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malruniel11

LJI - Season 9 - Week 2 - The Missing Stair

Mar 24, 2014 04:27

Jonathan passed it off as a running joke. At parties and dinner nights with friends he would call Crystal, "my not-so-graceful ballerina," as he squeezed her tight or sloppily gave her a kiss on the cheek. Crystal kept her eyes down and flushed a bit and brushed off her apparent clumsiness with the same old line, "I kept climbing, but there were ( Read more... )

season 9, lj idol, domestic violence, the missing stair, freedom, week 2

Comments 44

elledanger March 24 2014, 19:49:09 UTC

Nice turn around!

malruniel11 March 25 2014, 06:43:13 UTC

Thanks!

kittenboo March 24 2014, 21:55:20 UTC

I like the surprise, or twist ending, nicely done.

malruniel11 March 25 2014, 06:43:31 UTC

Why thank you!

mari4212 March 25 2014, 05:40:57 UTC

Ouch. Utterly believable, with a punch at the end.

malruniel11 March 25 2014, 06:42:36 UTC

Thanks! That's what I was going for!

n3m3sis43 March 25 2014, 11:48:22 UTC

Oh, I like how you turned it around at the end.

malruniel11 March 26 2014, 04:24:48 UTC

Thank you!

adoptedwriter March 25 2014, 14:31:22 UTC

Glad it's fiction!
"Unless he's the one who missed 'the stair' this month," she thought. This line grabbed me. AW

malruniel11 March 26 2014, 04:25:15 UTC

Thanks, AW. That's what I hoped it would do!