“Dad till mom to Leave me alone my friends here“ sadi hannah
“Honey you need to tell us what is wrong “ said dad
“ Nothing just leave me alone as she runs out of the room“
“Let’s go Hannah says to Lily “
As they put on our boots and gloves and coats. running out of the house. If they go out to the barn where they’re horses are, Lily grabs her horse and Hannah grabs buddy. They start Galloping away and it starts to snow really hard so they say let’s head to the bridge. To get shelter as they are on our way to a bridge a big semi comes and They both have no clue what to do.But the semi can’t Stop it’s too icsy out. Bang the semi hits them the next thing Hannah knows is she sees red flashing lights coming towards her and her parents saying it will all be okay. As they are getting her into the ambulance she looks over and there’s her horse on the ground and her best friend covered up With black tarp. She starts to cry as she realizes the reality. But Lily’s horse Alabama is still standing and that’s the last thing she sees before the ambulance doors close.
The next time she wakes up she is in the hospital. Her mom and dad are There and they are crying. They start yelling for a nurse.Hannah hugs her mom and dad and asks what happened to Buddy and her friend Lily. and they tell her they both passed. they were right in the middle. Hannah starts to ball. it’s all my fault and Her parents say no it’s not no one could have stopped it. They say she should get some rest but they want her to ride Lily’s horse Alabama when you get better. The doctors come in why Hannah is sleeping and say she has a broken neck, a broken foot and a sprained ankle.The doctor says she’s lucky to make it out alive it’s a miracle. if a few weeks go by and Hannah gets better and better. Soon she will be released from the hospital.
The day she is released as they go home and the first thing she does is go out to the barn and sit in the Buddies Pastor. She starts to cry and says how much she misses him and her best friend. she runs back inside to her mom and says where is Alabama.
Her mom said they had to take him to the horse trainer. He was really shaking up after the accident. her mom said they’ll go see him tomorrow.
It is the next day and they are getting Ready to go see Alabama. She is a Little nervous But when I get there they’re walking and see him.he is a Mess she has one year his face is all scratched up and he is not acting like himself.he is terrified and the horse trainer comes out and Says you can go in and pet and brush him.She goes in like it is nothing but then he starts to act up so she gets scared and back up. The horse trainer goes in and comes down. He’s still really shaken up. So they just work little by little each day.And he slowly starts to get better. Eventually she starts riding him. Then they did their first show to get there.And they placed a 3 which is really good and they start winning more and more until the finals and they are both nervous. they go over the first jump and clear it the second one they hit it but don’t knock it the third one they clear it the fourth one thing clear it the last one is a water jump which is really hard start canning up to it and he jumped it and makes it over at 45 seconds they win they win Nationals. Now they go on to win the championship and more competition.The end.
“You’ve been staring at number 27,” Nila and Nela says
“Is that?” Nele says
“NEL!” Nila says
“NO!! It’s not him. Is it?” I say
“It is, girl,” Nela says
The cheerleaders returned to cheering. I was with my friends Nela and Nila at the football game. I’m not that popular, but I have a crush on Nel, the most popular guy, and number twenty-seven.
I was sitting with the cheerleaders because Nila is the cheer captain. I looked at the ground, embarrassed, as the game started again, and my attention returned to Nel. The cheerleaders returned to cheering. After the game, I stayed seated, but Nela and Nila didn’t like that.
“Come on go talk to Nel~,” Nila says in a teasing tone
“No, I shouldn’t,” I say
“Come on,” Nela says in a whiny voice
I reluctantly get up, and they push me toward Nel. Then I see Tammy talking to Nel. Tammy is the most popular girl. Every guy has a crush on her, but she’s a big bully. She’s done so much to my friends and me. But Nel sees me as I try to turn around and walk away, and he comes over to me. I try to turn around and run, but Nel grabs my hand.
“Hey,” Nel says
“Hi’ i say flustered
“Come with me,” Nel says
“Fine,” I say.
Nel pulls me under the bleachers and leans against a pole for the bleachers.
“So……… there’s an after party……. Do you want to come with me?” Nel says as he lets go of my hand but hesitates like he doesn’t want to.
“Me, come with you?” I mumble but Nel hears me
“Yes, you Jena come with me,” he says itching the back of his neck
“Ok,” I say
“You’ll come!” Nel says
“Just one question,” I say
“What is it,” Nel says
“Did you invite me as a friend or?” I say
“Uuumm” Nel says “No not really, I guess,” he says unsure of himself
“Do I need to change?” I replied
“No, unless you want to,” he says
“I’ll be there,” I replied. I start to walk off
“See you there,” Nel says and I nod
“See you,” I say
Nel grabs my hand and says
“Unless you want to catch a ride…. with me?”
“If that’s ok with you,” I say, smiling and he takes my hand. We start walking to his car. He opens the door for me and I get in and I go to buckle but then Nel says.
“Let me get that for you” as he takes the buckle and buckles it for me. Then he walks around to the driver’s seat and I see my friends watching. As I look at the floor embarrassed. Nel sees that I’m embarrassed and says
“Look at me” I look up as his eyes lock on mine, then I blush and look down again. Nel sees me blushing and says,
“You’re cute when you blush” I blush more. As Nel stops at the party and holds my chin and pulls my head up to look at him. Then I blush more. Nel asks
“Are you ok, princess” I blush again and he kisses my cheek then I blush more.
“Sorry I should have asked” I quickly stop him and say
“No!” I look down “Don’t apologize” The other football players see Nel and me and come over to his car and say
“You finally asked her, well you two do look good together,” number 10 says
“So what do you think of Nel here,” number 77 says.
“He’s a nice kind,” I say blushing “he sticks out on the field.” The guys chuckle as they realize Nel is blushing two and I giggle a bit myself. Nel seems embarrassed as he steps out of the car and opens the door for me I unbuckle and he holds my hand to help me get out of his car. The other players walk around us as we walk into the party. As we walk in there’s an announcement that says excitedly
“The main couple is here!!!!!!!!!!!!”
My eyes widen as my face goes red. Nel squeezes my hand and looks at me worried. I cling to his side embarrassed. He wrapped his arms around my waist as if to protect me from the people whispering and staring.
“Hey, it’s ok,” Nel says
I hid` my face in his chest. Tammy sees this and walks over.
“Baby, Nelie poo” she squeaks
“Dont call me that ever,” nel says
I snuggle closer, he pulls me away and Tammy gets mad as nel and I go over to the balcony where a full moon, bright stars, and constellations can be seen. As I’m leaning over the rales looking at the sky I turn to point at a star and nel has my favorite flowers daises and roses he clears his throat awkwardly.
“Will you be my girlfriend?” he says
I see Tammy scowling at me and I look back, I’m too shocked to speak and I just nod violently and hug him. After that Nel and I watched the sky for a long time then one of his friends came over.
“Hey, love birds,” his friend says “What are you two up to,”
Nel and I look over at him and shrug.
“The romantic dance for couples is next,” number 71 says
Nel and I get up walk in go on the dance floor and start dancing with the other couples. And he and I stand out because we both have on our clothes from the game. Everyone is looking at us as we dance to the music even Tammy is staring. I know tomorrow at school she will be mad and try something but I’m focusing on my footwork as nel and I dance. At the end of the song, everyone claps for nel and me. And I realize I’m popular now. And more popular than Tammy and she is mad because I found a bf before her and now is more popular than her. My friends Nela and Nila ran over asking a lot of questions.
“Is nel your bf now?” Nila says
“Wait can you get us with some of his friends, please,” Nela says
“Hold up wait a couple of days maybe sometime this month,” I say kindly
Nel chuckles still holding my waist from dancing as I lean against his chest. After the party, Nel drives me home and as I get out he kisses my hand. Then I kissed his cheek two times. Then he walked me to my door and introduced himself to my family and my parents loved him and praised him. After he stayed for lunch he left and went to his house and I thought what will Tammy do to me tomorrow I thought before I went to sleep. In the morning after I was ready. Nel picks me up for school and carries me, the bride still kisses my cheeks and then blushes.
I have blood cancer and I’ve had it since I was a baby. I’ve had treatments and I’m doing well right now. I have 3 amazing friends who have helped me this whole time. Currently, I’m at a basketball game that they dragged me to. I’ve always wanted to join but because of my blood cancer, I can’t I have no time and my body can’t handle it yet. I’m determined to overcome this and fulfill my dreams.
“Rosa…”
I won’t let anything stop me!
“Rosa”
… from doing what I want or living my life the way I want to… not even my cancer!
“Rosa!”
“Sorry Tom wait what happened”
“Oh, Rosa, when will you get out of your head? You can’t live in a dream world forever…”
That’s Tom. He’s one of my friends. Tom continued with his Lexshier for ten more minutes with no breaks. Tom has a short buzzcut and brown hair that he dies and lets grow out. By the end of the year, it’s so long it goes to his shoulder, and he repeats the process every year. It’s his look, you could say.
“HEY GUYS!!!”
That girl screaming and running over to me and Tom is my other friend Bella She is sweet and has short blond hair and she is the shortest in our friend group so we help her reach stuff all the time
“Hey Bella,” I say
“Hi Bella we saved you a sit. Rosa and I know you’re never on time. you know that’s a bad habit you should have come earlier you always come late to everything. Also, did you see Mary?” Tom says
“Oh no I sadly didn’t see Mary I thought she was with you guys,”
Bella says as she sits down on the bleachers next to me and Tom.
A few minutes after when all 3 of us were watching the basketball game Mary scars Tom and sits down next to him.
