13 - "You are free"

"Patrick Norton, one of the members of one the most powerful families in the world, was found almost dead in jail last night." "Apparently, the victim was burnt alive while he was having a shower." "According to the police, there are no witnesses of the attack." "Currently, Patrick Norton is hospitalized but doctors claim that although he is out of danger he will never have a normal life." Oscar could not believe what he was whatching. The news appeared in the front page of every newspaper and in every television channel. In that moment, when Oscar could not help to keep his eyes on the television, his mind was full of questions. As the the news broadcasts were giving more information, several questions appeared in Oscar's mind. However, the wierdst thing was that all those questions seemed to lead to a single name: William. Suddenly, someone knocked on the door the same way as he did the first time.

The next morning was strange in jail. Every prisoner heard how the prison officers started shouting when they found Patrick's burnt body in the showers. And everyone was surprised when a helicopter came to prison to take Patrick to the nearest hospital. Everyone but William; a William still dressed up as Malick. Everything that was neccessary was going to be made to safe Patrick's life. Everything that was neccessary to safe Alexander Norton son's life. But William knew that show was not neccessary. He knew Patrick was not going to die. If William had wanted Patrick to die, he would had been dead for hours. But not in this case. Suddenly the image of Patrick being burnt away appeared in his mind. But, in that moment, he did not remeber it as memory that made him feel happy. In that moment, that memory horrified him. He felt it was something that should not belong to his head. It felt like if someone had cut that memory out from a cruel and heartless person and it would have been posted in his head. He felt devastated and disgusted. Was regret what he was feeling? Before he could answer to that question, he heard: "Malick, your sentence is over. You are free." He felt good while he was going out of prison. That was what everyone should feel when they were walking the same way as William. Even the feeling of the sunlight in the skin seemed to feel different outside than it did inside. He was free. But deep down, he knew he only was physically free. Nobody would be able to release him from the actions he made inside jail. Nobody would be able to release his mind from those terrible memories. Those memories will remain in his mind and dreams forever. When William was far enough from prison, he took off the wig and through it into the rubbish. Then he desired to take off and through his memories away as easy as he did with the wig. But it was impossible. It was strange that when he was free, he felt like a prisoner condemned to drag his memories as heavy chains for the rest of his life. In that moment, he started walking to the only place he could go to. He walked towards the only place he was welcomed. He went to the only place William was still alive. When he arrived to that strange and monotonous neighborhood and made sure he was in front of the right door, he knocked on it the same way as he did the first time.

12 - The first name to cross out

In a grey and rainy day, Patrick was at the showers, trying to take off  his worries with water. It was late at night and there was an strange silence in prision. Nothing good comes with silence. The enviroment was dark and wet at the showers. This place was made of grey tiles which seemed rather black in the darkness of night. Every shower was separeted from the other by a litlle wall that only covered the private body parts. Over the showers there was a row of little windows through which the moonlight entered lighting just a little part of the room. Suddenly, Malick appeared behind him at the wall some metres away from the showers.
"You scared the hell out of me, son of a bitch!" said Patrick while he was trying to breath normally.
"I didn't mean to" said Malick. His pitch was different. Patrick could feel Malick was in a strange mood. Under the moonlight his face looked different. It seemed Patrcik was talking to a different Malick and that worried him.
"What the fuck you want?" ask an impatient Patrick.
"Why you entered in prision?" ask Malick with the same wierd and low pitch.
"Are you crazy? You perfectly know why I am here. Someone charged on me drug trafficking. What the hell is wrong with you? What is this all about?" Malick could feel how Patrick was getting more and more nervous. He knew Patrick was nervous when his mouth turned into a curse-words dispenser.
Suddenly, the tap of the shower turned off and stopped draining water. Patrick felt how his heart started beating harder than ever. He experienced within his soul that horrible feeling. That horrible feeling it is felt when the situation is not under control. It fills you in of fear. It paralyse every muscle. Therefore, that fear grows as it is obvious somenthing hideous is going to happen and the body is totally paralysed. That horrible feeling can make the most brave man in the world be terrified. In that moment, Malick talked again.
 "No... You entered prision because you and a group of men went to a mansion, entered in it and violently killed two people"
 In that exact second the tap of the shower turned on and after a few seconds it turned off again. Suddenly, Patrick percieved a strong smell.  What the shower drained it was not water, it was petrol. He was so shocked and nervous he could not move a single muscle.
"But you know what, Patrick? You should've killed... three"
Before Patrick could even react, Malick lighted a match, looked at Patrick's terrified face again and threw it to the showers. A huge flame that lighted the whole place appeared from the wet floor. The blue and heavenly moonlight turned into the hellish light of fire. Patrick burnt. He was surrounded by flames. His deafening screams could had been heard miles away. But Malick knew nobody was going to hear them. All that Patrick could see was a hurtful orange light. All that he could feel was the fire burning every metre of his skin. Suddenly, the tap turned on and the shower drained enough water to extinguish the fire that surrounded Patrick. He burnt just for a few second, but it seemed an eternity.
While an steaming Patrick was on the floor, sobbing like a hurt dog, Malick walked towards and hung besides him. When he made sure Patrick was looking at him, Malick got rid of his red hair. He took off what it seemed to be a wig. Suddenly, a ghost from the past appeared right in front of Patrick. A ghost that should no be in the world of the living. A ghost Patrick made sure to make dissapear time ago. His shocked face was obvious even when it was unrecognisable. He could not believe what he saw. It was impossible.
"Yes, Patrick. It's me, William. And yes, I'm alive. And as I suppose you know, because I cannot even imagine in how much pain you are right now, so are you. I want you to know that I decided to let you keep your weaked life for two reasons. The first reason is that I want you to feel for the rest of your life what my parents felt when you burnt them. Letting you die would haven been a gift you don't deserve. The second reason is that I want you to send a message to those people you call 'family'. I want them to witness the extent of my mercy by witnessing your deformed body. I want them to feel a constant terror cause they will never be secure. And I want them all to know I'll soon destroy all of them. I will make all their lifes so miserable they will end up praying to die. And you, Patrick, will be a silent witness of my revenge."
Willam stood up and started walking leaving behind him a dying Patrick laid on the floor. While he was going back to his cell he remembered that terrible night when his life drastically changed. Just like in his nightmares, the images of his parents came back. A couple of tears went down William's face. But, it was different. He felt a different feeling. He felt relieved. He was closer to achieve his purpose. Pretty soon all those miserable people would suffer the same fate as Patrick.

