BROKEN PROMISE
By K.E. Morgan
I’d been in love with my older brother’s best friend ever since I was four years old. My brother and his friend were ten years older than me. Anyway, Andrew always told me he’d wait for me to grow up and he’d marry me. All the time I was growing up, Andrew said that. Well now I’m grown and Andrew just announced he is getting married. Not to me. He’s marrying a girl named Melanie. He brought her over to meet my Mom and me. He looked so proud. When I reminded him about his promise he laughed. He kissed me on my forehead and said I’d always be special to him. Special. Well, I don’t think I believe him anymore.
Everybody loved Melanie, everybody but me. Such a cute, perky little blonde girl. She tried to win me over and I let her think she had. Mother had Andrew’s family over for dinner one Sunday afternoon. Melanie too. Did I mention Melanie had a severe peanut allergy? Well, she did. When I was alone in the kitchen I slipped some peanut oil into the soup. When Melanie began choking, everyone panicked. Andrew searched her bag for her Eppi pen but that was under the sofa. Later we’d find it and assume she dropped it out of her purse when she was looking for some photos to share. The ambulance got there too late. Poor Melanie didn’t make it. Andrew was heartbroken which made me happy. Now he knew how it felt but I wasn’t finished yet. Of course, there were questions about where the peanut oil came from and eventually they might figure it out.
I only waited a couple of weeks to put the second part of my plan into action. I asked Andrew if he could give me a ride to the place where I was to meet my friends for a hike. I told him my brother was supposed to take me but he went out and hadn’t come back. Andrew didn’t have anything else to do, he was so depressed about Melanie, that he didn’t do much of anything, so he drove me. The place is way up an isolated road leading to the cliff where I will tell Andrew what I did and why. It is there that I will push him off the cliff. I will hold his hand as we fall. In the end, we’ll be together as we always should have been. My last words to him will be “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”
We’re here. He asked where my friends are and I said I don’t know. He won’t leave me here alone, he’s getting out of the car to look for them. I’m right behind him. And here we go…
Everybody loved Melanie, everybody but me. Such a cute, perky little blonde girl. She tried to win me over and I let her think she had. Mother had Andrew’s family over for dinner one Sunday afternoon. Melanie too. Did I mention Melanie had a severe peanut allergy? Well, she did. When I was alone in the kitchen I slipped some peanut oil into the soup. When Melanie began choking, everyone panicked. Andrew searched her bag for her Eppi pen but that was under the sofa. Later we’d find it and assume she dropped it out of her purse when she was looking for some photos to share. The ambulance got there too late. Poor Melanie didn’t make it. Andrew was heartbroken which made me happy. Now he knew how it felt but I wasn’t finished yet. Of course, there were questions about where the peanut oil came from and eventually they might figure it out.
I only waited a couple of weeks to put the second part of my plan into action. I asked Andrew if he could give me a ride to the place where I was to meet my friends for a hike. I told him my brother was supposed to take me but he went out and hadn’t come back. Andrew didn’t have anything else to do, he was so depressed about Melanie, that he didn’t do much of anything, so he drove me. The place is way up an isolated road leading to the cliff where I will tell Andrew what I did and why. It is there that I will push him off the cliff. I will hold his hand as we fall. In the end, we’ll be together as we always should have been. My last words to him will be “Don’t make promises you can’t keep.”
We’re here. He asked where my friends are and I said I don’t know. He won’t leave me here alone, he’s getting out of the car to look for them. I’m right behind him. And here we go…