The Life Lesson

This year was different. I didn't expect it to turn out like this, but it did.

When you think of the word "friends" you probably think of late nights on the phone giggling like idiots, talking about boys. You would also think about those fights over pointless things. Although the term "friends" usually doesn't mean "backstabbing girls, who would stop at nothing to make you miserable", but in this case it did. They were vicious, rude and for the most part mean.

At the beginning of the year I thought that it would be better then last year, we were all older, which was supposed to mean that we were going to be wiser and more mature. Turns out that it never happened. I also thought that people would have gotten less catty too. Another thing that can be wished but never done.

When people get in the way of other people, they get pushed out of the way, and for the most part, out of the picture. That is what happened this year. I got in someones way, and got pushed out of their lives. I tired my hardest to repair, myself, and get myself back in the picture. It didn't work. I now realize that as people get older, they grow apart. In some lucky cases, if you spend enough time with that person, you could quite possibly stay friends. I decided that was what happened to us, we grew apart.

I look back, and I realize that I spent so much time, and tears trying to fix something that couldn't be fixed. I let time continue, and I gave in. There was nothing I could do, but let it go. Now I realize that it was meant to be.

This while experience has left me many values. The first one it left me was that some people are meant to be in your life for a certain amount of time. They have a purpose in your life, and once they fulfill it, they leave it. Others are meant to be in your life, from start to end. This is the kind of person I thought they would be. The people who stay the whole time are your real friends. Another value I have taken out of this whole mess, is that some people just want to be your friends because you have certain perks.

The one good thing that came out of this was that it was really a test of who were my real friends. My real friends stuck with me through all of this, and supported me. They were my support team. I now know who I can trust, and who I can't.

I can't look back. I can only move forward now. Moving forward for me means forgetting all of this, and moving. That is what I plan on doing exactly.

This summer I plan on having a drama free time. I will spend time with my real friends, and have a good time. Grade 8 is almost done, and I'm almost done too. I plan on having grade 9 be the best year yet. Drama free, with my friends. That's the way I like it.

When I always thought about how nice my friends were when we were younger. I try to remember what happened. What went wrong. Sometimes I used to think, that maybe it was something I did. But now that I am older, I realize that it was never my problem.

Miss Canada-letter

Dear Miss Canada judges,
I have written you this letter because I think that I should be the next Miss Canada. When I think about the current Miss Canada, I see beauty (inside and out!), grace and most importantly, I see a helpful woman who loves her country deeply. These are just some of the traits that I hope I posses. I also hope that you can see these traits and recognize that I am the next Miss Canada.
I think that I should be the next miss Canada because I care about my country more then you could ever imagine. Canada is in my heart, my soul and my mind. When you think about Canada what do you see? do you see a beautiful mix of nations? Or maybe you see the beautiful and proud maple leaf that flies high in the sky on our flag. I do see both of those things, but I see something that others see to. Canada's beautiful environment that is slowly being destroyed. If I were Miss Canada I would try my best, and probably succeed at bring back the wild! I think that the most important step to doing so is informing the people of the future. The youth.

While I am on the topic of the youth, I plan on helping them, by learning about them and helping them when times are tough for them. I would also like to start a group for them, that meets every Friday after school. In this group we will talk about things in their life. It is just really a chance for them to vent.

Have you ever heard of Westbank? No? I didn't think so. Well it's my hometown. I grew up there, made my friends there and most importantly, I started my life there. I think that all of the people in Westbank would greatly appreciate it if they had the spot light on them for a chance. I also think that it would help their economy.

When you walk down the streets of any big city, you must have noticed the growing number of homeless people. Well it could change. I could change it. I have a floor plan for many homeless shelters around Canada.

I hope that you have considered each of these points, and pick me to be Miss Canada.

Sincerly,

Alexis Marie Philippot (future Miss Canada)

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Meet Slush, Your Average Guy

Darkness. I had grown up with it. In a comfortable temperature. In the darkness I had made many friends. It was my life. It was all I had known.

Hiya! My name is Slush. I am a Cherry Explosion. Some of my friends are Slush 2, Shushy and Slu. Some people think of me as just a piece of flavored ice. But I think that I am way more then that. I am me. That is the coolest things I can say.

Needless to say I live in a gas station. In a Slushy Machine. I haven't seen much of the outside world. In our machine there is a small window that everyone crowds around. I've only looked out of it once. I saw a child starring at us. I couldn't hear the words that came out of his mouth. All I could hear was the comforting hum of the machine. Before I knew it the bottom of the machine opened up and I lost my parents. As I raced towards the window I saw the opening at the bottom close. When I got to the window I saw my parents in a cup being carried away from me. I waited for them to come back, but they never did. I just stopped looking.

That was one year ago.

But this is today.

I was walking around with my friends while we were talking about how cool (no pun intended) it would be to lie on the outside. How we would get to see the outside world, and make new discoveries, when our dream came true. the bottom hole opened and we fell through the air for a second, then smacked into each other. I looked up and saw the same child that I had seen the day my parents were taken. He had his index finger to his mouth. He was deciding something. Something that I couldn't tell. I realized what he was doing we I heard the familiar sound of the slushy machine. Something heavy fell on us. I blacked out.,

I opened my eyes to see something yellow on top of us. All I could taste was Banana Bananza. I turned around to taste Cool Berry. I think I had a Cool Berry cousin. I heard a faint bell and suddenly felt warm. Too warm. But I liked it.

The sun. Ah the sun. I really liked this new life.

I heard a door slam and was hotter then ever. All of the sudden it went dark. Was I back home in the machine? The only way I knew I wasn't in the machine was because above me there was a bright light shinning down on all of the tiny Banana Bananza people.

We sat there for a long time. I don't now how long, because it felt like forever. I could taste Banana melting above. All I could hear was their screams that kept growing more and more faint. I understood what was happening. They were melting. We were in a cup holder! I pushed my self towards the wall and saw blackness. I swam up to where he banana people were melting and poked my head up to see that we were in a car! I drifted back down to my cherry friends and told them what was going on.

I heard the door slam again, and the darkness went away. I saw the Cool Berry people slowly disappearing into what looked like a backwards water slide. I suddenly had a warm feeling inside my body, and saw that my arms and legs were turning into liquid. I panicked for a second until i saw that even though I was now completely liquid, I was still alive. It wasn't painful. It was easy. Even though i couldn't hear, taste, touch or smell I could still see. the rest of my body was gone.

When I saw how close I was getting to the water slide, I started to remember what a great life I had with all of my friends. I remember how excited I was when I saw my new home. How proud I was that I had made new friends. And now, how excited I was that I got to go into the water slide. I took one big breath, and with that I was pulled into the straw.

It only lasted for a millisecond, then I was in darkness again. I was hot and steamy, and I did NOT like it at all. All I remember is hearing a funny sound and then I....

*BURP*

Schools Out For Summer- Voice

Voice #1: "Down paragraph"

Pound Pound. My head felt like it was going to explode. Why did my body hate me? All I wanted to do was survive the last day of school without going insane. Everybody calls me that. Insane. I'm the insane girl who got in a car accident, and whose parents died right in front of her face. That's me.

Although I went to a lot of hospital treatments, none of them helped me. All they did was make my head hurt worse. They told me that I was off my nuts, but they would help me by shocking me. It didn't work. Now I'm in pain. A lot of pain.

