THE
ROOMMATES XE4A 1097300003
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Stephanie Lin
Written by students of E4a Stephanie Lin Instructor: Mr. Kenneth M. Smith Wenzao Ursuline College of Languages Kaohsiung, Taiwan June 2012
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Number of words = [1631] Words checked = [1480] Words in Oxford 3000™ = [93%]
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About the author
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P.5
Chapter 1
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Chapter 2
P.9-P.12
Chapter 3
P.13-P.17
Chapter 4
P.18-P.21
Chapter 5
P.22-P.25
Chapter 6
P.26-P.28
Chapter 7
P.29-P.31
Chapter 8
P.32-P.33
References
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Acknowledgement
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I
had
never
thought about
writing a novel by myself, and I am grateful for my Writing
English teacher
assign
task
giv ing me a chance to dev elop my potential for being a writer. The story is created based on my personnel experience. I hope those who
dislike
ev erything
of
their
roommates will feel better after finishing reading my book.
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“
I cannot believ e I am going to die in this way.” This idea
came upon Mary’s mind 3 hours ago while she was falling over the stairs. She is now lying on the floor, feeling painful and helpless. “How come no
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one heard the ‘bang’ I made, ev en
my horrifying screaming? Where are my roommates?” Mary keeps asking herself, “I know we did not get along well, and I am not looking forward to seeing
them;
but
aren’t
they
supposed to be home right now and finding me serious injury?” “It will be totally embarrassing if I pass away like this. My roommates are right, I am such a loser.” This idea frustrated Mary hardly.
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“Why are YOU doing this to me?� She cannot help to heckle God, and then she grabs her last gasp and passes out.
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G
av in,
the
detective,
walks in the room, seeing the ghastly crime feeling
scene, sincerely
sorry for Mary. His partner, Katherine, walks in after him and says, “Who would do this thing to a teenage girl? I mean, for what?� They started to search for the
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ev idences, further, they infer that Mary might come home earlier and unfortunately someone
running
breaking
in.
against Howev er,
there is no sign for break-in or robbery. When
the
detectives feel concern about hav ing
no
clues, suddenly, they find out
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there is a stain with banana peel on the stairs. Gav in immediately flashes on one possibility: He suggests that maybe
someone
in
the
dorm,
especially her roommate, murdered her. Katherine agrees with this idea, “Yeah, if she was not killed by robbers or some criminals, this case can be caused by other students.� “Okay, now let me take those ev idences to the crime lab first, and
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you
stay
here
looking
for
the
monitoring records and making the reports.� Gav in finishes his lines and rapidly leav es.
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B
lair is on her way to dormitory while she is noticing there are
an ambulance and some squad cars parking outside the dorm and numerous
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reporters
trying
to
interviewing the superintendent of dormitory. She feels curious, but she is
not
about
to
inquire
what
happened in that she is the kind of girl who tends to ignore anything but herself. She cuts across the crowd who jams the door, and walks away without looking back. Until she is at the doorway, she finds out her room has been sealed off. Her other roommates, Annie and Carrie, are stopped outside as well.
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“What is the matter? Why can’t
we get in our room? It’s not like someone is dead or…” Annie cut off on Blair’s lines, “Mary is dead.” “What? What are you saying? You are joking, right?” Blair grabs the officer nearby and says, “What happened inside? She is still aliv e and tries to make fun of us, right? WHY don’t you answer me?” Carrie comes up and says to her, “Blair, I know it sticks in your throat that Mary has passed on, but don’t
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blame yourself, it’s not your fault.”
“No, you don’t get it. I am not sorry for her, I mean, am I supposed to care about her? Yet how am I going to tell her family? Her mom asked me to take good care of her, but now……” “Excuse me. Are you Mary’s roommates?” They three nod their head in chorus when Katherine asks. “Yes. So how’s it going inside? When can us come back and take our staff?” Blair swiftly recovers herself,
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and becomes aggressiv e again.
“Well, I’m afraid that you cannot get into the room recently. This is a crime scene, and we need to sample the ev idences. And now, I want you three to come with me to make the reports.”
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“
So, how was your relationship, you and Mary?” Katherine talks
to Annie first. “Well, I don’t know. I mean, we rarely talked. Mary always got up early and came back late, and she usually preferred to study in the indiv idual-study room.” “Why didn’t she stay in the room? I though you are fairly intimate.”
