Short Story

We wrote a short story which had to have between 450 and 600 words and had to finish with the sentence "That was the last time he/she ever saw...".

The Street

Sophie was a 17-year-old, short, thin girl. She had long, black hair and big, round green eyes. She was a very good and generous girl who had lots of friends .Sophie lived in a spacious and luxurious house in the city of London with her father, her mother, her older sister and her little brother.

One night, she was walking down the avenue with a friend of her called Lucy. Lucy was 17 years old as Sophie and she was a tall girl, she had short, blonde hair and blue eyes. After going to the shopping centre, they were going to a party which was going to start in ten minutes.

“We are going to be late!” complained Sophie

“No! It´s early.” answered her friend

“We have ten minutes left!” Sophie screamed “We have ten minutes to arrive there! And the party is far from here!” She kept on complaining.

“Ok, calm down.” answered Lucy “I know a shortcut, follow me.”

“OK” Lucy answered.

They kept on walking down the avenue for one more block and then they turned left and entered to a deserted, shabby little street. They walked through that alley as they talked.

“The party will be great! I can’t wait to get there!”, Lucy said, they were very excited because of that party.

“Yes, me too! How much time have we got to get there?”, she asked.

“Five minutes.” answered the other girl.

“Ok.”, said Sophie.

They kept on walking for two or three more minutes when they passed through a darker part and Sophie said:

“Hey, Lucy, I don´t like this street.”

“But, if we don´t come through here, we will be later.”, answered Sophie´s friend.

“Yes, I know, but I just don´t like it. I don´t know why.”, answered the black-haired one.

They walked, walked and walked until they saw a man coming in front of them. He was more or less a block ahead of them but they could perfectly see him.

“I don´t like that man”, whispered Sophie, “Can we cross the street?”

“Ok.”, answered her friend.

They crossed the street, but the man also did that. That happened two or three times until they realized that that man wanted to do something to them. They kept on walking, frightened, until they faced the tall, filthy man.

“Give me everything you have!”, he said quickly as he looked at them.

“Why?”, asked Lucy while Sophie hit her and told her to shut up.

“Shut up and give me everything! Or I’ll shoot you”, said the man as he took a gun out of his jacket.

The girls were really scared now, “Okay, okay”, they said as they gave their bags and their cell phones to the man.

“Now, you will go and you won’t look back”, the robber said.

The girls went away in the opposite direction. They walked for more or less thirty meters when Sophie made the mistake of turning around. She was only able to see the robber, and to hear Lucy screaming when she heard a powerful sound and all turned black.

That was the last time she ever saw the robber. That was the last time she ever saw Lucy. That was the last time she ever saw anyone. 

News Report

Train destroys station

The accident took place in Lomas de Zamora, at 7:58 am., when a train crushed the city’strain station, which was full of people. Unfortunately, 52 people died.

75 people suffered the accident. Unfortunately, 52 of them died. 35 of them, were inside the train when the accident took place, and 17 were on the platform waiting for the train to arrive.

The wagons that hit the platform were the first and the second one, but the ones destroyed were from the first to the tenth one. Apart from the 52 casualties there were 23 people injured, but only 7 of them are in major danger.

“It was terrible!”, said a woman who was there “We were waiting for the train and in a blink of an eye it was above us!” The city mayor said that the train and the station will be repaired and the authorities will send people to investigate cause of the accident.

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