I sauntered down the stairs and saw my big sister waiting for me to get into the car. Even though she goes to high school, not middle school like me, she has to drive me. I used to take the bus, but people bothered me, so she drives me now.

My sister, Lily, is the kind of girl that is all blond hair, and has boys drooling over her all day. I have short, limp, lifeless dirty blond hair that hangs at my shoulders, and refuses to grow any longer. I hopped in the car and inhaled the musky air. It made me cough.

Even though it was the last day of school, I was not excited for the summer. I hated the sun and the beach. I preferred the winter. I loved the snow. My sister cranked up the radio to the point that it made the car shake. I covered my ears, which made my sister laugh. I swear it, she enjoys my pain.


Voice #2: "Upbeat Paragraph"

Ring! Ring! The second I heard my alarm clock go off, I jumped out of bed. On my way to the bathroom, I let out a squeal of excitement. It was the last day of school, and I could not wait for summer.

I was the most popular girl at my school. I had a lot of friends, a great boyfriend and of course I was adorable!

I turned on my straightener and ran it through my chest-length blond hair. I pushed my side bangs to the side, and ran back to my room. When I slowly opened my closet door, thinking about what I would look gorgeous in, I saw the perfect dress. It was a Marc Jacobs of course. I paired this violet coloured dress with my strappy, white and black shoes that had purple rhinestones on them.

When I did a once-over in the mirror, I grabbed my Prada hand bag and dashed out the door, and into my car. My car is a light purple 300c. I got it last year for my 16th birthday from Daddy.

As I pulled out of the drive way I cranked up the radio, and swiped some lip gloss on my lips. When my favourite song came on, I started singing.

I love the summer so much! When I go to the beach with my friends, we always have a blast laying on the beach playing Would You Rather. My favourite part of the summer is getting a nice, natural tan.

I looked up at the sun through my DC glasses, and saw the sun blazing. This was going to be the best summer ever!

House on Maple Street

I had always known that my dad was obsessed with space travel, but I'd never have thought that he would have taken it this far. He was insane.

Juliet's point of view
My dad came bouncing down the stairs with a big smile on his face. I didn't have time to care, I had to get my little brother to school. Since my mom had died, I had to do a lot more around the house. When my mother died two years ago from cancer, my dad lost it. My little brother and I had to go live with our grandparents. My 11 year old little brother, Jake, was only 9 when she died, so he doesn't remember to much.

I dropped Jake at school and drove to the high school I go to, Benner High. Since I got my license last year I didn't need my grandparents to drive me anywhere anymore. My dad is allowed to drive for a long time, and he has to go to the mental hospital once a month. This means that I also have to do the shopping and stuff.

I sauntered to class and got there just in time. We sat down and took out our math text books. The class dragged on. I hate Mondays.

At lunch time I met up with my friends, Carli and Rachel. They both have short dirty blond hair, while I have light brown perfect curls that dangle down to my waist. My boyfriend, Zac came and sat down with us. Everyone calls him Romeo. So we are Romeo and Juliet. So lame!

My brain was numb. Even though I heard people talking to me, my brain was somewhere else. It was on the creepy look my dad gave me this morning.

Cal's point of view:
I sat down at my small table in the attic and wondered how long it would be before my wonderful invention was ready. Probably one week. Maybe even only four days. I've done it, I've done it! I thought to my self. The kids would be home in less the five minutes, so I covered my invention up with the fabric from the couch. If they saw what this was before I wanted them to, they might admit me to the crazy person's home again. Even if I am most definitely not crazy.

I heard the front door creak open and my kids, Juliet and Jake, calling for me. I wandered down the stairs to find them opening the fridge and getting themselves a snack.

That night Juliet kept looking at me funny. Surely I didn't give the plan away! That would probably ruin my life. If my wife was still alive and with us she would have said, "Darling, you think too much!" I miss her dearly. While I waited for the kids to crawl into their beds, I pretended to be calm and normal. As soon as their door's were closed I ran up into the attic and started working on the best thing I had ever made.

I took out my tools and started. I couldn't quite remember where I had left off so i retraced the steps I had finished. Cranked up the 100 volts of energy? Check! Replaced that lose bolt holding in the wheel? Check! I had done everything I needed to do to make sure that my wonderful invention would work. I couldn't have in doubts. If I did it could cost me my life.

Juliet's point of view:
I sauntered down the stairs and saw my dad with, yet again, another creepy smile on his face. I saw my little brother standing by the door, and grabbed him by his wrist. His cries of pain weren't heard by me. By the time I got him in his seat he was full on having a panic attack.

I was almost late for school because I had to explain to me brother's teacher why he was crying and screaming. She gave me the weirdest look. I think that she thinks he is horribly abused. I told her that he just really doesn't like Tuesdays. She believed me.

After school I met up with Zac and we went for our usual Tuesday ice cream run. We always get the same thing every week, chocolate. He walked me home as we ate our ice cream. When I walked in the door, I found that I was home by myself. The note on the fridge said that he needed a tool, and he took Jake with him.

About two ours later I got a text from Zac wondering if he could come over. I texted him back saying yes.

When I heard a light knock on the door I opened it to find a very wet and sad looking Zac. He walked in the door and hugged me tightly. His face was stained with tears and I could hear him trying to be strong and not cry. Seeing him like this made me cry too. His happy and joy filled face should never have tears running down his face. It didn't look right.

We made our way up to the couch and started to talk. He didn't say much, but he told me that his parents had been in a car accident while we were at school, and he had just found out.

WE both cried until we couldn't cry anymore. When he left I ran to the bathroom to clean myself up. I had mascara running down my face and I had lime green eyeshadow everywhere. I hopped into the shower for some steam treatment.

When I got out, my dad and Jake were home. Feeling alone and sad, I called Rachel, and told her want happened. She said that she wanted to take me and Zac out for diner.

Since my dad never cares what I do, I just left without saying anything. We ended up at Mcgrillin', the local teen hotspot. We ordered our food and started to talk. We talked about Zac's problems and how we could help him. Our conversation didn't last very long because it was interrupted by the T.V. screens

The T.V. screens at the restaurant were on and showed some house with flames and other stuff, coming out the bottom of it. It looked like it was flying! It was! I thought that until I saw my own address on the front door. I stood up, and ran pout the door of the restaurant. While I was running home, think about how long he would have to be in the mental hospital now, I didn't even notice all of the police and camera crews surrounding my house. Trying to get past the tape, I pushed myself even though the police had a tight grip on my waist.

Screaming that it was my house, the police wanted to question me. Even though I had only been there for 1 minute, the house was already hundreds of feet off of the ground. as it got high, and the flame's surface area increased, the police did a "duck and cover". When they claimed it safe and everyone could come off of the ground the house was gone from sight.

About twenty minutes later Zac and Rachel came bolting down my street and joined everyone staring into the night sky.

All we could see was a lost flame in a big dark world. When reality set in I started panicking. Where is Jake? Was he in the house? I thought to myself. I asked the police all these questions I had in my head. They placed their heavy arms on my shoulders and told me to calm myself. They told me that Jake was with some police on the other side of our very small town.

I stayed at Zac's that night crying. He just held me and whispered in my ear, that I would be okay. He stayed up all night with me. Just holding me their. My Romeo. This moment reminded me of a part in the play:

Why, such is love's transgression.
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest
With more of thine: this love that thou hast shown
Doth add more grief to too much of mine own.
Love is a smoke raised with the fume of sighs;
Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes;
Being vex'd a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears:
What is it else? a madness most discreet,
A choking gall and a preserving sweet.
Farewell, my tears.