11 - The greater, the weaker

There he was. A glorious king sat on his throne made of bones and dead bodies. And Malick was right by his side. He was sat on God's right side. That was how Patrick was feeling. He was empowered. He achieved his goal to became a king within jail. He was earning great amounts of money. A money that went out of jail thanks to one of the Sin City's protitutes. Then it ended up in Julius hands who gave a part of that money to his brother, Alexander. That way they were making millions ruining people's life. But that is what they seemed to be best at. They were experts on taking benefit from people's suffering. Unfortunately, people who make those horrible and disgusting actions always recieve their punishment. And if they do not recieve in the other life, they will recieve in this one. If God do not judge them, someone else will do it and the last might not be as benevolent as the former.
The great empire Patrcik built up within jail was perfect. He made sure to have everything under control and do not fail with the merchandise, material or human. However, when a big empire is built, it is easier to destroy. When the target is bigger there are higher possibilities to hit the bulls-eye. An empire takes a long time to be built up, but just a minute to be destroyed. It starts with the dissapereance of a bit of drug, a prostitute who transmits a venereal disease, drug which is not good enough and the empire that cost so much effort to built is over. Out of jail these mistakes might have been describe as "things that might happen" or "unfortunate consequences". But within jail, these "unfortunate consequences" can kill you. The increasingly unstable enviroment could be felt within jail. Everyone started to get mad and becoming angry including Patrick's closest prisoners. He saw how his empire was going down in front of his eyes. Everything started to fail and he did not even knew why and how. Suddenly, Patrick turned into a strange man. He became suspicious and paranoid. He feared he was the victim of a plot. The only person he trusted was Malick. He was the only who stayed by his side when everyone was gone.

10 - A loyalty proof

There was a weird feeling in prison. Everyone knew what was about to happen and everyone should take a side. Along those days, Malick and Patrick started to get closer. Little by little they started trusting in each other. But Patrick was not a kind of person that trusted in people very easily. His father taught him that. He needed something more. A loyalty proof. Patrick knew how many prisoners were on his side, but he did not know if Malick was one of them. The present king of drug bussiness in prison was a fifty-year old man that was known as The Executive. The reason why he was known by that nickname is not the obvious one. He was not exactly an executive. Prior to his entrance in prision he was a hired assassin. And when he murdered somebody he used to cut the troat and stick the tongue out so it looked like a tie. Therefore, Patrick was confronting a really dangerous man. Someone that was not afraid of anything. Someone who had a cool mind. But Patrick also had those qualities, he thought. He had showed them before. It was a rainy evening, and everything was weirdest than it used to be. Everyone was specially nervous and Patrick felt it. He was with Malick in their prison cell when, suddenly, The Executive and two of his prisoners entered in the prison cell. They closed the cell's door and offered a game to Patrick in order to show who deserved to be the king and who deserved to be the fool. The Executive took a weapon out of his trousers and explained the game to Patrick. They were going to play the Russian roulette, The Executive said. Everybody knew what that game was about. And so did Patrick. His expression showed a deep terror. Malick was shocked. That man always seemed very brave and self-confident. But aim yourself and aim somebody else were different things. For Patrick pulling the trigger to kill someone was easy, but the possibility of dying was something Patrick was not used to. But if he wanted to control the bussiness in prision he had to do it. He accepted the game. And suddenly, when Patrick was about to seat on the chair to confront his uncertain fate, Malick said something that shocked everyone in the prison cell. He wanted to play the game instead of Patrick. The Executive accepted it. Therefore, both of them seated on the chairs with a table and a weapon in the middle of both. The Executive took the weapon, put a bullet in the chamber and spun it. He started and aimed himself with the weapon. A click and nothing. Empty. It was Malick's turn. His heart was beating so hard he could hear it beating inside his ear. He pulled the trigger. The click sound like heavenly music to his ears. Empty. The Executive grabbed the weapon and Malick noticed it was more difficult to him to pull the trigger. But finally The Executive did it. Click. Empty. Malick wanted to cry of terror. He knew he was going to die. He aimed himself with the weapon, closed his eyes and heard a shot. But he was not the one that shot. Whe he opened his eyes he saw The Executive's prisioners dead on the floor and Patrick aiming The Executive with a gun. Malick could not believe what was happening. He was alive and Patrick won the game.

