"Hey Bella" by Allison

Hey Bella

by Allison

Alice looked around making sure she had everything, she grabbed her cat and slowly made her way downstairs. She was sort of sad about leaving her best friend Claire, but they both had talked and they both knew that Alice would come back once she found more out about her parents. This wasn’t her first time trying to leave, but Stephenie caught her so mow it was getting harder to leave with Stephenie knowing. Alice was 14 had black spiky hair, pale skin, golden eyes, she was small for her age, had an enormous imagination, and was a fast runner. She only had one friend and was usually shy. She was about to put the note in the kitchen for Stephenie when suddenly she heard footsteps.
“Alice?” A groggy voice called. She tried to stay quiet and leave. No such luck. A cold hand suddenly grasped her shoulder. She turned around slowly to find the angry face of Stephenie. Stephenie was Alice’s caretaker; Alice didn’t like her much because she was mean, and had her do many chores. Stephenie acted like her mom, but Stephenie was only 28 so Alice thought she couldn’t be, although she was sort of motherly.
“Trying to sneak out again Alice.” It wasn’t a question as much as a statement.
“I wasn’t sneaking out I was just going out to the stables sorry.” She lied quickly.
“Sure anyway you should be sorry now make me breakfast, and then go clean out the stables.”
“Yes Stephenie, I’ll get right on it.” She went to her bedroom to put her things away then trudged to the kitchen to make breakfast.

After cleaning out the stables Alice walked to school. As she was closer to school she heard someone say to her friend loud enough for her to hear;
“Eww! What’s that smell?!”
“Oh don’t worry it’s probably just Alice.” Then they laughed (somewhat like witches). Alice wanted to go and say something very rude back to them, but she was to shy to so she just walked away. Then she saw her friend Claire and ran up to her.
Claire was her best friend. She had long wavy brown hair, chocolate brown eyes, pale skin, and was Alice’s age (14). They meet in Kindergarten and have been best friends ever since. “Hey Claire.” Alice said tonelessly.
“Hi Alice. Oh no offense but you reek! Did Stephenie make you clean the stables?”
“Yeah I tried to sneak out, but she caught me, so now I reek.”
“Tough. You should try hen she’s not there.”
“I know but now when she leaves she locks all the doors so I can’t leave.”
“Well come on we need to get to class.”
Then she started to slowly walk away waiting for Alice. As they were walking Claire said; “You know you’re lucky Stephenie isn’t at school or school would be totally horrid.” Then that’s when it hit her she stopped motionless right in the middle of the hall.
“Claire, I know how I’m going to leave.” Alice said a grin slowly forming on her face.

Mrs. Swan was still going on about Quadratic Equations when Jennifer nudged Alice bringing her back from her day dream.
“Alice.” Claire said quietly but urgently with big eyes. Alice slowly turned her head toward Claire.
“Well Alice, what’s the answer?” Mrs. Swan said impatiently. Then Alice realized that the teacher called on her, embarrassed Alice said in a quiet voice but still loud.
“I’m sorry could you please repeat the question?” She was blushing very much now and just wanted to disappear and go to a nice relaxing area.
“What is the Quadratic Equation Formula, Alice?”
“X equals opposite B plus or minus the square root of b square minus four AC divided by 2A.” Alice said in a meek voice.
“Thank you class dismissed, Alice I would like to see you up front please.” Alice trudged up to the front of the up to the front of the room. “Alice would you give this note to Stephenie for me?”
“Yes Mrs. Swan.” Alice took the note and began walking home. She knew it was wrong to read other people’s mail, but she could not resist. One little peek couldn’t hurt she decided, and slipped the envelope open with her finger and took out the letter before she read t she decided if it was too horrible and that Stephenie would be furious she would not give it to Stephenie. So she took the note unfolded it and pulled it up to her face the note read…


Dear Stephenie,
I would like to speak with you on
Tues. about Alice, please
Tell me if this does not work with your schedule.

Sincerely
Renee Swan

Even better now Alice had two ways to leave, but Stephenie probably would have someone with her when she left so Alice decided too leave tomorrow after school. So she got all her things in a bag and put it out under a tree so she could grab it when she left for school. After that she began to make dinner, Stephenie would be home soon.

When Alice woke up the sun was shinning, birds were chirping, and the sky was a bright blue. Perfect weather for walking she thought to herself. She hurriedly put on a comfortable shirt, and skirt, and went downstairs to get breakfast. Stephenie was down she looked up when Alice got there.
“Hello Alice, tonight I have a meeting a meeting with your teacher so you will go to Mrs. Flowerday’s. Maybe you could play with Leah and Kim.”- (those were her kids.)
“Yeah sure.” Although I won’t be here she thought to herself. After she finished she grabbed her books and went to school.
“Alice.” A cheerful voice said. Without looking up she could tell who it was.
“Hey Claire.” She said causally. “Alright well let’s go to class.”
The day seemed to drag on forever, but when the final bell rung Alice knew it was time to tell Claire.
“Claire I need to talk to you. Come on. Alright.” Once they were out of sight Alice began. “Claire I’m leaving and I’ll miss you terribly, but I promise I’ll come back.” They hugged once then Alice turned and walked away. She glanced over her shoulder; the last thing she saw of Claire was her still figure and a single tear on her cheek.
Once Alice was out of the city limits she took out her map. If she was going from Washington to Montana she should start heading east. She was sure she was almost to Idaho so she stopped in at a diner. She looked around there were about five people there, and they looked like they’d just come from a hard day at work. She went up to the counter, and sat down at a stool.
“Hello there sweetie what can I get for you?”
“Um… could I get some soup and hot chocolate?”
“Sure thing sweetie, it’ll be right up.” She went back to the kitchen and came back with a bowl and mug. “Here you go.” She said politely.
“Thank you.” Alice said in a small voice. She began to eat immediately even though the soup burned her throat, but she was so hungry. Once she was done with both the soup and hot chocolate she asked for the bill. “How much will that be?” She asked.
“That’ll be $10.59 please.”
“Here you go. Excuse me but do you know where I could stay for the night?”
“Oh, well I know a lady and her husband a few houses down. I’m sure you could stay with them.”
“Thank you.”
“Would you like me to walk you over?”
“No thanks.” She hopped off the stool and headed for the door opened it then slowly shut it. The night was brisk, but she soon found the house. She knocked quickly on the door. It opened suddenly making Alice jump out of the way. There was a woman there so Alice began to talk; “Hello my name is Alice and I need a place to stay.” Once Alice said her name the women’s face suddenly became calm. The woman was not too young, but not to old probably around 50 or so, she had light wavy hair pulled back in a bun.
“Come in honey its cold out.”
“Thank you so much.” They walked some flights of stairs then came to a door.
“Here you go.” The room was purple with a brown bed and had blue covers, it had a closet, paintings, toys, and some windows it looked like it belonged to a before. “My name is Rebecca, my husband Jacob is out, but he’ll be back soon. Breakfast is at 8:30 but you can come down whenever I’m sure you’re exhausted from traveling.”
“How did you know I was traveling?”
“Oh Kim from the diner called. Well you get to sleep, goodnight.” As Alice got ready for bed she looked more around for some reason the room looked familiar to her. Oh well she would find more out in the morning she was so tired.