“MARY!” Tom screams
“Hehe hi, guys sorry I’m late,”
Mary says as she snickers and looks at us. Mary loves scarring Tom and only Tom for some reason won’t tell us why. we’ve asked before and she only laughs at the question like we should know why already and it’s a silly question. Marry has long well-taken care of black hair almost like a horse she is cold and silly at the same time she is also smart and Marry is my bff she’s also the smartest in the class. As the others talk and mess around all I can think about is how badly I wish I could play too but all I can do is watch the basketball game. I suddenly felt like something was over me and as I looked up I saw it was Gavin, Becka, and Regina. then Gavin pours his water bottle on me and I hear Becka and Regina giggle as I run to the bathroom to clean myself off once I get into the bathroom shortly after Tom’ Bella and Mary follow. Tom sits outside the bathroom to keep watch for them again, but also because he’s a boy and can’t come in.
“Hey, are you ok?” Bella says
“…” I respond with nothing
“Rosa don’t let them get to you they’re losers,” says Mary
“How do you think I feel and does it look like I’m ok how do you expect me to just be fine with this and not let it get to me just leave!” I say in a fit of anger
“Ok we’ll leave but when you’re ready we’ll be waiting outside the bathroom for you,” Mary says
“Just leave now!” I say as Mary and Bella both leave. Mary has always been good with handly emotions and her own too she always knows what to do and how to help and Bella is the same way she helps by being there and with her bubbly personality. As I leave the bathroom I see that they are still here Tom, Mary, and Bella sitting outside the bathroom and waiting for me
“Hey I see you decided to come out,” Tom says happily
“Let’s forget about this bad day and all get home I’ll see you guys Monday,” Mary says
“Hey now let’s not end the day bad! let’s get some ice cream at the new place in town and then go home!” Bella says
“Bella I know you are trying to help but it’s best if we go home it’s already so late,” Mary says
“Ok let’s go home,” Tom says
As we all walk out of the school I can’t help but feel like I wish I never had to return. We all walk our separate ways to go home. “Hey Mom I’m back from the game where Dad,” I say
“Your dad’s in the living room dinner will be done soon”
“Hey Dad I’m back”
“Oh hey there Rosa you snuck up on me,” Dad says
“I’m going up to my room I’m way to tired from watching the game”
After that Monday the gang hung out one time after the basketball game.
I woke up and did my routine and as I was doing my makeup and about to leave for school my elbo hurt every time I moved then I felt like I couldn’t get up it was like I was too weak to move Mom came running into my room and then it goes black I open my eyes to a hospital room I’m used to them from the mounts ive spent in them and the doctor comes in and tells my mom that my blood cancer achaly got worse and not beter like they thought and i would have to leave school for a few days for testing and other stuff and someone from my school would have to bring me my work. The person I chose to get me my work was Mary she would come every Monday with the work for that week she always came after school at 4:30 like clockwork I was slowly falling behind in school I couldn’t keep up with all the testing the hospital was doing and schooling so my parents got me a tour and it was tom and then Bella came with both of them sometimes
I was starting to czech up on school becus of them but I didn’t start getting better
Soon i was stuck in my hospital bed and could only move arond a little Tom came to help tour me one time with Mary and Bella and we were working and then
“Hey Rosa where all worried about you,” Tom said out of the blue
“Have the doctors said anything about you getting better soon?” Bella said
“No, they said it didn’t look like I was going to get any better”
“How long do you have,” Mary said
‘MARY!” Tom yelled
“Mary dont go asking those questions…” bellas said
“This is not something you can’t be cold about you can’t act like you did last time when we found out she got cancer”
“Bella stop”
“Huh?” Bella said
“I don’t have very long i only have 2 more days i was trying to hide it from you the doctors told me a week after I got in here that I didn’t have much time”
“Well lets make thous two days the best ever well bring you stuff from your hospodal bed and will do anything to make you happy one last time,” Mary said
By the time they were done, it was night so they all went home that same night I went to bed like usual and I never woke up again I was dead a ghost I saw what everyone did the next morning Mom was crying by me in bed and dad was also crying next to here and when tom Bella and mary saw me they all started to cry too many ran out the room and said it wasn’t real that it was all in her head and Bella ran after her and tom he froze up he didn’t know what to do he just cried
“This isn’t real,” Mary said
“Mary it’s ok let’s just go home first let’s get Tom,” Bella said
“This isnt fair they could have done more to save her we were all just talking last night she was fine we were going to go all do something to make her happy one last time,” Tom said
I wanted to hug him and tell him it was fine and just forget about me and keep living without me but I felt I was a ghost
“Let’s just go come on guys”
Later on, Mary became a schoolteacher
Tom became a doctor
And Bella became a scientists
And Mom and Dad lived out their life without me happy
This was the good ending I wanted for them after my death but I wish I could be there for them still…
I walked into school and saw my friends with a poster in the halls. It looked like a concert was happening because of how many girls were there. It was a volleyball sign up sheet so I decided to sign up. Not knowing what would happen next. The next day that’s when it all happened I was walking into the gym and everyone was warming up. As I put my stuff down, that’s when I hear them “shh” shh” shh” and murmuring. Behind me I feel all their glances at me. I try to ignore it because I tried to feel positive that day. As I am done warming up I start walking towards my friend. She told me that
“you shouldn’t be playing right you aren’t even good”
I ran out trying so hard not to cry and embarrassed myself but I couldn’t help it I started crying but as soon as I wipe tears the coach asked me
“What is wrong”
I told her what happen and she said
“You cant let them get to you,you are here to play volleyball and here to get that off your chest”
But I don’t know how I’m going to play
“I’m just so upset”
But she made me get up and practice as I got up to walk in to practice we did leg/arm stretches. Then I had to get a partner. We bumped it back and forth then setted. As we finished up, we got in three lines and I fell on my knees and became the laughing stock. the coach told everyone to keep practicing and helped me up and made sure I was okay the practice that day was horrible
The following week and a lot more happened. We have a game coming up and the whole school already hates me. But the coach’s words kept playing in my head. I knew I had to keep moving past it. But as we are on the bus a girl who I played with came up to me and asked
“Hey, I know we don’t talk much but why are you sitting by yourself”
“I dont know I’m not really friends with anyone here dont I play with you on the court”
“ yeah I play setting, Sofia is my name but I’d love to be your friend”
“The setter? Oh yeah the setter my name is Payton and yeah we can be friends”
She sat next to me the rest of the time and talked to me but I didn’t know if I was supposed to feel happy that there was a girl that actually felt genuine and actually wanted to be my friend . I really didn’t know what I was feeling. I was happy I had a friend. I was scared of the game and I was sad because really no one likes me. As we get to game and were putting are stuff on I hear the girls talking about me but I walked away a little upset because I knew exactly what they were talking about I get on the court and I remember everything that made me even more mad and upset and I actually play a lot better than I thought and I could hear everyone whispering but this time in a good way the coach started putting me on the court a lot more I said
“Thank you coach”
“Why you thanking me that was all you”
“No I wouldn’t of even been play if you didn’t talk to me that day”
“Oh no problem, you get up your good work ”
As we were on the bus back home the girl who was my friend came up to me and said.
“Hey, you did good out there and I am sorry for what I said.”
But I didn’t know what I wanted to say but words just started coming out of my mouth
“Thanks but you are not sorry because if you were you wouldn’t have said it.”
Then I went to another seat. I finally felt like I was good at something I mean I was.
As I walked home my mom met me at the door and I was in the newspaper and I felt like everyone liked me. I didn’t just feel like a nobody. I walked into school and everyone was by me and asking me how I did it but I had no comment but the truth is I would rather go back to having no one like me because I knew who my real friend was.
Pickle and Penny are best friends but there’s one person they don’t like and his name is Pineapple. Pineapple is the mean guy in the neighborhood.
“Hey losers what are you guys doing here at the store aren’t you guys like broke or something”, said Pineapple.
Pickle and Penny run away everytime they see him. Pineapple isn’t trying to be mean, it’s just how he decides to live his life.
“You should go talk to Pineapple,” said Pickle.
“No, you should go talk to Pineapple,” said Penny.
They finally decided who should go talk to Pineapple, both of them are going to go talk to Pineapple. They finally went to go talk to Pineapple.
Pineapple said, “can we be friends please.”
Pickle and Penny said it depends on if you’re going to be nice to us or not. They are now friends with Pineapple. Pickle,Penny,and Pineapple all go to the movies together. Pineapple, Pickle, and Penny’s friend goes from really mean to really nice.
“Can we have a sleepover?”, said Pineapple.
Pickle and Penny said yes. All three friends went to the store to get snacks and drinks for the sleepover. The three friends walk to Penny’s house for the sleepover. Penny’s mom says hi to them and lets them in the house. Penny’s mom walks into the living room and asks
“How did you boys become friends?”, said Penny’s mom. The boys said they went to go talk to Pineapple about him being mean to them at the store in town and then after the talk we started to walk away, that’s when Pineapple decided to follow them home.
