Student KK | June 3rd, 2026
Fiction - Describing the truth of how your past can be killing you inside. Even though you try to neglect it you can never truly get it out of your mind.
People often believe that X wanted to get rid of the past completely.
What people don’t know is that X has always wanted to talk about her past, she just didn’t want to feel judged.
X grew up in a small coastal town. That’s where she met Jade.
Jade was very passionate about having a relationship with X.
Causing X to want to leave her because she felt suffocated. They would spend every second of the day together but X only did it because of fear. Lucca has warned X to not be around Jade because she is crazy. X never listened.
“X where are you going?” Lucca says.
“I’m going on a walk to the beach with Jade.” X says.
Lucca gets frustrated since he was warned by X about her. Lucca just nods his head and goes to his room to get dressed.
“I can’t let her go out alone with that girl. She is not a good person.” Lucca says to himself.
Lucca starts to overthink everything that can go wrong in less than 10 minutes into their walk. Lucca hurries up to go follow them.
“Lucca I’m leaving”, X yells.
“Are you sure you want to go” Lucca yells back.
“Why are you so paranoid, I’m going to be just fine.”
Lucca starts explaining to X that he’s had bad feelings about Jade, telling her that she’s too possessive and crazy. X as always doesn’t listen and just chooses to completely ignore her. X opens the front door and leaves. Lucca stays there nodding his head disappointed in X’s decisions on not listening to him.
Jade calls X.
“Where are you? Why are you taking so fucking long? Are you out with another girl?” Jade yells.
“No I’m sorry I didn’t mean to take so long, Lucca was just talking to me for a little longer than he usually does.” X says.
X starts yelling at Jade about how controlling she is.
“ So you hate me and want me to die is what you’re saying?” Jade cries out.
‘“No, that's not what I am saying at all. Where did you get that stupid thought from?” X yells.
“Why do you keep yelling at me?” Jade says while still crying.
“You’re being childish, I should’ve listened to Lucca.” X mumbles.
Jade ends up hearing what X said and starts fake crying.
“Wait, I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to make you cry.” X says softly.
Lucca sees everything Jade is putting X through. He then decides to call X to try and get her out of this situation.
“Hello?” X says confused.
“You need to come home now. The house is on hire.” Lucca says nervously.
“OMG WHAT?? I JUST LEFT, OKAY I’LL BE THERE IN 10 MINUTES.” X yells.
X then tries to explain to Jade that she has to go because the house is on fire. Jade starts yelling at her and throws her shoe and X’s face.
“BRO ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY? WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT? I REALLY SHOULD’VE LISTENED TO LUCCA AND NOT HAVE CAME OUT HERE WITH YOUR CRAZY ASS.” X yells.
“Maybe I should kill Lucca or at least get him far away from X. I need her all to myself. I can’t let my plan of living the rest of my life with her get ruined.” Jade thinks to herself.
X ends up going home, leaving Jade by herself. Jades starts to come up with a plan on how to get rid of Lucca.
“I’m going to kill her, maybe when she least expects anything.” Jade mumbles.
The next day Lucca wakes up with a bad feeling in her gut, thinking that something was going to happen, he just didn’t know who it was going to happen to.
Jade ends up sneaking into their house, going into a closet with her knife.
“Lucca, I'm going out with my friend Lauren.” X yells.
“Ok have fun and don’t do anything stupid, be careful.” Lucca replies.
X ends up going into the closet that Jade was hiding in, without a second thought Jade stabs her on accident thinking it was Lucca,.
“OMG, OMG, OMG, NO WHY DID I DO THAT, I THOUGHT THAT WAS LUCCA, OMG WHAT THE FUCK.” Jade tells herself.
Lucca walks in to see what is happening. He sees that X is on the floor with blood gushing out. He starts crying, calls 911.
“YOU CRAZY ASS WOMEN, WHY ON EARTH WOULD YOU DO THAT, IF SHE DOESN’T LIVE I HOPE YOU KNOW I WILL BE MAKING YOUR LIFE HORRIBLE.” Lucca cries hysterically.
“I didn’t mean to do this, omg omg omg, I was trying to kill you not her.” Jade says while panicking.
Jade starts talking to herself, trying to find a way to calm herself down. She ends up stabbing Lucca a couple minutes before the cops get there. The cops end up getting there as soon as she stabs Lucca.
“Police, FREEZE PUT YOUR HANDS UP NOW.” “ANYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU IN THE COURT OF LAW.”
Jade ends up getting locked up.
“Why would I do that? I should’ve just kidnapped X and taken her far away with me.” Lucca cries.
“I can’t do this shit anymore. I can’t deal with the pain of not being alive while the love of my life is gone forever.”
Jade can’t deal with the pain of grief any much longer so she ends up killing herself.
Lacey, Catherine. Biography of X. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 21 Mar. 2023.
The author is Cathrine Lacy. This source is reliable because it includes photographs, footnotes, and specific writing techniques that make the story feel connected to the author and the readers. The book is about facing challenges, accomplishments and how grief can affect the past, present and the future. For example X is still grieving her past. Not wanting to talk about it. I am going to use this book in my writing because it gives a more realistic experience in how feelings can change based on how the past treated you. This is important because it provides real life experiences of how a person responds to, and lives with the emotions of grief. This novel shows the reality of how people cope. Such as trying to escape reality, trying to forget what happened, or even making fake scenarios that have never happened before. Indicating that making up ways to escape reality help people cope with either fiction or real grief they are going through.