When she woke up the smell of bacon and eggs was in the air. She went downstairs and found Rebecca and her husband Jacob at the breakfast.
“Oh good morning Alice.” Rebecca said, and Jacob’s head popped up at her words. He stood shook her hand and said; “Good morning Alice, my name is Jacob.”
“Hello.”
“Well come and sit down we were just having breakfast.”
Alice sat down and Jacob put some eggs and bacon on her plate.
“So Alice after Jacob’s gone to work I need to clean, but I’m sure you could find something to do.” Alice had food in her mouth so she just nodded.
“Well goodbye honey,” Jacob said then he kissed Rebecca on the cheek, “and goodbye to you Alice.”
Alice was just scrapping the last bit of egg when Rebecca spoke.
“Okay Alice would you like us to go find something you to read.”
“Sure.” Alice said and hopped up.
“So sweet pea what kinds of books do you like?”
“Um… I like fantasy.” She said then she looked around the room.
“Do the paintings interest you?”
“Oh I’m sorry, but I feel like I’ve been here before.”
“Honey what’s you last name?”
“Weber, Alice Weber. Why?”
“Well honey I think you have been here before. Do you know someone named Stephenie?”
“Yes, why?”
“Oh yes I do believe you’ve been here, lit me tell you a story how `bout?” Alice simply nodded. “Okay well awhile back say 14 I believe there was a young girl about 15 years old she had long wavy blonde hair. She had good grades, good friends, but all that changed one day with news that she was pregnant. Everyone told her to have it taken out, but she said no, but when the day came she gave her baby to her parents and told them this, “Her name is Alice take care of her.” Then she finished high school and went to collage and she came back she said she was ready to take her child back her parents did give it to her, but said one thing “Here’s your child she’s 4, but she’ll be 5 soon, take care, and we love both of you Alice and Stephenie.”
It took Alice only a moment to realize.
“Oh my goodness so Stephenie is my mother and not some lady who found me abandoned in an alley?”
“Yes sweetie and I’m your grandma and Jacob’s your grandpa.”
“Wow. I need to go back.”
“Okay should we take the car it’ll be faster.”
“Yeah okay. Come on let’s go!

Once they were at Stephenie’s Alice knocked rapidly on the door. It took a moment, but then Stephenie answered.
“Hello?” She said. Slice immediately ran and hugged her.
“I’m back mom.” Stephenie looked to see who was with her.
“Mom?”
“Yes she knows now.” Then they hugged.

Epilogue
After that Jacob and Rebecca moved closer to Alice and Stephenie. Alice and Stephenie now are absolutely totally happy together. And everything is how it should have been in the beginning.

"Moving" by Ben

Moving

by Ben

“Philip catch the ball,”said Mitch. He turned around and caught it and started laughing. “I hope you don’t move forver!”
“Ting! Time to get up!” I got out of my bed, threw on my clothes, ran down stairs and eat breakfast and went to school. Mitch told me that he really was moving away.
“Oh you are…dang!” “See ya…”
When I got home I told my mom that Mitch was moving to Australia “Aah, do you want go to Southdale?”
The next day
“Ting! Time to get up!”
“I don’t want to go to school. I will be made fun of!” Philip said.
“I’m sure you will be fine,” his mom said, “I’m sure you will be fine.” When he gets to school people are chanting “You don’t have a friend to play with ha! Ha!”
“I do have a friend to play with he’s coming back in a few days.” I said.
“Ting!” He walks home and tells his mom that he got made fun of. Mom says she is sorry for him and wants to take him to a video arcade.
“I went to the arcade and guess what? I met a kid named Phil… “moved here from Canada. He goes to my school and he is in my class now wont be made fun of.”

"Katie" by May

Katie

by May

Katie was sitting at her desk listening to the assignment of writing a short story about what you want to be when you grow up. She knew right away what she wanted to be…. an actress.
Finally the bell rang and Katie rushed home thinking about how she should write her paper. When she got home she started the paper right away and turned it in the next day.
“That was fast!” said her teacher Mrs. Hanson.
Katie was a pretty good student but in math she didn’t do too well. Her whole life she has wanted to be an actress and she wished that she could start.
Nine Years Later
High school was finally over and Katie was going to college. Katie has been looking for weeks for a good college where she could become an actress. But her parents will do anything they can to keep her from acting.
“Mom!” said Katie.
“Why can’t I go to a college for acting?”
“Honey, think if you followed up on the family business you could become a successful woman with lots of money!”
“I would also be if I became an actress and that would actually be fun!”
Finally, Katie thought. She got into a good college. Where she learned how to act in drama, comedy, sad, happy, and even horror movies! Katie was really proud of herself and even her teachers thought she was the best student.
Two Years Later
Katie graduated from college which she thought went very fast.
Her parents were still trying to get her to work the family business but Katie is doing the best she can to get a job in acting.
Finally Katie traveled to New York then to Hollywood, there, she heard of a man with an amazing script who is also a really good director but he can’t find the right actress for the main part.
Katie talks to a lot of people, searched the internet and finally found out where to find him.
Katie walked over to the front desk of a huge hotel.
“Can I talk to John Johnson?” Katie asked.
“Ha!” laughed the woman.
“Go away kid!” said the woman at the front desk.
“No I need to talk to John Johnson!”
“Do you really expect to talk to John Johnson?!”
“Yeah!” said Katie.
“Okay then I’ll call him up!” said the woman half sarcastically.
The whole hotel was filled with red carpeting and shiny plaques for each room number.
Katie knocked on the door.
“Who is it?” said John Johnson in a song voice.
“It’s Katie Hanson”
“What do you want?”
“Want to be the main actress in your movie!”
All of the sudden the door flung open and he yelled “Come in!”
Katie went in and he offered her tea.
“So, you have only acted in a play when you were little and you think you can be in my movie!?”
“Yeah” said Katie.
“Well you can leave I don’t approve!”
“But- John cut her off.
“You are wasting my time!” said John. But Katie had already started acting out one of the parts. John Johnson thought she was perfect for the part.
“Okay!” said John
“We’ll make the movie!”
Katie had a great time making the movie and before long Katie became a famous actress and lots of people wanted Katie Hanson in their movies.
Katie loved her job and she was making a lot of money but she felt like something was missing. She couldn’t think of anything that was wrong but in the inside she just had a feeling that something wasn’t right.
Katie decided to go visit her parents after all she hadn’t seen them in a couple years.
Katie rang the doorbell of her parents’ huge house and the door swung open.
“Katie!” exclaimed her parents.
“Hi!” exclaimed Katie.
“I missed you so much!” said everyone at the same time.
“How’s work?” asked Katie’s mom.
“Great!”
“I’ve been in lots of movies!”
“Yeah we saw some of those!”
“We are really happy for you Katie!”
Katie thought that maybe what was missing was just her parents approval.

