so here's a paper i wrote for class. input it nice. um please don't be mean about it. it took like 10 minutes to write max....
Maria looked through the window to the empty streets outside. Everyone walking by looked so sad. So forgotten. So lost. It was true, if she was honest with herself. Right now, everyone was lost. It was what losing everything did to people. It shook them to their core.
She remembered perfectly the day that it happened. She had been walking home from school when she saw a riot occurring at the closed gates of a bank. Fearful, she had run home to see her distressed parents. Her father had been sitting on his armchair with his head hung sullenly in his hands while her mother rubbed his back and reassured him as tears filled her brown eyes.
Nervously, she had approached them and asked what happened. How could she ever forget the look in her father’s eyes as he answered in a monotonous voice? He had told her that the market had crashed and people were losing money left and right. The amazing years that had come before were now reaching an abrupt stop.
At first, she had thought that it was impossible. Cash was king, right? Something that had so many people invested in it couldn’t be failing. They’d be fine as long as they didn’t invest in stocks like so many others, wouldn’t they? She’d been so confident in their stand through the beginning of the situation.
But then things just kept getting worse and worse. She came home from school every day to hear her father tell of how the prices of stocks had gone down again. It didn’t seem like it would ever stop. That was the point of time when she didn’t fully realize just how awful the problem would be for everyone, not only investors.
As the days passed, she couldn’t believe the situation before her. Businesses were shutting down, people were losing their homes, and food was nearly unaffordable for most. Even then, she thought that it would all just pass her family over. They hadn’t done anything compromising. They should be fine.
How wrong was I? She thought to herself as she looked out the window. Just a few weeks later and she and her family were just as bad as the others. They had to sell the house, move somewhere far away. All her treasured possessions had been sold off to make as much money as they could get. She was miserable and she didn’t try to hide it. Seventeen years old and she’d lost everything.
“Maria! We’re leaving. Hurry up and get in the car.” He dad shouted through the empty house.
Yes. The car. The only thing they had managed to keep through it all. Nothing else mattered but getting away from the place where everyone knew you and caused you so much shame you nearly died. They couldn’t keep the house, her favorite silver locket, or her mother’s wedding ring. It had all been sold.
She took a deep breath as she headed for the door. The deserted building smelled like home. It was a scent she had carried with her for her whole life. Now she was abandoning it, like everything else. It was saddening to even think about.
Her fingers brushed lightly against the worn, light wood door frames as she walked through them. They were soft from years of wear. It was such a comforting feeling but now she was forced to leave it behind. Her old friendly home. The only thing that had stayed the same through her chaotic early years.
“Goodbye, old friend.” She whispered softly to the skeleton of the once dear home. It now stood empty and abandoned. It killed her to see it that way. With tears in her eyes, she walked through the final door and into the cold November air. Winter had come early that year in more ways than one.
She faced her father who was impatiently waiting before the car. His face was trying to remain stern but his emotions betrayed him. He was just as upset by the situation as she was. He had built the house himself, for their budding family. He’s put his sweat and even a little bit of blood into it. Leaving it behind was like taking a part of his soul away.
“I’m sorry, sweetie.” He said to her as she approached. “If there was any other way, you know I would’ve taken it.”
She nodded as she opened the door to the vehicle and got inside. Where do we go now? She asked herself, sadly. They had no where left to go. The middle, farming states had been buried under feet and feet of dust and dirt. People were travelling anywhere they could go. Anything even remotely affordable had already been taken. They’d have to travel from place to place, moving when the cost of living became too high.
It was the same everywhere. No one had a place to go. They would all spend their nights lost and miserable. It was the only thing that they could do. Travel lost, every night with nowhere solid to go. Wander until they could find a place to call their own for even a moment. Frozen and facing hardships that would plague them. Having to deal with the fear of losing the small remnant of the past that they still had with them never releasing them from its tight grip.
The worst part was that they couldn’t do anything about it. They would have to go along with the suffering for as long as it decided to last. They wouldn’t be able to change the situation in the slightest. The only way to get out of it was to wait it out or, like some unfortunates had, die.
The engine began to purr steadily as the car pulled away from the house. The place she had been her whole life. Her only home. It was really over. She was leaving it all in the past and heading toward a future where everything seemed bleak. Maybe, on an off chance, she would fall in love with a rich man and all the troubles would end. But that was impossible.
As the road beneath them began to move more quickly, she looked out the window at the structure. She was really leaving. Her only home was disappearing and there was nothing that she could do about it. She was just letting it happen.
At last, the tears she had been holding back all the while spilled over the edges of her eyes and down her face.
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