He ran after them and said hey can we be friends I’m so sorry about what I said at the store. I really am. Do you forgive me?”, said Penny and Pickle. After Penny’s mom talked to the boys for a while she went into the kitchen to make the boys dinner and she started to make Penny’s favorite meal which is pasta and sauce. After dinner was made she yelled for the boys to come eat and Penny said yes my favorite meal is pasta and sauce. How was school?”, said Penny’s mom. It was good”, said Pickle. We had a spelling test today”, said Pineapple. After the boys finished their dinner they went into the living room, sat on the couch and turned on a movie. This movie is really good”, said Penny. Where did you find this movie?”, said Pickle. After the movie was over they went upstairs to grab blankets and pillows to sleep downstairs in their blanket fort. The next day, which is a Monday, they get up early so they can have breakfast,get dressed,and leave for school. (They all walk to school together) They are all in 5th grade and in the same class together. After school is over they walk to the park to hang out for about an hour. Penny calls his mom where he is going to be for an hour. She says that’s fine with me. After an hour later Penny arrives home from the park. Penny’s mom said how did school go . It was fine”, said Penny. What did you and your friends do at the park?”, said Penny’s mom. We played on the swings for a while then we went for a walk after the park”, said Penny. The next day Tuesday sport sign ups for baseball. Do you want to sign up for baseball?”, said Penny’s mom. Sure”, said Penny. I’m going to ask my friends if they want to sign up for baseball with me”, said Penny. They arrived at school. Hey guys, do you want to sign up for baseball with me?”, said Penny. Sure”, said Pickle. No sports aren’t really my favorite but I like watching them”, said Pineapple. That’s ok”, said Penny and Pickle. At lunch. What did you guys bring for lunch?”, said Penny. I brought a sandwich”, said Pickle. I brought a sandwich and chips”, said Pineapple. After school at baseball practice. Are you ready for baseball practice?”, said Penny. More than ready”, said Pickle. After baseball practice. How was baseball practice?”, said Penny’s mom. It was good”, said Penny. The next day Wednesday , no school day. Penny’s mom let him sleep in since he didn’t have school that day. Good morning Penny”, said Penny’s mom. Morning”, said Penny. What would you like for breakfast?”, said Penny’s mom. Can I have eggs and toast please”, said Penny. Sure”, said Penny’s mom. Penny and his mom sit down and have breakfast together. The End.
Is what you would hear in the locker room full of girls that is about to go wrestle well not in my case. Everyone is so calm and not worried, like this is another old dandy meet to get over with. As I was putting on my singlet everyone was ready to go . I’m brushing my hair as my cousin was waiting to braid it . That was the start of my tradition, the braid that helps me in each match like Jason’s lucky sock. This was just the start of my goodluck routine. Everygame , everymatch , and every meet my hair is always in a braid and today was nothing different or so I thought.
For some reason today wasn’t feeling like another old dandy meet. After we were done I slid on my crocs and walked out the locker room soon realising my mom forgot to give me my money for the game . Well great, how am I gonna eat? And that was what I thought started my bad journey or so I thought my bad luck. I try not to think about it and just continue walking towards the bus. I walk in to see the majority of the girls in the bus as I walk down the aisle to my seat. Boom, the person in front of me sits right in it . You might not know but that has been my seat for every meet every game I’ve ever went to. I thought of it as my lucky charm seat. Then I had to sit and wait for the best, knowing I’m probably not gonna eat and not gonna have a good meet. We get there after 40 ish minutes and the girls are quiet . I see as their eyes widen at the shock of how big the school is. The girls were already threatened by how big the school was , yes the same girls that were pumped and ready to get over this meet. We unload the bus and we all walk out. We can see the buses of the other schools that came to compete today. We walk in and go to our station we set are stuff down ready to explore as we had came 2 hours earlier to scope out the competition “
“Okay” “It’s okay “ “I’ve got two hours to gain all this back
I’m watching everyone watching their strategies and moves just hoping I could do the same. As I watch people get taken down over and over and over again . I’m starting to regain my confidence . The screams of
“Get up” and
“Lock your hands”
“You got this”
Just gets me pumped.
My coach said behind me
“ guys start getting ready”
So me and the girls start walking back to where we set our bags as we see the gym filled with girls and parents from all over. As I take off my clothes that was over my singlet and start unzipping my bag I hear my couch say
“You’re up”
“Okay”
He pats my back for assurance I reach in to find NOTHING absolutely nothing. None of my gear was in my bag. Where’s my shoes? Where’s my headgear? Where’s my kneepad? I knew this bad luck would come back and bite me in the butt. I hear the shattering word
“What are you doing you’re up”
“IIII……. I know”
I turned around so I couldn’t look at him and just stared into my bag. He comes from behind me to see what was the hold up and he knew he knew that if he didn’t say anything in that moment right now i’m gonna break down.
“You can’t just forfeit it will cost all your matches”
“I know’ “but what can I do”
I sink in as I see his disappointment on my coach’s face looking for an idea. It’s like everything stops. The front table was waiting for me,my opponent was waiting for me. And the gym was quiet as people were trying to find me. I can hear the table in the front call my name again and again and again and again to see where I was. I can see the faces of people you supposedly found me looked worried. My coach didn’t seem to have an idea. But all of the sudden my teammate came from behind me, saving me.
“Here”
“What?”
“Here take mine and hurry”
“Your opponent is already on the mat”.
I don’t know what just happened but I was already on the mat shaking my opponent’s hand. I can tell the difference between my shoes and my teammates but I was just glad I had something to use and the universe was out to get me after all
On September 1st in Miami Florida Maria and Sasha, two best friends, are so excited to start school volleyball. They have been playing with each other for years now, and this is their Junior year of highschool. Tryouts start after school today, Maria is feeling good about tryouts and sure she will make it to varsity like every other year, but Sasha on the other hand wasn’t feeling so good about tryouts this year.
Maria tries making her feel better, “hey, are you feeling any better about tryouts after school,” said Maria.
“Not really,” said Sasha.
“I don’t know why your so worried, we always make it on the team,”
“ I know Maria, but this year just feels different and there’s so many more girls this year that i might not make it.”
“Oh, come on you can’t think like that just be the confident person like you always are.”
Sasha Nodded her head and gave Maria a smile that looked faked, then she left for her last class of the day.
The last class of the day was coming to an end and Maria was so happy to finally be on the court after the summer break that felt so long to her, she rushed to the locker room to put on her shoes, knee pads etc. She waits in the locker room for Sasha. It’s been some time and all the other girls are in the gym by now and it was only her in the locker room so she decided to go without sasha. Tryouts started and there were a lot of people, a lot more than last year. The tryouts start with serving and Maria tries to find Sasha but no luck, She’s starting to think she didn’t come at all. The volleyball coach already knows Maria since she was on the team previous years. The coach already knew Maria would make it, but she is worried about why Sasha isn’t there.
She calls Maria to ask why Sasha didn’t make it to tryouts, “Maria! Come over here,”said coach Gabby.
Maria runs over quickly, “yes coach gabby,” Said Maria.
“Where is Sasha, she’s not the type of girl to be late to tryouts,”
“Uh, I’m not sure, she didn’t tell me anything about what she is doing after school.”
“Oh don’t pull that with me, you to are like glued together and always know where the other one is”
“I don’t know where she is,” said Maria “i’m telling you the truth”
Coach replies “Are you covering for her?” “did she doing something bad”
“Nope’
“Hmm okay just go back to tryouts”
She returns to tryouts while Coach Gabby gives Sasha’s mom a call. Sasha’s mom, Vannessa, answered. Coach Gabby asks if Sasha was going to come to tryouts, Vanessa said she thought she was already there…
After coach and Sasha talk about what they are going to do Coach hangs up the phone. She tells the girls that are still playing volleyball that she will be right back, Maria is guessing it’s about Sasha. Coach Gabby rushes to the office to ask if anyone is still in the school, The office lady replies,
“Nope just the girls for volleyball tryouts, why is something wrong?”
Coach Gabby says,
“We might have a student missing.”
The office lady panics and Coach tells her who the student is and they start making phone calls. Meanwhile in the gym, all Maria can think about is how she is gonna have to be on a team for the first time without her best friend Sasha, and now she will have to find a new partner for warm-ups. Coach Gabby finds out that Vannessa and Sasha’s dad are divorced and Sasha doesn’t see her dad at all anymore. They do some more research and find out Her mom has full custody of Sasha because the dad did some jail time for unknown reasons. Coach Gabby’s heart sinks at the thought of what she thinks happens, she tells the front office lady to check the cameras to see if Sasha left with anyone. Coach returns to the gym shortly after. Maria looks at the way coach gabby is entering the room, she looks like she doesn’t have a thought going on in her head and looks like she is about to throw up.
It was time to dismiss the girls from tryouts, “Ok girls, good job i’ll tell you who made the teams tomorrow morning. All the girls leave, at Maria’s house she calls Sasha hoping for an answer but no one does, she’s starting to get worried about her. A couples hours latter Maria gets a notification on her phone, she reads
“Amber alert for Sasha williams”
Her eyes widen as she keeps reading. It says her dad stole her from school and the car that she took her in is an old worn down jeep” she runs to go tell her mom and they both break down in tears. Maria can’t believe her best friend is kidnapped and if she’s ever gonna be found or what her cruel dad will do to her and how scared she is. After she calms down a little she thinks back at school, she thinks about how she was acting at school and how she was so anxious. Maria wonders if she knew something like this was going to happen. Maria calls Vanessa, Sasha’s mom, to see how she is doing.
“Hey Vanessa, how are you doing,” said Maria’s mom.
“As best as I can,” said Sasha’s mom”
A couple weeks go by and no new news and Maria makes a lot of new friends but she still thinks about Sasha dailey and wonders where she’s at or even if she’s still alive. Coach Gabby can see that Maria’s volleyball performance has not been like she usually plays and thinks that because of Sasha’s disappearance. A year or so goes b y and on the news a car crash is found with 2 dead in divalus that are reported to be Sasha and her dad… With a note that looks like Sasha’s handwriting that said
“Sorry mom and Maria”
No one knows why she was sorry. They had her funeral and Sasha’s mom moved away.
Once upon a time in the world of sports there lived two twins born from nothing. The Yin twin was very wild and rude to the people in the village. The Yang twin was very smart and kind to the people in the village. Whatever the Yin twin would destroy, the Yang twin would fix it. Since the Yin twin was so destructive he was banished from the village. One day the twins heard a mysterious voice.
”You two are the beginning of a great story.”
After that they never heard that mysterious voice ever again. The Yang twin became king and had a son named Evony Manorest. Fifteen years later, the king was kidnaped and taken to the Darklands and a big prize was given out to rescue the king. Meanwhile in the Darklands the king meets his brother, and they have a family reunion and they have a good time. They saw what each other was up to and get to know how each other’s life was going. Meanwhile in the kingdom of the king, everything was in chaos. With the king gone everyone didn’t know what to do. Ebony tried to calm everyone down, but it only worsened it so Evony decided to go bring the king back to the castle.