"Enriquez's Gift" by Mason

Enriquez's Gift

by Mason

Enriquez wakes up with the sun in his eyes and the heat on his eyelids. He gets up and glances at the calendar. “My birthday is tomorrow! Yes! Yes! he shouts.
The invitations were sent out a week ago and 10 of Enriquez’s best friend had called to say they were coming. He could hardly wait.
After school, Enriquez had a hockey game. As he walked up to the bench, he sees his team chatting about how good the other team was. As he got on the ice a red jersey flew across him. The puck flew on to his stick and he got the puck and fired it across the ice. Then it went to the red team. The red took it down the ice and weaved across the ice fired a shot in the net. Now the red team was winning 2 to 1! Then Enriquez’s head shot down. He had never felt worse.
“Enriquez!” how could you pass the puck to the other team?” his coach shouted.
“I don’t know, there were so many red players on me so I just shot the puck!” Enriquez said sadly.
After the game, he could not stop thinking about his stupid hockey stick. He sure hoped he got a new stick for his birthday.
Enriquez slowly got into his mom’s car.
“What’s wrong?” she said. Enriquez’s mom could always tell.
“Coach yelled at me.”
“At least it’s your birthday in two days!”
But Enriquez had no idea he was having a surprise birthday party. He didn’t know what was ahead!
They just pulled up in the driveway. The garage started to open. Enriquez saw feet under the garage door. He wondered why people would be in his garage. Once the whole garage door was open, he was still wondering if this was a surprise party. As his friends jumped up and shouted, “Surprise!” Enriquez ran out to the garage and his mouth dropped down. He had a big smile. He was already hoping that he was going to get his hockey stick!
Once they all got their presents and sat down right by the fireplace, his friends were saying, “Pick my present first!” He knew we was going to pick the present that was long, skinny and curved at the end, even though it wasn’t from any of his friends. He knew his family would be the ones to get him a hockey stick. So he starts ripping up the present then he sees a streak of sine then he tarts ripping it faster then it’s the stick. Enriquez goes crazy
“YES! YES! YES! THANK you so much!. Hey guys lets go in the backyard and play HOCKEY!”. So all the boys go in the back and play some hockey.

"The Hornets" by Tom

The Hornets

by Tom

It all started with a spud of an idea. This one man kept a dream that he will make a high school and name it Edina High School and the teams mascot will be a hornet. A year and a half later, the school was built and swarming with students. They even had a football and hockey team. Two years later, the Edina Hornets shot up to third place ranking.
On July 10th, 1999, the hornets had a very nasty game vs. Eden Prairie. Edina was trailing 4 to 1. John Jetter had the puck; he skated around five E.P. players. When he was about to shoot, he was tripped! He slammed to the ground losing one of his teeth. He mouth was gushing out blood. Everyone gasped. The guys skated up to that tripped John and they shoved him and more E.P. players came to join him. Then the whole hornets’ bench came onto the ice. John was just sitting there. No one noticed him during the fight except for the crowd. Another thing no one noticed is that John’s helmet was cracked. Just what John was afraid of, ending his hockey career.
45 minutes later, the fight was over and John was being carried across the ice on a stretcher. John’s eyes were shut. The crowd was hush. John had a very bad concussion. After 13 hours, John opened his eyes. John was in serious pain. He had chipped his tooth, his brain was swollen, he couldn’t talk and he had to be on crutches.
2 months later his condition just got worse no one knew what was going on. The next day John died he had over 30,148 people cam to his grave in 5 hours the hornets didn’t play a single game for 58 days…
Then there was Anders Lee. He played all sports. The next time Edina played E.P. in the first period the score was 5 to nothing E.P. was winning then Anders Lee showed up on the ice, then he skated up to the guy who had the puck slam. He checked a guy so hard that the boards were shaking like crazy. Anders had the puck. He was skating down. “He shoots…he scores!” The whistle blew. They dropped the puck and slapshot it away. Alex now had the puck. He shot and scored. The whistle blew again! E.P. pulled their goaly. Anders was back on the ice. Alex passed it to Anders. Anders shoots and scores and the buzzer rang.
In the second period, the score was 7 to 5. Edina was winning! The buzzer rang again and the puck dropped. It was amazing! Jack scored so it was 8 to 5.Then Anders scored, then Alex scored, it was 10 to 5. The hornets had scored three goals in four minutes, 15 seconds.
Then it was 6 to10. With one more period left, the crowd was going wild! Anders had the puck, he back handed it to Alex who shot. He scored! The ref dropped the puck 25 seconds later. Anders scored! The big picture of John was above the Hornet’s goal. All the players’ jerseys had his number on the upper left hand corner of their jerseys.
At the end of the game, the score was 20 to 7. “What was it like to get 10 goals in a game?” the announcer said as he walked up to Anders. “Well I didn’t just do it for the team. I did it for John. He was my inspiration to play hockey and baseball and football. So thank you for everything you have done for me, John.”

"Passageways" by Lily

Passageways

by Lily
The sun shone brightly through the little windows as the car tumbled along the rocky and dirty path that sprayed mud all over it. Lily was completely carsick and bored. She was so bored that even Mars, her three year old black lab couldn’t cheer her up. She also felt terrible about leaving Pennsylvania and her friends behind.
“We’re here!” Called Lily’s dad over his shoulder as Lily gaped.
“What the…” She stammered. “What kind of house is this?”
“Lily…” Lily’s dad said in a stern voice. “You don’t know how much money this lovely house was.”
“Lovely?” Lily cried. “Don’t even say that! This house is the opposite of what I thought it was!” And with that Lily sprinted out of the car and stormed into the old house angrily with tears in her eyes.

As Lily turned into the house, she could hear her mom and dad yelling for her. Ignoring the feeling of guilt in her stomach, Lily didn’t respond. She was still extremely mad at getting such a terrible house.
“Mars, do you like this house?” Lily asked curiously while wiping the tears away from her eyes.
As if Mars had read Lily’s feelings, a low growl rumbled in his throat as if he were saying no. Lily sighed.
“Oh, I do wish we could go back to Pennsylvania.” And with that she went into the kitchen randomly to explore.
Lily ran into the kitchen, still furious. Then she suddenly gasped. Right in front of her was an amazing china plate. Feeling pleased with herself at finding the plate, Lily reached up and grabbed it. All of a sudden, Lily heard a low rumbling noise. Scared stiff, Lily ran outside to her car and started casually unpacking.
“Where were you?” Scolded Lily’s mom.
“Sorry, I just got a… a little mad.” Lily stammered uneasily.
“Ok. Well anyways, since you’re out here, start unpacking!”
So, Lily got her suitcase and ran inside just as the moving truck came.

Lily ran inside, flying up the steps. She was looking for a nice room she would call her own. She knew she would find that dream room. And guess what? She did. The little room she had found looked perfect and even came with a fresh new queen bed! The bed was so fluffy and so cushy that the mattress looked like a cloud. The walls were a deep green and an old chair sat in a dusty corner. A pale bookshelf was tilted against the wall where a balcony was and still had some very old books in it.
Still curious about her interesting room, Lily slowly crept towards the balcony. She came closer and closer until she gasped. The view was beautiful. She couldn’t believe her eyes. Fresh air filled her nostrils and new scents flourished in her mind. Lily knew that the room was absolutely, positively perfect.
Excitedly, Lily ran back into her new room and started unpacking her clothes in a rose vine dresser. She neatly took each piece of clothing and set it gently in the dresser. She was starting to realize that the old rotten house wasn’t as bad as she thought.