The next morning, The Executive was found dead in his prision cell with his neck cut and his tongue out, like a tie. Therefore, Patrick became the king of prison and Malick his loyal friend.

9 - A bird caged in a mansion

As Patrick was walking into prison, he enjoyed his last seconds as a free person. He would know how a caged bird feel. Cryings that we tend to turn into music. But his music would not be heard by anybody. It is like you start to live another life. You get off of everything to enter in completely different world. A world is not made for everybody. A world that in many cases destroys you. But there is nothing worse than hope. You always hope to go out of that place that is made to torment you. It is like a bird that sings to escape from his cage hoping that one day someone will open the cage's door. At least, Patrick's father made sure that his cage was as nice as possible. He bought off everyone who was necessary to send Patrick to one of the best prisons of the world. A prison for lucky people. A prison to feel safe. But nobody is enough lucky to be comfortable in prison. He shared his prison cell with another boy. He was really young, Patrcik thought. He was a fit boy and his red hair was so intense that it seemed he had a wig on. His name was Malick and he was there because he stole a car. Malick asked Patrick why he was there and he answered that someone charged on him drug and human trafficking. They spent the whole day talking about each other's lives. Malick said that he lived in the poor side of the city and that his family was really poor. Malick used to steal cars and then he sold them in order to make money. He did not knew to do anything else. He grow up stealing to survive and that was what he was good at. On his behalf, Patrick told Malick his different life. But he did not told everything about his family bussinesses. Patrick also told Malick what his plann was. He was going to become the new drug king into prison. He planned to take drug from the street into prison in conyugal visits he would made with a prostitute from Sin City's club. But to be better than the present king you have to offer something else. And that is what Patrick did. Apart from drugs he also offered conyugal visits to prisoners with prostitutes from Sin City's club. His brother would be in charge of making whatever was necessary outside of  prison. There was just one problem. The present king would not easily stood up from his throne to let Patrick seat on it. But Patrick was ready to do anything to be the new king and be last one standing in the war that was about to start.

8 - Turning point

It was really satisfactory to see their faces and how they felt insecure. They thought the happy life they were living was going to last forever. They thought they could live in their little paradise of money and corruption forever. But they were completely wrong. That was what William was thinking while he saw from one side of Patrick's parent's mansion the police arresting Patrick . He saw how the car took Patrick to jail, where he would spend the rest of his life. William and Oscar made sure of that. They anonymosly charge on Patrick drug and human trafficking, enough crimes that will make him change his happy life for a more monotonous one. But, he would not be the only one. Little by little they will send to jail every member of William's family. But, in that moment, William felt very happy he was achieving his goal. It was the first time he felt happy in a really long time. But there was that strange feeling again. William did not knew exactly what it was. But he felt guilty. Maybe his mind was not ready yet. Oscar told him that a revenge like that would need a cool mind and a cool heart, but maybe his heart and mind were not ready. During the six months he spent training his body and mind, he made himself many questions. He ask himself if that revenge was consuming his soul. He ask himself if revenge was all that mattered and if he should leave everything else behind. He tried to avoid those thoughts and concentrate in that fact that his revenge was working. When he arrieved to Oscar's house he told him their plann worked. Patrick was on his way to jail and there was no way he could escape from his awful fate. But, Oscar did not seem to be quite satisfied. He asked William to sit down. William was scared. Maybe his family discovered them. Maybe someone saw him in the graveyard or at Henry's mansion while the police arrested Patrick. His heart started beating so fast that he thought his chest was going to explode. But, suddenly, it stopped when Oscar said what he just discovered. Oscar hacked William's house security cameras and watched that Patrick was one of the men that entered in his house that horrible night in which William's life was destroyed. In that moment, Oscar saw something in William's expression that he never saw before. William was furious. He was full of anger and fire. The memories of that night started to appear. Those memories that only appeared everynight in his nightmares. But William was not sleeping. He remembered his father surrounded by fire and his mother's deafening screams of pain. It was like if he could still listening to her. His eyes became lakes of sandness and hate. Suddenly, William stood up and went to his bedroom.

The next morning, Oscar could not find William anywhere in the house. He disappeared. But, suddenly, when he went to the dark living room, he noticed that the  cupboard where he had all the documents that contained everything someone would like to know was opened, and all the files and documents were spread all over the floor.

7 - Flashblack

A minute becomes an eternity when you are waiting for something. And six months was a very long eternity. William was not exactly an anxious boy, but he could not wait any longer to see the ones who destroyed his world suffer. Anger keeps you going on. When you think about leaving your purpose, there it is that burning fire that keeps you strong and motivated. "Why is not the sweetness of hapiness the petrol that keeps our heart beating? Why is not the warm of love the thing that keeps us alive? Did I forget those feelings? And if so, could I get them back?". Uncountable questions run around Willam's head. But it was part of the training. Someone who takes a revenge do not have feelings. The inner self must become ice. An unbreakble ice no warm feeling could thaw. Sympathy nor humanity are allowed in revenge. This is something William had to learn. But it is not an easy job to take off feelings from the soul. It is like slowly ripping your heart, take off all the skin and then put it inside again. Therefore, everytime the heart beats it stings.

