• "come on marcus, we're going to be late!" Alice called. she and marcus had been waiting for weeks for this new movie to come out and they had dinner reservations to get too.
    " im here Alice" Marcus said comming down the stairs so quick that he almost fell. He reganed is composure and offered his arm to her like a gentleman, smileing alice took it, and both walked out of the house into the setting sun, on there way to the restraunt. They had been dateing for almost 5 years now, and they lived happy lifes, and felt as if nothing could go wrong, what could happen on such a perfect day?
    "were here" Marcus said snaping alic out of her thoughts. It was one of the best Italian restraunts in town...she was suprised..she knew he made reservations at a nice restraunt...but here?
    " marcus, are you sure you can afford this?" Alice said...she didnt want him to throw gis money away on her...she knew he could use it for more usful things.
    " dont worry darling, iv been saveing for this day for months now. its are day, price is not a problem" Marcus said with his charming smlie and leaned down to kiss her. When they broke away, both where smileing, they walked into the restraunt hand in hand. During dinner gossip was going around the restraunt, some talked more loudly than others, most of the time Marcus and Alice could just ignore it and continue on...but one piece of news caught there attion...there had been a prison break. They listened carfully...this was news that they had to hear.
    " what about the prison break out?"
    " one of the convicts there, convited for kidnaping and murder, broke out by bribing a prison garud!"
    " any word on where he will be going?"
    " none, but if i have to say anything about it, hes looking for hi next victam...i feel bad for any young girl out on her on...the mas a brute"
    " oh dear, lets go home soon then"
    both women that had been talking got up from their table and walked out of the restraunt to hurry home.
    " i hope that the catch him soon" Alice said
    " yeh, we will have to be carful when we head out to the movies" Marcus replyed moveing his cup to the side to allow the wator to set his plate down. The couple ate in silnce, word had been passed on about the break out in the restraunt...the now heavy atmospehere was almost unberable.
    Close to the end of there meal the wator brought out some extra bread and the recept, but there where two, one was set infront of her, the other infrom of marcus.
    she carful unfolded the paper, and taped to it was a dimond ring, and where the price would be was written " will you marry me?"
    Alice gasped a bit, and looked up at marcus, who said, with what seemed like reluctance
    "will you?"
    Alice nodded tearing up from the pure joy that he loved her enough to want to spend the rest of his life with her. He walked over to her and placed the ring on her finger and hugged her, they payed the wator and the tip, and left to go to the movie. they sat in the back of the theater, like they always did. they could see the screen better, hear better and no one was really there to block their view.
    The sound of screams caught there attion...and gun shots...The door to the theator busrt open and a enraged man with a gun came in. He looked around the theater, then spoted alice who was on the end seat....marcus was clinging onto her arm. The sounds of policeman comming made the man growl. He grabed Alice's arm and jerked her away from marcus.
    "Alice!" Marcus jerked to a stand, but the mand placed a gun to her head
    " come any closer boy and she gets her brains blasted out" he growled.
    The police had arrived...but stoped short.....what they had feared happened...a hostage situation. The man slowy backed out with alice still with the gun to her head, the police coldnt do anything with a civillian at risk.
    The convict went outside and saw a man getting out of a car keys in hand, he charged at the man kocking him over and takeing the keys. He tossed alice into the passanger seat before getting into the drivers side and takeing off.
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    Marus was stuned....he was powerless to help her...what was he going to do? he coldnt leave her to the mercy of this man. He ran out of the bulding in time to see the man drive off with alice...he ran at full speed desprate to catch up, desprate to get his love back.
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    Alice was pale....paler than any liveing human hould be....her hands where shakeing, and her voice seemed to have left her.
    " stop shakeing you pathetic female!!" the man barked.
    Alice tensed up...close to tears.....she had never neen so scardd in her life. Sirens sounded and she saw the fkashing lights...the police. The man drove faster....too fast.
    " y-y-your going to fast! w-well chrash!" Alice managed to stutter out.
    " SHUT UP" the man yelled point the gun to her once more
    " SHUT UP OR ILL SHOOT"
    that silnced her....she was clinging to her seat.
    CRASH
    the car went through the old wooden bridge...and crashed into the ground below...inchs from the water.the concivts body was limp...hes head hit the windo and knocked him out. Alice was laying limply in her seat...blood running down her head....no breath came from her body, no sound came from her still heart....marcus would never see her alive agin...the impack had broken her neck...where she couldnt bukle up in time.
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    Marcus was paceing back and forth at his house...when he got a call
    "marcus....its about alice"
    " is she alright! where is she!" marcus almost yelled into the phone
    " shes dead marcus...she died in the crash, the concivt died not to long later"..
    marcus didnt hear that part...the phone had fallen from his hand
    and he fallen to his knees crying....he one and only love....gone from his grasp.
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    weeks passed after Alice's funeral marcus showed no sing comming out of his depression, each day since they placed her in the ground, he visted her grave at the time she died and placed a single red rose on her grave, her favorit flower.
    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 year later . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
    two tombstones lay side by side. one a woman caught in a tragic death, a man whos death was casued from the deep sadness with in. both caught in the tragic web of Dillian's rose, bound together in life, as they are now in death, as a reminder of the roses power, a vine of roses are entwined around both tomb stones, and on each stone a red rose grows, forever blooming, and forever untoched by the elaments.