After unpacking her load, Lily wanted to do a little exploring with Mars. After all, it was a pretty big house.
Running downstairs, Lily bravely decided to see what rumbling noise was coming from the kitchen a little while ago. So, she cautiously tiptoed to the kitchen door and peeked in.
Lily almost fainted at what she saw in the cupboard. A huge hole had formed behind the china plate she had grabbed. Now curious, Lily walked slowly towards the cupboard and decided to check out what was inside the hole.
“C’mon Mars!” Lily cried. “We’re going to go exploring!”
Mars replied with a happy high pitched yip as they went in.
Darkness was all that Lily’s eyes could see. As she felt around, cobwebs stuck to her fingers and sharp stones made her flinch. Annoyed by the things that touched her, she angrily looked for a light switch. But as she felt for one, nothing felt like a light switch to her.
“Mars…” She said nervously. “I can’t seem to find a light switch.”
As if he were sighing, Mars walked over to an area and pulled down a string. Then bright lights flickered on.

Lily gasped. The little passage had turned out to be big. And it was so big that her soft voice echoed loudly through it as she talked.
“Wow…” Lily echoed. “I never knew how cool this room would be.” And with that Lily went exploring around the room. She checked every nook and cranny of the room while sweeping away cobwebs in her way. On the other side of the room Mars clutched an old book while sniffing furiously at a little crack in the wall. As soon as Lily saw the book Mars was carrying she gasped.
“Mars, what have you got in your mouth?” Lily exclaimed questioningly. Mars barked and dropped the book at her feet, sitting down obediently and cocking his head. Lily opened the book dramatically. Dust flew around in a gray puff and spiders crawled out of it. By the looks of it, Lily could immediately tell that it was very old, and something, just something was very special about it.

“Hmmm… I think I can see a map in here.” Lily said professionally while pushing the gray cloud of dust away from her view. “But I wonder what it’s a map of.” Mars and Lily stayed completely silent for the next fifteen minutes. They heard silent sounds, like drops of water falling, and mice skittering back to their holes. It was Lily who broke the silence.
“I know what it’s a map of!” She cried gleefully. “It’s a map of all the passageways in our house!” Mars barked with joy and the two took off towards the exit.

As soon as Mars and Lily got out of the cool little room they immediately started searching for new passageways on the book’s map. There were passageways in bathrooms, bedrooms, living rooms, and one even in Lily’s room! Mars and Lily were so excited that they decided to check out one more passageway- the mysterious one in Lily’s room.
Looking at the map, Lily carefully moved her queen bed. When she was done moving the heavy thing, she collapsed on the floor and crawled over to the trapdoor where the passageway was. The trapdoor looked old, rusty, and it was impossible to open. So Lily looked around her room and found two secret buttons behind the old red chair sitting in the dusty corner.
The secret door slowly opened up while Lily and Mars hopped into it. The little passageway was pretty dark but Lily and Mars could still make out how enormous the room was.
Cautiously, they made their way through the dim area, Lily plugging her nose at the terrible smell. In the large room, rats skittered their claws and snakes slithered. Neither Lily nor Mars knew they were about to encounter one dangerous creature.

As Lily and Mars slowly walked through the passageway, they suddenly heard a hiss. The two stopped dead in their tracks and turned around. Right behind them was a huge, poisonous snake.
Lily screamed. Mars howled. They took off running as fast as they could. They felt their hearts pounding and their energy being drained. And they knew they would meet their fate as soon as they hit the dead end.

Lily was so scared that she wanted to run away from her terrifying house and never come back. She was also very confused about this passageway having a poisonous snake in it because Maryland doesn’t have any.
The snake started hissing at them as it came closer, its eyes glistening with fury. It came closer and closer every second. And as soon as the snake was within her reach and Lily was closing her eyes in terror, a ferocious yowl erupted and a fluffy creature pounced out and killed the snake.
Lily was speechless as she watched the fluffy creature which was a cat lick her whiskers embarrassingly
“You… you saved my life!” Lily said, confused. The cat .just walked over to her and purred while Mars cocked his head and growled.
“It’s Okay Mars, the cat won’t hurt you. Lily said soothingly. So with that, Mars walked over to the cat and sniffed her. The minute Mars sniffed the cat he barked with glee and started running, the cat behind him. Lily laughed and followed eagerly, glad to be saved and to be happy. She knew one day she would repay the cat for something big. Something important.

Lily named that cat Leopard because of her brown spotted pelt and sneaky attitude. Leopard turned out to be a great pet and Lily’s parents accepted her immediately. She was also a great protector when they were exploring passageways.
“Mars,” Lily asked suddenly and randomly. “Do you ever want to find something big, something exciting?”
Mars just cocked his head and licked Lily’s hand. “Well, I guess you just don’t understand.” She sighed. “Well, if you did understand, I bet you’d say yes. You’re always up to finding something big and exciting.”
A couple of hours later, nighttime fell and Lily went exploring around to try and find a surprise. She first decided to check the bathroom. It was very hard to find something in there. So, first she tried looking at the map in the old book but sadly couldn’t see any “surprises” in there. But deciding not to give up, Lily tried turning on faucets, moving the garbage can, and even flushing the toilet! Sadly, none of these great ideas worked. But she still had one more chance- moving the loose bathroom tiles. Looking in the book, Lily finally found a page that showed her how to move the tiles into the right position and showed her that it was a very weird shape. The shape was a mixture of a square, diamond, and triangle. But knowing she had to make it, Lily moved the tiles and soon a huge hole opened in a wall. It was brightly lighted and wonderful looking clubhouse-like room. She jumped into the place and gasped with fright when she saw the most frightening thing in her life.

Lily was shivering with terror as she saw two men go up to her and whisper repeatedly, “don’t get the treasure. If you do, you will meet your fate. Don’t get the treasure!”
“I-I won’t,” Lily stammered, not knowing what this “treasure” was.
“Good.” Snickered the other man. “Now go.”
Lily ran out of the terrifying place trying to find her mom and dad but she remembered they were running errands. Next, she tried the phone but the robbers had snipped of the phone cord and the phone just sat there, beeping.
“Well, I guess I’ll have to get Mars.” Lily said as she ran to get him in her room. “Mars!” She cried to her obedient dog. “Run to town and go to the police! Now!” Lily knew the police station was very far away, but Mars just barked and ran outside. “Go Mars, go!” Lily shouted off the balcony as she ran to get Leopard to get in the passageway in her room.
As she slipped down, she could hear the frustrated calls of the men outside.
“I’m telling you, little girl that you better come out here!” Lily shivered at his eerie voice. “You know what you’re gonna’ get!” Lily could then hear the men start taking all sorts of items from the house. She could even hear them talking about taking some of her prized antiques from her collection! Then they started to tap the walls in some sort of pattern and Lily heard a rumbling sound. Lily could tell by their voices that there was an enormous amount of money in there.
“Oh, where is Mars.” Lily sighed. “Where could he be?”
An hour later when the men were about to take all of the stolen stuff out, sirens were heard and police surrounded the men.
Knowing it was the time, Lily got out of the passage and explained everything to the police. The robbers finally got arrested and soon Lily made the robbers room as her own clubhouse. Everything was peaceful, and life was good for Mars, Lily, and Leopard at the old house. They all learned a good lesson to think before you act.

