Chapter 1: The Jazz Club
Sonny was always in the light with his issues. Sonny\u2019s sister, Isabella, sits in the
dimly lit jazz club, her eyes fixed on the stage. Unlike her brother, she was always
the quiet one, keeping to herself, while her brother\u2019s wild spirit always kept him in
shackles. But tonight, as the saxophone wails, she feels something stir within her\u2014
a longing that transcends music.
Chapter 2: The Friend
Enter Creole, Sonny\u2019s best friend. Something about him as he walks through the
bar, wreaking of marijuana, asking the bartender for a shot while he\u2019s already
stoned out of his mind. Must be a light night. Isabella feels aroused. Thinking
Creole is different\u2014steady and hidden just like her. The feeling feels so wrong. He
and Sonny are tighter than a shrunken pair of jeans. He\u2019s seen the darkness in
Sonny, the struggle with addiction. But he was also the only one who made Sonny
feel like a human and not like trash.
Chapter 3: The Hidden Addiction
Isabella\u2019s secret is heroin. She\u2019s learned to hide it well, injecting in the shadows,
masking the pain. She\u2019s not like Sonny, who wears his addiction openly. No,
Isabella\u2019s addiction is a silent scream, a desperate plea for escape from a world that
suffocates her.
Chapter 4: The Unspoken Love
Isabella watches Creole, her heart pounding. She knows he\u2019ll never see her as more
than Sonny\u2019s sister. Yet, when he smiles, she imagines a different life\u2014a life
where they share more than a dark addiction. But love is a dangerous game,
especially when addiction lurks in the background.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Chapter 5:
One night, after the club, Isabella and Creole sit under the bridge in Harlem, New
York. The city hums above them, and Isabella\u2019s secret threatens to spill out. She
confesses her addiction, her fear of losing control. Creole listens, his eyes become
wide as a smile lights across his face. As Creole reaches for the needle in his
satchel, Isabella realizes that fate has brought them together. They proceed to get
high, together.
Chapter 6:
Creole faces a dilemma. He loves Sonny like a brother the last thing he would ever
want is to hurt him, especially while he is in custody. But Isabella\u2019s vulnerability
tugs at him, he found what he was missing in his life, a partner in crime, literally.
Creole cant see anything but a life of sin with his forbidden lover in Isabella.
Chapter 7:
Isabella and Creole meet under the bridge in Harlem every night since they
realized their interests intertwined. The choice was made, the void was filled, and
the hole in their hearts were patched. They decided to come out with their love, and
they cared about no one\u2019s feelings but their own. They decided they would make it
known to Sonny in a jail visit later in the week. The night was young, and the
needles were full. They shot until they were out. That night was it, they never
made it to visit Sonny.
Conclusion: The Hidden Notes
In this retelling, Isabella\u2019s addiction mirrors her brother Sonnys but is not as in the
light as him. Her addiction is completely to herself and as maintained as a heroin
addiction can be. Her love for Creole becomes extremely strong, and Sonny, being
behind bars, is completely unaware, of the affair between Creole and the addiction
battles she fights. After falling in love with Creole, her addiction gets no better as
they both continue to do these harmful drugs together now rather than alone. As
one may be able to tell, two drug addicted lovers never lead to a positive outcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As they decide to come clean to Sonny, they are never able to make it to visit him
and overdose under a bridge just hours before their planned confession.
Analysis:
I chose to create my remix based on a dark romance type of plot because I felt that
it was the best plot twist that could have been put in place for this specific story. I
chose to change the role of the story from Sonny\u2019s brother to Sonny\u2019s sister whom
I named Isabella because I felt that changing the gender would play a great role in
the dark fantasy route I wanted to take for my remix. Since Sonnys brother was
never mentioned by name in the story, I named his now sister Isabella because I
didn\u2019t have the original name of his brother to be able to put a spin on it. I chose to
end the story with the death of both Creole and Isabella towards the end because I
felt that it created the best twisted ending for a dark romance type of theme that I
was going for in my remix.
Conclusion:
My remix still relates to the original text in certain ways. For example, the story is
still revolving around Sonny going to jail but instead of it being based on a hate of
Sonnys brother towards the influence of his friend Creole it is something instead
that his sister seems to be attracted to. The difference is in the feeling and gender
of Sonnys sibling towards his friend. My remix allowed me to be able to appreciate
the original text and its meaning because it gives me a more of a creative
understanding rather than just a basic understanding of what the author wrote
originally for his theme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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