Evony asked everyone who would want to help him rescue the king and stop the chaos from worsening. The only people that wanted to save the king were Carl, Josh, Doni, and Megis. Evony and Carl went to the Adventurers Guild to become adventurers to begin to start their journey to rescue the king. When everyone was all ready and packed up, they left the village and started their adventure to find and rescue the king.
Meanwhile with the king and his brother, his brother was introducing his family to him and showing him around. Back to Evony and his party, they encountered a goblin camp and they got attacked by goblins and they swiftly and effortlessly defeated the goblins. A few hours later they found ruins and decided to camp out there while everyone was unpacking Evony went to explore the ruins and found a secret door that led to a treasure room and before he went in he told everyone else.
Evony said,”Guys I found a hidden treasure room!”
They all went in and they looked through the treasures, and they grabbed some magic weapons and some gold and started a fire back at the camp. After they had dinner they went to sleep. When they woke up they all started to pack up and continue their journey. After some time passed they got attacked by Orcs that saw them while they were hunting and they defeated the Orcs but it took a good amount of time.
They were getting closer to the king when they came across an inn. The innkeeper welcomed them in kind to stay the night. During the night they heard a weird noise that sounded like a monster. They got ready and started to leave the inn but ran into the monster, the innkeeper.
They were captured and tied up after they freed themself and found each other. They went to save the kids the innkeeper kidnapped. They saved the kids and looked for the innkeeper to defeat him. When they found the innkeeper and wounded him, he got away and reported it to the king’s brother. The king’s brother ordered his servants to set traps to stop Evony’s party from stealing his brother away from him.
While they were walking down the path they accidentally activated a teleporting trap that separated them all and trapped them in a huge maze with traps and treasures. They all knew that following the right wall was the way to the exit. So after five hours in the maze they finally got out. After they stepped out of the maze it teleported to a treasure room and they took only the valuables, and then they were teleported to where they got teleported to the maze and continued down the path.
They took a little break after they were walking on the path for a few hours for a lunch break. They voted for who would cook the food. They all voted for Doni to cook lunch because he owned the best restaurant in the kingdom. After lunch they continued down the path but they got attacked by bandits and gave them one hundred gold coins and the bandits left them alone.
In the beginning Bob started his engine. Then Bob went on the track to start to warm up. After Bob got warmed up Bob and the other races went back to three trals. Bob got something to eat then Bob went back to the track and got in line to start the race.
Bob and the other people got the green flag so they started the race. Three laps in, someone wrecked the car and then the race had to stop so the clean up tem could clear the track and the race got going.
Then Bob and the other race are fighting for 1st place. They were bumping into each other and they kept fighting. Bob was still fighting for 1st place and his car was losing speed but he was not giving up.
Donald Trump sped up. The crowd went crazy, but Bob was still fighting and there was only one lap to go.
Bob was in 1st place now. Bob won the first race. Now he was going to his trial to rest. In 30 minutes, Bob will go and start the second race.
They got the green flag. There was a pile up in the 1st corner of the track. Then 3 people started to fight, and the cops came to split them up. Bob wanted to keep going, but they had to stop the race. Then 20 minutes went by and the race still was not going.
Bob was getting mad but they said five more minutes left to wait, so he was happy. Then Bob got on the track. They got lined up again and Bob got in the front of the line. Bob doesn’t want to lose this shot in the race. Suddenly Bob got hit from the back of his car. Bob lost his spot in the race. Bob was not going to give up. Bob and this other guy were fighting for 1st place. Bob was now in 1st place with 2 laps to go. Now there was only 1 lap to go. Bob was still in first place. Bob saw the checker flag. Bob was happy he got first place in that race. Now Bob and the 4 winds have to have the championship race in one week.
Bob has one week to rebuild his car so it can go alot faster than it did at the home races. Bob got his car done but the race is in 2 days. So Bob now had put his car back together fast. Bob and his new friend Bill.
“Bob, this is not going to get done in 2 days. We still have the second car to put together. We will not put this car together in 2 days. We should not rebuild this car, we are not going to make it.” – said Bill
“Do not tell me what to do. You should be happy that I’m helping you with these dumb cars so shut up and let me work.” – Said Bill
“Bill this car is not dumb you are dumb if you want me to win we have to work” – said Bob
“Bob, I’m not dumb. If you want me to work, leave me alone.’ – said Bill
“Yes we are if you stop talking we will yes we will not going to get this done so get to work.” -Said Bob
“I’m going to get something to eat. Do you want something to eat?” – Said Bob
“No. Well, where are you going?” – Said Bill
“I’m going to Casey’s, what do you want, pizza and a Mtn Dew.” – Said Bob
“Bill, are you still mad at me? I got you food.” – Said Bob
“Yes Bob, I’m still mad at you because I’m stupid.”
“Bill, you are not in preschool. You are a grown man so you can grow up and drop it. And get to work you are slowing me down.” – Said Bob
“Well I know that I’m not in preschool. And I’m already a grown man. I will drop it if you do not shut up. I’m not slowing you down.” – Said Bill
“Bill is just going to start working to.” – Said Bob
“We got it done well, let’s see if it will start tomorrow.” – Said Bill
“I hope it does. We only have one day to work on it and we have to leave early to get there on time.” – said Bob
“Well it runs!” – said Bill
“Yes it does bill!” – said Bob
“Let’s put it on the trailer and let’s get ready to leave.” – said Bill
“I hope that we make it on time we left late.” – said Bill
“We won’t be late so do not worry bill. We just be one of the late ones at the ticket booth.” – said Bob
“We made it and we are not late like I told you bill” – said Bob
“Hope you do well at warm ups Bob!” -said bill
“Me to bill!” – said Bob
“Bill, this car is good on this track.” – said Bob
“That is the best news of my day so far. Well get out of the car and take a break be for you have to go and race.” – said Bill
“Good idea Bill.” – said Bob
30 mins late.
“It is time to go race now, wish me luck.” – said Bob
Bob got in the 3 other races the green flag. Bob got the lead and they had 30 more laps to go. Bob’s car is smoking all the other cars. Now there are only 20 more laps to go and all the cars are going well so for now there are 10 laps left and the cars are slowing down but Bob’s car was in the worst shape.
“Oh no” Bob slid out in the third corner and this is going end over end then his car burnt into flames. The fire dept rushed onto the track, and he got rushed to the hospital.
“Bob you were going good what happened” – said Bill
“I do not know what happened bill” – said Bob
Bob passed away 3 days later from 3 degree burns and a lot of broken bones.
Everyone loves summer break, whether it’s getting to play out in the warm sun, hanging with friends, relaxing, and going back to school and telling people about their summer. Everyone thinks that they had a crazy and chaotic summer, but, I don’t think you’ve heard of one this crazy.
“Come on, we’re going to be late!!” I yelled. We were getting ready to go to the second to last football game of the year. Everyone was so excited to go. We have been undefeated!!
We were just about to make a touchdown when billions of people started to say “ooo, that must have hurt.” I looked around to see what had happened, I couldn’t tell, so my friend Chloe pointed out to Billy on the field. Then I saw it, HIS BONE WAS STICKING OUT OF HIS LEG!! The police came and were talking on the walkie talkies to signal the ambulance to come to their location. My brother Sam saw the walkie talkie, and he instantly wanted one, so I told him that we have baby monitors that could work, and he was so excited to go home and find his old baby- monitor.
“I found it!” Sam yelled, “It’s in this box!!”
I ran over there to see if he really did, and he did find it! Chloe came over and helped us get the cords untangled. We sat them up and turned them on.
Kkkrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
The static overwhelmed the room. “Hey!! I hear something. Do you hear that?” Chloe said
“Ya, I hear that too!!” Sam said
“But wait,” I said, “I turned this one off to make the static go away.” “It must be picking up another signal from another baby monitor.” Chloe explained.
“Y, y..ya, I, I guess you’re right.” I said.
“Ashley,” said Sam, “are you ok?”
“Ya, Ya, I, I, I’m fine.” I said
“Well I’ve got to go home, it’s getting late.” said Chloe
“Ok, I’ll call you later.” I said
Later that night we kept hearing those strange noises on the baby monitor. My mom said to put it away, but when Sam got up I started to hear words, English!!
“Wait!!” I yelled “Stay right there!!”
“What?” Sam asked
“Do you hear that?” I said.
My brother swung his hands up, and I heard it more clearly.
“Wait!!” I said, “Hold that up again!!”
“I hear it!!” My brother exclaimed “The higher it is, the more clear it gets.”
We held it up higher, but it was still too quiet, so I put a chair on the table and squatted down on it.
“Stop!!” I yelled, “Nobody move”
Krrrrrrrrr “Yes” Krrrrrrrrrr “That is de plan. Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Get more of those earthlings to do more studies. Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr “Wait!! Nrrrg nnrrrrrgsssnrrggg”
“Oh man, We lost the signal.” I said, “Earthlings!!”
“What?” Sam asked.
“They said earthlings, so that must mean that they live somewhere else, and not on earth.”
“You mean like aliens?” Sam asked.
“I don’t know.” I said, “But what I do know is that somethings up, and I don’t think it’s good.”
We kept hearing the noises, but nothing was abnormal. We didn’t think much more about it, and went on with our summer. I was helping Sam get packed for camping at our cabin,when I saw the baby monitor on his dresser. We didn’t think much about it, but we still took it just in case.
Afterwards we picked up Chloe and headed to our cabin. When we got there we unpacked and went to bed. When we went to bed I had this strange feeling that something was wrong, or something bad was going to happen, but I still didn’t think much about it. I went to sleep and when I woke up I was outside, so was my brother, and chloe!! I didn’t know why but we were. We were all confused about what happened. I itched my arm.