"Lost and Found" by Zach

Lost and found

By Zach


It was a hot day as Bo and I climbed up on the monster ship knows as the serpent. Bo and I were sent here because we are going to visit are grandparents in Hawaii and we do not like flying in air planes. The serpent is a very nice ship Bo and I sat down on the soft benches as my uncle Charlie said hello boys here is your room key I believe you are room three, ok I said. As I slid the key into the doorknob it opened by its self it was amazing to big beds a fridge with soda in it I looked at the boat map cool There’s a hot tub and a sauna we grabbed our suites and hoped into the hot tub we and I stayed in there until we turned into human raisins. It was time for bed as Bo and I walked back to are room I looked up at the sky there were pitch black clouds there was a storm coming we got to are room and put on our PJ’s and slipped into the cozy beds after 10 minutes of talking we dozed off. BEEP BEEP BEEP I woke up quickly it was still dark but the floor was wet I grabbed the boat manual and flipped to the bell section my face crumbled in terror three bells meant sinking ship I woke up Bo and we shot out the door I steeped on something damp and squishy I looked down to see my uncle Charlie lying there motionless I quick felt his pulse nothing he was dead but there was not time to help him we grabbed THE neon orange life jackets and jumped and hoped into the life boat Bo and I banged our heads on the front of the boat and were knocked out. Swish Swish went the gentle waves i woke up to see Bo two feet from me not moving I shot over to him my head still throbbing in pain I did CPR well at least how I thought you did it and luckily he shot water from his mouth like a fountain he opened his eyes wide and stood up and as he and I looked into the Vass rainforest but before I got to into it I remembered that we were stranded on an Island with rugged cloth no shoes and not all the ground was soft sand vroom vroom we both looked up yes!! A plane we shot over to were it landed a plump man jumped out and saw us and said what are you doing here we said are plane crashed and we were the only survivors well than it’s good I found you I will take u to Australia if you like sure you would do that well yeah I cant just let you die out here on a deserted island, right then I remembered my fear of planes but right now I would have to or I would die so I said ok and we hoped into the plane and the nice man that had now told us his name “Pilippe” looked backed and said are you ready I didn’t speak but luckily Bo spoke for me and said yes vroom vroom we were of to Australia when we got there Philipe tossed us fifty cents for the phone both I then called my mom she answered I told her every thing that night she flew in it was good to be safe again

"The Trip" by Erik

The trip

by Erik
As Josh got home from baseball, he rushed to where his mom was sitting in the living room. He told his mom his great news. “I got two homeruns in the game and we won six to four!”
“Well, I have even more good news for you,” she said with a smile, “We’re going on a trip!” They were going to go on a trip for summer break to Puerto Rico.
Joshes hands got so sweaty. He didn’t want to go on the trip. He new the plane ride would be bad because he is scared of plane rides. He said to his mom “that will be fun” even though he was going to be scared of the plane ride.




When he woke up for days later he said to him self “NO! We are going on the trip today.”
When they got to the airport Alex Joshes brother pretty much had to drag him in. he kept asking why do we have to go on this trip. His mom had the same answer for him every time you will have fun once we get there. Josh still didn’t think he would have that much fun.
When they got to the gate they handed the man the tickets.
They got to there seats and they were right over the wing.
About ten min. later the plane started to move out of the gate and Josh started to get so scared.
When they got to the runway the plane started getting faster and faster until they got so fast they started to takeoff.
After they were in the air for about two hours he looked down and saw they were almost there and that’s when he herd the pilot say prepare for crash landing.
On the way down Josh and Alex were crying like crazy.
When they hit the water luckily nobody in there family got hurt.
When they got in the life bouts they saw that they were really close to Puerto Rico so a helicopter couldn’t come out so they started pedaling there.
When they got to the beach, the pilot told them that the plane fell because the left engine went out.
When they got to the hotel they were staying for five days and then they had to go home in a plane.

"The Dog that Changed Everything" by Riley

The Dog That Changed Everything
By Riley

For St. Lewis falling never hurt so badly, it hurt but he kept on going. He ran to the top and made it with a thud. Clark, St. Lewis’ owner, came and said “Where have you been”. The next day went slow and ended bad. St. Lewis went to his brothers’ dog house. My brother’s house like mine go’s down ten miles. I put a surprise letter on the table and started to run. I heard a low moan as planned. I new what was going to happen next, I heard a howl and rustling feet. I heard the rooster from down the street crow and figured out what time it must have been. I crawled slowly to the house. I got my breakfast in the kitchen.” I believe that you got scared last night” I told Steve when we were at the table. “Ha” Steve said. I went to take a small nap. I came to the kitchen after the nap and found Clark on the floor drooling blood. I got the parents and they called 911. I heard the ambulance in the distance and jumped sky high as fast as I could and got their attention. They followed my bark to the house and got Clark on a stretcher while I jumped on the stretcher and was taken to the hospital. I waited for Clark to wake up but he slumped on the stretcher silently. I licked his face and found out that the licking was a miracle in its own way. Clark woke and asked” Where am I?” The paramedics were shocked at first but said” It’s a miracle!”
Clark asked” What’s a miracle?!”
Everyone especially Clark was ambitious to get back to the house, but did not know what would happen next. The back doors flew open and both Clark and I fell out on the stretcher. I saw what was happening and jumped into action. I jumped off and bit the back end though my legs hurt. The stretcher rolled to a stop and we ran half a mile home. They took me to the vet and as I died my brother for the first time and the last time he was sad for me. I was given medicine to get me to health but none of it worked. I took my last breath and lay on the ground, dead. I had my funeral a week later in the backyard. Everyone in the family was not as happy as the last few weeks and hoped I would have a good life in heaven. Sadly this story ends.

