STORY STARTER

Submitted by Emily

Write a story about a spirit or creature assigned to protect and look after a human, but they later grow to resent the one they vowed to protect.

Better Off Alone Now

So you’ll just let her go? Just like that? The only person who cared about you, even in your darkest hour? Ah, so you’re better off alone now, right! Guess what? I’ve also had enough! Ever since our first meeting, you were a selfish, incompetent fool who only cared about his profit! I still remember that day you pushed your little brother off the stairs just because he got that animated puppet for Christmas that you thought you deserved more! It was all about what you felt, not the others - and that time he got a bone fracture and a concussion, and your poor mother had to bedsit him at the hospital for over a month, crying herself dry! Or maybe, remember how you invited that odd lonely girl to a prom in high school just because you thought it was a good joke, then backed out, and she nearly ended it all? Or maybe that time when you stole a purse from a single mother in a baby store just to smoke some weed with your so-called «friends»? She had to sell her last belongings to buy the baby some infant formula. God bless her soul! And what about me? I was there when you were eight and nearly fell into a concrete pit at the local construction site. I was there when you were driving drunk with your girlfriend at 2 am when the wild racoon ran into the road, sending your car flying - it was thanks to me you both survived with just a scratch. And I was there when you were left alone in that goddamn cold forest without any clothes or provisions by those angry folks to which you owed money! And when you were lying drunk and half-naked beside the corner store, in a pool of your own piss, crying, begging God to please send you someone, anyone - and that angel came the next day, whose merit it was? And now you just simply send her away, calling her an egoist and a whore? Oh, enough of this already! I’m leaving, too!
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