“What?” I thought to myself, I looked down and there was this strange marking on my arm, almost like a diamond with a line through it.
I grabbed Chloe and Sam’s wrists and looked at them. They had it too. That’s when I really started to freak out. We ran back inside and turned on the baby monitor and there it was, the voices again.
Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Those earthlings, they’re perfect!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr They will make perfect specimens for our labs!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
“I think they’re talking about us!” Chloe said. That’s when I got this eerie feeling in my stomach.
“Here it comes again!!” Said Sam.
Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Them Krrrrrrrrrrr I think they know our plan!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrr Noo!! They must not know of our plan!! Krrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
“Oh man, we lost the signal again!!”
Later on that night, we all three tried to stay awake, I looked down at my wrist to see the sign again, but it was not there!! They looked at their arms too. Theirs was also gone!! We looked outside, nothing was different.
We all eventually fell asleep, but I got spooked or something and woke up. I looked around, and I was in this strange white room filled with these strange creatures with big heads, but little bodies doing some sort of lab work! One looked over at me with these big glowing eyes!!
I tried to scream but my throat felt like it was in my stomach. It hovered over to me and put some sort of mask over my mouth, and I fell asleep.
When I woke up again, Chloe and Sam were at my side yelling my name.
“We have to get out of here!!” Chloe said
“Ashley!!” My brother cried, “I just want to go home!!”
Just then, a loud bang came from the left!
“Come on, we’ve got to go!!” yelled Chloe.
We ran down this very narrow hall to this weirdly shaped door.
“It’s locked!!” I yelled “Come on, this way!! They’re following us!! Quick!! Hurry up!!”
We ran down this hallway to our right that led us to this big circle on the floor. Right beside it was this big red button, and of course Sam pushed it. As we stood on the circle, it shined this big beam of light down towards the ground and we floated down to the ground. Right as our feet touched the ground, we ran towards the trees to hide. The weird creatures floated down from the beam of light right after we ran toward the trees. Just then, the marks on our arms started glowing this bright blue.
“Wait, what if they are tracking us!! What if this is how they know where we are always at!” I said
“Hey, Do you still have that flashlight with the magnet on the bottom?” Chloe asked.
“Ya, In Fact I do, I was going to use it tonight just in case we heard something outside. Why?”
“Because we could rub the magnet on our wrists to mess up the tracking device so they can’t find us.”
“Ya, then we won’t ever have to worry about them ever again! You are so smart!!”
“Thank you, hurry now up, let’s do this fast.”
We all rubbed the magnet on our wrists. Just then a beam of light shined around as if it was looking for something.
“I think it’s looking for us,” I yelled. Come on, go this way!!”
All of a sudden three rays of light shot down at us and we all three floated in the air. We could,’t move, we were like frozen in our place. 2 figures came out from the trees, and hovered right to us. They spoke to each other as if we weren’t even there.
“Those earthlings are too smart for us, we’ve got to hide their GPS trackers better, and where they can’t find them, like in their nose or on their tung.”
“I got a great idea for a place.”
“Really? What?”
“What about on the surface of their eye or behind their eye socket?!”
“Great idea!!”
Just then, one snapped their finger and everything went black.
When I opened my eyes Sam, and Chloe were laying at my side. All three of us looked around, and we couldn’t remember what happened. I looked at and at Chloe and Sam. I could see tears in Sam’s eyes. I couldn’t believe how hard it must be for a 7 year old boy going through this. I went over to him and gave him a big hug. Then all of a sudden, This big eerie screech came from the night sky. All three of us jumped.
“We’ve got to go find your parents!!” Chloe yelled
“I know.” I said
“And after that, we should go tell the police!!” Sam cried
“Good thinking, we will.” I said “I promise you, I will never let anything happen to you. Neither of you.” I said
Scr Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
“Did you hear that? It’s getting louder!!” I yelled, “Come on, let’s get to the cabin!!”
“Where is the cabin?” Chloe yelled
“What do you mean?” I yelled
“Where are we?” She yelled
“I don’t know where we are?” I yelled
“I just Want to go home.” Sam yelled, “I want mom, and dad.”
“I know buddy, We just got to find..
Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
“Ahhhhh” We all held our ears from the loud screech.
“It’s gettin closer, RUN!!” I screamed
We ran for as far as we could, when Sam collapsed.
“Sam!! Are you ok?” I yelled
“I can’t run any farther!!” He yelled back
I put him on my back and kept running. When we reached this pond I just remembered that I read this book that said Aliens don’t like water, it kills them!!
“Jump in the water!!” I yelled
“Are you crazy?” Chloe yelled
“Just do it!!” I yelled back
We all jumped in the water and that’s when we heard the most gut rotting, the most eerie, the most terrifying screech ever!! Screeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! It sounded like 200 or more screeches all at once. All of a sudden I saw something swoop down and grab Chloe. Chloe screamed as loud as she could, but nothing worked. Then something swooped down and tried to grab me and Sam, but I dogged it, then a second one came and grabbed me by my arms as I was still holding Sam on my back. We screamed, and kicked but nothing worked. We were brought into the ship, and into this very little room with three hard plastic looking beds. All I remembered was that Sam was taken off of my back, and all three of us were placed on the bed like things and we were strapped down to them and about 13 figures circled around us and I blacked out. When I woke up, I was at home lying down in my bed. I couldn’t remember anything that happened.
“Was it all a dream?” I thought to myself, “It seemed so real. Did I dream my whole summer? That’s impossible!! You can’t do that.”
That’s when I had the idea to go to sam. He didn’t know what happened either so I called Chloe and asked her to come over to our house, but she was already here. She had no idea what happened either. I went down stairs.
“Mom, Dad?” I yelled “Where are you?”
“Ummm, Ashley, don’t you mean where are we?”Chloe said as she looked out the window.
“What do you mean?”
“Look!”
I looked out the window and we were not at home. There were stars, and a dark sky.
“We’re in space!!” Sam yelled “But why?”
“I don’t know Sam, but…”
Something interrupted me and woke up.I was sitting up against a mailbox. I was all alone, I started freaking out and I started yelling for Sam and Chloe. Nothing, nothing but silence. I looked around in this nearby field. I saw something lying on the ground, and to the right of it was another one.
“Sam!!, Chloe!!” I yelled, “Sam!!, Chloe!!” I ran over there, and sure enough it was them. I shook them until they woke up.
“Where are we?” Sam asked
I ran back over to the mailbox to read the address. It read “San Diego, California”
We are in San Diego, California!!” I yelled to them as they ran towards me.
“Why are we in Calla, fonia?” Sam asked
“It’s pronounced California sam, and I don’t know why we are.” I said
“Wait!! California is the state with the most alien sightings!!” Chloe said
“But why would they take us over 1,800 miles away from home?” I asked
“I don’t know.” Chloe said as she looked down
“Wait!!” she said “what if this is where the ship is located, what if this is where we’ve been this whole time!!”
“Is 1,800 a lot of miles from home?” sam asked
“Yes buddy, it is. But the real question is how do we get home? What if we don’t get to see our parents ever again!!” I panicked
Sam started to cry.
“Oh buddy, I’m so sorry. I never should have said that.” I said
“You promised we would get home!! You promised!!”
“I know buddy, and I will keep my promise.”
“How are you going to keep your promise?” Chloe asked me
Chloe looked at me funny.
“What?” I asked
She didn’t answer me.
“What? Answer me!!”
“At the corner of your eye!! She said
“What about it, is there an eyelash? I asked, “Chloe!!”
“There is a tiny blue shining diamond with a line in it.” She said
“What do you mean?” I cried
I itched my eye
A large ship hovered above us.
“Hide!!” I yelled!!
We hid behind this bush, as if it was going to do anything.
“We’ve gotta get out of here, make a run for it!”
“ Where are we going to go?” Sam asked
“Wait!! I know where!! My aunt Edna lives in Los Angeles!!”
“But that’s about 130 miles from here!! How are we supposed to get there? We don’t have any money, we haven’t ate anything for over 3 days, we are tired from running, what are we supposed to do now?”
“I didn’t think of that.”
“I know you didn’t, you never think about what’s happening, you only think about what could happen.”
“So that’s how you feel about me.”
“No, Chloe, I didn’t mean it.”
“No, I get it, I always try to find all of the good things, or the good possibilities that could happen.”
“I know, and that’s what I love about you, that’s what makes you, you!!”
“Thanks!!”
“Now come on!! We need to get a head start to your aunt Edna’s house!! Come on Sam!!”
We went into the big city to go find Aunt Edna.
“Guys!! Look!!” Chloe yelled as she pointed to the jumbotron.
“Hey, that’s the big ship that we were on!!” Sam yelled
“ That’s us!!” I said, “We were all shot down towards the ground!!” I said
“Hey!!” A man yelled, “Those are the kids that were in the UFO and got shot down from that ray of light!!”
“No, we’re not!!” Chloe said
(She doesn’t like crowds)
“Wait, Yes we are the kids!” I yelled
“Ashley!!” Chloe said
“I know what I’m doing Chloe, trust me.” I said back, “Hey everyone, We were taken over 1,800 miles from home, and these weird creatures have done so many studies on us. We haven’t eaten in over 3 days, and we are so tired. So will somebody be so kind as to take us home or at least to Los Angeles?” I asked
“Ya, and some food!!” Sam added
“Hey, I will!!” Yelled a woman from the crowd, “Just come with me and we can stop and get some burgers and fries!! Does that sound ok? Then I will take you home!!”
“Thank you so much!! You are so kind!!” I said back
“ Ya, thank you!!” Sam said
We ate for about an hour, and then we headed for home. The woman of course asked so many questions, and I was very comfortable sharing everything with her, especially for how much she has done for us!! We stayed at a hotel for the night because we still had over 1,200 miles to go.