"The World" by Senna

The world
By senna
Lily was done with her test first, it was like I was dumb what am I saying I am dumb I whispered to myself. As quiet as I could get
“Lily, Lily.” I said with a louder expression
“What.” she said
“I need some help with the test.”
“That would be cheating.”
“So”
“Please”
“Zach I feel like your mother no!”
Zach stared blankly off into space it was like he was paralyzed he wouldn’t blink or move an inch.
“Cheating.” Said Mr.Masterman
He held them back from there other classes for 10 minuets. Not now Mrs. Owens is going to kill us if we are late
“Lily I needed some help with the test “
“I thought you were good at math “
“Well sorry I lied I really liked you at the time Lily you are my best friend”
“Well I guess I’m not any more”
“No Lily”
“Lily” Eathens voice came form afar
“Oh hey Eathen”
“What class are you rushing to?”
“Health”
“Same”
“Oh same” said Zach
“Who are you?”
“I’m Zach Parker”
“I’m Eathen gram”
“Hello lily Zach and Eathen” lily’s teacher Mr. Owens said.
“Hi Mr. Owens” lily said
“Lily do you still like me”
“Kind of”
“Lily I’m your best friend”
“was” she put into y sentence.
After health
“Lily” I gulped
“What”
“I…..like…. you ...”
“Liar 5 minutes ago you liked a girl named May”
“Cant a boy change his mind”
“Zach you got that from superman and it goes like this cant a girl change her mind”
“So you can’t change the words around”
“Well sorry Eathen already asked me out”
“Lily don’t go out with him he is a jerk”
“Just like you” lily said.
“Ha so you admit it” he said“Lily you just meat him like a month ago”
“So we like each other”
“It’s like a bird never eating a worm”
“Maybe he is a special worm to me”
“Um you’re the worm”
“Zach!”
“Lily believe me I do like you”
“Why should I believe you?”
“Because you just should”
“Bye Zach”
“Nooooo!”
“I’m just going to science.”
“Ok”
“Hi Mr.sebek I love what you have done with your class room I love the new carpet”
Zach started to cry at the top of his lunges why lily why lily and wouldn’t stop
Ring
School was over at 2: 50 at last we were done with school free no more school tell tomorrow
“Lily. Lily, Lily” Zach yelped
Wewowewowewowewo
A car raced bye us and sprayed us with mud.
What’s wrong lily she was giving me the silent treatment.
Lily stop giving me the silent treatment tell me what’s wrong I will tell every body you’re biggest secret!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“What is it Zach, tell me”
“Oooooooohhhhhh nothing just that you said that you hate him but you are going out with him I all ready made banners to hang on all 865 kids in the school”
You looked in my diary!!
When tell me every thing that you looked at.
“You have a huge mole on your back that’s why you wont go swimming with me.”
“And you liked me kindergarten to 6th grade”
“Well we are in 7th grade now so ha”
You have to promise you won’t tell any body
And then we pinky promised and chanted stick a needle threw your eyes if you lie then you die and then we started to laugh hahahahahhahhahah.
Ella, Ella why are you over hear.
Your mom told that you knew I that I was coming over.
“Oh she didn’t tell me she must have for got”
“Lily do you want to play soccer”
“Sure”
“Can I play too?” Zach asked
“Fine” Ella and I said together
When me and Zach were playing I felt something connect between us.
After that we went over to his house and played Xbox.
“Zach I like you”
Ella started to cry (she liked Zach way more then I did)
You’re the nicest boy friend ever I said
And now it’s a happy ending for all of us



The end

"Adventure to the Farm" by Ryan

The Adventure to the Farm
By Ryan


There owns was a boy named Paper. Paper was really really odd. His hair was green and so was his skin! When he went to school people always make fun of his name and skin. Then one day he got sick of people making fun of him so he got in a fight with a kid named Buck. He was much tougher than Paper. But then Buck told Paper that he looked like seaweed. So then he got so mad he couldn’t take it anymore so he went over there and punched Buck in the face. Then Buck had a bloody nose. Then Buck got up and wiped the blood from his face. He picked up Paper and threw him down on the cement. Paper’s mind went completely white. He started dreaming about running away and finding lots of animals. Then his mind went completely white again. He woke up in his room and said “what’s going on? Where am I?” He looked at the clock and it was 8:58 AM. He looked at his arm for any blood. Then he saw dry blood tearing at his skin. Then he realized what he had been through. He got soooo mad he ran as fast as he could into the forest with his bag with lots of food in it and then stopped at a tree. He said “I am probably going to stay here the rest of my life.” Then he spent the night by the tree. Once he woke up he kept walking until he saw a farm. So then he went to the farm and their was a couple animals in the farm. One was a tortoise and another one was a pig and the last one was a cow. He really liked the animals and the animals liked him to. Then he cooked himself some dinner. The farm did not have any food in it but it had a working stove, so he cooked the meat that was in his bag and then went to bed. In the morning he woke up and went to the cow to get some milk. He washed it and then put it in a cup. After that he made himself a breakfast. He tried to ride the cow but that did not work so well. Paper stayed there 2 more days, but he missed his own house so he said goodbye to the animals and headed home. Once he got home he went inside and apologized and his parents accepted the apology and then life went back to normal.

"One Trip, One Love" by Rachel

One Trip, One Love
By Rachel
As I got on the boat I said to my self “why dose mother and father have to go to England?”
My stupid brother can over to me and
said” because they have something about work.” He said. I walked away. As we got on the big ship” The Titanic” I sighed as we where going to be on here for a long time. We got on and then it felt like my heart just got lifted of a dusty shelf and played with by a little girl. This…this man I sputtered.
“what” said mother. Nothing. I glanced over again. He was standing over there greeting people one the ship. He was wearing his Snow-white and Navy-blue sailor suite.
When he greeted us I just said
“Hyia”. I felt so stupid!
That night when they did couples dance I looked around the deck for someone to dance with and the only person I saw was him. I started to walk over to him and then he ran to me and asked me to dance! Of course I said YES! We walked on the floor and stepped and stepped until we where in the beat. I learned new things when we where dancing like he was single ,a sailor, he is 18 ( like Me!),and his name is Edward.


“Since I’m an adult I can now date him.”
Over the course of a month I met with Edward .One night I was dancing on the star deck with him and then he got on his knees and held out a box. The music had stopped and I was about to cry. When he opened to box and all I saw was all these little He held out my hand and said
“Will you marry me?” My eyes burst into tears as I said yes. We looked at each other for a while and then I said
“Kiss me you fool!” As the crowd of people went wild I felt flowers fall on my head and screeches of joy.
There was only about two weeks left and I wanted to make it the best two weeks of our lives.
Edward and I where up until midnight dancing tonight. I’m in my room writing in my diary. It is about 1:30 AM. I am right by my journal listening to the radio. Father, mother and brother are at the grand staircase talking. My brother had met someone in first class too. He was his age, 10. There were racing cars down the railing. My brother is a boy scout so he is using his pinewood derby car to race. I have always wanted to be a boy scout ever since I was a little girl and now to see my brother be one, it is like torcher. I was going to go down to the grand staircase but sitting here is more fun than standing a room with a ton of adults and two stupid boys. As the radio started going off because it is so late. I turned it to another channel. Then the boat stopped, something happened.
“Crash!” I turned off the radio startled. I could hardly hear my anything over the screaming. As I rushed to the grand staircase, I could not see my parents but then I turned around and saw them running out. I followed them and caught up with them. As we got on deck, I looked up at where the wheel was and saw Edward. He was up, kicking the door and giving me signals that he would come down. As I signaled back, the captain had just said stop and he went to the door and WHAM! The door was open. Edward called to me. I wanted to fly to him and just dance. But then
“CRASH!” I heard again. The ship was going down. My ma and brother took my hand and we went on the boat and then my dad said he would catch up with us. We got on the boat and
“CRASH” again. The boat was in two. “My father…Edward,” I thought. What will happen to them? I kept my eye on my father on deck. He jumped off. I saw a ton of sailors jump off too. I hope Edward was one. A couple hours later, we were on the new boat. After the boats were done putting us on they went and got some people that jumped off four hours later the boats came back with only three boats filled and there was 15 boats. My mother told me to come in. But as I walked in, a breeze hit my neck. It’s my common sense, AGAIN! It said Edward wasn’t coming back. I turned around and saw nothing. My mother yelled at me again to get in. As I went in, the drenched sailors started walking on. I just kept on walking. I didn’t want to see the sailors. I didn’t.
That night I could not sleep. Edward was bellowing to me the whole night. Once I got to sleep, I had horrible dreams about Edward. I had a feeling it would come true. That morning we went and got breakfast at the nearby pier. As they were passing out the paper, I flipped the page as fast as I could to see who died. I got to the page. I I I…waaaaaa! Right smack dab in the middle was a picture of Edward. As I went through the 11 pages of people who had died, I thought “Why Edward, Why?” As the news was drilled into my head, I thought, “Will I ever find true love again?”
20 Years Later
“Hey Johnny…Alice…time for dinner!” Your dad and I made it. My new family is great but I still have a hole in my heart for Edward.

