Today

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Today was the day. walking to get into the car that day to drive to the coliseum was like falling into an infinite abyss. You try to stop what is going on but you never can and never will.i closed the door after me. It was as if my house was fading away. And in some ways I could never see it the same way again. And if I won I would hurt another family and possibly kill a child. Mom and Dad park into the parking lot around the town circle as I walk into it I see my oppenent. She is frail and tiny she looks sick. she has very little hair and is very pail. I look to my parents and nod signifying a small I love you and goodbye. I know I will lose to this girl. She needs time with her family aswell as more time to live. Nothing can change mind as she swings the first punch. and I fall. I really shouldn't have I could have stood strong and knocked her down. But I didn't I really could not. And I didn't get up. Something hit the back of my head and it feels like a bullet. I know now more then ever what pain is. As I look around my lungs seem to collapse and the girl starts to cry as if she had killed me. But I am not dead I am awake. And then another shot and I am not.

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