Revenge: A Dish Best Served Cold

Chapter 7: Forgiving Is BS Revenge Is Cold

Chapter 7: Forgiving Is BS, Revenge Is Cold

Melissa POV. 😇vs.😈

(POV CHANGE)

I try to think good, trust instincts, choose right, but be kind. Treat others how you want to be treated. If someone treats me or one of my friends unkindly I do it back and find pleasure. I know, it's kind of weird. Then again there's the saying 'treat everyone the same', but I don't follow that rule. No one is the same, why treat them the same? Everyone has their own spark. Everyone is different. If you treat everyone the same then everyone is normal. No one is normal.

When people forgive others because they have to, they don't mean it. That's always the case. You don't mean it to happen the way it does and have no reason to forgive. Here's what I think: forgiving is BS, revenge is cold.

The best thing is an explanation. If that doesn't happen, resort to revenge and forgiveness. I never thought how much I resort to these two things. Sometimes explanations are physically explained threw the torture and pain of someone by letting others know what they've been through. Revenge is hard, but forgiving is harder. This is strange.

Revenge includes a plan, and a process. Revenge is creativity. I have to admit I'm creative. Everyone loves the way I draw and all my ideas and takes on everything. All in all, everyone in my grade knows I'm a natural at creating things. My favorite kind of creative is the revenge type.

Forgiving is harder but all it takes is the strength and an 'It's ok, I forgive you' or an 'I'm sorry'. It's kind of strange because revenge takes all the effort but forgiving only takes the strength to say 'sorry' or 'I forgive'. But to forgive there must be meaning in it or nothing is quite ever resolved. Revenge may be resolved once people are 'even' but sometimes people never feel quite even. What I do is try to see, feel, and understand the other person. I believe there's always a good reasoning for everything. And, that noticing and doing are two different stories of fate, two stories that can start revenge or forgiveness.

It is Monday morning and I'm rushing out the door to get on the bus. I know, the bus is not the first choice for many high school seniors but why waste the gas in my car? Hey, and this way I don't pay and I get a free ride.

I slip on my pink converses, grab my bag, and just before I'm about to leave I remember my sketch pad and grab that too.

When I walk onto the bus I look to see who's on it and notice Savannah is here. Never in a day of her life has she ever took the bus.

I know this because we were border friends. A border-friend is the kind of person who hangs with your friends but you don't really get to know them that well. Kinda like an almost friend A.K.A. a fake friend. She's always been that way, although Evie believed she changed her. My guess is Evie doesn't believe that anymore from what happened Saturday night.

I tried to tell Evie that some people are best not changed and hopefully learn from their mistakes. Some people change on their own time. The person I believe is changing, is Evie. Every day this year so far Savannah has been there except Friday. Evie is always so good around Savannah. Maybe she believed that setting an example is the way to change someone. I believe that Savannah is changing her. The one day Savannah wasn't at school she acted out and ended up in detention. Every other day it was Savannah getting in trouble and Evie was the one to try to bail her out. Evie is changing. I've never noticed until today.

I walk over to sit at the middle of the bus. Savannah remains in the back and I don't bother to turn around to look at her or say 'hi'. On the bus there are only six teens besides Savannah and me.

I open up my sketch pad and take a pencil out of my back pack. I begin to brain storm what to draw. Usually I draw happy things like, flowers, animal, people that I admire. Most of the time I draw nature because it is beautiful and aesthetic to ones eye. But this time I feel something different. The need to draw something dark and dangerous. What to draw?!? What to draw?!?