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An empty suitcase full of memories
#WritcoStoryPrompt
Write a short story using at least three from the five prompts given:
An empty suitcase full of memories.
The messages added salt to wounds.
The car accelerated before the signal turned green.
A wardrobe full of clothes that still had their tags on.
A dust free bookcase could hide a lot of lies.

The wind blow with dust that night when James takes a two hour trip to the sea. The bus passes through the tall trees and drives between the beautiful green mountains. With the cool sound of music James was thinking of the blue waves of the sea rising and spreading flat above the still salt waters. Everytime the bus stop passengers had a chance to get out off the bus, take photos and catch fresh air of their journey.
His girlfriend was away on another trip to be with her parents in Johannesburg. James girlfriend, Lisa didn't know that James was on a trip. A sad story on a beautiful journey started. At the sea in Cape Town the team was given the rules when James from a distance saw someone who looks like Lisa but thinks is just the view of his eyes. But something pitch to his mind, what if is my lovely Lisa with her parents?
James picks the cellphone immediately after being adviced about the dangerous places around them and calls just to make sure if the person is not Lisa. When Lisa answered the call it became clear his view was correct. James run very fast to approach Lisa with happieness and thinking the trip is going to be a hit, greatest of all the times. Lisa was not aware James is at the sea when he calls and is coming to her.
She hang her hands around the shoulders of Tom, her unkown boyfriend and lift her feet from the ground. That part send to James a massage that the two are grazy in love. "The messages added salt to wounds". When Lisa looks up James was with them. "A dust free bookcase could hide a lot of lies" its so true. You know Lisa you look clean, but very dirty to me, said James. His body was trembling and breathing too high in anger, not believing his eyes.
When they part ways that day it was over between them and Lisa was feeling like "an empty suitcase full of memories". This was a terrible ending to such respected relationship, a sign that at any moment in life something can goes wrong when not expected.

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