James Rose: A Short Story

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He saw her trudge up the hill, lonely and dispirited. She looked like a sewer rat as she climbed and climbed, her college clothes soaking wet and she seemed not to even have the energy to shield herself from the deluge over her head.

He understood why she was coming. She must have heard from the University about the last two girls that had stayed with him. The first was Eleanor and she was worldly beyond her ways. She had grasped power intuitively and used her sex and intelligence to manipulate men. First, she had went to the fraternity on campus. The one full of the sons of the powerful and then had slept her way through that. When she had conquered them, she began to sleep with her English professor and always she would try to manipulate
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Of course it wasn’t and tests soon revealed that. This was not immaculate conception, this was real life, but as Joseph Goebbels said “the bigger the lie, the more people would believe it.”

And like that Eleanor was gone. An abortion and money sent from her family and she quit school to enroll at Yale. She was moving on to bigger game and when James Rose had foiled her plans for millions, she didn’t get upset, she just went to the next game in town, leaving the University, the town and James Rose in shambles.

So he took a break on the scholarship and then decided on a candidate unlike the lower class, blonde haired and blue eyes Eleanor as possible. Hillary was a shy Asian-American who did nothing but study. At first, it appeared that he could pluck someone out of the depths of poverty and turn them into a success story. Hillary’s grades were top notch and she was soon a shooting star of the academic field, but her obsession with grades turned into her downfall.

She was only ever at the Rose mansion. In time, she developed a school girl crush on James Rose and the crush soon turned into an obsession. Eventually she confronted James with his feelings for her and he over reacted. He was worried about another Eleanor so he didn’t spare her feelings when he told

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