The Tragic Story of Sally

By: Mahe Shah

TW: Injury, blood

Sally was born in a rich, sophisticated family. Her father was a wealthy businessman and her mother who was a kind and honest helper before marrying her husband. Sally got a lot of hate from the mean and evil people in her school because of her mother’s background. She would not even dare step up to those kids because of her timid personality. She would always come home with tears in her eyes, hence feeling sorry, her father would spoil her to an extent, making sure everyone’s focus would be on the dad’s money not on her mom’s past life. Even though she has all the luxury in the world, she would still have an anguish look on her face. She would turn into a selfish and awful person, who would easily get angry at the smallest things at home and she would be mean to people who lacked luxury in life.

One day, she threw an exotic party just for fun, so that it can help her look cool and make friends in school. She invited the entire year level, to her house. She used a desolate room at the far end of her huge mansion to host her party, as it was the biggest room in the house. Knowing Sally's background, she was surprised when a lot of people arrived. Everyone’s curiosity got to them and they had to go to the party to see Sally's mansion, but they kept a humble expression to not give themselves away. There were snacks, music, mostly anything a person could wish for was at the party. Everyone was famished”,” hence the snacks were finished in a jiffy. Things seemed to be going great for the first few hours, when a huge tragedy happened. Everyone was terrified and couldn’t move. No one knows how it happened, but it looked like it was an accident. The chandelier fell with a loud bang, on top of Sally. There was blood splattered everywhere, and cuts from the glass were all over her body. Her parents were as still as a tree with a shocked look on their faces, until someone shouted in terror, and called the ambulance. Everybody could see that Sarah, one of the kids that bullied Sally, was acting eccentric. Everyone was in chaos, that no one noticed that she was missing when the accident happened. Though it was evident that she did it as she was missing when the chandelier fell, and she had a creepy smile on her face. Right as the fixture fell, my body was sent to shock mode. I felt paralyzed and pondered whether I should try to get up or lie completely still." -- if she's unconscious you can describe the moments of her being awake for one second and then knowing she would pass out?

The ambulance arrived shortly after, Sally's dad hurried and carefully carried Sally to place her on the stretcher. The ambulance left as soon as possible, with her parents. The medics gave her oxygen and tried his best to keep her breathing until they reached the hospital. As they reached, she was rushed to the emergency room. Her parents were waiting right outside the room for about 4 hours until the doctor came out with an uncertain look on his face. The doctor had good and bad news to tell. He said that she had no serious injuries and that there were a few minor cuts on her body. She could have had necrotizing fasciitis from exposure of an open wound but luckily it didn't happen. Sadly, she seems to be in a coma because they don't know when she will wake up again. Her parents were petrified, they were regretting their parenting skills and had wished they spent more time with their child. Before the doctor returned, he said that they could see their child. The parents walked in and sat beside Sally. Sally had tubes coming out of her hand, and a lot of needles on her body, she also had an oxygen tank near her. Her mother whispered in her ear with tears saying “remember you wanted to become an inspirational character in a movie when you grow up”. Her mother was still crying as she slowly got up, her eyes were all puffy and her nose was red. The doctor told the parents to leave as they had to run some more tests on the patient. The parents left, not knowing when their daughter would wake up again…

A few years later, Sally was still in a coma and the police did not find any evidence on who dropped the chandelier. Sally’s parents had another kid, who is now 4 years old, his name is Tom. Sally’s parents would sometimes still cry themselves to bed and would visit her everyday.

THE END