An exercise in creative writing

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Framed

Vicky's parents were the people framed inside the pictures in the study. Vicky was born an orphan. On her birthday both her parents were killed in a horrible car accident and only she was salvaged by the doctors at the general hospital.

Her parents were rich philanthropists who were well rooted in the social elite of the big city. Money was always there for them, in abundance, and they were able to worry about subjects such the global warming and the white whales.

Vicky's aunt, her late mother's sister, couldn't stand the easiness in which money came into her sister's hands and moreover, she couldn't bare the way her sister spends her money on anything but her own sister. So many times she had asked for a loan to start her own business and time after time she was dismissed by Vicky's mother and turned back empty handed and ashamed.

The double accident had almost made her happy.

As the lawyer of Vicky's parents had no idea about the tension among the sisters, he was willing to approve the adoption and by that her aunt kept her tight hand over the family's wealth. She was more than happy to raise Vicky as the ultimate revenge against her sister. Raise her in the big and luxurious house in a state of neglect and near starvation.

Vicky had no one to turn to. Her parents to her were nothing but a couple of framed pictures, hung in the study.


--Time's up--

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