Writing Exercise
Imagine that your character’s love interest has disappeared after a fight. Have your character write them a letter. Have them write their regrets, their wishes, and anything else they wanted to tell their lover but didn’t have the chance. Lastly, write a scene or short story where they have a chance to tell their love interest their feelings.
Side Note
I will be using Scout for this exercise. Her love interest is the new boy, Shawn. He and his brothers had moved to California from Idaho and he and his brothers started Azriel High because it is one of the best demon hunting high schools in the United States. Also I used a different form of fight. I didn’t use the classic form of the two fighting each other but… well you will see.
The Letter and My Story
Shawn,
I don’t know what happened to you but I will stop looking for you. After we fought those demons together, I knew I liked you. And not just like but you know like like you. You are strong and smart and funny. You always made me laugh during our science class we have together at school.
No, I won’t think of you as gone forever. I need to tell you how I feel. You asked me out and I didn’t know what to say. I’ve never been asked by a guy before and I panicked. I would tell you yes. I will tell you yes because I am going to find you, I promise. I am sorry that I never told you. I regret not telling you but of course, I never thought you would be gone now.
No, I won’t be negative. I will only be positive. You will be found and I will be the one to find you.
Be strong, Shawn, wherever you are, because I am going to find you!
Sincerely yours,
Scout
Scout sat her pen down and stared down at the letter she had just written to Shawn. She knew Shawn probably won’t get it but she felt better after she had written it. She knew that she had to find Shawn for his family, and so she can tell him how she felt.
Scout looked at the map where they had been attacked and crossed off another abandoned Warehouse. She had gone that day to see if he had been taken there. But when she got there, she saw that it had been burned down several years ago. Nothing was left.
Scout studied the map and decided where to go next. She circled two that were together. She packed up her bag with weapons and slipped on her boots. Scout put her bag on her back and slopped her cell in her back pocket.
“Scout?”
Scout stopped for a second before she climbed out of her bedroom window. Her parents had told her to stop looking for Shawn and allow the adult hunters do the searching. But Scout wasn’t going to leave it to the adults to find Shawn.. It had already been three weeks since the fight had happened and they took Shawn after knocking her out.
Scout ran and jumped in her car after she heard her bedroom door open behind her. She started up her light blue mustang and drove off. She glanced in her rearview mirror and saw her mother waving out of her bedroom window to stop.
Scout sped up and turned the corner, as she headed for the first of the two warehouses. She parked down the street, hiding her car in the shadows. She grabbed her bag and headed down to the broken fence. Scout climbed through a hole in the fence and quietly moved to the first dusty window.
Scout peered inside and saw that there had been recent movement inside. It was a promising sight and she hurried around to find a way inside. Soon, she quietly scurried to the room where she had seen some equipment had been moved. Scout peered around the wall to make sure it was safe and slid into the room. She did her best not to gasp when she saw Shawn tied to a chair in a the furthest corner from her, gagged and looking rough.
Scout glanced around the empty room before she maneuvered her way through the shadows to Shawn’s chair. She knelt down behind him and pulled one of her knives from her bag. She started to cut his legs free.
Shawn picked up his head and through his two black eyes, he saw Scout hiding behind him. He tried to smile, but he flinched and fresh blood seeped out of his cracked lips.
“Scout, you found me.” His voice was hoarse and she could tell that it hurt for him to talk.
“Shhh, Shawn, don’t talk.” Scout continued to work on the ropes. “Shawn, I am so sorry that I couldn’t prevent this. I want to tell you something though. Remember when you asked me out and I froze and you though that meant no? I was just so shocked that I didn’t know what to say.” She stopped cutting the ropes and moved around him so she could look into his eyes. “I do want to go out with you.”
Shawn’s eyes lit up and he grinned, ignoring the pain. Behind them, they heard clapping and Scout turned to see the demons that had jumped them before were standing in a half circle around them. Scout leapt to her feet and readied herself for a fight.
Behind her, Shawn struggled to get out of the chair, but Scout put up her hand to force him to sit back down. Shawn dropped back into his chair, exhausted and breathing hard from the effort to stand.
“Very sweet that you want to date, but that won’t be happening in this lifetime,” a demon hissed at them.
“Oh, they will be dating in this lifetime. And any lifetime after that,” a scary angry voice said behind the demon.
The demons turned and gasped when demon hunters raced into the room, Scout’s parents in the lead. Scout’s mom had found the map Scout had left on her desk and had figured out where her daughter had rushed off. She put in a few calls and now she and the others were there, ready to fight the demons.
Her mom smiled at her daughter before she pointed at the demons. “Get them!”
While the demon hunters and demons fought, Scout helped Shawn to his feet. The two escaped out the back of the warehouse to Scout’s car. She carefully put Shawn in the front seat and drove off to get him safely to the hospital. Scout knew that her parents and the others could take care of themselves so she had no problem leaving them behind with the demons. She had to get Shawn to the hospital so he could be treated for his injuries.