Short Story

During my sophomore year of high school, I was tasked with creating a short story to present to some of my classmates in my creative writing class. The limit was 12 pages of words

This is not the first draft. It had to be sent to three of my classmates for peer review. A common feedback was that the ending was too upsetting, which was my goal, although one reviewer said that while they recognized my intent, they believed the ending was unsatisfying nonetheless, so I tweaked the ending, as well as trying to make it more believable and easy to read. I also had to keep shortening scenes because I kept exceeding the limit. This is the final product I ended up with.