Not realizing what I was doing, I started to say these words outloud. Romeo, I mean Zac, just laughed and shook his head at me and said : "O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear;Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear!So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.The measure done, I'll watch her place of stand,And, touching hers, make blessed my rude hand.Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight!For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night." When he was finished his little mini-play, he smiled and kissed my forehead. That's when I fell asleep.

As far as I knew, Jake was staying at a friends house for the next couple nights. Neither of us went to school. Mostly because we were still trying to find our dad. The police tried everything. They used trackers, and address finders, but nothing worked. We were stranded. None of our other relatives wanted us to stay with them. They had always been distant from my dad.

Eventually, about one month after staying with Zac, my aunt and uncle told the police that we could stay with them. Since the entire house was gone, so were our clothes, belongings and our lives.

My aunt Pearl told me that she would take me clothes shopping and she did. Usually I would have been bouncing up and down with excitement, but not anymore. I was changed.

When we got back from the shopping trip we had tea and cookies, while my brother and my uncle John went to the mini-golf course.
Not even 15 minutes later we got a call from the police say that we needed to get down to the boat docks NOW. They didn't tell us why. We were so confused.

While my aunt was frantically calling my uncle, I decided to put my new driving skills to the test. I had just gotten my "N" one month ago, I had never really had to drive before. I shoved the keys into the ignition, and the car roared to life. It made me jump. I wasn't used to noisy old cars.

When the car pulled to a stop at the old boat docks I wasn't expected what I was about to find out. All I could see was a chimney sticking out of the water, but I knew what it was.

When my brother and uncle came to the docks, my aunt and I were already crying. My little brother didn't need to know anything.

This all happened 3 years ago. I am now 20 years old and living in my own house with my little brother. They found my father's body in the basement of our old house clutching a bottle with a note inside of it, the note read:

My dearest children,
I am so sorry that I had to leave you with out any warning, but I had no other choice. I promise that I will come back for you one day, and we can continue our lives together, until goodbye my darlings. I love you.
Daddy.

Word Choice

Sniggle
Cake
Frothy
Food
Purple
Violet
Raptor
What
Child
Like

The child Raptor sniggeled at the frothy blue cake. He likes frothy food. What does a child raptor do when he can't eat his frothy food? He makes a purple non-frothy cake. Violet, his neighbour raptor, really likes to sniggle at him when he makes his frothy food. She secretly likes him. Raptors always enjoy cake, so when Violet came over for some cake, everything seemed perfectly normal. They ate their cake, that they like very much. He likes her too. They don't tell eachother, that they like eachother.

Violet bursts out in laughter, confusing child raptor. She tells him that she really likes him. He says the same thing. 1000 years later, the decide to start a family. The baby raptors roarded very loudly. It echoed throughout the jungle. They all lived happily ever after.

First Day At School

You would think that people might be excited to start at a new school. This may be true for a younger child, who has an easy time making friends. It is a bit harder in high school, the kids are a lot meaner, and like to pull pranks. I dreaded this day.

Ring! Ring! My hand fumbled around, while I was looking for my alarm. I slowly opened my eyes, and rubbed them hard. It was my first day of school at Hillard High. I was not too excited. Some people think I am really weird. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I dress crazily and am really outgoing. You may think that because I am so outgoing I would have an easy time making friends. Yeah right! Back in California, my sister had left me a great reputation. I was popular and had lots of friends. Not here, in NYC.

Slowly, I lifted my body from my bed and heard all of my fragile bones crack. After I had a shower, I put on my neon green top and neon pink pants with a bright purple scarf. I quickly straightened my short black hair. I though I looked awesome. This was my first time moving to a new school. Nervously, I ate breakfast and decided I probably wouldn't eat lunch today, so I didn't bother with making one. I grabbed the five dollar bill that sat on the counter, with a note from my mom that said "For Alice" .

The walk from my house to my school is only about five minutes. I didn't mind. Back home in California, the walk was much longer. It seemed in New York, everything was right beside each other. I hated it.

When I saw my new school I gasped. It was huge! I was sure to get lost! Faintly, I pushed open the double doors and everybody stared. I shyly walked in the office. It smelt like old candies and dust. The elderly lady gave me a timetable and a map. When I walked out of the office, I heard everyone whispering things like,"Is THAT the new girl. Oh, well she looks so weird.", and stuff like that.

The office lady had given me a sticky note that said "Locker # 9999. Combination # 4, 9, 49.", well at least it would be easy to remember. I saw someone who looked like a teacher, and asked him which way to locker number 9999. He pointed me in the right direction. He introduced himself as Mr. Maluty. After he walked away I saw that I had him second thing this morning.

About 10 minutes later I finally found my locker, and it took 5 tries to open it. Since I came half way through the year in March, I didn't get a full size locker, I got a half sized one. I threw all my stuff in, just when the bell rang. My stomach turned nervously. I looked at my timetable, I had Mrs. Dahtered as my homeroom teacher. She was in room 375. I tried to follow my map. It didn't work. I tried to ask people to help me, but they just laughed and walked away.

Twenty- five minutes later I found room 375 and ran in. The hole class stared at me. Lucky for my the teacher looked nice. "And you must be our new student, Alice Benner! I assume you were just lost?", I nodded my head. Even though she was a very nice teacher, she still made me stand in front of the class and introduce myself. I was so embarrassed.

After the bell rang I asked her how to get to my next class. She told me it was right down the hall. I found it no problem. Once again Mr. Maluty made me stand in front of the class and introduce myself. "I'm Alice Benner. I moved here from Malibu, California. My favourite colour is purple. I have 2 little brothers and older sister.", It seemed like I said this a lot.

When lunch time came, my stomach did flip-flops. I hadn't made any friends yet! If I just wandered around the school, I would look like a friendless loser! I used the five dollars from my mom to buy myself a drink and a sandwich from the cafeteria. I looked around awkwardly, looking for somewhere to sit. Of course people stared at me, even the lunch monitors.

I ended up sitting at my locker. A group of "popular" people walked by and snickered. I was so mortified that I didn't notice someone sit down beside me. "Don't let them bother you. Last year when I was new, they didn't leave me alone! By the way, I'm Zeke. I saw you sitting her and you look nice enough to be my friend.", Zeke stuck out his hand for me to shake. I went to shake his hand, but he grabbed my hand and kissed it instead. We both laughed. "Hey, I'm Alice Benner. Yeah, I just moved here from Malibu. So far I hate New York. It's rainy, cold and everyone is always on the go." He had an understanding look on his face. "One years ago, I moved here from southern Nevada. Rhyolite, to be more specific.". Wow! He was from a even hotter, sunny place. I just nodded. We understood each other.

Turns out that Zeke and I had the last class history together. He walked me to my third class after lunch. He was so sweet. I said good-bye to him. When I walked into the class room I had a huge smile on my face.

The class went by in a blur. I had to introduce myself again. The math teacher was nice so that ought to make the class a litle bit better. When the bell rang I was supposed to meet Zeke at his locker, just down the hallway. We walked to our next class together, art. Turns out we are both art geeks.

We took our seats beside each other and waited for the teacher. Right before the teacher walked in, another girl blew past her. She smiled and said, "Can I sit here?", I nodded. She introduced her self as Kaytie, but all her friends call her Boo, because she loves scary things. Turns out that Zeke already knew Kaytie. They were friends, and had been since kindergarten. We spent most of that class talking. We got caught at least 5 times. It was fun!

