Drabble to Mean by Taylor Swift
Nancy sneaked around the corner and ran into the room. Squeaking, the floor underneath her screamed, "Robber in the house! Robber in the house!" Nancy fingered the knife hidden inside her pocket, hoping she wouldn't have to use it on anyone coming downstairs to inspect the noise. No one came. She slowly grabbed the gold silverware, and ran. She met her boyfriend, Bill, outside the house. He kissed her quickly, then looked in the bag.
"My God, Nancy! How stupid can you be? This is all engraved with the house owner's name!" Bill cried, then quickly hit her across the face. Nancy fell to the floor, gasping and covering her bruised cheek with her hand. Bill sneered at her, then walked away. "Grow up, baby." Nancy could hear him mutter under his breath.
Nancy got up out of the mud and slowly walked away. These kinds of things had been occurring for weeks now. Bill never cared about her, just about her stealing skills. Just recently, when she had been caught for stealing, the emancipated teenage girl couldn't count on her boyfriend, if that's what Nancy could call Bill, to get her out of jail. Instead, her best friend had to post bail. When Nancy had met Bill the next day, instead of coming with an apology and a hug, he gave her information on a new assignment. As Bill walked out the door, he said, "Oh, and sweetheart? Be more careful next time."
The next day, Nancy promised herself. Tomorrow I'm going to break up with him. And no matter what she told herself, Nancy couldn't bear to do it. She loved Bill, even if he acted like a moron sometimes. Well, all the time.
Nancy, as she was walking down past Bill's house, decided exactly what she was going to do. She took the knife out of her pocket, and cut her arm open. Using the blood rushing out of her cut, she wrote on the door, "We're through."
Nancy realized that she had cut her arm a little too much. She tore the sleeves off of her shirt, tied them to her arm to stop the blood from rushing, and walked away. Bill was probably drunk right now, just like always. When he sees what she did, Bill would be furious, but by that time, Nancy would be gone. She had a future, and she wasn't going to let any man, not even Bill, screw this up for her.
