Print Page - The World is Watching - Chapter Nine

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~Index~
Preview (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=907061&postcount=2)
Chapter One - I need to escape (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=907065&postcount=3)
Chapter Two - I don't care what people say (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=908552&postcount=4)
Chapter Three - Lisa (http://www.insimenator.org/showthread.php?p=909983#post909983)
Chapter Four - Graves and Tears (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=911081&postcount=9)
Chapter Five - We're not coming back (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=913065&postcount=11)
Chapter Six - Lunatic (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=914257&postcount=17)
Chapter Seven - Everyone lies (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=920926&postcount=21)
Chapter Eight - Arguments and Cars (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=942491&postcount=22)
Chapter Nine - After the car (http://www.insimenator.org/showpost.php?p=989821&postcount=23)

Welcome to my story. I hope you'll all enjoy it, in any case I enjoy making it. The story may contain some swearing and violence, but not too much. :wink:

Preview

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'What would you do when you lose your life to the cameras? Would you flee? Would you fight? Would you collapse?'

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'A camera behind every corner... A bodyguard behind every door...'

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'You are never alone... Not when they follow you...'

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'What is it like to read lies about yourself in every paper?'

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'What would you do when you can't walk alone?'

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'Doesn't it seem fantastic to be famous? The money, the possibilities, the cameras...'

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'All that is fake. No one knows what's hidden behind a smile...'

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'No one knows what lies in your eyes... Paparazzi make your life... Or break it.'

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'Escape when you're still able to, before it is too late. Before they do to you what they did to me...'

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'Welcome to Hell.'

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Chapter One - I need to escape.

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A dream that came true. Which young girl didn't want to become famous? At least I had always dreamed of a famous life. Everyone would want to become friends with me, and I would have more money than I could ever spend.

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I imagined my face all over the papers, my name on every magazine cover. Rich and Famous. The ultimate combination.

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You can imagine how exited I was when someone discovered me. I was going to be a star. Musical after musical, film after film. Finally I was with right famous.

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At first it was great. I got invited for every party, and reporters wanted to know all about me. I was on television, and with my name on the cover magazines were sold out in a moment.

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But slowly the party's became boring, the reporters became aggressive, and the magazines told lies about me.

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My dream had become a nightmare. And every day it gets worse. Nowadays people throw things at me, and there are so many reporters in front of my house, I can't even see it anymore.

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And now it's up to the point I need a bodyguard to guarantee my safety.

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I need to escape.

Chapter Two - I don't care what people say.

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A random song by Racoon sounded through my headphones. I stared numbly at the wall, listening.

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'Sure come in handy
A hero in town
He's offering candy to everyone
Oh what a guy
You better sleep with a gun...'

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"That's not about me, I hope?" I looked up into Jack's face. Apparently I had been singing out loud.
"Nah. You should've known it's not about you. Bodyguards aren't heroes."

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"Thanks, I'll keep that in mind," he replied, grinning. "In any case, there is a reporter at the gate."
"Send him away." My good mood vanished.

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"I already tried, but he's determined."
"OK, then let him in." I sighed. Jack left to come back minutes later with the reporter.

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He sat down uninvited. I stared into his curious face.
"Can I ask you a few questions?"
"If you put that thing away." He dropped the microphone.

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"All our readers want to know if you really punched Jessica M."
"Of course I didn't!" I realized I was screaming.
"But some people say-"

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"I don't care what some people say! Now would you please leave my property?" He glanced at Jack, and then got up and left. I rubbed my forehead. This particular reporter had been following me for over a year. Well, following, it was more like stalking.

Chapter Three - Lisa

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I miss the days I was still a nobody. No reporters, no cameras, no magazines. Just a peaceful life. I don't understand how I could ever want to be famous. For the money? They can have their stupid money.

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I don't want it. I don't want this house either. It's so damn large I get lost in it sometimes. For the fans? I don't-

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The cat interrupted my thoughts. She jumped through the living, breaking at least three expensive vases. I realized I didn't care. When she finally stopped and sat down, I gently patted her on the head. "Good cat."

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My eye fell on something the cat had thrown out of the bookcase. I kneeled and picked it up. It was a photo album.

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"Do you see that, Sandy?" The cat ignored me. I sat down on the chair, and opened the album.

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Oh my, did I really look like that when I was a kid? I grinned and turned the page. My smile disappeared.

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Lisa. I closed the album. A single tear ran down my cheeck. "NO!" I threw the album away. The cat looked up. I hid my face in my hands, and cried.

Here you go, nahnahbobo. I'm glad you like it.

