Two Leaf Monologue

Two Leaves, One Gone You know, I tried. I really did. As I sit here, a hole in my heart, (literally and figuratively) I wonder what I did any of this for, why this came to be. Sorry, my name’s King. I get distracted easily. I am your average but not average high schooler. Not to brag, but I’m kind of a genius. I’m a senior at 16, and had a fairly nice life. I had my loving mother, but my father had died two months ago to cancer, and it was hard carrying on. My little sister in particular, had a special bond with him. She hadn’t been the same since. So I had become the man of the house, and was trying to keep everyone going morale wise. I was walking home. It was a Tuesday. My mother had called me home from school saying it was an emergency. I was a little rushed, slightly worried, so I was at a fast …show more content…
A beast. Ginormous. A thousand pounds, at least. It looked like a rhinoceros mixed with an armadillo. It had a big, blank white shell, and heavy light blue skin. It had a rhino horn and a long, club tipped tail characteristic with an Ankylosaur. It had little grey… holes throughout its head and tail, (at least that’s what wasn’t covered by the shell, I didn’t know what was on the inside.) And the worst of all, it had red eyes. Glowing, red eyes. It was looking at the front of the hut from about 15 feet away. It started walking over. It got to about 5 feet away, and I just closed my eyes. Then I heard a loud grunt, a roar. It was louder than I’d ever heard. It was looking straight at me. I prepared for the worst. I thought about what would happen, to my mother and my sister. They would now have two family members lost. I don’t know if they would cope with it. But it never happened. The beast couldn’t get in. It would start walking, get about a foot from the doorway, then stop, grunt, and back up. It did this for about 10 minutes, approaching different angles, until it gave up and waddled