Meanwhile, Oscar recovered all the information he could. Fortunately, he had all the passwords to enter into the confidential files and documents of the family. He kept all of them when he was Henry' partner. In those times, everything was written down in paper. The Internet, what an invention. Nothing better than the Internet to have all your dirty secrets hidden. That was what they probably thought. But know, all their dirty secrets were Oscar's property. It seemed that, after Henry´s death they distributed the empire between all of them. Alexander became the head of it and of course, left the second position to Julius. Alexander was perfectly capable of running the bussinesses, Oscar thought. Julius was too impulsive and type of person who do not take consecuencies into consideration. But, on the other hand, Alexander had a perfect cool head, just the one someone needs to turn Henry's empire into the world of corruption. While he was in the glamorous throne, his twins Erick and Patrick and Julius were on the grounds, gathering the money that came from drugs, prostitution and extorsions. But Oscar needed to know what role each member of the family of them had. Therefore, he spent a month following all of them to every place they would go. And, surprisingly, he did not last too much time to achieve his goal. Apparently, Julius and the twins had a night club called "Sin City". Not too original, thought Oscar because that was where the magic took place. Many grils were brought to the night club in lorries,transported as merchandise . And the woman who took care of them was Caterina. She was in charge of deciding whoever of these girls were worthy of working there as prostitutes or not. In addition, they bought the mafia that controlled the human and drug trafficking. And last but not least, María. She was a women fully integrated in the upper class society. She planned different events in order to gather money for humanitarian organizations. At least, that was everybody beleived. Actually, all that money went to the same place. It did not matter if it was from prostitution or from people's charity. That money was full of dirt. So, this is how they build this whole complex of corruption and greed. But this would not last for long, thought Oscar. He told everything he discovered to William and both of them decided what their first step would be. And they agreed to start from the bottom. Therefore, their first victim would be Patrick.

6 - The First Blow

A voice. A deep voice in the darkness. And then a bright light. A dazzle light. William woke up the morning after the funeral but he did not woke up by himself. An old man was shouting at him and asking what he was doing there. Suddenly, William noticed that man was the security guard of the cementery. The same man who saw him in his grandfather's funeral. A flash went through his mind and he jump from the grass and started runnig while the security guard kept shouting. But William did not even heard what he was shouting. His ears were full of the sound of his heart beating. He could not believe how stupid he was. The images of him being discovered by his family started to appear in his mind. He tried so hard to make those images disappear. But it was impossible. And inevitably, after the images came many questions: What if the security guard recognised him? What if he was recognised? What if his family discover his plann? What was going to tell Oscar now? He could not stay in that area for a long time. He was in danger every single second he would stay there. So, he came back to Oscar's house. Obviously, Oscar was angry. When William told Oscar where he was, Oscar could not believe it. The angry turned into dissapointment. He thought that kid was smarter. But he was still a kid. He used to forget it. He never met a boy with such aspirations. With that need of revenge. Oscar told William he was going to help him, but under his conditions. If William wanted his help, he had to avoid that irresponsable behaviour. William agreed. Not everyone is ready to go through the difficult path of revenge, Oscar said. William needed to be ready physically and mentally. Especially mentally. A revenge is somenthing that tires the mind. And in most of the cases, it destroys the mind. That is why William needed a though mind to achieve his revenge. The Norton family was just a typical family. They were used to solve every single problem they would have. They had enough resources for that. So, their goal was not going to be easily achieved. And that is another feature someone that wants to revenge need to have: patient. Every successful revenge takes time. And the one Oscar had in mind, was going to take a lot of time. They say that the more time you spent thinking in your revenge, the more hurtful it is. Oscar advised William that he trained meanwhile he searched for enough information to start their revenge.
It was a calm night, just like a typical summer night. The calm before the storm. Someone rang on Alexander's mansion. Maria opened the door and, suddenly, the police entered and arrested Patrick. The police accused him of  illegal bussiness. Just when the police left with an arrested Patrick on the back seat, all of them recieved a text message: "I know what you did and I will make you pay for it. There is no place where you can hide. I will find you wherever you are. There is no place where you can feel safe and sound. I will always be watching you. And I will not stop until you all feel the fire of hell.". The game just started.