“How do you have so much time to help us?” I asked the kind lady
“Well, I recently lost my husband in a car crash and then I realized how precious life is, so don’t waste it all and enjoy your life. My husband always told me to “live as if this was your last day.” I never knew what that meant until he passed away. So now, I want to travel the world and live my life!!” She replied
“I’m so sorry.” I said back
“Oh, that’s ok, it feels good to let it all out.
I couldn’t sleep that night. I didn’t know if it was because it was weird sleeping with a stranger, or if it was because of what she said.
We traveled for 2 days and we finally got home. My mom and dad were so happy to see us, and They thanked the kind lady for bringing us home. When she left, they sat us down and we told them everything. They didn’t really believe us, but they were just happy that we were home. I heard my mom talking to dad in her room, and she said that she thinks that the real reason we left was because we were mad at them for taking the baby monitor away. Even if they don’t believe us, we will always know the truth about what happened.
We tried forgetting about it, and I sort of did for a little while, until one day after school, I got an itch in my eye, and could see a little blue diamond with a line in it at the corner of my eye.
The referee’s whistle blows. The crowd goes silent, all Eyes on me. It’s a one point game and we need that last point. It took me a bit but I finally threw the ball into the air and hit a deep corner. Everyone’s quiet, the line guard looks at the referee, and nods his head. It’s all up to him . He looks like he’s standing on a throne, kinda like he has all the power. He puts his arms out and blows the whistle. I got the winning point. I look in the crowd and see my sister, the one I’m playing for.
“This is for you” I mouth to her
“Thank you” she mouths
I smile slightly, still sad she’s going back to the hospital tomorrow. My whole team is cheering me on and saying “ Oswald high school forever!”
I smile at them as they crowd around me. It’s making me very claustrophobic if I do say so myself, but it doesn’t matter since I got the point for her. My sister has had Astrocytomas (brain cancer) since she was 9 years old. She’s been living with it for 2 years now and it has brought our family to Chaos. Mom started her old habit of smoking, and dad is just. Dad’s just not doing as well as he used to be before she developed cancer. But it was just how it always is, them fighting over small things. Stupid small things.
“Why did you make JayLynn walk to school yesterday?”
“Its 70* out Martha, She’s fine. She’s still alive isn’t she?”
“How dare you speak to me like that david!”
“Well sorry you can’t drive your own kid to school!”
Like I said, “Stupid small things” but it doesn’t matter right now. All that matters is that Maddie’s getting better. She got diagnosed on 5/07/2020 it was 1 month after her birthday. She passed out at school at 10 in the morning and no one could wake her up. Not even the teacher could get her up. I was still in the school at the time so they called me down immediately to try and get her awake. The police, hospital,and my parents were called. The paramedics arrived first and then my parents after, the police arrived 15 minutes after the secretary made the call.
I swore when I saw her lying at her desk and I held her hand. It felt Cold. When the paramedics got there I wouldn’t let them take her away from me, so they had to wait until the police came to restrain me. A 14 year old girl in a private school made a fool of herself in front of her parents. I was so disrespectful to them and everyone else. I was in the fight, flight or freeze mode and it chose to fight. The police took me to my parents, flailing my arms trying to get out of their grip so I could see my sister.
I looked over my moms shoulder since she’s so short and I saw my sister being put into the back of an ambulance. I cried harder than I’ve ever cried before. It was about 5 hours later that she got an MRI when she finally woke up right then and there in the front of the hospital my dad finally couldn’t hold back anymore ,and brokedown. I couldn’t tell what it was from . If it was from the bleach on the floor which was his least favorite smell,or the fact his youngest daughter got diagnosed with cancer.
It’s the next day now and my snapchat is filled with snaps from my friends and VB team. Everyones congratulates me for the serve I made and then I smell the air just to smell pancakes, the best smell in the world.So I get out of bed and get dressed into a fluffy pair of pants and a big sweatshirt. I brush my hair and that’s when my father calls from downstairs. I stop brushing my hair and say to myself “it looks good enough” before I go downstairs and eat the delicious pancakes.
I get downstairs to see Maddie there and I ask her“How did you get here so fast?”I asked smiling
“You’re too old to run fast anymore!” She replied, making me laugh.
I go over to the table and sit down. My father asks me “why is your hair such a mess Lynn?”
I look at him with a puzzled look and ask “What do you mean?”
He laughs and points to the bathroom”Go get a good look at yourself!”
he says in a playful tone. So I got up and went to the bathroom and shut the door behind me.
My strawberry blonde hair and light green eyes staring back at me from the mirror. My bruises from past volleyball games on my arms, and legs basically all over my body. I look at my wavy hair all the way down to the middle of my back and notice how frizzy it is. I use my brush to comb it out, and get it straightened out. After I do that I head out to see the most delicious pancakes in the whole world. They had chocolate syrup, strawberries,and little bites of banana on them too.
I sat down to eat and get a big whiff of this amazing smell. Then those beautiful pancakes sat down right infront of me. I swear I was drooling but they looked delicious. How could I help myself? After my dad passes them around he sits down and we all dig into the exquisite food. My dad only makes this type of food for maddie never me, Whenever she isn’t here i usually just have a slice of toast, or a small bowl of cereal.
After breakfast I clean up the food by taking them to the sink and rinsing them off, so there’s nothing on them. I put them carefully down in the sink and go back to the table. “So Maddie has something to share with us?”
My father says smiling and anticipatingly. Maddie then stands up like she’s going to make a huge announcement.
“The doctors said they can cure me with Mitotic and topoisomerase inhibitors or whatever they call it. They said it would be around 20,000 dollars but I knew you guys had enough money, so I signed your names on the sheet to cure me!” The room went so silent you could hear mom and dads worry in their heads.
“What’s wrong guys? I can be normal again!”Mom and Dad exchange worried glances. “Of course honey!” Mom has such a worried tone, and Dad has his head in his hands. All of a sudden dad stands up, shoves his chair in and walks upstairs at a quick pace and slams his door to his bedroom.”David.”
My mom says and goes after him. I’m just in the dining room with Maddie. She looks at me confused. “Did I do something wrong?”
She asks in a meaningful voice (for once). I didn’t know what to say. If she was being sincere or not.
My mom finally came out of her room “JaeLynn go to your room, im taking Maddie back to the hospital. I’m going to have a little chat with her on the way there.”
she said. And at that moment, I knew Maddie wasn’t just getting a “Little chat”. So I did as she said, and went up to my room and shut the door behind me. Immediately after I do that, mom starts calling out Maddie. I can barely hear anything, everything is muffled
I look around in my room. The same baby blue walls with green paint splatter on them. I see my white desk,made out of wood with the same green paint splatters. Then there’s my trophies. From my newest one all the way to my first one I got when I was Seven. Such a memorable moment. It was when I got to state for my outstanding performance. I was playing with kids that were Eight and Nine! I felt like such an outcast in that group.
I was practicing with my team in our personal gym and I was in fourth spot and my friend Maggie did a perfect set for me while she was in second spot and I put that ball in the best deep corner. I think that was the best one my coach had ever seen, especially from a 7 year old. She was so impressed by me she got me a little statue of a girl spiking the ball over the net and the wording on it said “#1 spiker”, and she gave maddie one that said “#1 setter”. That’s how we became best friends.
She goes to the same highschool as me and she’s on my volleyball team. We’ve been friends for about nine years, soon to be ten. She’s a year older than me, but she got held back for ripping out a kid’s hair in 2nd grade so me and her got in a class together. She scared me at first, and even the teacher was scared of her, but I was her only friend and it was like that forever. We’re in 9th grade together now and I’m 15 and she’s 16.
I get dressed into a pair of pjs and scroll on my phone. I look at the snaps from this morning. Some of them are congratulating me, others are just streaks. I continue to scroll on my phone until my bestie texts me. It’s always bad when she texts first. Bc that means she isn’t tired and we’re going to stay up the whole night talking.Im already tired so i don’t answer her, just for both of us to sleep well tonight. She texts me
“Nice corner you hit today. I’ve been telling you for months you need to teach me how to do that 😭 😭 😭“, I laughed at her remark, tempted to write back.I smiled at her text then put my phone on my night stand i looked at my easel and i went to clean it off.
After i got my easel cleaned off i looked at my cats food bowl noticing it’s empty. I look around the room and notice I can’t find her. I shrug it off and go in my closet for some cat food. I get the cat food and pour it in her bowl. She always stays in my room.Everyone knows not to let her outside into the wild. Ecsp-ecialy from the Tuna incident. When I was about 10 I got a cat named tuna. He was the best cat I could ever ask for.
One day Tuna got out of my room. I don’t know how it happened but he got out. My sister was about 3 at the time and Tuna was scratching at the door to go outside. My sister could actually reach the door handle to let him outside. So she did and shut the door after he went out. My mom was driving me to school at the time and my dad was working in his office since he is a work at home dad.
He didn’t even notice the door open. It was about 7 hours before I came home from school. We live in the country so it takes longer to get there. When I got home I went to my room and called for Tuna. But he didn’t answer. I particularly thought he was sleeping under my bed, so I didn’t think much about it.
I filled up his bowl since he always came running to the food bowl once he heard the food against the metal bowl. This time he didn’t come so I looked everywhere in my room. I went downstairs to ask my dad if he had seen him.
“Dad, did tuna come out of my room today?” He just shooed me out of the room. I guess he was on a business call or something. About an hour later mom finally pulled into the driveway. I ran out in tears.”What’s wrong JaeLynn?”
she asked in such a calm tone “Tunas missing” By this point I was sobbing. She hugged me.
“He’s probably just in your room somewhere sweetie”
“No mom, he’s not in there, I checked everywhere!”
“Its ok let me rest then we can go look for him”
“Mama you don’t understand!”
