Fan Fiction
Chapter 1
Obsession
Jonas was scared. He had to receive memories today. He didn't like the memories he had been receiving lately. Instead of physical pain, he had been receiving emotional pain. Heartbreak, sorrow, confusion, fear, and loneliness just to name a few. He didn't want to know what he was going to get today.
Jonas walked into the annex. As always, the Giver was waiting for him. Jonas' fear grew. As always, he lay down.
"Jonas, today I will give you a painful memory. You will not experience it, but you will see what it does to people." Jonas wanted to run out of there just about then. But he knew he must have courage and he remembered what happened to Rosemary. He closed his eyes and the Giver's hands pressed upon his back.
Suddenly he was in a room. A basement, to be exact. There was a computer. There was a boy who had dark, curly hair sitting at it. His eyes were red. He had been staring at the computer for a very long time.
"C'mon!" the boy said. "No reviews. No reviews. No reviews. No reviews." It seemed to Jonas like he sat there, hour after hour, staring at a computer screen. Jonas wondered if he would ever move from his seat. The boy started crying, and Jonas didn't know why. Was he crazy? "He must be." Jonas thought.
He looked over at the boy. He was still crying. He had been there so long; the time of day had changed. Then the boy started cursing and swearing at the computer. He hit the computer. He took a bat and swung at it. Jonas couldn't believe this had actually happened. Did this boy have no self-control? He doubted it. No normal person would act that way.
Finally, after what seemed like many hours, the boy lay down on the couch in the basement. He was crying. He looked very sad. Jonas felt sorry for him. Suddenly he woke up. He was back in the annex. The basement, the boy, and the computer were gone. All gone.
"What was that? It was the strangest thing I have ever seen."
"It's called obsession. The boy was obsessed with getting a review for his story he put on a fan fiction website. He never got a review. He would stay on his computer all day, waiting for a review. It's a sad story, really. He didn't have a real life. Not really. He hardly ever went out.
"Never?" Jonas couldn't take this in. Why didn't he go outside? Jonas loved to go outside. He found being kept in was very boring. He also didn't understand what fan fiction was.
"Only when he was forced to go. He didn't go to school very often. His parents just didn't care that much about him. He wanted a review so much." The Giver looked sad. Very sad. Jonas left without saying another word. Obsession did scary things. He didn't want to think about. He wished he had never received the memory.
When he got home, he went straight to bed. His parents didn't ask why. He hoped his parents truly cared about him, unlike the boy's parents, but he knew that wasn't so. In his world there was no love. They would let almost anything happen to him. Then he realized that he lived more like the boy than he originally thought.