5 - What Nobody Can See

Oscar was surprised. He never thought such a young man could have so much anger. But he knew there was a terrible sadness behind that anger. That boy just lost his parents and his house. In forty eight hours his lived changed dramatically. And there is nothing but anger to keep yourself going. Oscar knew it perfectly well. So, Oscar wanted a reason and there he had it. A perfect reason to help him, William said. He prayed for Oscar to accept. Oscar had enough resources to help him and was intelligent enough to ruin his family's lifes. That man was his only chance to achieve his goal. Finally, Oscar accepted. But he set up his own conditions. Although he did not said it aloud, William was exultant. He was really looking forward to see the ones who destroyed his life suffer. However, everytime he thought about it, he scared. He would have never imagined he could think such horrible things. But he did. Suddenly, Oscar stood up and caught a laptop that was inside a drawer and started looking for something they could use. William took a closer look to Oscar's house. He saw a locked cupboard. Through the glass he could see lots of files and documents. They had to be worthy if they were locked into a cupboard. But, suddenly, William saw a newspaper with a shocking new on the front page. His parents funeral was going to take place that evening. But not only his parents funeral but his own. He did not remenbered everyone thought he was dead. But forgeting about his parents funeral was too hurtful. He totally forgot about that. It was the first time he experienced how revenge and anger could make him forget about what really mattered. Unfortunately, it was not going to be the last time. When Oscar turned around to talk to William nobody was there and the door was opened. The whole family was in the cementery. At least, they tried very hard to seem sad. It seemed false even from William was. He was seeing the show from a hill up the cementery. He did not care about being discovered by his family. He had to go. Not too many people could say they saw their own funeral. Once everyone was gone, he went down the hill, right to the place where his parents and him supposedly rested. Even though those gravestones were unworthy for him, he was tearing up. He could not forget his mother's screams, the image of his father surrounded by flames. And, suddenly, the sorrow started to become anger. He hit the grass and swear he would make them suffer until they begged to die. He lied beside his parents gravestone and before he even noticed, he felt asleep.

Compulsory Writing: Smartphones - Only advantages?

Smartphones are not as good as we think they are. Everyone thinks smartphones and technology in general, make our life easiest but they present plenty of disadvantages people do not usually consider. Even though everyone looks forward to have a smartphone, they are not always as useful as we think they are.

Smartphones could be considered as one of the greatest inventions in history. They allow as to communicate with people all over the world just pushing some buttons. Moreover, current technology developments have allow us to have a security system in our mobile phones or even to control the blinds of our houses or the TV.

Nevertheless, smartphones are not as useful as we think. The problem starts when we rely too many things on technology. New generations know perfectly how to use a mobile phone. On the contrary, they are completely lost when they try to send a letter because they have never done it. Therefore, if there is a break on the Internet or on the global telecommunications nobody is going to be able to communicate with people just because they do not know any other way to do it.

Overall, smarphones can improve many aspects of our daily life, but relying too many thing on them could be dangerous. From my perspective, we should be able to resolve our problems by ourselves and do not trust too much in some devices that do not last forever.

4 - Reason

It was dark, very dark inside Oscar's house. He never saw such a strange house like that. The walls seemed like they were covered with coal. He hardly distinguished if the walls were painted in black or they were just full of dirt. Another thing that shocked him was that the walls were empty. Not a single painting, not a single photo, not a single portrait. Nothing. He remenbered his house was full of photographs of him and his parents. And also of his grandfather. But there were no photos now. Everything of his past was ash. He should be part of that ash. At least that was what Oscar told Willam when he entered in his house. William told Oscar everything, although he did not tell the details. Some details like he was the heir of Henry's fortune. William was not so sure if what he saw in Oscar's eyes was astonishment, but Oscar did not certainly expected something like that. Oscar knew what that family was capable of. He himself suffered the consecuencies of confronting them. But he did not expected such an outrageous crime. He was surprised. After everything he saw during his life, he still was shocked with how money corrupted the human mind. Oscar did not knew why William went to his house, at the other part of the city. But Oscar had always been an intelligent man and he could supposed what the reason was. He prayed to be wrong. On his behalf, William was not sure if that strange man could help him. What a twenty two year old boy and an almost sixty year old man were going to do  against such poweful family? But he had no option. He had to tell Oscar everything he needed and pray for him to accept. But before William could say anything, Oscar denied. He suffered enough pain years before and he was not willing to give up his peaceful life. It was so hard to build up the life he had now. But William did not saw that in his eyes. He always had a gift to see through someone's eyes and percieved what that person was feeling. Sometimes it was difficult, as with uncle Alexander, but sometimes it was really easy, as with Oscar. William's eyes seemed to have X-ray and he could see Oscar's soul perfectly well. So, William was clever enough to suppose that such a brilliant and excepcional mind could not resist such tedious life. But not only entertaiment moves a person to confront one of the most powerful families in the world. He knew the anger Oscar felt for his family was something he could also take a profit from. Oscar was surprised of how intelligent that kid was. A characteristic obviously inherited from his grandfather. Even though he did not say it aloud, he recognised that kid was right. But he was still sceptical. He did not knew if he wanted to get into that war. But he also saw that as an opportunity for revenge. That revenge he awaited for years. And he knew that was a wickness. He learned years before that deep feelings should be hiden in order to not to show your wicknesses to your enemies. And he thought it was not going to be so easy for William to take advantage of his anger. Maybe William was clever, but not as clever as he was. Oscar directly asked William to tell him a real reason that convinced him. And William did it.

"I want to snatch everything they have. I want them to be as defenseless as I have been. I want them to feel the fire of hell. I want to blow up their world. And when I finish the only valuable object they will have, it will be the tears on their eyes."

Compulsory Writing: Only Children

Only children are different from children who have siblings. The fact that they do not have brothers or sisters makes them develop a different personality. Furthermore, this situation leads them to have problems to socialise. Only children are more prone to isolate themselves from other people since this affects the way they are raised.