She ignored me and went inside. I followed after her looking everywhere in the house. Looking in the kitchen, dining room, maddies room, and even my dads work area. My dad wasn’t thrilled when he came back to see his room messed up and everything disorganized. Maddie kept following me around the house and saying stuff like “Tutu” , what she called Tuna.”Kitty”, and “out out” non understanding what she meant by that but she always said that when she was waiting by the door.
I looked everywhere and I tore up the house. Me and my family came to an agreement that Tuna got out, and that my parents wouldn’t be able to trust me with a cat for a while. It wasn’t until a year later when maddie finally fessed up and told us that she let tuna outside, and that she didn’t feel bad about it since she never liked that cat anyway.
I got so furious at her I yelled at her for days, and she was only 7. I got so angry at her while we were in this quarrel when she teased me about “Not being able to function my emotions”, or something stupid like that. I punched her in her side, and she still has a little scar from me to this day.Lets just say she never came into my room and never touched my cat again. The only time she did is when we got Cookie, my new cat. We got her last year after me and my parents had enough money.
Cookie is a Main coon ragdoll moggy. She has a light brown fur color with little black circles all on her fur. Her fur is super soft, and relaxing to pet on stressful days. I got her 1 year ago when she was still a kitten. She’s always been in my room, and she’s never left my room once. Cookie gets home sick when I leave for school, so she’s always happy when I come home. She would always meow at me, rub against my legs, and bats at her food bowl. Somehow she never got fat. I feed her so much that sometimes I think she will explode!
I hear my mom get back and slam the door.
“David, get out here now.”
“Yes matha?”
“That brat actually signed both of our names on the paper, and now we can’t get them off.”
“You’re kidding, right?”
“Does my face look like it’s kidding?”
“No martha it doesn’t”
“I’m shocked you’re not even angry. She is your favorite after all”
My dad just stormes back into his room furious. I don’t hear any arguing after that so I think it’s safe to come out of my room. I open my door and shut it quietly, so then they don’t hear it shut. I slowly make my way down to the kitchen noticing no one is there. I go to the cabinets and pull out some cereal. I pour it into a bowl, and go to get some milk from the fridge. I open the fridge door and notice there isn’t any milk, but i can just eat my cereal without any milk
I take my bowl of dry cereal up to my room to eat it. I don’t have a spoon or anything but cereal is cereal with or without the spoon. I sit on my bed and eat my cereal just scrolling through my youtube feed. I finish my cereal about 10 minutes later, but when i finish it i put down my phone and head back downstairs. I go to the kitchen and hear my dad working in his office with his door shut. I don’t know where my mom is, but I suspect that she’s probably in her room watching a new show or something like that.
I rinse out my bowl and head back upstairs to go snuggle with Cookie. I get to my room and sit on the bean bag chair in front of my bed and turn on the tv right in front of me. I watch a movie and Cookie lays on my lap petting her. She’s purring so loud I feel like the whole room is shaking. Her purr only lasts a few seconds before she jumps off my lap, and jumps on my bed. I look at my clock on my wall and see that its 11:00 p.m. I turn off my tv, and get dressed into a silky shirt and a pair of matching silky shorts. I brush out my hair, and get into my bed. I turn to my right side, and fall asleep.
I saw the crowd roar in joy. I smile getting into my car. I look at my opponent. I heard a gunshot and the race was off. I was three laps in and I saw two cars on my side. I see them getting closer.
BOOM!
I was in the air. I saw the sky and then the ground over and over. The ground upside down. People yelling.
“MICK! MICK! SOMEBODY HELP.” Ben yelled. Ben was my brother.
I heard the ambulance there, but I couldn’t see it. The race was stopped. They tried and tried to get me out, but they noticed I had a broken neck, arm, and leg. They did the Jaws of Life on the car to get me out. It took 40 – 50 seconds to get me out. They put a neck brace on my neck and put me on a bodyboard. They put me in the ambulance and took me to the hospital with my brother. Twenty minutes later my brother and I made it to the hospital.
They performed emergency surgeries. Six hours after I got done with my surgery, I was in a hospital bed with my wife by my side and my daughter on my other side. Ben was standing at the end of my bed.
“Dad?” said Angel. She is his daughter.
“Yeah”
“ Are you going to be healed for my wedding?”
“ I don’t know but I hope I am.”
The next day I had to go do another surgery. I went in and my wife and Angel stayed in the room. My wife was praying when I went in. Five hours later I got out and I was in my room asleep. My wife was holding my hand. Angel had her head on my shoulder.
Two weeks later I got out of the hospital. My wife was driving Angel and me home from the hospital. When we got home the TV was on and President Trump was speaking. I sat on the couch with my wife. It got later and my wife started to make dinner. I was sitting on the couch watching her cook.
“What are you making?” said Mick.
“Chicken tacos.”
“Okay.”
After dinner, my wife and I are sitting in bed. My wife is setting up an appointment for me. I fell asleep with her. The next day my neighbors were over and their little girl was coloring my cast on my arm. I smiled down at her remembering my daughter when she was little. I knew at that moment I was going to walk my daughter down the aisle.
Six weeks later I was in physical therapy and I was doing well. I was working really hard to get healed for my daughter’s wedding. I worked every day. My arm was healed. I was still having trouble walking. I kept pushing through and never gave up. I had too much that I still wanted to do in my career, and I knew my daughter wanted me to keep going.
After my therapy session, I was sitting in the car waiting for my wife. When she got in the car we went to Taco Bell to get lunch. We got our food and went home. When we got home, she helped me in my wheelchair to the house. After I finished my food. I moved to the living room and sat on the couch turning on the TV. My wife sat down with me. I put my arm around her shoulder and pulled her closer to me. I was thankful to have her.
Three weeks before my daughter’s wedding, my wife went dress shopping today and I stayed at home with Ben and my daughter’s fiance. We were watching football. Five hours laters the girls came back from dress shopping. I pulled my daughter into the other room.
“Princess I don’t think I can walk at your wedding I am so sorry”
“It is okay Dad, I understand.” she said, looking at the ground.
The wedding day came, and everyone was getting ready. My wife was by my side. I was shaking in my wheelchair. Everyone started to fill the seats. I sat there listening to the birds sing thinking how beautiful this day was. I waited at the end of the aisle. As my daughter approached, she knelt down to me.
“Do you want Uncle Ben to push you?” she whispered.
I grabbed the arms of the wheelchair and slowly stood up.
“No I got it” I looked at her and smiled. “Let’s go,” I said softly.
With tears streaming down both of our faces, I walked my daughter down the aisle.
The forest was dark and quiet, the only noise was the light footsteps of a big buck walking through the woods. They didn’t see the deer at first but they heard the leaves crunching under its hooves. When it came into view they could see it was a ten pointer.
“Look, it’s a big one.” Emma whispered.
“It’s a ten pointer, get ready to shoot it,” whispered Bob.
Emma aimed right behind the shoulder and was interrupted by another noise so she turned around and saw… she couldn’t see anything, It was dark. She woke up to the voice of her father saying,
“Emma, wake up!”
“What happened?” Emma asked.
“You fell off the tree,” said Andrew, her boyfriend.
They walked back home and Emma sat down on the chair. Bob was about to walk out the door but before he did Emma said,
“What was the noise I heard before I fell?”
“What noise?” Said Andrew.
“The sound of someone walking behind us.”
“There was no noise Emma.” Bob said
Then Bob walked out the door and went hunting again. Emma and Andrew stayed behind and Emma went to bed. She had a terrible dream where she was hunting again and heard that noise again. She turned around and saw… Then she felt herself falling again. She woke up the next morning and couldn’t remember what she had dreamed about. She walked upstairs and her dad was up there.
“How do you feel this morning?” He asked.
“Fine.” She said.
“Do you want to go hunting again today?” Said Bob.
“No, I don’t think I will at all this year.”
“Alright.”
Bob left to go hunting and Emma sat there trying to remember what her dream was, but she couldn’t. Andrew came over and asked her how she was and then made her some breakfast. She started to eat and then she remembered something about her dream. She remembered turning around and seeing something but she couldn’t remember what it was. Then she remembered falling and hitting the ground.
“Did you hear that noise yesterday?” Emma asked.
“No. What do you think you heard?” Andrew said.
“I don’t know but I definitely heard something.”
“What did it sound like?”
“It kind of sounded like someone or something walking behind us.”
“Are you sure you weren’t just hearing things?”
“Yes, I’m sure.”
That was that so they continued eating quietly. Emma kept thinking about her dream and kept trying to remember what she saw when she turned around. She just couldn’t remember. All she could remember was falling off of the tree. Her dad came back in and she said,
“When can I go hunting again?”
“I don’t know, probably tomorrow,” said Bob.
“Ok.” said Emma.
She spent that whole day trying to remember what she saw right before she fell out of the tree. She couldn’t remember what she saw. That night as she started to drift off to sleep. She felt like she was falling and she was. She was back in the dream so she turned around to see what was over there and she saw… She woke up and couldn’t remember again. She got dressed and ready to go hunting again. She walked upstairs and her and her dad Bob walked out the door and got to the tree stand and stopped.
“Are you sure you want to do this?” Bob asked.
“Yup.”
They climbed up the ladder and sat in the tree stand. Emma kept looking behind them to see if anything was there. She didn’t see anything or hear anything until they were about to leave. She heard the crunching of leaves like someone was walking towards them. She ran back there to see what it was but there was nothing there.
“Emma, what are you doing?” her father asked.
“I heard it again! That crunching noise!” she said.
“What noise Emma, there was no noise.” Bob said.
“Yes there was, it was like someone was walking towards us and before you say anything there was a noise I heard it the other day and again today.”
“I think it’s time to go home,” said Bob.
