In this exercise, the assignment is to outline a story with tension!

• A girl arrives to work with a huge scratch down her face and crying.
• Everyone at work notices and spreads the word to the girl's supervisor.
• The supervisor brings the girl into a private office and intervenes.
• she gets the story from the girl
• calls the police to take the story
• calls a family member to come pick her up from work
• gives her the next two days off to get her life together
• everyone is frightened by the story she's told
• The girl hides out at her father's home
• but she's told everyone he use to sexually molest her
• he don't want her there, she's always too much to handle he says
• The police arrest her boyfriend
• he swears he didn't do it!
• he is issued a court date after being bailed out
• she arrives at his door at one o'clock in the morning with the police
• they told him to hand his daughter over to them
• he sobs as the love of his life is carried away from him
• The girl has been looking for a way out of town, and has been looking for her birth father
• this gets her boyfriend to thinking, and fears she will run away with his daughter in tow
• The boyfriend gets a lawyer to help him prove he didn't do it
• in the meantime she files an order preventing her from leaving town with his daughter
• he compiles witnesses to her lying, and story telling
• The lawyer interviews everyone in the family and discovers the guy's brother was at home sick from school that day
• he claims that her story of a huge fight was false, he didn't even hear an argument, much less her being beaten
• another witness claims he had told the girl about his abusive wife, and how she would injure herself and call the police on him and get him arrested. He told her this two days before her boyfriend was arrested for domestic violence
• another witness claims she had been planning on leaving for a few weeks but needed money before doing so
• another witness claims the girl was in her apartment "hanging out" one night, and the next morning her rent money was missing. This was the day she showed up to work with a scratch down her face
• the lawyer asked the guy to see his hands, she notices:
• he has no swelling or redness
• he has obviously been a nail biter his whole life...his nails were chewed down to little slivers. This is a task that is physically impossible to create overnight
• he wears no rings or watches
• he is right handed
• her scratch down her face is on her right side, not the left
• her scratch slants toward her mouth
• It is methodically discovered that the girl had scratched herself with her ring the boyfriend gave her on Valentines Day
• by studying the scratch, it was more feasible for her to have scratched herself by the direction of the scratch, and the location
• by the witness's statements, laying out her motive, and other evidence
• The girl never showed up to the court date so the charges were dropped against the boyfriend
• The two shared the custody of the little girl from that point forward, separately
• The girl told everyone she was dying of cancer
• her house was broken into
• they stole her rent money
• they stole her and her daughter's Christmas gifts
• Does the story ever end?
• NO! she is still at it, every two years, she replaces boyfriends, steals their money, and makes new stories

This is a true story of someone we know, and keep at a very far distance away!

Talk about tension!