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Melinda Sordino: A Short Story

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Imagine a fourteen year old girl starting fresh into high school without anyone to help guide her through it, and worst of all you have been keeping a secret from everybody else for far too long. Melinda Sordino is a freshman in high school who is going through many difficult situations in her life. She was raped by a senior named Andy Evans who is now dating Melinda’s ex-best friend Rachel. Due to certain situations and circumstances, Rachel ended the friendship between her and Melinda. Melinda never got the chance to explain, Rachel just left her in the dust and continued on with her life. Melinda was really hurting inside, and it only made it worse having to do it by herself. At one point Melinda had a “friend” named Heather who helped …show more content…

Unfortunately, he was the individual who raped Melinda at the summer party before her ninth grade year and it changed her forever. On page 136 it states, “The next thing I saw was a telephone. I stood in the middle of a drunken crowd and I called 911 because I needed help. All those visits from officer Friendly in second grade paid off. A lady answered my phone, ‘Police state your emergency’ and I saw a face in the window over the kitchen sink, and no words came out of my mouth. Who was that girl. I had never seen her before. Tears oozed down my face, over my bruised lip, pooling the handset.” This greatly affects her because Andy knew he was doing something wrong and he knew that she had said no. But he continued to harass her and overall cause all the main problems like her losing her friends. He caused her depression and months and months of torture just because he didn’t feel like doing the right thing, he just fell into his guilty pleasures. Melinda would have never had the problems she did if she had never met Andy Evans and if Andy would have had more common sense none of this would have never happened either. Evidently, Andy Evans deeply affected her internal and external factors and will continue to affect her life throughout the book until she gets the help and support she needed all

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