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Lysander: A Fictional Narrative
Whilst furiously searching high and low for my true love, I stumbled upon a rat. Better known as Demetrius. Knowing how he loves me so, I assumed that he must have killed Lysander in his sleep in an attempt to remove Lysander from the equation. Having possibly already taken Lysander’s life, I insisted that Demetrius should just take the plunge and take mine as well. I shall be with my lover in life and in death after all. Then a possibility, one that I had not even considered, crept into the back of my mind and reared its ugly head. What if my dear Lysander left me? There is no way that Lysander would have possibly left me! He loves me and very much so. For him to have up and left is simply impossible. I would only believe that he truly left me “... As soon this whole Earth may be bored, and that the moon may through the center …show more content…
Oh my dear was back! Yet, I couldn’t help but wonder why he left in the first place. His answer was that he hated me. That was not the tune he was singing a while ago! What has happened to my love? He is truly out of his mind, fawning over and protecting Helena of all people. We have Lysander who has gone crazy, and Helena who is behaving just as erratically as the next man. She even had the audacity to say that I was conspiring against her, which isn’t the case at all. She also dares to claim that I am insulting her, when in truth she is insulting me! Then everything went downhill from there. Demetrius and Lysander kept threatening to fight each other of all things, all the while Lysander is insulting me and calling me names. Instead of his lover, I am now a cat, a burr, a poison, and he only wishes me to leave him be! Meanwhile, Helena and I begun to quarrel as well. She jeers and taunts me until she makes a comment on my height. She can call me a puppet and call me a horrible person, but she can not make light of my height! I am not above gouging her eyeballs out, and that is the cold hard

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