Kaytie, Zeke and I planned to go to the local coffee shop after school. Katie and Zeke wanted to show me some of their favourite places in NYC. Since I was in grade 11, my parents didn't care where I went. Even with my younger siblings, they were pretty easy going.

In art, we started on a painting project. I wanted to paint the California sunset. My parents had promised me that we would go their every summer. When we go there this summer, I want to take Zeke and Kaytie. Since Zeke was from southern Nevada, he was used to the sun. Kaytie has never left New York. It would be a big change for her!

After school, I texted my parents telling them what we were doing. The walk down to the coffee shop was so nice! The weather was perfect weather for walking. Zeke showed me some of the stores we passed. There were lots of places to shop! Finally, we got there. The coffee shop was so cute! It had so many different flavours of ice cream! We all got Lattes.

When I got home, dinner was almost ready. I sat down at the table at the exact moment my parents said, "How was your first day Alice? Did you make any friends?", I had so much to tell them! I was going to like New York City! Alice, Zeke and Kaytie! Best friends forever!

Run On sentences.

#1 Today I went to the mall I bought a really pretty top it goes with my new green pants i got those too that day i saw my friend who was with her other friend she is no friend of mine it was so much fun I got a Starbucks too.

#2 You should always wear a seat belt when you are in the car it makes it safer for you by protecting you incase the car must come to a compleat stop and you would have gone through the window if you were sitting in the middle so always be careful.

#3 I really love to swim in the lake that is right by my house just down the road from the nut farm I like to go there with my friends we always have fun at the nut farm where we run in the clean grass.

#4 Dance is my life I really like to do tap and jazz next year I just want to do tap jazz and lyrical I am so excited for this weekend it is time for my whole dance studio to compeat in compeition where we will al hopefully win gold but it isstill okay if we win bronze or sliver.

#5 Some kids do not like to go to school because they have to do work I like to go to school I like it because this is where I ave met all of my friends that I still have today they are so nice to me when we play games at lunch we have lots of fun together.

Run-on sentence

If you chose to play video games at 5 in the morning, then the volume better be really low. You could choose to play sports or shooting games at this early hour. If you spend to much time playing these games games, where you shoot everything you see, you will be very tired.

Sentence Openers Paragraph

While I was telling my mom a story on the way to piano, the awkwardest moment of my life happened:
The car pulled to a stop at the red light. Beside us, a white car stopped too. Inside of it were 3 passengers, who were all about 14 or 15 years of age. They all stared, and waved. Embarrassed, I turned my head, while my mom said, "Oh, their cute! And their smiling at you too!". Quickly, the white car sped away, all of the guys kept starring at me. Pushing her foot to the gas pedal, my mom tried to keep up. Although my mom stopped at the red light, the white car kept going. I never saw them again.

Sentence Starters

Subject: Alexis ran away from the crazy guy
The bunny rabit hopped through the long grass
Prepositional: In the store, is where she was last seen.
One the stairs he looked down to wWhere she was sitting
ly-word: Excitedly, she ran into his arms
Quickly, she jumped into the pool
ing- work: Jumping to her feet, she ran to him.
Wideing his eyes he tried to stay awake
clausal: While, she cried she remembered all of the good times they had.
Since her cat had kittens, she had no time for her dog.
VSS: It was dark
She was alone...again
ed word: Excited, she grabbed her socks
Tired he grabbed his coat and went outside with his son anyway

April Fools Joke

My sister is the most gullible person you would ever meet. She believes anything that you tell her. And this Aprils fool's was the best day of my life.

I have always been interested in magic, so my sister wasn't surprised when I told her I wanted to show her my new trick. She was so excited to see it! Little did she know, she was in for a wet surprise.

I waited till my parents went grocery shopping, then I started my trick. I took a glass bowl and filed it with water. I put a few drops of blue dye in it for the "affect". I told her that I needed a piece of her hair. She wasn't very willing since she just got it done, but she gave it to me anyway. I put some hotsauce, sugar and some sprinkles in it, with the soap in it already. I had told her that i needed the soap to keep the magic pure and clean. Like I said, she believes ANYTHING! Finally my magic trick was ready. I told her to take the bowl and stand on the chair with the broomstick, holding it up. She was in the perfect position. "Oh man I forgot something! I will be right back! Stay there and don't move! It could ruin the trick." I told her.

About three hours later while my sister was still up there yelling my name and wondering where I went, I heard a loud crash! Haha I got her! I walked into the kitchen finding a very wet and very blue sister with a mad expression on her face. She swore that she was going to kill me, but I didn't care, it was totally worth it!

The Magic

With the signal of my friends, and my sister's telepathic thoughts, I gave my skirt one quick brush and walked over to where he was sitting. His smile made me know that he knew exactly want I wanted. Of course he did, he was waiting for me...

I never believed in magic until I met him. I was your usual girl, kind, polite, got mostly all "A's". I had a few close friends, but I was closest with my twin Rylee. People sometimes laugh at my name, Raylee, but my parents thought it was beautiful. We were the most identical twins you could ever find. The only way to tell us apart was that I had my left ear pierced and she had her right. Our mom had decided to do that when we were just one week old. By even then she had mixed us up a few times.

As most twins did, we had totally different personalities. Rylee was your typical ball of energy, who didn't have a worry in the world (including her grades sometimes). She loved to have fun, and nothing stopped her from doing so. I on the other hand looked for the finer things in life. I was the biggest worry wart, you would ever find. I always panicked about my grades and what my future plans would be. One of the only interests we had in common was that we both loved to match make for people. Sometimes Rylee's carefree energy brought out my wild side. Like June 30 2009.

In the town of , where the population is 93,460 people, Rylee and I lived. It was fairly big, but not huge, and yet everyone knew where it was.

The school there was big. When I say big I mean, 4 floors and a huge cafeteria. And that was the exact place where our story begins.

Rylee and I walked into the cafeteria on the second last day of school with our five friends, Lilly, Leah and Justin. Our other friends, Bennett and Emmett were also twins. As we sat down, and started to eat, I noticed for the first time all of the posters that surrounded us in the cafeteria. Most of them advertised, the magician that was coming to our town in 5 days. His name was Liam Lighter. Now myself, I don't believe in all that magic stuff. But my twin on the other hand is all for it. She had been begging me all week to go to his show. And today was no different. "Pleaseee come, you know that mom and dad won't let me go by myself. This is my only chance at meeting him. Pleaseeeeeee." This was about the thousandth time that she ad asked me. It was getting super annoying. This is the day I caved. "Fine I'll go with you if you would just SHUT UP!" As soon as these words came through my lips I regretted it. She practically jumped on top of me with joy. You could see it in her eyes.

When we got home that day, Rylee went straight to my dad's office and told him that I wanted to go too. Of course he said yes, and gave her the money for the tickets, you should have seen her at our most resent birthday (14th). She could get away with anything with that darn puppy dog look. You are too convincing for your own good! I sent her telepathically. My head was soon filled with the words I know!

We ran up to our large room in the attic, and when we got there she went up to her Liam Lighter posters and said her daily "I love you.". She can be so weird. Since it was the second last day of school I had one last assignment that I really needed to do a good job on.I flopped down at my desk, and Rylee cranked up her music. Less then a minute later, I heard her scream "PILLOW FIGHT!" and fling one of the pillows, that has Liam's face on it, that hit my head. I yelled at her and told her that I really needed to get an "A" on this history paper. She flopped down on the bed, and was quiet.