Chapter Four - Graves and Tears

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"Ann, wait! Where are you going?" Jack jumped in front of me.
"Somewhere." I muttered through my sobs.
"Sure. But not without me."
"Fine." I continued my way.

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"Ann?"
"Yeah?"
"The frontdoor's over there."
"I know. I'll take the backdoor." I left the villa. Jack hurried after me.

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Somehow we managed to reach the car without a journalist noticing us.
"I'll drive." Jack didn't wait for an answer, and sat down in the car. I did the same.
"Where are we going?"
"The graveyard." I whispered. Jack started the car.

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Minutes later we stopped at the graveyard. I jumped out of the car and walked past the rows of graves, till I reached a grave at the very end of the graveyard.

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I kneeled down in the grass. For some time I just sat there and cried. Then I took a deep breath and opened my closed eyes. I read the inscription written on the stone.

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The accident tragically took you away from us, but you will continue to live in the hearts of those who love you. May your soul find peace in heaven.

Lisa White 1980 - 1997

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I rubbed my eyes. Memories flashed through my head. There had been no accident. It was my fault. I shouldn't have- I killed her. I killed my own sister.

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"I didn't mean to, Lisa!" I screamed. Jack, who was still sitting in the car, looked up.
"Please forgive me! I NEVER MEANT TO KILL YOU!" I clung onto the cold stone. My tears fell in the ever so green grass.

Chapter Five - We're not coming back

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I didn't take notice of the voices around me, or the hand that pulled me up.
"Ann!" I looked at Jack without really seeing him.

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"Come on Ann!" The next moment my cheek seemed to explode with pain. Jack had slapped me in the face. And not gently too. "Oi! What the hell do you think you're doing?" I pushed my hand against my cheek to stop the bleeding.

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"Thank God. For a moment I thought you were really gone."
"Gone? What the heck are you talking about? And why did you do that?" I pointed to the scratch on my cheeck.

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"You suddenly went all crazy. You started to scream things like 'I didn't kill you,' and then you clung onto that grave, and you wouldn't answer me for all the money in the world. What else should I've done?"

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"Oh." Jack rolled his eyes, and put his arm around my shoulder. "We are going home now, and we're not coming back to this place."
"But-"
"No."

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We walked back to the car. Neither of us noticed the man between the trees.

It's short, I know. Sorry about that.

Chapter Six - Lunatic

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"Can you believe this?" Jack ran into the room.
"Can I believe what?" He handed me a magazine. I looked down. BODYGUARD ABUSES ANN WHITE it read in big letters on the cover.

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"What the-" I turned the page. On the inside was a big picture of Jack slapping me. I looked up again. "You haven't seen the worst yet." I started to read the article.

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Yesterday one of our reporters witnessed the abuse of Ann White. This is what he saw.

"Ann White was visiting the grave of her sister Lisa, when her bodyguard abused her. I saw him walk in her direction, pull her up and scream at her. Then he slapped her hard in the face. (See picture.) Ann White blooded heavily, and before I could go and help her, her bodyguard took her back to the car.

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White seems mentally unstable. At the graveyard she started to scream things like 'I didn't kill you.' Apparently the abuse by her bodyguard also affected her mental state."

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The rest of the article was about the 'accident' that killed Lisa. I closed the magazine.
"How do they know you slapped me?"
"Apparently your stalker witnessed it."

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"Great. Now the whole world things I'm a lunatic and you abuse me."
"You have to tell them it isn't true."
"But they've got evidence!" I cried.

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"Then make up something."
"I can't just make up something!" I was screaming now. I fell on my knees. "Why can't they just leave me alone?"

Chapter Seven – Everyone lies

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“Can you tell us why your bodyguard abuses you?”
“As I told you a million times,” I sighed, “he doesn’t abuse me.” People all started to talk at the same time. There was one deep voice though, that sounded clearer than all the others.

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“Then how about the picture?” People around him nodded in agreement, and there were several yes’s and indeed’s.
“I scratched myself. I can assure you Jack only wiped away the blood.”

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Another outburst of disagreement.
“But there was an eyewitness!” the deep voice exclaimed.
“Well, he might have seen it wrong. And I don’t think any of you would deny they never added a little to a story to make it interesting, even if it didn’t happen.”

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“She has a point,” another man said.
“Now if you would be so kind to excuse me,” I continued, “I’ve got things to do.” I went back through the gate.

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I did enter the house. However, I took another door that led me to the back of the house. I just needed some time alone. I wasn’t completely sure where to go.

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I slowly walked past the trees, going nowhere in particular. After several minutes walking, I saw a park to the left. I entered it and sat down on a bench.