"Shalo" by Quinlan

Shalo
By Quinlan

I said goodbye to my parents while they had a meeting in Honolulu, Hawaii. I put on my swimsuit and went for a little swim because I was bored. I swam with sea turtles. I got my towel and watched the dolphins jump in the mid afternoon. Once I was dry I went inside to watch some T.V. and cool down. Just than my parents called and said people where coming to kidnap me! I started sweating and getting hot. They burst in the house and stuffed me in a bag and put me in there car. We drove a little bit then I remembered I had some scissors in my back pocket and I sniped myself out of the bag and crawled out I told my parents when they got home from Honolulu, Hawaii. After I finished telling them the story they said that we had to go to the Artic to help save the polar bears from extinction. We went through the long lines and finally got our plane. My parents said that we would be there for two months. We went onto the runway and took off. I was either sleeping or watching movies. I finally decided I would stay awake the rest of the time but then I saw we were heading for a hockey rink and this is what I felt embarrassed about. “That is where they have to land because they can’t afford airports”
“Oh thanks for telling me that dad” I said. We got off our plane and do you know what the first thing I did was? I slipped on the ice and slid into the net and broke my leg. We went to the hospital to get my crutches and left. We finally got to the condo. I listened to my solar powered radio because they did not have electricity. I also read books for entertainment. I went to bed because it was something like 10; 00at night but I was not sure because no clock. I woke up the next morning by a light snowfall outside. I went outside and found my parents with a baby polar bear. “Can I name him?”
“Sure” my mom said.
“Okay, I will name him… Shallow! But spell it Shalo. I took him inside to get some milk to drink. The next day I did the same thing and spent most of my time on him. I played and fed Shalo. A month past I still had a month to be with Shalo. I went outside to play with Shalo and the whole time I saw a different polar bear creeping up on us until he dove for me and Shalo. I dove out of the way but what about Shalo. I swung myself around just to see Shalo to get beat to the ground. I took Shalo to the vet to get him better from the attack. The doctor was finally ready for me I went back into a room to see what was wrong. “ He is in god’s hands now doc said my parents showed up as they where panicked because they did not know where I was but we lived in a small town so they found me pretty quick. Doc called us in and said he lived! But they wanted a small tip because they did not have much money. He went back to the room to get Shalo, he came out chasing his tail he came up and jumped into my arms. The next day Shalo and I went outside to play. He noticed another polar bear. He went over to meet the female it took me a while to take him inside. The last day my parents said they wanted to have an important conversation with me. “As you know we are leaving today and Shalo likes anther polar bear.”

