After that, you can go back to the original post and get the link for the second prompt, which is the interference. Finally, you can go to the third weekend freewrite post to get the third prompt, the dramatic twist. After you finished your story, you can then post it, and add your link to the comments, and read another weekend freewrite.
This weekend freewrite prompt is: The only way John could pass the exam was by cheating….
I do not look at the prompts or read other weekend freewrites before I start, so the prompts are as much of a surprise to me, as they will be to the reader!
The only way John could pass the exam was by cheating, but he didn’t want to cheat. There had been a lengthy discussion in his house the night before about honesty and integrity, and his mother wouldn’t understand if he cheated. The problem was that if he didn’t pass the exam, he would not become a police man. He didn’t want to start off his career in law by breaking it.
He looked around at the other cadets who had their heads down, and were intently and quickly filling in the answers. He couldn’t understand why he was having a hard time. He had studied for weeks. When he was asked the same questions out loud, he answered them easily. It was the words on the page that made him nervous.
He couldn’t admit he was a slow reader. He took his time and read every word, but they didn’t make any sense. If only he had the opportunity to have another person ask these questions, he would pass the test. But he didn’t have the choice. A few of the other cadets left the room after they finished, but John sat there looking at an unfilled exam. He hadn’t even answered the first question yet.
"There you go, making up lies again." That is what they told me.
John listened to them, but he knew they were all lying. He couldn’t understand why every Friday night he had to return to this house for another noise complaint. Every weekend the same nonsense. He wished now, he had not passed that policeman’s exam. For all he knew, he could have been perfectly happy working outside with his hands.
Fate would not allow that. His father pulled some strings, and found a way for John to take the exam again. The second time, he passed with flying colors. It didn’t make him feel any better though, John still felt as if he had been catered into the police force, and that always bothered him. At night he took an English class, but it didn’t seem to be working.
His partner did the paperwork for their shift, so he didn’t have to worry about it, but he still felt as if his weakness would come to bite him in the ass, if ever reading became important. He tried to read more books, but the words got jumbled, and they didn’t make sense to him ever.
It all came to a crash that next weekend, literally because of the thing she did to the breaks on the Honda. That Friday night, instead of a noise report, he went back to the house and placed the lady in handcuffs. She still pleaded that she had done nothing wrong, but the neighbors confirmed that they had seen her outside the night before messing with her husband’s car.
She handed him a note, “This is why I did it. You would understand if you read it.”
John held the piece of paper in his hands, but he knew he couldn’t read it. Instead, he handed the note to his partner and then preceded to inform the lady of her rights.
Later John found out the paper contained a break-up note, in which the man wrote he was going to leave her. He had met a young lady in another state, and he was going to hop in that Honda and head to California. He never made it.
The funny thing was, when John finally read the note, every word on the page was in perfect order, and from that day, he was able to read.
Ding!
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