Friday, 11 December 2015

How likely is it for an ex-criminal, a homosexual and a Middle East immigrant to live in a same area, same building? Well, in the rural part of Haviland, Ohio, an ex-criminal called James, a homosexual called Jasper and a girl from the Middle East called Amira were living in a same apartment. Amira and Jasper got to know each other from work and Jasper and James were just neighbours until an incident happened.

Making a mistake of stealing at the age of 15 because of peer pressure, James had to be locked up in a prison for 4 years. The memories and education for those 4 years are gone. He had to suffer from not knowing certain things which his classmates did, when he went to high school. He was bullied at school, no teachers would listen to him. There was an incident where a student lost ten dollars, and of course, he was the first one to be blamed. Although there was no proof and he had an alibi, nobody, absolutely no one would believe him. Even later when they found out that the student misplaced her money, they wouldn’t apologise, but think that was a right thing to do. No matter how hard he tried to blend into these society, the society kept on rejecting him, repelling him. He didn’t know what else he could do anymore and thought of something which a person should never consider. He went to the top of a tall building at 6 am and made up his mind. Just then, Jasper was passing by the building and found him. Jasper was afraid of losing a person's life in front of him and quickly ran up the stairs to save him. He tried to convince him by saying all the important and happy moments of life James will lose if he just let go of his life, but this didn't work of James. Instead, James asked Jasper if he could listen to his story and started telling him about what he had to suffer. The fact that there was someone to listen to him made James forget about dying and James and Jasper became best friends.

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