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Ricky in the light

January 6, 2026
By Davido123 BRONZE, Los Angeles, California
Davido123 BRONZE, Los Angeles, California
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Ricky showed up in his white Alexander McQueen's shining and his sparkling jacket shaking hands with everybody outside of the house party. He walked past security without even having to say anything. As soon as he got inside he was blinded by the lights. In the moment Ricky felt like he walked into the party and already owned the room with dozens of people coming up to him and greeting him. Ricky hits the dance floor everyone seemed to be orbiting him. While dancing he felt like the people around him were never gonna leave and they could dance forever. Ricky was then invited to the next party and kept partying until 4 O’clock in the morning. 

He was stumbling by the time the clock struck 4 and certainly didn't know where he was. One of Ricky’s stumbling friends slurred out “Heuuy Riiiiccky wwwould you-you like a-a ride.” Ricky immediately hopped in the car without thinking another thought. While driving the car was abnormally shaky. Ricky wasn’t bothered though.The shaking began to turn the street lights on the road blurry. Shortly after there the car launched into orbit and crashed like a fire being snuffed out. Everything turned pitch black.

Next thing Ricky knew he was in a dim hospital room. Ricky's heart sank but he didn't seem to be worried because he knew people would be there to help him after the crash. When Ricky was able to crawl his way over to his cellphone on the dimly lit table next to his hospital bed he checked his notifications where he thought there must have been a mistake because his usual one hundred snapchat notifications were just three notifications with no texts checking up on him besides for his mom wondering where he was because he didn't come home the night before. 

The room was beginning to become extremely chilly. Ricky started to look around and noticed the rough white walls and smells of bleach and sanitizer. After he looked down and started to notice the blood stains all over him. He began to get teary eyed. Ricky realized nobody was there for him when he was injured in the hospital but only when he was partying it up with them. Ricky began to weep from his eyes similar to a dark heavy rainstorm. The room went pitch black.


The author's comments:

Senior in highschool who started writing stories in his creative writing course. 


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