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“No.” Annie laughs wryly, “Only three of us are close to each other. Mary had nev er got along with us, especially with Blair.” “Why did you say so?” “Eh… Blair is a nice person and she takes good care of us, but
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sometimes she is…aggressiv e, just like how she acted earlier. At the beginning of semester, Mary said something
offensive
to
her
by
chance, leading to Blair refusing to talk to her anymore.” “Except for Blair, did Mary have any enemies?” Katherine feels much more inquiringly. “Ev eryone, I guess. Like I said, Mary insulted people all the time, but she never meant to do it. Ev en I
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got pissed off once because she
embarrassed
me
on
public.
Someone like her just not fit in…” “You mean, she had no friend here?” Katherine seems to be v ery surprised. “Yeah… no one wanted to deal with her. She was a good girl, but she was just not belov ed. ” Speaking of this, Annie drops some tears, “Sorry. Am I done here?”
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K
atherine then brings Carrie into the room. “So, your roommate
Annie talked to me before, saying that Mary had no friend here. Can you tell me why?” “Well, to be honest, Mary and I went to a same course. And I can guarantee that if you were us, you wouldn’t like her, either. She was kind of a trouble to us. She studied
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really hard, I know, but she tented to annoy everyone, particularly the professor by asking some stupid questions.” Carrie impatiently turns up the whites of her eyes. “So, do you mean she was vexing
enough
for
someone to
murder her?” “Of
course
NOT!
You
were
young before… sorry, no offense.” “None taken.” said Katherine. “All I want to say is that most of
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us will not hurt anyone physically in
that we dislike that person. We are young but we are not naiv e.” “How about your roommate Blair? Are she mean or…?” Katherine appears to see Blair as the primary suspect.
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“No, Blair will nev er hurt Mary, no
matter how much she hates her. She had done some jokes to Mary, but nothing was worth to talk about.” “Had she ever put a banana peel
on
someone Katherine
the
floor
slipped pushes
leading and
ev en
to
fell?” harder;
nevertheless, Carrie refuses to say anymore.
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“
So what is going on now?” Blair complains restlessly.
“You are the key in this case. Can you tell me what were you doing during 7a.m. to the noon?” “You think I killed Mary?” Blair yells at Katherine irately. “You just need to answer my question.” “Fine. Today morning, I got up at 6 and walked to school
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with Carrie and Annie at 7. And I stayed at school with my classmates until 4.” Blair goes on, “I don’t get it. Why did you ask?” “People
told
me
that
you
extremely disliked Mary. It seems like a good excuse to kill someone to me.” “Are you kidding me? Why would I ruin my future for a loser?” Blair smiles sardonically, “Look, she might
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hav e
humiliated
me
for
dozens of time, yet it didn’t mean I
will hurt her or something. It’s so not worth it. Now, if you excuse me, I hav e something more important to do. Hav e a nice day.�
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“
I don’t know, Gav in. Three of them
hav e
motivations
to
murder Mary, but it seems to me none of them did it.” Katherine says to her partner. “Okay, let’s see the monitoring records I just got. Maybe we can find some hints.” They start to fast forward the videos. After
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2 hours watching,
Katherine “What
shouts
unexpectedly.
happened?”
shocked
by
her.
Gav in “We
is
forgot
something! Do you still remember our inference?”
Katherine
smiles
excitingly. “Yes, I do, of course. this case is absolutely not a break-in, so it must be a remov al or…” “You
see.
We
forgot
one
possibility: this case may be an accident.” “You are right. It totally makes
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sense now. Ev en so, I still feel sorry for
Mary. She had a hard time when she was aliv e, and she couldn’t even honorably leav e this world.” Gav in said regretfully. “I know exactly how you feel, but there’s nothing else we can do. Let’s go, we have to make a presentation to the boss now.”
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“
Dear friends. Today we are gathering
here together
for
Mary’s memorial ceremony. Most of us were not fairly friendly to her, yet she was still one of us. I hope she could rest in peace.” Blair says, and she cries in front of people for the first time. People then go on giv ing roses on Mary’s coffin. With the stunning
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sunset, the crowd departs gradually. Although the ceremony is small and brief, people will always remember that one of their classmates passed away at teens, and they will learn to seize the day no matter how hard it
would be.
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References of all the pictures: http://tw .image.search.yahoo.com/images
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ďƒź Mr. Smith: Thank you for giv ing this chance to write a nov el. I hav e spent a lot of time working on
this project
and I really
enjoyed it. ďƒź My roommates: Thank you guys for giv ing me such a great idea about this novel. You inspired me a lot, and I hope you all lov e it. Best wishes, Stephanie Lin
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“It will be totally embarrassing if I pass away like this. My roommates are right, I am such a loser.” This idea frustrated Mary hardly.
One day, a cleaner finds the dead body of Mary lying on the floor. The police detectives, Gavin and Katherine, start to investigate this affair. They believe that one of Mary’s roommates murdered her, and the investigation goes on…
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