HPAC Young Writers Review Volume II | Page 13

THE BUNNY It was a rainy day, but the mail still came in. Blake ran out to the mailbox to go grab it. He saw many letters, even letters from the colleges he had applied to, but he was only really looking for a specific letter: the letter from the hospital. He found it and opened it. He read every letter on the paper. Blake could not believe what he had just read, and he looked out at the woods around him. Rage quickly overtook him. He punched his mom’s car. He stopped, noticing a full bottle of vodka and next to it appeared to be a container that read, “the bunny.” He went back inside and went into his mother’s room where she was lying on her bed, terribly sick. Crying, he had to tell his mother that the hospital couldn’t do anything for her since they had no insurance. He hugged her and gave her a kiss on the cheek. He ran out, grabbing his mother’s car keys, and went for a ride to keep his mind off things. It was the middle of the night. Blake returned from his joy ride, parked the car right where the mailbox used to be. With the bottle of vodka in one hand and the container that read “the bunny” in the other, Blake went inside his house, to his mother’s room where she was sleeping. He opened “the bunny” and everything went by in an instant. Blake dropped everything and fell to his knees. He saw her, his mom, laying there not moving, covered in blood. He saw “the bunny” on the floor next to him. Blake, tears running down his cheeks, at a loss for words in his very home. He picked up “the bunny,” and ran out of the house. Blake’s house was surrounded by woods, it was pitch black. A house surrounded by woods, where else could he go but t