Our room is "spilt in half", when I say this I mean my side of the room is spotless, while the other side (Rylee's) has dirty clothes all over the floor. When we were little we used to get really mad if the other twin crossed our side of the room. We even had our dad put a line of tape down the middle. We also have to share a bathroom, which isn't that bad because it has plenty cupboard space and two sinks.

"Ray! Ry! Diner time!", yelled our mom Patti. Our mom was a organic, no germs allowed kind of women. She didn't lets us eat anything that wasn't organic and germ-free. Tonight we were eating my mom's homemade noodles and soup, with a salad on the side. Our little brother Ryan, who is now 9, does not enjoy being organic. He is more into sugar, sugar and more sugar!

Rylee would not shut up about how excited she was to go see Liam. She talked about how amazing he was and how cute, and blah blah blah! Rylee went to take one sigle breath of air, and Ryan managed to get in, "Who is Liam Lighter?". Rylee froze. Her mouth dropped, along with her fork. "ARE YOU SERIOUS?? YOU DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS? HE IS JUST THE HOTTEST, AND BEST MAGICIAN EVER!!!!" Ryan mouth also dropped as Rylee yelled at him.

The next five days went by in a blur. Each day was the same. We would wake up Rylee would talk to her posters for about half an hour then she would talk about how excited she was. On the day of the show, Rylee was bouncing off the walls. When we went to leave, I started to stall. I would say that I needed to go to the bathroom, or get my book, or some other pointless excuse. I was dragged there, completely against my will.

The show was about to start and we were just taking our seats. Rylee had been yelling at me the whole way there about alomost making us late. The curtain came up and Liam started to come out into the crowd thanking everyone for coming. He shouldn't have, it would have been safer for his health.

The next thing I know Rylee was standing up and running toward him. She clung onto him and almost knocked him over. Of course the security was on her right away. they tired to pull her off of him, but Rylee would not let go of him. She was screaming that she loved him and stuff like that. I ran with her when they took her away. The threw her outside and asked who I was. I told him I was her twin, Raylee. Rylee started crying after they left, she was so ashamed. We waited for our dad to come pick us up. After the show ended, Rylee asked me if I would go apologize to him for her, since she got banned from the premises. I walked cross the large lot to were I saw his large bus. It wasn't hard to miss. It had his face on the side. I knocked on the door. It opened slowly then got slammed in my face.

"Go away! YOUR INSANE!!", he yelled. I didn't understand at first then I realized I looked exactly like the girl who tired to attack him. My twin sister. "No, no, no. You don't understand. The girl who attacked you is my twin sister Rylee. My name is Raylee! I am totally different then her. I mean, I am not even one of your fans!". The door opened slowly. I saw his terrified, but cute face. He was adorable. I didn't realize I was in love until he came out very cautiously. He obviously, was looking for the crazy lady. "Sh-she wa-wa-wanted me to a-a-apologize for he-her. She fe-felt real bad." I stuttered at his handsomeness. Curse my nervousness. "Oh. Umm, yeah it's all good. It didn't hurt or anything. Just scared me a bit." Wow! He was wonderful. I didn't realize that I was starring at him till he asked me if I was ok. He touched my arm, and everything went black.

I woke up with three pairs of eyes on me. One was my dad, one was a security guard, and the last were the most gorgeous. They belonged to Liam. "I think that she is coming around!" ,yelled Liam. I tried to lift my head up to look around but Liam just pushed me back down. "What happened??", I asked slowly. My dad told me that I had blacked out and Liam had just caught me right before I hit the ground. He carried me over to here. Where are you?? Oh man. She's going to kill me.

Apparently the security guard had filled Dad in on all that had happened with Rylee. "Where is she?". My connection with Rylee was so strong that they knew who I was talking about. "She's is outside.", or so they told me.

The doctor said that I might have slight dizziness, and mild headache. I spent my time at home reading, and hearing Rylee say, "I can't believe that you got to meet Liam Lighter by accident. I have been trying to meet him for 2 years!", she said this exact same thing about once an hour.

I also wasn't supposed to do anything crazy for 3 days. So when Rylee went ot the mall with the rest of our friends, I was pretty disappointed that I didn't get to go. All of this disappointment went away when the knock on our door turned out to be Liam Lighter, himself.

"What are you doing here?", I said in a surprised voice. "Well I just wanted to make sure you were okay after what happened." we pretty much just talked about how lonely it must be here and stuff. I don't even remember that much about our conversation, because I kept getting lost in his eyes. They were lime green (but not as creepy as it sounds), we matched. I had the exact same colour in mine! "So, if your not doing anything on Friday, I was thinking that we could maybe go for an ice cream or something?". I agreed at once! I had a date with Liam Lighter! I couldn't tell Rylee though, she would get so mad!

After he left I felt really happy and giddy. But when Rylee got home, I had to go super low-key. Pretending that I was sleeping. I had to be very careful about what thoughts I was thinking, and not send certain ones to her. That night, Rylee was watching me asking what was up with my random happiness. My dad asked me how many Advils I had taken that day. I feel asleep with lovely pictures of me and Liam running down a beach holding hands during the sunset.

Friday afternoon I told Rylee, Ryan, mom and dad that I was going to the library to get a book. No one ever disturbed me at the library. When I should have gone straight I turned at Beacon Hill Road, where I was supposed to meet Liam. I was so excited, but I felt kind of bad. I should have told Rylee, but I couldn't. She would hate me for the rest of my life.

I could see the cafe shop now. I hadn't been there forever! Last time I was here, was when I was 9. This was Rylee and I's favourite place to go. It was weird being here without her.

I opened the door, and my nose was flooded with the most delicious scent you could ever had imagine. It was Mocha with a hint of strawberry and chocolate. Liam wasn't here yet, I was a good 5 minutes early. I sat down, and felt my phone vibrate. I had 2 text messages. One was from my mom, and one from Liam. I decided to open the Mom one first, so I didn't feel to desperate. It was just asking if I could pick her up the next book in the series she was reading. I would have to it would look to suspicious if I didn't. i opened the Liam one expecting for him to bail. When i realized that all it said was, "On my way. Sorry.", I felt kind of bad for having suspected him.

A couple of minutes later, he arrived. We ordered Cookie Dough ice cream. Just another thing we had in common. Well, it was the only thing we had in common. but who did I care? I was in love.

We took our ice cream and walked down to the park which was only about 2 blocks away. It was such a nice day. The sun was shinning and everyone was outside enjoying it. After we finished our ice cream, we climbed a tree in the park. I didn't even notice how he brought out my wild side. We took out my camera phone and snapped a bunch of really cute and goofy pictures! On our walk back I got another text from my mom about her book. Liam asked me about it. I told him that I forgot that I needed to go to the library and pick a book up for her.

We walked into the library, I grabbed the book, and we walked back out. It was that simple. Just like him and I. "I better go.", I said sadly as we exited the library. "Oh, let me walk you home.", he said. "NO!", I answered too quickly. He had a very confused look on his face. "Uh, it's just that, where I live, you see there is a lot of famous people around. And I am sure you know that means paparazzi there too. I wouldn't want you getting harrassed by them. It's really horrible.", I felt bad lying to his face, but I couldn't chance him coming in contact with Rylee. His face went from confused, to completely understanding. He told me that he would text me tonight.

