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The Monster of Forks

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By all accounts, Jonathan Fallow should have been a normal boy. He was born to normal parents, he lived in the normal (if boring) town of Forks, he went to a normal high school, and he had normal friends, but Jonathan was not a normal boy. Normal boys don't find themselves in an abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods with a fistful of sleeping pills in one hand and a gun in the other.

In fact, this was a situation Jonathan Fallow found himself in a lot as he was not a normal boy at all. He used to be a normal boy, with normal thoughts and normal dreams, but these normal aspects of him were swept away a long time ago. The monster had ensured that.

You see, there is a monster lurking in the sleepy shadows of Forks. None of the citizens realizes it, of course. There would be a panic if they knew! Thankfully, the monster of Forks is a quiet beast, perhaps even shy. The monster doesn’t like being seen. The monster also used to be a normal, teenaged boy.

Do you see the connection yet? Jonathan Fallow was the monster of Forks, but this hadn't been always true. Jonathan was a kind boy with a bright future ahead of him, but the last monster of Forks had been jealous of him. "Who is this child to be happy while I'm alone and suffering?" the monster had asked himself. So, the monster of Forks decided to pass off the mantle off to poor Jonathan.

You require some explanation of how the Curse works. You see, there can only be one monster of Forks at a time. There has never been more than one at any time. You may ask, "Why, O Narrator, doesn't Jonathan pass off the Curse to someone else, then?" There is a catch to passing off the Curse, you see! The Curse is a permanent change; it is irreversible. The monster of Forks can never die by normal means, but if they pass on the Curse, they expire in a rather painless fashion.

Jonathan knew this. The last monster of Forks had told him this as the former monster died. Of course, Jonathan had thought it all as some practical joke gone too far, so he never took heed until the full moon rose to its peak.

The true monster of Forks comes out to play at the full moon. Many people almost died that night, as Jonathan had been at a party with all of his friends. He barely made it into the woods in time before he changed.

Have you guessed what the true monster of Forks is yet? Jonathan had been turned into a werewolf. Yes, go ahead and scoff. I don't expect you to believe me, but I swear to you, I tell no lies.

Ever since then, Jonathan had become a bit of a recluse. His friends tried to keep contact with him at first, but one by one, they all left him. All of them except one girl, that is.

In comparison to Jonathan Fallow, Gwen Blackburn was a normal girl. By the rest of society's standards, she wasn't. She was a Goth girl at Jonathan's high school and his best friend. She was a Satanist and enjoyed getting high, but she was a good girl, all in all. Gwen hadn't let Jonathan shut her out, no sir. He was her best friend, after all.

Jonathan never told her about his Curse. All Gwen ever knew was that occasionally, Jonathan would completely disappear for a few days each month. In all honesty, Gwen was very accepting of this. It wasn't any of her business to know where Jonathan was all the time. He could have his few days as long as he gave the rest of his time to her. Oh, if only she knew...

Jonathan went on for a while like that. By his second transformation, he had stolen his mother's sleeping pills and hid out in an abandoned cabin he had once found while wandering the woods with Gwen. The sleeping pills ensured that Jonathan didn't hurt anyone while he was the monster of Forks and it worked well, but the changes of becoming the monster of Forks wasn't only skin deep.

Jonathan hadn’t noticed, but he had become a jealous, overprotective boy over Gwen. Perhaps he was in love with her. Gwen noticed, of course, and constantly took advantage of it by convincing him to go to parties and to bully her enemies for her. Jonathan hated going to parties ever since his first transformation, but for her, he went.

It had been a nice system while it lasted. It ended when Gwen convinced Jonathan to go to the nearby city of Seattle with her to see some new movie that wasn't available in Forks. In honesty, Jonathan acted as if he didn't really want to go, but by then he enjoyed it when Gwen dragged him out to do things that normal boys did. It made it so that he could forget his problems for a while.

The movie had gone well. It had been appropriately funny and gory in all of the right places. Gwen was gushing about the zombies and how cute the main character was when it happened.

The movie got out late, at around ten o'clock. Gwen had obtained some forged ID's and convinced Jonathan to go clubbing with her. He refused to partake with the alcohol as someone needed to drive her home, but he went with her. She bought herself shots of tequila and went dancing with a tattooed man who was enjoying her company too much for Jonathan's liking. The man made Jonathan's skin crawl, but Gwen thought nothing of it. He was incredibly jealous boy, after all.

Eventually, Jonathan had to go and relieve himself. When he came back, both the man and Gwen were gone. He panicked, of course. After questioning the bartender, Jonathan discovered that Gwen had been getting drowsy and the stranger had oh so kindly offered to take her home, except that Gwen already had a ride home with him.

What happened afterwards is not known to me, unfortunately. All I ever have been able to discover about it is that now the man is dead, Gwen is terrified of Jonathan, and that Jonathan himself was never seen again until last night by me.

This story has come full circle, you see. Now we are back at the beginning. Jonathan with his fistful of pills and a loaded gun had been staring at me with a weariness that no boy should ever have on his face. He told me that the Curse of Forks was going to end, one way or another that night. It just remained to be seen if Jonathan was going to die with a whimper or with a scream. He asked me to leave, so I did.

The screams I heard after I left chilled me to the bone. I don't think I'll ever forget them. I haven't seen him since, and I don't think I ever will again.

Jonathan Fallow is dead. Long live the Monster of Forks.
Just a small story I made.

I -might- have bigger stuff to come, but you guys are used to promises like that. Lol.. Ugh. It depends on how lazy I am over the next month. We'll see!
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The first sentence was good, capturing the attention of the reader straight away. It was a bit odd how the story changed from narrative to direct second person and even more odd how the second person was used, but I admire the way you thought about it.

If I was going to criticise this (which I am) I would say that some sentences and ideas don't really flow into each other. The first paragraph, for instance, seems clumsy when the pronoun "he" was repeated so often. You can make a set of chronological events more exciting by varying the length of sentences for emphasis. For instance, I would edit this as such:

"and had normal friends. Jonathan was not a normal boy." All prior exposition is leading to that moment so you don't need to say "but".

Reduce the use of what I believe are useless sentence liaisons: "in fact". I don't want to rant too long on another person's writing but hopefully this will help. Good work.