in Mike's room, when he decided to go get a drink. As Amanda looked around the room, she spotted his baseball bat. She knew that Mike was an amazing athlete, and that not only was he much stronger than her, he was also much bigger and taller than her. She would have to figure out away to surprise him, if she were going to succeed.8

She wasn't even sure why she was doing this, she loved Mike with all of her heart, but lately, she felt like she wanted to see other guys, but she knew that she could never break up with him. This is the perfect solution, she decided.9

As she took the baseball bat, she decided that in order to surprise him, she would hide in the bathroom attached to his bedroom. After she went into the bathroom she heard him come into the room.10

"Amanda, where are you?" He called out.11

"I'm in here, why don't you come here," she replied.12

As he walked into the bathroom, the baseball bat made contact with the back of his head, with a thump. Bright, red, blood started to come from his head, as his body slumped to the floor. Amanda bent down to feel for a pulse, he was still alive, just unconscious. She had to think of a way to kill him. 13

She left the room, and went to the kitchen, where she took the biggest, sharpest knife that she could find, and walked back to the bathroom with it. 14

She knelt down beside his body, slowly lifted his head by his hair, and took the knife and slit his throat. The blood flooded all over the blue tile floor. This time she was sure he was dead.15

She decided it would be best to hide his body in the basement. So she went to the linen closet, and found a set of navy blue bed sheets, which she would use to wrap his body in. She went back to the bathroom floor, and wrapped the body in the sheets, making sure that no blood would be able to leak through. She slowly began to drag his body down to the basement, she found it slightly difficult, because he weighed so much more than her, but she finally managed to get it downstairs. When she got to the basement, she decided that the best place to leave the body was in the dark corner in the back of the basement.16

After leaving the body, she went back to the bathroom to clean up the blood on the floor. When she was done with that, she put the garbage bag that was filled with bloody towels in the dumpster behind the house. When she was sure that there was no evidence left of what had taken place, she locked the door and left.17

She was so preoccupied with her thoughts, that she hadn't even realized that her food had come. As she began to eat, she also began to wonder how long it would be before they found his body. How long would it be before his parents became worried and started to wonder where he was?18

She finished eating, and began to walk home. When she got home, she decided to take a shower. Later that night, as she was watching television, she began to wonder if she would ever be caught, she began to get worried, she didn't want to go to jail, and she didn't want people to think she was crazy either. What was going to happen to her?19

She went into her bedroom, it was a cheery room, with light blue walls, and a canopy bed, which had many pillows and stuffed animals on it. Whenever she was upset, walking into her room usually made her feel so much better, but not today. 20

She sat down at her oak wood desk, and wrote a note to her parents, a note which explained everything, she concluded the note by telling them that she was going to jump off of the bridge over the Birch River.21

She began her walk towards the bridge. The night had become cold, she wasn't wearing a coat, but it didn't matter, because soon she wouldn't need a coat. As she approached the middle of the bridge, she looked down at the fast moving current, the water was high because of all of the rain that had come recently.22

As she stepped up onto the ledge, she thought of her parents, of Mike, and of all of her friends, and whispered "I love you," as she let herself fall into the water.23

The cold of the water pierced her skin, and pulled her further and further under. She was gasping for air, and trying to get to the surface, but she couldn't make it, and she knew she couldn't. Eventually she stopped fighting, and everything went black. 24

Her body was found the next morning on the river bank about two miles away from where she had jumped in. Her body was identified, and the police contacted her parents. When they went home, they found her note, and called Mike's parents, to tell them everything they had learned.25

By the next Friday, both Amanda and Mike were buried, and their friends and families were trying to sort out what had happened. Nobody could understand how a girl who seemed so normal, and so happy, could have done something like this. It was all so unexpected. But it made them realize that people aren't always how they seem.26