I pretty much ran home. When I burst through the door with a huge smile on my face, I fell on top of a very scared Rylee. I appologized and ran to our room. Rylee followed me. She asked me why the library had made me so happy. I told her I wasn't that happy and made my face straight, even though I was smiling really hard on the inside.

"Raylee, did you get my book for me?", my mother screamed up the stairs. "Yes, I got it right here!", I screamed back. She asked me if I could bring in down for her. I threw my phone onto my bed along with my bag and everything else.

I ran down the stairs and threw the book into my waiting mothers hands. I went to turn around to go back upstairs when my mother asked me if I could set the table tonight. I was too happy to make a comment on how it was Rylee's turn. I was placing the forks down when my head was filled with my sisters telepathic screams. I almost dropped the forks. I put them down on the table and ran upstairs to my sister. When I ran into the room I was prepared to fight some maniac who had broken into our room, but all I found was a very mad sister.

when I saw her holding my phone my knees almost gave out. She pointed the screen in my direction, showing me my most recent text from Liam. It read, "Hey today was fun. Want to hang out on Sunday? xoxo Liam Oh ya, can you send me some pictures from today? Thanks". "Care to explain this?", yelled Rylee. "Rylee, I was going to tell you but I was afraid you would be mad at me!", I yelled back. I asked for my phone back, but she just exited out of the text and into my saved pictures. I lunged for the phone but missed her and fell on my bed. It was too late she was scrolling through all the pictures from today. "You weren't at the library!", she screamed. I just shook my head. Who was I kidding? She was never going to talk to me again!

Diner was super awkward. Rylee didn't tell anyone about our plans or anything, we just sat in silence, well out loud anyway. In our heads we were screaming and yelling at eachother things like, How could you? Hey don't give me the evil eyes! You deserve them. I am so mad. Sorry. Anyway, you get the picture. By the time diner was over we both had really bad headaches. We ran upstairs to our room and pushed and shoved trying to get to the Advil first. This was the first time Rylee and I had ever gotten into a fight.

Later that night I texted Liam, telling him to meet me tomorrow at the library.

The night was silent. I tired to talk to Rylee, but she just put her iPod in and turned up so much the I could hear it. I cried myself to sleep.

The next day I got up earlier then Rylee which was unusual. When I went downstairs, I found that I was the first one up. I put a note on the whiteboard saying that I had gone for a run. I ran down to the library and waited, and waited. I waited for about 30 minutes before Liam showed up. This was going to be very hard to tell him. He walked in the door, and I told him to sit down, and that we needed to talk. His facial expression looked worried. Although I liked this one a lot more then the one he was about to give me.

"Listen Liam. I am so sorry. Yesterday was so much fun but it was wrong. As you probably guessed, my sister is deeply in love with you. I couldn't even have told her that I had meet you. She would have been so mad. So I had to lie about going out with you, and meeting you, and everything else. And yesterday when you texted me, she read the text and found the pictures. And now she isn't talking to me. So I'm sorry, your a GREAT guy, and I really really really like you but I can't go out with you anymore. I am so sorry.", and with that I walked away without taking one look at his confused and horrified face.

I ran home sending telepathic thoughts, about everything that had just gone down, to Rylee. When I opened the door Rylee was standing right there waiting for me. I stood there for a moment taking in everything. "You did that for me?", Rylee asked. I nodded. we jumped into eachother's arms. I had missed her warm sunshiny spirt.

The next few days we spent patching up any leftover holes in our relashionship. But I was not expecting what she said to me one warm Tuesday afternoon. "Raylee, call Liam. I shouldn't have been so jealous. If your happy thats all that mattered. I was more mad at the fact that you didn't come to me and tell me. I saw those pictures on your phone! He really brings out the wild side of you!". I couldn't believe what she was saying. She stood up from her bed grabbed my phone and called his number throwing the phone at me. He picked up on the fourth ring, clearly he was trying to avoid me.

Liam and I talked for about half and hour. We decided to meet for a group date in 1 hour with Rylee, Lilly, myself and Leah. It was way more comfortable.

Lilly and Leah live on the same block right by our house. We picked them up on the way to the park. We were all walking and laughing like little school girls. When we got to the park, the four of us sat down on the blanket we brought, waiting for Liam. Little did we know he was already there, sitting on a rock starring at us.

We all stood up and, with the signal of my friends, and my sisters telepathic thoughts, I stood up, gave my skirt one brush and walked over to were he was sitting. The smile on his face made me know that he knew exactly what I wanted. Of course he did, he was waiting for me. He also stood and walked over to me. I ran into his arms, and I could here everyone behind me going, "Aw!". It was the perfecting ending to my fairy tale.

Today, Liam and I are still going out, one year later. He has canceled his show tour for one more year, then me and Rylee are going with him on it. Rylee hasn't had any problems with jealousy. It's incredible. I think it has something to do with her new boyfriend Emmett. She is totally head-over heels for that guy. Leah and Lilly also found happiness with Justin and Bennett. But hey, magic is in the air I guess!

Scaredy Student

• scared of terrified of small spaces
• it effects her life because she is limited to certain areas
• she gets pushed into a small dark space
• her life improves because she can go places she couldn't go before

You might think I'm a freak. You might even laugh at me, but the truth is, I'm terrified of small spaces.

It all started back when I was 8. It was my 8th birthday party, and the guests were coming any minute now. We were putting the final touches on my party. As my mom started to fill the bowls with Salt and Vinegar chips, she asked me to get the pop out of our cold storage. As I bounced down the stairs, I thought I heard a strange noise. I was too happy and excited to acknowledge it.

When I opened the door th the cold storage I saw the pop and grabed it, but as soon as I started to unbend my knees, I was pushed into a spiraling black hole of darkness.
When I realized what was happening, it was too late, the door was already closed. I pounded my tiny fists against the large wooden door. It was usless, it was two big and to strong.I hate samll spaces, so I stared to cry. No, i mean BAWLING! I was hyperventilating. I probably cried for a goo 5 minutes.
I would have screamed but nobody would hear me, I'm underground for crying out loud! I wondered who had done this to me, and whoever it was, was probably still in my house.

I felt along the ground an found a flashlight. It was covered in dust and cobwebs, but it would have to work. When i turned it on, I almost shrieked. there were spiders everywhere. I hate spiders. And other then the spiders, there wasn't much down there, just a couple of dust old boxes. When i crawled over to the boxes I found that they were filled with me and my brother's baby stuff. I faintly remember my mom saying that there were lots of tunnels going under our house, when we were renovating my room. I pushed the boxes away from the hard, cold, concrete wall, and found a handle just sitting randomly in the middle of the floor.

I pulled on it and about 1 foot everywhere around it came up. I pointed the flashlight down there and saw a set of stairs. It was just big enough to fit me into it. I couldn't see the bottom where the stairs ended, but I knew it was my only way out. So I took a big breath of air and put my foot on the first step.

I was still crying. Before I knew it I could barely see the top of the stairs. How many more stairs could there be? I thought to myself. I had contemplated jumping down a couple of times and I really didn't want to hurt myself on the day of my party. Just as I hit the bottom of the stairs, I pointed the flashlight, and saw that there was two ways to go.

