Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Story: A Betrayal Most Wicked. Chapters 1-2.

by Jackie J

Chapter 1


Friends. Well yes, they were, whist coming from diametrically opposed families. Jennifer from an affluent family living on the outskirts of Ramada. Jane entrenched in her working class roots, her home, a squalid apartment in the downtown project. What probably cemented and maintained the bond between them was the kind and generous nature of Jennifer. Jennifer never judged Jane in any way. Jane on the other hand was outwardly sweet as pie but had a deep and troublesome engrained jealousy of her friend Jennifer, unfounded really, just based on the privilege Jennifer had been born into. 

Through their school and college days Jane struggled to keep up with Jennifer, wanting to do something, anything to proof her worth. Unfortunately this rarely happened. Jennifer was blonde and pretty. She could eat anything she wanted and never gained a pound and excelled in all academic subjects and sports. Jane was dark haired and suffered through adolescence with acne: it was always Jennifer that the boys congregated around.  As hard as she tried, she was always just one step behind her friend Jennifer both academically and in sports. Jennifer, with such a sweet and kindly nature, never gloated or belittled her friend. Quite the opposite, she always encouraged her friend Jane, making little of her own successes.


When graduation from college came, Jane, who had excelled in two particular subjects, mathematics and economics, received the year prize for her efforts little knowing that Jennifer had forgone the accolade for her friend knowing how much it would mean to her. Jennifer received other awards and was so pleased seeing her friend joining her on the podium to receive her scroll. 

With both young ladies beginning their careers Jane never returned to her humble beginnings were as Jennifer could not wait to return to her loving family. Like many friends after college, Jennifer and Jane kept in touch initially but within two years it was only birthdays when they communicated.

Tuesday, March 10, 2020

More captions!

Why-so-shnerious from DeviantArt has sent a few more interesting lady-to-maid captions that I am happy to share with you. Two are actually short stories!  Reposting this with the creator's permission.