m_benitez wrote in charloft

Thursday betrayals

Because the Revolutionary War went well the founding fathers are heroes.   If it had gone less well....   

With this in mind, give us a hundred words inspired by the word  traitor  


Emil's take on the betrayal that started it all

It was not, as people like to say, a choice between Farrah and Marce, or between Carlos and Darren. In a perfect world, I would have remained friends with all of them, somehow. We could have respected what we each stood for. The problem was that the lines got drawn. 
"They turned your head," Carlos said accusingly to me years later. "You had to get caught up with their crazy ideas and fall for a dangerous woman." 
I shook my head. "They woke me up." 
"To what? To leaving us, that was what." 
I wish it had been that simple.