Friday, August 7, 2009

Let Me Tell You a Story.

Carlos was his name indeed. A bright boy from the start. No flaws says his parents. At the age of 14 did Carlos find and planned his career. After Jr. High, High school seemed to intervene with Carlos's planned future. It seemed he has fallen in love with a girl. No name can Carlos obtain from her nor any response from a conversation. Days later Carlos got a hold of her name and finally sparked a conversation of her interest, the afterlife. Endless talk from night to day, day to night. Nothing to stop Calors as his planned future was now focus on that one girl.

Soon asking her to be his date on valentine's day, Carlo's did with great hopes, rejected, broken down, his future came to a halt. He Looked at himself and decided it's done, back to studying and working hard. Soon Carlos got a job that no other can imagine he did. A job he was proud to be in. Met many people through that job, indeed he did. Who once was a bright boy who has fallen once into despair is now the boy with only one objective, obtain his career.

Soon he became cocky and finally understood he can go beyond his limits without having to worry about death. Pain was obsolete because the one day with the girl of his dream was like an unexplainable pain he felt. He knew that nothing can kill him except mother nature. He was able to attempt many things that people saw as a death sign. He became the smarts of the family and class but never attempted to go any higher because he knew if he went any higher, he would be crushed by his own strength.

Second year into high school and Carlos has obtain the knowledge to suppress anything that was unnecessary to him. Nothing can stop Carlos from exceeding and walking on the path that was set for him except that one girl. Every time he saw her, it was like the Devil just devour his soul. No longer could Carlos take it. Carlos approached the girl and asked her out on a date. She finally agreed. After the date he officially asked her to be his. She told him yes. She smirked a smile as Carlos jumped with joy to grab her hand and then only to see that after that moment, everything shattered and he was awoken by a shiny light. All Carlos can see was that God was in front of him with a depressed face.

Days later the news broadcast city wide about a boy who died by a sudden faint followed by a heart attack. A true tragedy they said. Parent's spilled the beans and decided to report to the news that Carlos was with a girl, the girl of his dreams, that Carlos would finally ask her to be his. But soon schools told Carlos's parents that such a girl never existed and no records of her are shown. Sadly, the boy never really got the girl of his dreams and saw what his future behold. Carlos only got the girl that sealed his fate.

His parent eventually gave up and committed suicide soon after their son's death. They spent too much time on Carlos and gave everything up for him. Now that Carlos lays wasted underground in a box marked with the scent of death, his parents are nothing. Carlos's friend, well let's just leave it as they really never existed. A bright future now engulfed by the dark mist of death.

Carlos's girlfriend was actually never real. She was a girl that he loved and only Carlos could love. The moment Carlos made her his, was the moment he finally obtain true happiness. Only to be crush with the truth God told him. She was a reaper to seal and end his fate. But the bitter memory he has of her, is that he only knew her name started with an "A". Now Carlos wants to tell the story of how his future and career was to get married and die with no regrets. How God ended it early for him because soon he would've figured out the scheme. His strength eventually led him to his demise.

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