The developing of their personality starts at home. This is the place where they spent the most of their time. They play, eat, talk and watch TV in their houses. But they do all that by themselves, since they do not have someone to share their experiencies with. In adittion, they only communicate with their parents in an envorment they feel safe and confident and where they know they are not going to be judged. The problem starts when they get used to that and then they have to communicate with unknown people.

Socially, only children have more problems than children who have siblings. When the time to make friends comes to their lifes, they do not feel confident anymore. They go out of their comfort zone and that makes them feel defenseless. Furthermore, they feel judged by people they do not know. That is what makes them want to be alone. They feel more comfortable when they have nobody around because that is what they are used to. So, they think they would rather be alone than being judged and rejected.

All those situations could make them develop a different personality. They can became possesive over things since they have not shared anything in their lifes. Everything they recieve is for them and for nobody else because they have none to share their things with. Moreover, they recieve their parents whole attetion which could leads them to became arrogants or even narcisists. Giving an excessive attetion to them could make them feel they are the only ones who deserves attention.

Overall, only childs usually have more problems to socialise with other people. Being raised with no siblings makes their personality different. They usually end up with personality problems as they could became arrogant. Having nobody to share their experiencies with makes only children more prone to isolate themselves. That is why many people recommend to have more than one child in order to make their social life better.

3 - Reinforcements

The next day, the newspapers said that "a terrible accident" killed Thomas, Angelica and William Norton last night. Everyone believed he was dead. His family thought he became ashes just like his parents did last night. They thought their plann was succesful. But they were completly wrong. He was still alive and full of anger. But that anger did not cover the fact that he was alone. He had no idea what to do. He had no place to live in. That was what he thought while he was sitting on a park bench near his house. He had a strange feeling. It was like if he could still feel the fire on his cheeks, the smell of smoke, the heat all around him. Those feelings would follow him for the rest of his life. He was condemned. But thinking about how he will take revenge of those who condemned him was something that calmed him down. That was what he needed to focus on. But, what could he do? He had no resources. He could not take the money he inherited because he was dead, and those who are dead do not need money. And he also could not let everyone knows he survived. That was an advantage he could not get rid off. Even though he did not like the idea, he needed someone who helped him. Many faces appeared in his mind but, who could he trust in? Everyone who dicovered he was alive would tell it to his family. He needed to find someone that would hate his family as much as he did. Someone who would be brave enough to face one of the most powerful families in the world. Only one face appeared in his mind: Oscar Wodrow. William heard many stories about him. He knew Oscar was a family old friend that helped his grandfather to build his empire. But his uncles charge some illegal business on Oscar. Although it was never demostrated, his grandfather could not allow those types of suspicions and fired him. William heard he moved to the other side of the city, but that was a long time ago. He did not even know if he still lived there. But he had nothing to lose. He avoided the crowded places and went around the city since he could not risk to be discovered. When he arrived, he found a very charasteristic neighbourhood. It was no the type of neighbourhood he was used to. Every house had the same structure of the one beside. He thought that the architect that design that neighbourhood was not very creative. He risk to ask an old lady if she knew Oscar. It did not matter because no one was going to recognise him in that part of the city anyway. Apparently, everyone in that neighbourhood knew Oscar and his story. The old lady told William the house Oscar lived in. There was no difference with the other houses except for a sign saying: KEEP OUT. Apparently, Oscar was not a very welcoming host. William knocked on the door twice and a deep voice said exactly what the sign said: KEEP OUT. William insisted and asked him to open the door. He could feel how the voice insde the house was becoming more furious and furious. Although William did not want to, he had to do it. He finally said: "I am William Norton". The door was opened.

Compulsory Writing: Gender Violence (introduction and conclusion)

Gender violence is still a major issue of our society. Nowdays, many women are killed just because they felt in love with the wrong person. Many of them do not feel they are mistreated women until they experience an extreme situation of violence. In fact, an eighty percent do not informe against their couples because they think they are going to be seen as submissive and ingenuous women by society. Nowdays, in our supposedly modern society, too many women suffer from gender violence just because they are still considered the fairer sex.


It is heartbreaking to see the hard situations a woman still has to experience just because she made a bad choice. They are so in love that they consider those situations as normal. Our society has evolve enough to erradicate gender violence and the consideration that women are the fairer sex. That is why everyone should take bear in mind that today is an unknown woman who suffers gender violence, but tomorrow it could be our mother, our sister or maybe our daughter.

