Video Game
Perfection disappears. What's your next move? AH.
Emmett
If you were to analyze the Forks High School hierarchy, Alice Cullen would have been at the top of the food chain. She was the kind of girl that everyone loved to hate, just because she had an ego too big for her brain. In her mind, she was the best of the best, and if she didn't like you, no one should.
Sadly, this was usually how it went. Everyone wanted to be Alice. Girls copied her style and followed her around like sad puppies while guys tried to seduce her, which perpetually failed.
Of course, that doesn't mean that these sad followers actually liked Alice. Far from it. They hated her.
She'd brought this on herself, of course. People will inevitably hate you if you insult them and turn an entire school against them. Someone who tells you that your fashion sense is 'so last year', that your new haircut makes you look like a whore, that you need a new girlfriend because that one just isn't working out is not a person that is going to be generally liked.
I just find it sad to think that this girl happened to be my sister. How could the same womb have contained both her and me? I like to think that I'm a nice guy, that I act nothing like Alice did. I sure as hell hope that it's true.
I bet you're wondering how I know that everyone hated her. Well, here's how: when she died, not one person in the school cried.
It was a freak accident that killed her. She was at a party out at the train tracks, and someone dared her to walk across the trestle that spanned the river. Alice, not wanting to seem like a wimp, I assumed, accepted. When she was almost to the other side, she stepped on a wooden beam that had been supporting trains for years and years, and it broke, rotted. She fell through the gap, dying on impact with the water.
Of course, no matter how much of a bitch someone is, it's a tragedy for them to die so young. Everyone was shocked, and, of course, no one will ever dare to attempt the journey across the trestle until Alice is long forgotten.
The school held a memorial service for her, which all the students dutifully attended. Being her brother, I also attended her funeral. I was the only high school kid there.
I wish I could say that the school was different from then on, that we all became equals, but that would be a blatant lie. Of course, a new girl moved in and took over Alice's position, and life continued as it always had, just without a certain little spiky haired bottle of evil.
We are all characters in the video game of life. Our path and our fate are decided for us from the second we are created and placed in the game.
But what if you have a choice to play with an alternate storyline?
Do you take it? Or do you continue on in exactly the same way?
Something where Alice is hated by everyone or dies.
I think this is good enough. Maybe.
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