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It was so delightfully silent over here. No flashing cameras, no screaming journalists. Only every now and then someone that stopped to take a closer look at me. Then one of them started to talk to me.

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“Aren’t you Ann White?”
“No, I’m not.” I was surprised at how easy it was to lie to her. “People make that mistake a lot. Apparently I and Ann look almost the same.” I forced myself to smile, and she walked on.

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Well, a little lie more or less didn’t matter, I decided. Everyone lied sometimes, why wouldn’t I? Actually it felt good. I closed my eyes and enjoyed the warm summer sun.

Thanks for all your lovely comments.

Chapter Eight - Arguments and Cars

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“I can’t take this anymore!” I threw the magazine at Jacks head, though he couldn’t do anything about the article in it. Jack stepped aside and the magazine hit the wall. “Don’t they have anything other to do than tell lies about me?”
“Apparently not.” Jack’s calm voice made me even angrier.
“Don’t act like you don’t care!”
“Maybe I really don’t care,” he answered, slightly annoyed.
“Fine then. I fire you!”
“You can’t fire me.”
“Why not!” I yelled.
“Because I have a contract.”
“RAH!”

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I walked out of the room, slamming with every door in my path. The cat looked up from his place on my bed, but decided I wasn’t interesting enough and fell asleep again. “So now you don’t care anymore either?” The cat yawned. “Well if no one cares, I’ll just go.” I left through the backdoor. At first I walked quick, but the further away I got from my house, the slower I started to walk. Maybe I had been unreasonable. But then again, those journalists just drive me crazy. And it was madness to assume a cat knew what I was talking about.

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I was already in the centre of the town when I decided to go back home. But first I wanted to eat something, I was really hungry. I sat down at a restaurant, and ordered a simple sandwhich. After my lunch I started the walk back home. My mood was a lot better. I crossed a street. In my thoughts I was already home, playing with the cat or reading a book. Maybe that was the reason it went wrong. I’ll probably never know. What I do know is that I suddenly felt an incredible pain when the car hit me. The car I didn’t hear or see before I passed out.

I'm sorry it's so short, the next update will be longer.

Chapter Nine - After the car

“Watch out!”
“Oh my god! It hit her!”
“Someone call 911!”

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I carefully tried to open my eyes, but my eyelids seemed so heavy. I coughed, and the metallic scent of blood filled my nose. I finally managed to open my eyes, and the chaos around me made me want to close them again immediately. People were running around screaming, there was blood everywhere, but the car was nowhere to be seen. Someone kneeled next to me and put a coat under my head.

I wanted to thank him, but my lips wouldn’t form the words. Instead I blinked once, and let my head fall back. It wasn’t until people started pointing to my chest that I noticed something was actually coming through my skin. I didn’t feel it. The pain had probably caused my brains to go all weird and shut down the pain. The blood was still flowing away.

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Strange enough I didn’t feel something when I saw it drip on the street. Someone else might as well have been lying here. It wasn’t my blood on the street. It wasn’t my rib coming through my skin. It wasn’t me wearing my coat. Just a stranger on the street.

After something that seemed just seconds, though it probably was a lot longer, the ambulance arrived. They lifted me onto the brancard, into the vehicle. Inside they started to stop the bleeding. Next to my head was a nurse who kept whining about insurance companies.
“Just shut the **** up,” I said at last. I wanted to say it loud, but no more than a whisper left my mouth.
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The effect was the same though. Her expression changed so rapidly I almost laughed, except that my head seemed to explode when I did so. I turned to the doctor at my feet.
“Here with that paper.” I quickly wrote something down on it, and signed it.
“What was the date again?”
“The sixteenth, ma’am.” I wrote the date in the top right corner and gave it back to the doctor. He read through it and nodded.
“We will respect your wishes.”

“You better. If you don’t I swear I’ll find a way to sue you in death.” The doctor laughed.

Sorry, I have been side tracked on a game I love to play. Anybody know Disney's Virtual Magic Kingdom?It is for all ages.My grandmother even plays it.See, no problem. What have you been doing lately Kate?How are you guys?Keep the story going.Besides, I am used to muddy words.I hear them everyday.The girls finally learned how to play, well actually catch and throw, a football. Can not wait till tomorrow! I am moving into my new house!It is so beautiful!Sorry I got to check up on all the other stories. BTW, anybody know why Banished stopped? I really loved it. I love all the stories: Serenes Undead Story, Banished, and finally, I am saving the best for last, The World is Watching! A little help here by the way, which is better?University or Seasons?(1st)

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