OLD GLORY

ROXANNE’S POINT OF VIEW. I stood hidden by the wide branches of Ravenscroft High’s garden trees, my heart twisting as I watched them with my hands folded. Hate coiled around my heart like poison as I took in the way she smiled around my boyfriend. I wished so badly that she would drop dead. Or at least get some terminal illness that would make her die. The sound of her laughing as she sat on his thighs…it made me hiss as though someone poured acid on my wounds. He’s mine; I wanted to scream it to the world, that Lucien was mine alone, and Sloane would never get him. ‘How did my life turn out so bad in the past few months?’ I didn’t understand it. It felt like it was just yesterday that I was on the arm of the richest guy in school; the power of our relationship made everyone bow to me. I had respect, honour, every girl wanted to be me, and every guy didn’t dare look at me twice. But now, I stood here, dressed in all black clothes I had to get off a thrift mall; no longer dripping in th