2 - Burnt Memories

William Norton, a twenty two year old boy, became the richest man in the world. It was strange that was the first thing he thought. He never was a materialistic boy. He never cared about how rich they were. Contrary to his entire family. But his parents realised the real danger. They knew that, by the moment his son´s name was pronunced, he became the target of the entire family. And Angelica knew what her family was capable of. So they did not even waste a second and ,when they arrived home, they started to pack their bags as quickly as possible. They had to go as far as possible and hide in some place so they could not be found. But that was almost impossible. They were one the most important families in the world. There were almost no place where their family could not find them. They knew people all around the world. Just with a call, their family could find. kidnap, and kill them in a few hours. But they at least had to give it a try. They had to do it for William. So, as soon as they had packed their bags, they would have taken a plane to go as far from their family as possible. Unfortunately, they did not even have time for that. Suddenly, they hearded an explosion in the front garden and a group of men in black entered in their house. They started to throw Molotov cocktails through the windows. Before they even noticed, William and his parents were surrounded by fire. Angelica took his son upstairs. William turned his head to look for his father and, suddenly, a Molotov concktail entered through the window that was in front of Thomas. The last thing he saw, was the image of his father surrounded by flames. But he did not have time to think his father was dead. He and his mother had to escape. Angelica knew there was a secret passage in the bathroom which led to the street, outside the gardens of the house, through the sewage system. It was a very old and big house and her father always said there were lots of secret passages all over the house. She wished to know all of them in that moment. As soon as she opened the door of the bathroom. they heard a deafening noise. The front door fell and the men in black entered in the house. She and William did not have much time. She opened the secret passage and William entered first. He barely could move because it was really straight in there. When he stopped and turned his head back to wait for his mother, the door of the bathroom opened and lots of men caught his mother. He wanted to go back. He wanted to go back more than anything, but he could not have done anything. He carried on with his eyes full of tears, hearing his mother screaming. He end up in the street in front of his house. The house where he spent his happiest years. That house that was burnt now. He knew who was the people responsible for that. In that moment, with the flame´s reflection in his eyes, he swore revenge.

Compulsory Writing: Alternatve Medicine

I. Alternative medicine is becoming, nowdays, more popular than traditional medicine because of its natural benefits.

II. Alternative medicine

      A. More natural
           1. No use of chemical products
           2. Use of natural devices
      B. Less harmful
           1. No secondary effects

III. Types of alternative medicine

      A. Herbal medicine
           1. Use of herbs and spices
           2. Specially used for headaches and diarrhoea
      B. Acupuncture
           1. Use of needles
           2. Specially used to ease the pain
      C. Osteopathy
           1. Treats the disfunction of spinal column and nervous system
           2. Specially used to ease the pain

IV. Less use of ordinary medicine

      A. Not healthy in many cases
           1. Allergies to some medicines
           2. Chemotherapy
      B. Not natural
           1. Use of quemical products
           2. Lack of natural devices

V. Overall, the use of alternative medicine is increasing little by little, since people belive in its natural effects, while the use of traditional medicine is decreasing.

1 - Family Ties

It was a rainy day, just like the typical funeral day that appears in films. His grandfather died the day before. Henry Norton, the head of the most powerful and influential family in the world. His grandson, William Norton, the youngest of the family, was deeply upset. He loved his grandfather mora than anyone. When he was a child he loved spending time with his grandfather who always told him stories about kings and queens and the conspiracy enviroment of the court. He really enjoyed hearing these stories but, as he was growing up, he felt that his grandfather had a special purpose, other than entertain him with them. But there will be no stories anymore. His grandfather was dead. This was an event that was anxiously waited for a long time by every member of the family. Although not everyone had the same type of anxiety. It is fair to say that some members of the family happily recieved the news of Henry´s death. Specially Julius Norton, the third son of Henry, and his wife Caterina. Julius always was different from his siblings. He was greedy and manipulative, just like the villian of his grandfather´s stories. And he never tried to hide it since he always felt proud of being that way. That is one of the reasons why Caterina and him were the perfect couple. They loved money more than anything. They would have sold their souls to the Devil if they had made a profitable deal. Opposite to Julius, William´s parents, Angelica and Thomas, never wanted this moment to come. They always knew this event would destroy their family. Angelica always felt her father´s death was going to start a war nobody knew when it would end. In Henry´s funeral, there was an strange enviroment. Everyone nerves were on edge since everybody wanted to know who was going to inherit the enmpire Henry built. Alexander Norton, the second son of Henry, was also nervous, but he tried to hide it. He was one of those people who never show his emotions. He always had a calm look, almost with no expression. He perfectly knew that the eyes are the window to the soul. So, he used that as a defensive method because no one could hurt him if they did not know what his weaknesses were. He, his wife Maria and his twins, Eric and Patrcik, arrived just in time to hear the will reading. Henry´s lawyer was reading the will in front of the anxious audience when, suddenly, a single name was pronunced. A name that shaked the foundations of the family more than any other. William Norton, the lawyer said.

Compulsory Writing: Syrian Inmigration

Syrian inmigration is an issue we all should be concerned about. Inmigration has never been a major problem in our society. Countries has always open their borders to welcome people from other countries. Governs has always been happy to recieve inmigrants because it is a way to increase tourism and get economic benefit. But inmigration becomes a problem when it turns into a massive inmigration. One of the main problems of this issue is the fact that some countries are prepared nor economically neither socially to recieve such a high percentage of population. If more people than it should enters into a country its economy could be really affected. For example, all those people do not have a job so they will make the unemployment rate increase. A second poblem to take into account is that these people come from countries where there are terrorists. If we open our borders with no control, we are inviting them to enter into our countries and attack innocent people. If we freely let them enter into our countries they are not going to risk their lives going to airports where there are police controls because they could be discover.

