Short Stories

The Girl With the Stars in Her Eyes

Long ago there was a girl. This girl had the earth trapped in her eyes and stars twinkling throughout. The girl always found something pretty in everything, even if no one else did. She always loved everyone and everything alike. She never found evil in anyone and only looked for good. The one day someone did this girl wrong. They started to bully the girl until her eyes lost all the stars that used to shine so bright. The girl started to see only evil in all people and never the good. The little girl grew up to fast and learned to hate herself. She was not so little anymore, for she had grown up to fast and has learned to hide herself and to never trust even the nicest of people because all people have evil in them. As the girl got into high school she already has battle scars from the world. Her eyes lost their twinkle and once a star burns out it dies. The girl felt like a star that was burning out. She felt as though dying was the only escape. That little girl with the earth trapped in her eyes and stars that always twinkled grew up to hate herself and hope to die.