Poetic Justice

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Poetic Justice a short story written by Diana Appleyard published, in Days of Wine and Roses, Black Swan, London in 2004

It all started with a wild, loving and passion full life in high school, a wonderful boy with unexpected thoughts named Jed suddenly turns op at the Friends Unite Website, the place where you can find your classmate or your old high school boyfriend. Finding Jed reminds the narrator of the life she had with him and their little secrets in their bubble dream.
She becomes curious about the "perfect and unexpected life," she also could have had and therefore creates her contact with Jed by E mail; she realizes that she actually has the perfect life.

Jed Cunningham never looked back in his life; in high school he was the one who controlled fashion, he was the coolest of the cool, he wasn’t like the other boys, he smoked like Irish poet and didn’t wanted himself being seen as the popular and cool boy who he really is. “Jed who always stood outside the herd, the coolest of the cool with the fashions everyone else followed”. Jed is described by the narrator as a ”tall, thick black hair with a tuft at the front, blue eyes in pale skin, broad shouldered but so skinny, his mouth curved into a sardonic smile”.

After the break-up with the narrator he went to Ireland to live an unexpected life, he gave the narrator the opportunities of moving with him and living the unexpected life. The narrator feels her life passed by when she rejected Jed’s offer to move and live the “sweat life” with him. The narrator and Jeb began dating when they where seventeen years old, but got separated and the narrator went on with her life and so did Jed.
The narrator formed a family with two children two dogs and a cat, but still she feels like she is missing a part of her that makes her wild again just like Jed.
The narrator begins writhing to Jed and remakes contact with him, he tells her about his miserable, he got divorced with his wife because he drove his wife insane, and that’s why he lives alone with his dog Rouger. The narrator begins to realize that she do have a wonderful life, although she isn’t with Jed and his wild life.

” It was, in a way, an adult love affair among children – she wanted to marry him, he caught and held some¬thing in her which was so precious, so very individual. They complemented each other. They were two sides of the same coin. Eyes still closed, she saw them walking in the park behind the school – he’d be teasing her”. They had a relationship like children; making thought of getting married in only a age of seventeen, they were living in a little dream world, where everything could happen. The narrator and Jed had never made love to each other, they thought about it once, but the place was wrong for them, it wasn’t like he will be inviting her out to eat then rent a room and take her there, just like all the other relationship, they had this beaten-up car that his dad gave him, it made the love more passionate.

“She remembered tears, and anger, something being thrown. And him driving off saying she would never see or speak to him again. He was as true as his word – he disappeared from her life, leaving no ripple to say he had ever been”.The break up got serious, he meant every word he said, the narrator couldn’t remember why they broke up, and suddenly it hits her that he was in a age of eighteen and wanted to live the good life in Ireland and drink, party and never to expect what the life brings.