Controlled assessment: creative writing

Revenge is sweet

24.10.96

I know your probably wondering what this means. This was the date that Alan Davies , a caring family man from south London, went missing. it was just a normal day for Alan and his wife , they got up , 7:00 , had breakfast together , then Alan left for work. He was a P.E. teacher at a secondary school and loved his job passionately so it was very rare that he missed work. But that day, Alan never turned up. His colleagues thought that he was probably ill because that would be the only reason he would miss work. It got to around 7:00pm and he still wasn’t home, this was unusual because the secondary school he worked at was only about a 25 minute drive from where he lived. His wife was very worried as she had rang his phone several times, she decided to go to bed and just thought that he had gone for a drink after work with his colleagues. When she woke up he still wasn’t back, she was very worried by this point and decided to call the police. A search party was issued as he still didn’t turn up several hours later. The search went on for days, but still there was no sign of him. Months went by, still they searched, and still they found no sign. Once a year had past the police called off the search, Alan was announced dead on the 27.10.97. This broke his family’s hearts, especially his wife, Michelle, who loved him dearly. They had no kids together so she began to feel lonely. She became very close with Alan’s best friend Jim and they began to develop feelings for each other. Michelle felt very guilty about this for a very long while. She eventually married Jim In 1999, but Michelle never gave up hope that Alan was still out there somewhere. They had there 1st child in the same year. Things where going well until , one night when Jim was out at the pub Michelle decided to look through some of Alan’s old things, she was surprised to find some old papers she never noticed before , they where debts , some of them where up to £10,000,000. Michelle then began to wonder, “Was this the reason for Alan’s disappearance?” she asked herself. She decided it was best to ask Jim when he got home as he was very close to Alan when he was around. Jim told her not to think into things too much and quickly disposed of the papers. Jim requested that they should go on a holiday together, just the two of them, with no children, no phone just each other so they can get away from things for a long weekend. Michelle agreed that this would probably help there marriage as they where arguing a lot recently. So the next month they set off toBarcelona. They arrived inBarcelona at around 6:00 in the evening, they headed back to there hotel and after they had unpacked and freshened up they decided to go out for a romantic meal, this is where the story begins.

It was around 8:00pm and Jim and Michelle where sitting in a restaurant enjoying there meal when Michelles face completely changed, it was like she had just seen a ghost , her jaw nearly hit the floor and her eyes just glared in amazement towards the door. “H-h-h-he’s h-h-here” she stuttered. With that Jim turned round to see what she was talking about, jims looked puzzled towards the door “what are you on about love” he said to Michelle , before he had even finished the sentence his tone lowered dramatically. Michelle screamed with a mixture of fear and excitement, she didn’t know what to say. There, in the doorway of a small tapas bar inSpainstood Alan davies , his face, a cross between anger and disappointment at what he is seeing, his eyes looked on glaring at jim. “whats going on, you told me to go away for a ehile , you said that” he shouted at jim, he was like a lion roaring. “I told you to stay innew york” jim screamed back at alan,. Michelle looked confused , she didn’t know what to think of the situation. “whats going” on she asked. “michelle its not what it looks like” said jim guiltily , then Alans face changed , his eyes began to squint , his fists began to clench , he started breathing heavily and asked very quietly and calmly “whats that on your finger” to Michelle. “are you two married”. Michelle burst into tears. Alan then turned to jim “I trusted you. I trusted you to look after my wife, I trusted you when you when you said it would be best to get away, but all you cared about was yourself”. “no. mate I can explain” said jim as he was backing away. “you were supposed to me my friend, but it just turns out you where just waiting for my back to turn so you could get nice and cosy with my wife”. The whole restaurant sat and watched as alan sprinted towards jim , jim ran away through the back door of the restaurant. Michelle ran out screaming after them. But she couldn’t of began to comprehend what she saw. She went silent for a couple of seconds before letting out a scream that can only be described as like a banshee. With that a couple of the men from the restaurant ran out to see what was wrong. “hes dead” michelle screamed. Jim was laying on the floor in the middle of the road with a single knife wound in the middle of his chest. On the other side of the road Alan was standing there , his eyes where looking sternly at Michelle who was crying, “im sorry” he said, alan the fled into the distance leaving michelle standing over her dead husbands body, with tears streaming down her face . This was the last time anyone ever saw alan again. Some people he fled to a small village in the south ofspain, but no one can be sure. Michelle lived the rest of her life scared to love anyone again.