
10-08-2011, 02:01 PM
For our senior school studies we have to do a Personal Project. It can be anything that we want as long as it is productive so I decided to write a story. Please tell me what you think. This is only the start and if you like it I'll post more.
Dark streets
Poor, lonely and hated by his only child, a teenage son, Gill Hayfield turns to organized crime to pay the bills and Secure some money but one wrong move, one slip and Gill finds himself wanted by the biggest underground orginization in Sydney. But can he redeem himself in the eyes of his former boss? Or will he die before he makes things right?
A loud crash resonated through the small apartment. Gill Hayfields stood up from behind the couch and looked at his son. Haiden stood, panting and red faced. Sweat mixed with tears as they rolled down his cheeks. Gill turned around and saw the window behind himself smashed open by the corded phone his son had aimed at his head. Raising his son on his own wasn't the easiest of tasks and his son's violent outbursts didn't do anything to remedy the situation. The fact of the matter was that they were broke and while neither of them wanted to be in this situation, Haiden took it worse, he was almost seventeen and didn't even have his own car yet. After they had fallen into poverty, Gills wife, Cindy, had run off with her boss and moved to America. "Look Haiden, I know things have been hard on you. It's been hard on both of us. But us fighting every night isn't helping. I promise you, by the end of the month you will have a car. But I need you to calm down and stop with this, this RUBBISH!" Gill was fed up with his son but nothing could be done.
"Maybe if you got a real job and some money we wouldn't be living in this crap-hole apartment! And maybe I wouldn't be the laughing stock of the school for being the only senior without a car!" at this, Haiden ran from the apartment and out into the cold, bleak and dreary night. Gill collapsed onto the couch, exhausted. There he sat for several more, long minutes. He was ripped from his thoughts when he heard his son talking to someone followed by fading footsteps. They had started walking away. Gill looked out through the window in time to see his son get into his friends car and leave. "Get back in here now!" Gill roared but his son just raised his middle finger and laughed as they took off. Gill ran outside and got into his car. His son wasn't leaving now. He gave chase but he had to move fast to catch his son. As he rounded the corner after his son, sirens blared behind him. Reluctantly he pulled over and looked to the cop askance. "officer, please. I have to get my son. He just ran off and I need to bring him home. Please"
"Tough luck buddy, it's not my son. You were over the speed limit so you're going to have to come with me and get your son later."
"Oh, ass" breathed Gill.
After a long argument with the officer, Gill returned to his car carrying a speeding ticket. His breath test had returned zero which meant he could go home, his son was long gone. As he pulled into the carpark, he saw two men running from the cop that had pulled him over. He got out and joined the chase of the two men. He caught them as they rounded a corner and began to hide. Thinking about the argument with the cop, he made up his mind. "hey guys, that ladder over there leads to the roof and of you kick it hard enough it'll pop right off. It's the only ladder so you'll be safe. You can drop down to the next roof and get down from there." Gill knew he was breaking the law but he had to get back at the cop somehow. The two men thanked him and ran for the ladder. The cop reached Gill just as the ladder collided with the asphalt. "you let them get away! What is wrong with you!?"
Gill turned, smirking. "tough luck buddy, it's not my job. You were too slow so you're going to have to go around and catch them later."
"You think you're real funny don't you" the cop asked, running out ofthe car park, trying in futility to catch the men on te other side. With that in mind, Gill returned to his apartment where he collapsed onto his bed and fell asleep.
Last edited by TheOriginalPyro; 10-09-2011 at 03:27 AM..
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