Ben and Dan were twins, born two minutes apart from one another. They were best friends and grew up doing everything together. They attended the same schools, played on the same sports teams, and were interested in the same things. During their high school career, they met a girl. Her name was Sara. She was beautiful, kind and intelligent. Something every guy looks for in a woman. From the start, the boys both liked Sara and as their friendships grew, so did their feelings. Sara and the boys were soon best friends and the boys each felt very strongly for her. The two were very competitive, especially with one another, always bickering over games and girls, especially Sara. But Sara thought of the boys only as good friends and nice guys to hang out with. Ben and Dan were always striving to be the faster and smarter one, which pushed them both to do well in school and excel in all other fields as well. After the three graduated high school, they each went on to the same prestigious university. It marked the next stage in their lives and moved them one step closer to a successful career. Their freshman, sophomore and junior years of college moved by very quickly and before they new it, it was their senior year. There was something different for the boys coming into the school year. They felt a nagging anxiety and more stress about moving out on their own into the real world.
A few weeks into the school year, Dan and Sara began dating. This tore Ben apart; he could not believe that his own brother would do something so cruel. After all that Ben and Dan had been through together, Ben felt betrayed and was very hurt. He could no longer deal with his emotions and confronted Dan about it, and he confessed that he wanted to be with Sara and could not be happy without her. Dan was furious that Ben could not be happy for him and Sara’s relationship and refused to let her go. The two brothers grew further and further apart and eventually hated each other. Ben began to stalk his brother and Sara, and jealousy raged within him as Sara and Dan got closer to one another. Eventually it became so bad that Sara and Dan got a restraining order against Ben. Ben slipped into a deep depression and began to drink excessively; he stopped caring about everything that was once so important to him. His grades dropped and he was soon failing all his classes, eventually he just stopped going. He developed an infatuation with Dan and Sara. Soon afterwards, Dan and Sara announced that they would be getting married in the spring. Spring came around and the couple was happily married. This set Ben over the edge.
After a night of heavy drinking and deep thought, Ben decided that he would kill Dan in order to be with Sara and his problems would then be solved. He schemed to murder Dan and then come to Sara’s side while she was vulnerable after the death of her husband. Ben began to plan the murder. He knew that Sara was gone until about
It was a cold and dark night when Ben set out to murder his own brother. Sara was gone for the evening with class work so everything was going as planned. He snuck into the house and avoided making a noise. It was in the office that he found Dan studying. Ben lingered close with his knife drawn and slit his own brothers’ throat from ear to ear. Blood pooled beneath the corps of his dying brother. Crazed with excitement, Ben did not here the door creek open when Sara arrived home for the evening, earlier than usual. Sara looked in disbelief. She was shocked, outraged and heartbroken by the sight. She shrieked in anger and Ben turned. Sara quickly drew the pistol that she kept in her purse and shot Ben several times in the face. Sara’s knees buckled in pain after she realized that Dan was really dead and that this was happening to her. Crawling to her husband’s bloody corps to lay near him, she whispered. Her pain was unimaginable, after a moment of praying and hysterical crying for her lover, she picked up the .45 HK USP compact pistol, swallowed the barrel…BANG! Her body went limp and there she lay dead near her loving husband.
The neighbors heard the all of the commotion and rushed to the house only to find a bloody mess of mangled bodies. The police arrived and investigated the scene. The bodies were taken to the nearby morgue. Later Dan and Sara were buried right next to one another with an array of flowers in a beautiful field. Amazing grace played on the bagpipes at their burial. Everything seemed so peaceful, almost euphoric. Their tombstone read, “Here lay Dan and Sara, devoted husband and loving wife. May they Rest in Peace.” It is there where the lovers laid together for the rest of eternity.
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