In my opinion, trying to solve the inmagration problem is not the way to deal with this situation. The war these people is trying to escape should be stopped. If there is no war, these peolpe would not emigrate. These people do not want to come to our countries because they want to stay at home, in their own cities. They want to stay in their countries where they have their houses, their families and their lives. Unfortunately, stopping a war is not a very realistic solution. Maybe making a more careful control of the people who is entering in Europe is a better idea. If there are more controls, it will not be so easy for terrorists to enter into our countries since this could be used as a dissuasive method. Another solution is to divide the percentage of inmigrants between all the countries that are part of Europe. If we all are more generous and sympathetic with the nightmare Syrian people is living, we will help to solve this problem.

Monsters Made Of Fire

In the Middle Age, this story of love- if it could be called like that- took place. A story of a girl and a monster. A story of a monster and a man. Her name was Sarah Durffan and she lived in a small village in the South of England. She grew up in a tiny farm her family owned. Her childhood was not quite happy. Her father punched her until she fainted since she could remember. Everytime she could wake up, the first thing that came to her mind was the image of her mother watching the incident. She always stayed quiet, so the only thing that could be heard were the screams of her daughter. The indifference of her mother was even more painful than the beating. This was how something started to grow up inside Sarah. A feeling that was strange to her. A feeling that made her inner self burn. It felt like she was on fire. Probably it was anger as she always thought. But she knew it was not such a mundane feeling like anger, since anger would be jealous of the feeling she felt. And her father knew it. He could see that feeling in her eyes. In those eyes full of something he did not exactly knew what it was. And that scared him. That scared him a lot. In order to erradicate that feeling, he punched her stronger and stronger because he thought he would eliminate that feeling with beatings. "You are wrong" she always thought. Suddenly, when she was taking wood for the fire in a cloudy day, a man in black appeared behind her. He introduced himself as Krad. He was a murderer. He could kill anyone. He did not care if they were men, women, children, babies, kings, queens, farmers, poor, rich. He told her that he could see she was not an ordinary girl. He could see she had something really dangerous insider her. Then he asked her to say two names. "Mom and Dad" she said inmediately. The next day, she woke up feeling heat on her face. She was laying outside her house and she saw her house on fire, burning like her inner self had burnt many times. Those flames were specially familiar to her. It was strange, but it was the first time she felt happy in her life. She felt happy when she heard her parents screaming. Then she noticed Krad was by her side. She inmediately felt in love with him. When she was with him she felt powerful because, since that moment, Krad would kill anynone she wanted. And that was what happened. If a woman answer her in a bad way, she was dead. If a man looked at her, right to her eyes, he was dead. If a little girl was not nice to her, she was dead. But the more people Krad killed, the more nightmares she had at night. She dreamed of flames and death. She saw the faces of all the men, women and children who were killed. Her existance started to be something she could not handle anymore. The beast inside her became too big and dangerous. So, one day, she told Krad she had a last name to him: Sarah Durffan. It is not so easy to shock a man that has killed more people he is able to count. But she did. Although he always thought she was just another name, he noticed she was not another name anymore. He was in love. That is why he could not kill her. It was in that moment when he failed his own nature. He failed to himself. So they had to live dealing with themselves, cursed as they were, for the rest of their lives. That was their punishment.

Killing Questions

Bertram was a German boy who was born in 1927, specifically in Berlin. He was half American as his father was born in Massachussets, in the northwest of the United States. This has always been a taboo in his family. His mother side was really conservative and agreed with some of the ideas of the raising ultra-conservative party. So, when she announced she was going to marry an American guy, the news were not welcomed by his family. But she never cared. She did not seemed to care until her baby boy was born. He got that american look since he was a blond, blue-eyed boy, just like a typical american farmer. Maybe that is why his mother has always been less affective with him. But, in fact, that american look has always been perfect to called him "the perfect German boy". But he has always being bullied thanks to his American side. In school he always was the "American faggot", the "American asshole", the "American fool". And it seemed that "American" was even more pejorative and hurtful than the other insults. But hes has always been over this. He never thought this was something he should be ashamed of, despite his mother's efforts to achieve it. So, Bertram was a boy who was always sympathetic with injustices since he had suffered them his entire life. It is hard to imagine something more hurtful than being almost ignored by your own family. But he was always over this- he continously made an effort to keep thinking this. As he was growing up over the years, he became more aware of the tremendous injustices the Nazi goberment were carrying out. Thanks to his mother's family traditional membership to the Nazi party, soldiers never took his father to some concentration camp, as Dachau or Auschwitz. His grandfather had many conversations with the most powerful and influential men of those years to please his daughter's requests- it was clear his grandfather did not do it to save his father´s life. Those years were really strange, full of fear, suspicion and instability because you could be taken by soldiers in any moment and with no explanation. There were public murders in streets and kidnappings all over the city. In a cloudy day of 1943, Bertram was going back home from school, when he found a group of soldiers punching one of his neighbours, an old lady who always seemed really nice to him. He run to help the old lady and ask the soldiers why they were doing such an outrageous crime. With no answer, they shoot him in the stomach. He fall down and while he was knocked down on the floor, he looked at the old lady, and she said: Thank you. Nobody had ever told him something like that. Something with such affection.  It was in that moment, in that last second of his life, when he felt full of love for once.