I just randomly picked the left side, since I'm left handed. When I got own on my hands and knees, and started to crawl, I heard the doorbell ring, and then my name get called. That's it! I'm in the vent. I know this because I can hear the noise in the kitchen. But when the noise got quieter I started to get worried. These thoughts consumed me so much, that i didn't look where I was going an fell into a hole of darkness.

I fell about 10 feet before I fell on a pile of dirt. I was definitely going to feel that in the morning, right in my hip. I had no idea how far own into the earth I was now! I could be to the center of the earth, nay second if I don't be more careful. What scared me even more was that I could hear, some mice squeak. Gross!

By now my clothes were riped, my hair was a mess, I was covered in dirt, and the worst part was my party was going on without me! The guest of honor! The whole time that I have been in this vent, I have barley fit. About a minute later the vent started to get very cold, very fast. My mom must have turned that A/C on. I was shaking so hard when i found another small door.

I sat up and pulled on it as hard as I could. It came off and I went flying backwards. I raced though it, and found myself in our shed. Istood up and all of my bones cracked like music. My hip was throbing. It felt so good after being crammed in a vent for 20 minutes. I dusted myself off and saw another small door, the same size I had just come through. I opened it and it went straight to the cold storage! I missed most of my birthday party just because I decided to go left when i should ahve gone right? I guess going right is the right way!

I was shaking (and not from the cold in the vent, more because I thought that I might have died in ther if I hadn't move the box) as I ran up to the house. I walked through the open door, and found my self in a room filled of my smiling friends.

My mom stomped down the stairs from the loft to me, and asked me what happened, and why I was crying and covered int dirt with ripped clothes and messy hair. Since I didn't want to have to explain the whole story and ruin my birthday party, I told her i fell in a pile of dirt. I ran down stairs to go clean up, and when I passed the cold storage, I saw my brother leaning against the door.

So he's the one who caused me to be not scared of small spaces anymore. So guess you could say I was mad but grateful. I was mad becuase I missed most of my birthdat party. I was grateful, because I am not scared of small spaces naymore. So now anytime that I have to get something out of the cold storage i say, "Sure mom!" and bounce down the stairs the same way I did when I was 8.

My Dream Spring Break.

See the bright lights. Hear the laughing. Smell the freshly cooked food, coming out of the resturant. Oh, yes, you guessed it. I'm in Vegas.

One week, till I go to Las Vegas, I thought. I was busy in my apartment all week. Packing and cleaning, and making phone calls. My dog, Skydancer, stared at me with longing eyes. I looked back at him, smiled, and scratched behind his ears, his favourite spot to be scratched. He was being looked after by the lovely Zoe, herself.
My trip to Vegas was even more speacial, because I got to go on a date with a guy, who was very famous, in my world at least.

My friend Zoe, was a very famous actress, who knew a lot of people. If you know what I mean. She was very good friends with famous people, and lucky for me she was almost best friends with Criss Angel, my idol. I have met him, a couple of times, and now I have a chance to go on a date with him.

The next day as I get on the plane, I find my heart pounding very fast! I mean really, how many girls get a chance to go on a date with a celebrity. I take my seat next to a girl who looks about my age, maybe one year difference. She smiles at me when I sit down and says, "Hey, I'm Star", when she notices my strange expression, she says to me, "Ya, I know it's a weird name. I get that a lot." . "No its not that, it's just that my name is Skye!" I tell her. She thought that was pretty weird too. Skye and Star. It was like we were meant to be together. Friends forever.

That entire flight was spent laughing and exchanging stories about all of the people who have made weird comments about our names. I told her about once, in elementary school I fell down and people started yelling, "The Skye is falling. The Skye is falling!!". She thought that was hysterical. She told me how her favourite song was always Twinkle Twinkle Litle Star. I thought that was pretty funny too. I told her why I was going to Las Vegas, and what I was going to do when I got there. When I asked her the same question her reply was simply, "Why not." I liked her free spirt, it inspired me.

As soon as our plan landed, we were both surprised, yet again, that we were staying at the same hotel. We boarded our shuttel and drove off into the sunset.

When we got to our hotel we were super excited when we saw Criss Angel standing outside! My heart started to beat super fast. I mean, I was standing infront of a T.V. celebrity!!!
"Hello ladies, and you must be Skye." he said to me. Oh. My. God. He knows my name!

After Criss helped us carry our stuff up to our rooms, he reminded me that we had date in 3 hours. he told me that a limo would pick me up at 7 sharp.

As soon as he walked away, Star stared at me in awe, and then we both busted out in squeals. "Oh yeah, I think that I forgot to tell you something.... I'm a fashion designer!", said Star. I was so excited. I had a fashion designer helping me with my clothes, for the date i am going on with a celebrity. And even though I have only known Star for 4 hours, it feels like we've been friends forever.

We unlocked the door to my room and Star went right to work. She picked out the perfect outfit for me to wear. It was a lime green wrap dress that you could style in 15 different ways.

The limo picked me up at 7:00 sharp. I was so excited. When I got into the limo, the limo driver said to me, "This must be Criss Angel's date.", I nodded with a big smile on my face.

We pulled up to the Luxor, and the limo driver opened the door for me. I slowly stepped out and was amazed at what I saw. It was a beautiful hotel. It was shaped like a pyramid. I was so excited. When i walked through the front doors, I knew that this was where Criss always was. His car was parked outside. His motercycle was parked inside for people to see. Everywhere you looked, you would have seen his face. He was on the windows, doors and walls.

The limo driver escourted me into the resuarant. I saw Criss right away. He looked amazing! His tux looked lovely but not to formal on him. We sat down and made small talk. He asked me how I was. I responded. You get the picture. After we ordered we started to tell eachother about our selves. He was so interesting. I could have listened to him all night long.

I told him about myslf, where I lived (hint hint), and my dog. Compared to him I lived such a boring life. But he didn't seem to care. I started to feel bad for boring him so I said, "I am sorry. I must bore you to death with telling you about myself.". He shook his head in dissagreement. He told me I was the most interesting girl he had ever met. I didn't want the night to ever end.

The night did end, but it was wonderful. I would be thanking Zoe for the rest of my life.

On the plane ride home, I took out my camera and looked at all of the pictures we had taken after diner, outside. There were some goofy ones, but most of them were adorable. When looked so cute together. I didn't want to tell him goodbye. Even though I knew I would see him again.

I burst through my door so happy to see Skydancer. My face was licked many, many times. I had miss her so much.

About one week later I got a very excited phone call from my super firend Zoe. She told me that Criss hadn't stopped calling her about me. I jumped up and down with excitement when she told me he was going to be in New York for a week next month. I almost dropped my phone.

I had cleaned the house, the dog, and everyplace inbetween. I was washing the floor for the 5th time when I heard a knock on the door.

I slowly opened the door and jumped into Criss's arms. We stayed like that for another 2 minutes.

I showed him around my house, then showe him where he would be sleeping. He went to go freshen up and stuff. This was the perfect end to my perfect spring break!

Don't Answer the Phone...

How could we be so stupid? I stare into the eyes of my best friend, and wonder how we even got here. That night was so blurry... Darkness surrounded us, like a bad power outage. Except it was different, because I could hear my best friend, Caitlin scream my name, "STAR! HELP ME!" and that was not normal at all. She was too tough or at least I thought she was

It all started when I got fired, from my on campess job at the popular smoothie bar, for "slacking off", when ever we had a customer. Great, I thought, now how am I going to get money? As I walk back to Caitlin's and mine dorm, I pass the office, not surprised to see Caitlin.