So they went home and Emma went straight to her room, she knew she heard something and she needed to know what it was. So when everyone was sleeping she snuck out and went to find out what it was. She walked down to the tree stand and went to look around behind the tree stand and she saw something hiding in the grass. It was a baby deer with a cute button nose and white on the tip of its ear. She couldn’t help but smile, she had been worried so much about such a little thing. A little and cute thing. She walked back home and woke up the next morning happy and she remembered what she had seen last night.
It was the fourth quarter of my basketball game, and we were ahead by two baskets. Our game started at 10:00 am and it was currently 10:45. There were eight minutes left in our game and the quarter just started. It was our ball. We took it down the court and they stole it. Time to get payback. I ran as fast as I could and blocked her layup.
Fifteen seconds left in the game. They were up by one basket and it was our ball. My best friend was also on the team and she was the point guard. She dribbled down the court and passed it to me. There were now only five seconds left. I went out to the three point line and shot it.
Swish!
Errrrt!
I made the 3!
We won!!!
It was now 11:30 and we are going out for lunch. My mom said that I could choose where we went. So I picked Chick-fil-a. My mom ordered our stuff.
“Can I get two eight piece chicken nuggets with ranch cheese sauce and a Dr. Pepper?”
That was my favorite thing to get from Chick-fil-a. After we got our food, my best friend Scarlett called me. She had been my best friend since preschool because our names rhyme. My name is Charlotte.
“Hello.”
“Hey Charlotte, I was wondering if you wanted to go hunting with me in my timber”
“Sure, let me ask my mom quickly. Mom, can I go hunting with Scarlett?”
“Yes,” said my mom.
“We will be leaving at 3 o’clock to go.”
“Okay see you then!”
My mom and I got done eating and we went to Theisens to get myself a deer tag to go hunting with Scarlett. It was packed. There were 15 other people getting deer tags.
We have been waiting in line for 30 minutes and I finally got to the desk. The guy asked us all of the questions and told us the price. It was $33 dollars plus tax. Now it was time to go to Scarlett’s house!
We got there and she was already waiting outside. I got out of the car and Scarlett started running towards me.
“CHARLOTTE! I’m so happy to see you!”
“I am so excited to go hunting!”
“Oh my gosh, same!”
We walked into her house and put on some orange.
“I have two orange vests and two orange hats.”
“Okay let’s put it on.”
We put on the orange and grabbed the guns. It was currently 3:00 so we started heading back towards the tree stand. It was pretty far back so it took us 10 minutes to get there. We got to the stand and realized three nails had fallen out of the ladder.
“It will be fine. We just have to be careful,” said Scarlett.
“Okay, I’m kinda scared.”
“We will be fine, just be very careful.”
Scarlett climbed up first and it started creaking. I was really scared to climb up. I started climbing up, and it started creaking again. I made it up the ladder and we sat there. We had to sit there until 30 minutes after sunset. Sunset was at 4:32 so that meant we could leave at 5:02.
An hour had passed and it was very windy. The ladder was making very weird noises.
“Umm, was that supposed to happen,” I said.
“No, I think it was because of the wind.”
“Should we be concerned?”
“No, it will be fine.”
“Right after she said fine the ladder fell.”
“OMG we are STRANDED!” I said.
“We have no service! What are we going to do?”
“We are gonna have to call for help.”
“Do you mean to yell? No one is going to hear us.”
“Yes it is worth the try right? I mean what else are we going to do?”
We started yelling and no one heard us. We were going to have to stay the night in the timber, stranded in the tree. I knew something was going to happen as soon as we got to the tree stand. We couldn’t sleep. The raccoons kept squeaking all night. We finally fell asleep, but we only got two hours of sleep because it was bright out by 6:00 am. At 6:30 we heard a strange noise. There was something stomping in the leaves.
“What was that noise?” I asked.
“I don’t know, maybe it is a deer.”
“Let’s wait and see till it comes over here.”
“Okay!”
It came a little closer and we realized it was bigfoot.
Scarlett screamed,”AAAAHHHHHH”
“We should ask him to help us!”
“Are you sure?”
“Yes, then we might be saved!”
“Okay here we go”
I asked bigfoot if he could help us.
“Bigfoot, can you help us get down from the tree?”
“Ummmm sure!”
“OMG thank you!!!”
He helped us down and told us not to tell anyone about him. We said okay and walked home. We were starving so we ran home. When we got back to Scarlett’s house, her parents were crying. They didn’t realize we were home yet.
“Mom, Dad, where are you?”
“Scarlett! I can’t believe you are home! I was so worried,” said Scarlett’s mom.
“I’m so happy to see you too!”
“Charlotte, let’s get you home to your parents.”
“Okay!”
My house was five minutes away from Scarlett’s house. On the way to my house Scarlett’s mom called my mom. She told her that we were safe and I just heard my mom say thank goodness. We got to my house and my mom was waiting outside. I got out of the car and ran to my mom. I gave her a big hug.
“I missed you so much Mom!”
“I missed you too! Let’s go inside and have some steak!”
“That sounds like a great idea!”
Scarlett’s mom left. We went inside and ate some steak and she told me the whole time we ate how much she missed me. I told her that we got stuck in a tree. She asked how we got down and I said, “I guess you’ll never know!”
The crowd was yelling and hollering “Lil-y Lil-y Lil-y!!!” and I could hear my mom cheering for me. I had won and then I saw her. My sister’s name is Lola and my moms name is Suzie. My dads name was Allan, I was about 10 years old when my sister went missing. It was about four years ago.
When my sister got kidnapped, my dad left because he was so sad about it. My mom hadn’t been around the house much so I went to school. After school I have my swim team, and swim practice is over at about 5:30. I usually babysit my neighbor’s kid on Thursdays and Sundays until 6-11, but they usually get home earlier because they dont want me up too late. I get about 30$-40$ a day, and I’ve been saving up my money in case Lola ever comes back or is found. We could go to the movies or go shopping together or basically just do girly/sister things together.
I’ve always wondered if my sister came home, what my dad would do. Sometimes I wonder what she looks like,what she’s doing,what she’s wearing, if she’s even still alive… but I say hi to her friends all the time. They’re always asking how I’m doing. Lola was into volleyball,she was also sweet, nice, and caring. She also had dark purple hair and she was always so pretty with or without makeup.
I have to swim at 4:00pm today but I think I’m going to go to the pool at 2 so I can get some more practice because in 2 weeks I have a swim meet that I HAVE TO win. I was walking to the bus stop and there’s this billboard of missing kids and I don’t see my sister there. I know she was up there before because I stapled it extra so the wind wouldn’t take it because it’s happened before. I’m just confused who took it down. Could she be in this town and the kidnapper took it down? What happened to my sister’s missing photo?
The bus finally came andI was frustrated about my sister’s photo being gone. I’m looking out of the bus window onto the trashed streets and the color of everything just looks dull, like if my town had the colors washed out or just they all faded. I see trash blowing with the wind down the empty streets with no cars but there’s random tweakers down them. I see stray cats jumping out of dumpsters or chasing birds. You ever feel bad for them, because I do. I wonder where the cats’ owner or mom is at or if any of these cats ever had an owner to show them love or if they have ever felt someone’s touch because the tweakers ain’t good for them.
I finally made it to the pool
“Isn’t it a bit early, Lilly? Swim team practice doesn’t start for another hour or two,” said the lifeguard.
“You know you have to get extra practice to win right?” I said back to him.
He just chuckled and walked away. I start walking into the locker room to shower and change before I get into the pool and that’s when I started to feel lightheaded. I took the old people’s shower because it has a chair for you to sit on and I was just gonna sit down and get changed and showered and ready for my swim. I started to hear my sister and for a second I thought she was in this locker room with me, but I knew it was just because I was lightheaded so I just stayed in the shower a little bit longer. I finally am getting into the clear water but it looks blue because of the paint. The water feels warm at first but then when I got more into the water it was near freezing at first and then I went underneath the water and when I came back up it wasnt cold anymore.
I like swimming because it keeps my mind off of things especially home things and how my sister still isn’t back and keeps my mind away from thoughts that are like “is Lola even still alive?” or the thoughts of imagining what Lola is going through right now I don’t know just everything has felt so odd, when she went missing she was at a volleyball game and after. Well after she never came home, my parents and I just thought she was at a friend’s place because she always did on Fridays. I just miss my sister.
It was a Saturday morning. My mom and I were waiting for my swim number to come around for me to swim my laps. I had a headache so I went to the locker room to get away from all of the noise, when I heard my number get called. I ran out and grabbed my goggles and swim cap and went over to the diving block. My timer lady asked if I was ready and I said yes, I got up there and got into my starting position and then BEEP. I dived off into the water. I felt free but pressured. I gave three dolphin kicks and then made it to the surface. I was swimming faster than ever before. I can hear my movements underwater and I feel the water moving with me. I was turning my head to the side and lifting it out of the water to breathe after every 10 strokes. Every time I go to breathe I look at my mom. She seems so proud so I’m guessing I’m winning. Then suddenly I look over to hear my name being chanted and it’s my sister’s whole friend group going “Lil-y Lil-y Lil-y” that made me go faster. I touch the wall and get up and out to breath and I look at my competitors and they’re barely half way done so I am so proud of myself. So I’m walking over to my mom and suddenly a girl walks over to her and my mom starts to cry and calls me over. I start running towards her and the girl turns around and looks at me.
I know those eyes. I know that smile. That is my sister’s hair. I am more than happy. I am crying, I have my sister back and I’m so so happy, I gave her a hug and then asked
“How? What? Where were you?”
“I’m sorry sis. I know it’s been awhile but I tried escaping and it never worked until now. I heard about you joining the swim team. I’m so proud and I’ve been in a dude’s basement for some time but I’m here now, but can we please go home”
I started running over to my swim members to tell them this exciting news and that I was leaving and then I slipped and it went blurry and sounds were muffled and then it turned black.
EYG- Embrace Your Geekness 