Caitlin is different then all my other friends, see would way rather fight someone then go to see the new romantic comedy out in our on-campess theater. Ya, of course she has had the stage when she wanted to be a normal grade 9, girlie, frilly, etc. But, oh no, she had to be her O-Natural self and get into trouble

Caitlin, Caitlin, Caitlin. What have you got yourself into now? I thought to myself. As I pass her and make eye contact, she gives me the "Star, come bail me out!" glare. So I walk over to the office and help her out of a sticky situation as usual.

On our walk back to the dorm (Oh, by the way, she only got 1 day of detention, for fighting some grade 12, who was the captain of the football team) we stopped when we saw a guy who we had never seen before on campess, which was strange because I spot all of the cute boys immediately.

As usual Caitlin just gives out a huge sigh, which I know always means "Oh man here she goes again." As I drag Caitlin over to this adorable face I say, "Hey, you must be new here. I'm Star, and this is Caitlin." I wait for his facial expression it will either be one which will make me feel like a total idiot, or one that will send us on our first date. Lucky for me, he just smiled and said, "Ya I am new here, and my name is Jackson. Nice to finally meet someone nice around here. Do you know where Benner Hall is?" As I point him in the right direction, I give him my number "just in case he gets lost again."

When he walks away Caitlin turns to me and says "Dang, Star you are so smooth!". And the funny thing about this is that I know.

As soon as we get back to our dorm it is dark outside. I try to get out my key, in the dark, fumbling around in my bag, Caitlin says "Um Star, why is the door open?" What? OK that girl has officially lost it! But as I look up I feel my heart stop because there is a note on the door writ en in blood.

"YOU BETTER WATCH YOURSELF, IT COULD GET MESSY!........1" read the note "Star we need to call campess police! And what the heck does "1" mean????" "I don't know Caitlin I am just as scared as you." Which in my heart I know isn't true, considering, she could totally beat me up.

As I run for the phone, and pick it up, I find that, all I can hear is a dial tone. And when I try to push a number all I get is an operator.

"Please call your service provider, for more information about getting a use able phone" "NO, NO, NO, NO!", I yelled "This can not be happening!" Of course the day I get fired the cut off our room phone! "I am so confused!" Screamed Caitlin. As I explained how I got fired from my smoothie bar job, the words came out in a rush to Caitlin's horrified face. "Wait! We can just use the pay phone across the hall from our room!" Of course, I thought, how could I not think of that. I Star Ray-Lynn Stanger, am super smart I couldn't think of doing that!

As we run to our front door, and open it, we find that our room, and the hallway lights are off. A power outage no less. "Great, so what do we do now?" said Caitlin, in a very panicked voice. " I guess we just have to wait until the power comes back on to call the police." "STAR, have you lost it, there is a crazy guy threatening us. And he is going to do who knows what to us soon!

The next morning when we woke up with all the lights on we ran as fast as we could out our front door, checking to make sure that there was no note left o the door. And there wasn't. When we ran to the pay phone, I found that I had no money in my pockets, so we had to go back to get some. As we ran back to our dorm, yet again we found the front door open. WE peaked our heads inside and looked around. All looked fine. But, of course as soon as we walk in the door slams behind us.

"Hello ladies." said a familiar voice. We turn to find Jackson, the new kid, standing behind our door holding a knife.

"YOU! I can't believe it. I thought you were all sweet and stuff! So that note was from you?!?" He started walking towards us explaining as he does so. "Well as soon as I so you and your pretty friend I knew who my next victim was. So I decided to let you know in advance, because I am Sweet and Stuff that I was coming for you and your friend. He turned the lights off.

How could we be so stupid? I stare into the eyes of my best friend, and wonder how we even got here. Darkness surrounded us, like a bad power outage. Except it was different this time because I could hear my best friend Caitlin scream my name, "STAR HELP ME!", which was not normal at all. She was to tough, or at least I thought she was.

As he slowly walked towards us he held the knife high and proud. Luckily for me Caitlin knows how to fight. And well. So she got up, ran up behind him and kicked his legs out, watching him fall to the ground. And even more lucky, he was huge, so his falling of the ground got everyone curious what happened, which cause everyone to come to our dorm.

When I heard Caitlin scream, she wasn't scared, she wanted my help to take him down.

Once the campess police, heard they were over there in a flash. They walked in, saw him holding the knife, and took out handcuffs. They put him away.


Although he does have my number!

If I Were Invisible

If you could live anywhere, where would it be? You could live practically anywhere if you were invisible, and be safe!
Well I can tell you that I would live in a mall! Because if you live in a mall you would have everything you need to survive. If I lived in a mall, I would probably just sit in Shopper's Drug Mart, and eat all the food, that they have in the food section. If I ever felt like I just needed to relax I could go into Chapters and wait for someones star bucks to appear on the "Pick Up Food Here" counter, and quickly sprinkle some "Invisible Dust" on it. I would have a free drink, to enjoy while, the person whose drink it was, freaks out!

And at night I would sneak into the security guards office and get their keys that open all of the stores.While they are stunned as they are watching the doors to the store unlock, and running to them, I would go and get whichever clothes I wanted, and sprinkle some of my "Invisible Dust" on them.
The best part is that I will never get caught because the security cameras couldn't pick up any signals. I would keep the guards on their toes! I would have them running to practically every store in the mall, every night!
And when the mall is open I would wash off the invisible dust, in a very unoccupied ladies rooms. I could walk around the mall just like a normal person, until night time strikes again! Wouldn't it be bad if I forgot to put "Invisible Dust" on some random part of my body? Then I would look like just a pair of random hands or feet, floating around the mall! One of the best parts is that I could pull pranks on people! I could walk up behind someone and yell, "BOO!"

Oh the fun I would have, if I were invisible living in the mall.

Powerfull or Powerless?

Today we were asked to answer a simple question: "When do you feel powerful?" and "When do you feel powerless?" To answer the first question I think we all need to understand the question a little bit more. What is power? Is it the feeling of triumph? Could it be when your dog won't listen to anyone else but you? Or maybe it is when we accomplish that hour and a half homework in just an hour. But, no these are simple things in your day that make you feel happy (and yes power is different from being happy)and possibly even exhilarated. Power is the feeling that you have rised above everyone else, and you got to that place a fair way. Now does anyone ever even feel that? Some people are lucky enough to be able to get to that "place" all the time, but other have more of a difficult time and feel powerless. Now I guess that once and a while we all feel happy, when we think its power. Nobody really ever has FULL power over anything. And some people may say "I DO have power over everything", Now that may be so, but did you get to it in a fair way?

Now for the second question I am sure that we are all thinking the same thing, "Of course I feel power less. Sometimes I even feel like that everyday!" We all may think that we are powerless when we really are not. All of us have power, and we can choose to use it in our own way. So when we were asked this question today all I could think about was saying "Power is a type of thing that you can make as much of it as you want, as long as you use it in the right way". What is someone who abuses power? They are the people who think that as soon as they reach that "place" of power it is theirs to keep. But this is the worst thing someone can do, in my opinion.

So yes, right about now you may be thinking to yourself, "Gosh you could of just answered the question simply like "When my brother sits on me I feel powerless and when I get an "A" on my spelling test I feel powerfull!" or something along those lines!" But NO I thought we could use some more perspective on this very complicated question, that is painted simple. So thank-you for listening to me, and I hope that you are now think about everything that I've said. Remember everything is not what it seems.....