"Papa and Me" by Skye

Papa and Me
By Skye
Papa and I were eating dinner. I made Venison for dinner, his favorite. Thanks to Papa the only meat we had was deer. He needed his protein so I made Venison.
“Hey…ahh…Ariana, this weekend me and Floyd are gonna go four wheelin’, you…ahh…wanna come?” He asked nervously.
“Thanks Papa. But you can go. I don’t wanna cut into your time with Floyd.” I said sweetly, worried about his reaction.
“Are you sure? You’re my Granddaughter.” He said trying to bribe.
“Yeah, but Papa.” I said trying to be reasonable.
“Before we’s gets too far in a conversation, can you get the pepper?” He asked.
“Sure Papa.” I said politely. I walked into the kitchen and looked in the cupboard where the pepper would usually be but it wasn’t there. “Papa where’s the pepper?” No answer. “Papa?” Still no answer. “Papa…Papa?” I turned back to face him. He was on the floor. “PAPA! Nooo! Why now?!? I’m not ready for this!” I dragged his dead body outside.
Once I was outside I opened the garage and ran to get the red wheel barrow. Once I got back to Papa I stood motionless in front of his dead body, with tears dripping down my eyes. I tried to scoop his body into the wheel barrow. It took me a while to actually get him in.
I dragged him through the open trail we passed the Junk Pile and Bill’s Deer Stand and then I got to the spot where I was to burry him. It took me hours to bury him. I had a lot of work ahead of me. While I was walking back I was thinking deeply about how to afford the house and EAT! I decided I would go into to town and be interviewed for some jobs. I would use half of my money for bills and the other half for food.
I was finally home. As I bounced up the wooden stairs I thought about Papa and how I lived with him my whole life. He taught me how to ride a bike, drive and he even paid for me to go to school. Since I was alone I was forced to drop-out.
No one was here to keep me company. I was now seven-teen and living alone. No family. No friends. No money.
When I was inside I went to fridge and made a list of what I either needed or was almost out of. I needed meat, milk, veggies.
I made my bed, and Papa’s. I put a picture of Papa on the pillow he always used. The way his smile made my stomach feel tingly. I climbed on the bed. I sat directly in front of Papa’s picture. I said a prayer he’d say every night when I pretended to be asleep. “Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep, for if I die before I wake pray the lord my soul to take.” I stopped and tears became streaming out of my eyes. I slowly climbed off the bed and grabbed the keys to the truck.
Now I was in front of “Super One”. I was going to get the chicken and the milk, and some veggies.
While the check-out lady was scanning my items she snuck I dirty look at me. Her eyes burning into mine. Her big bushy eyebrows and furry wart on her upper lip gave away the rudeness she dished up.
“$63.78.” She snarled, stretching out her hand for the money. I handed her a $100 bill since I didn’t have any thing else. “UGHHH!” She complained because she didn’t want to deal out any more money to me. “$36.22 is your change.” She snarled.
“Well aren’t you gonna put my items in a bag?” I asked seconds later regretting my words.
“Ughh,” She moaned. “Paper or Plastic?” She said angrily. She put the chicken at the bottom of the bag, and then the veggies. After that she put the gallon of milk to wreck all the food under it. “Ok Shorty, stuffs’ in the bag now you should leave.” She shouted. “Oh… or maybe you could look for more ways to waste my day!” She said sarcastically. But she didn’t realize the manager was walking up behind her.
“BETTY!” He said stern and serious. “There are so many things wrong with what you did. First of all you never put vegetables and a chicken under a gallon of milk.”
“Well what do you want me to do?” She said annoyed.
“I want you to run, go put the milk, the chicken and the vegetables away come back, and go get new ones.”
“What?? I’m not doing that! She’s a brat!”
“Then you’re fired!” He shouted. “Just wait sweetie. 5,4,3,2,1.”
“FINE!” She finally said.
“I thought so!” He said bragging. “Now go get her items!”
When I got home that night, I pulled out one of Papa’s old shirts. It was midnight blue, had “Leech Lake” sewed in. It also had a bear sown in. I knew some kids slept with blankets when they were young. But if I couldn’t be with Papa I had to be with a memory of him.
I walked up the small brown carpeted stairs leading to the tiny room I slept in, the painting of Papa of Papa still hanging by my bed where it always was. The black dotted design on the sheets, and purple quilt Nani had made. The room wasn’t quite put together yet something was missing. It was Papa’s shirt. I put the shirt right above my bed to tie the room together.
That morning when I awake I smelt eggs and fresh maple syrup! I had to be dreaming to be smelling things this good! I was so hypnotized I almost fell down the stairs. I felt woozy. As I slowly walked down the stairs, the smell was getting stronger. At last I was finally down the stairs I looked around, in disappointment I frowned. There was no food, in fact not one little crumb.
The lights suddenly went black I fell to the floor. My heart stopped. It was dark, I could figure that out, but what I couldn’t figure out what was happening. I laid there alone, in the dark. I was dead, the words spinning around in my head. I couldn’t grasp the feeling.
I heard voices.
“Ehhh…Matt...you tink she’s gonna be ok?” Said a man.
“I hope so Allen.” Replied another.
“Matt lets get her in the ambulance.” Said the first one.
“Ok” the conversation continued in the ambulance about a pointless subject, Baldness. “Allen…ya know…I don’t wanna be rude or anything but…your bald.”
“Well I’m 53 years old, Matt. When you’re that old you lucky to even have hair.”
“Well, just saying I’m only 26. I won’t be that old for a while.”
“Ahaha! Ya know Matt you make me laugh!”
“I don’t know If that is a good thing or a bad thing in this case.”
“Once again you make me laugh! And yes that is a good thing.”
All the sudden a new voice began to speak. “Yahl better go drive or I’m gone slap you silly.”
“Ok Gloria!!! We’ll go!” They both said in fright.
“Oh Sweetie, I hope you feel betta soon.” She said.
All the sudden the nice smooth ride came to a stop. “Allen, Matt you better get this girl out of here before I take out my baseball bat.”
“OH!! OK!” They stammered.
I was inside. I was calm, almost asleep, and for once I was comfortable. I fell asleep later. I was dreaming about Papa. My dream was interrupted by arguing.
“But, Doctor, She’s a young girl who shouldn’t be put through this.”
“But her heart is down.” He Disagreed.
“Doctor, try something else besides that and than if nothing works you can use the defibrillator.”
“I’m doing the detribalization and that’s final.’ He decided.
I felt more pricks. I had no power over my body except my brain which for some reason was actually working.
“Alright everybody out except Gloria, Allen and Matt. Were gonna do a detribalization. Clear.” He shouted and put two cold metal things on my chest and a shock traveled through my body and stopped at my heart. “Her heart is up by 1%. Come on we can do better than that let’s go! Clear.” The shock traveled through my body once again, but this time more powerful.
I awoke. The world was unclear and empty.
“Gimme water”
“What did you say Sweetie?” The nurse asked.
“GIMME WATER!” I shouted in gibberish.
“Oh. Sorry honey, I’ll be right back with you’re water.” She said politely.
The nurse came back with a glass of water. “Here ya go Sweetie.” She said handing it to me. “You get to go home in a couple days, are you excited?” She asked.
“No.” I said seriously.
“Why not, sweetie pie?”
“Papa died and I am all alone. There’s nothing to look forward to. I have no friends, no family, hardly any money and nobody loves me.” I said depressed.
“Ya know you’re wrong.”
“Huh??”
“You’re wrong.”
“How?” I questioned.
“I love you.” She said.
“Really?” I said.
“Yes really.”
“Well who are you? I don’t want to be offensive or anything but I don’t know who the heck you are.”
“Yes you do. You just don’t remember. I’m your mother.”
“What?!? How is that possible?” I screamed.
“You are my child. I divorced you Father, when you were a baby. He remarried another woman and he never told you. That lady you thought was your Mom wasn’t really.” She explained.
“But, but? That is SO confusing!” I stammered.
“Well you’ll have to believe me.” She answered.
“Ahhh! This is too much! My brain is being over loaded! If you are my Mom then why didn’t Dad tell me?” I questioned.
“Because you’re Father is not a good man. He should be in jail, he broke out. He changed his name, age and gave up…me.” She said.
“Mom this makes me extremely uncomfortable. Then is Papa your Dad or Dad’s Dad?” I asked confused.
“Papa is my Dad.”
“Oh ok, just making sure.” I assured her.
“Come live with me every thing will be great!” She said excitedly. “I can’t imagine the fun we’ll have together! It will be so GREAT!!” She said again.
I got to go home the next day, to my real home.

One Year Later…

“Mom? Where’s my computer? I can’t find it any where.” I hollered from upstairs.
“Try checking down here.” She said. “I need to talk to you.”
“About what?” I asked running down the stairs. My Mom was sitting at the table waiting for me and my computer was sitting in front of her. She did not look happy.
“Take a seat Ariana. I’m curious; do hangout with Gina any more from school?”
“Ahh.. sometimes why do ask?” I said nervously.
“Because I got a call from Mrs. Lamone. And she was not happy. She said that Gina was in the hospital because of you.” She said
BUT THIS IS ANOTHER STORY.

"The Big Hit" by Michael

The Big Hit
By Michael Van Gorp

It was the bottom of the sixth inning, The Oakland All-Stars where down by ten with there best player Miguel Hernadez, the center fielder up to bat. There where two outs and the bases loaded. Miguel dusted off home plate got in his batting stance and waited for the pitch. He had already hit a homerun in the game.
Then the pitch came it was right down the middle and after Miguel hit it he new right a way it was a homerun. They where only down by six now. But there where two outs. Nomar Miguel’s best friend was up to bat. The first pitch was a ball and the next pitch was low but he swung and hit a little grounder to the shortstop and was out. The game was over. After the game Nomar came over to Miguel’s apartment to play MLB 09 The Show.
Miguel has dreadlocks and is from Puerto Rico. Nomar is from the Dominican Republic and has a buzz cut.
As they where playing on the PS3 Nomar said “you now we have to win are last two games to make the playoffs”
Miguel replied “I know, I think we can do it. We almost won today.”
Then they just went back to playing the game. Nomar ended up winning the game 7-6 because he hit a walk off homerun with David Kolumbo. After they turned off the PS3 Nomar asked “can you have a sleep over tonight, you could bring over your baseball stuff since we have a game tomorrow”
Then Miguel went and asked his dad if he could and he said it was fine. Then Miguel got his baseball stuff and same with Nomar. Then they left for Nomar’s apartment Nomar then exclaimed “we have tickets for the A’s vs. Yankees game to night you want to go”
Then Miguel exclaimed “sweet yah!” Then they kept on walking until they got to Nomar’s apartment. Nomar’s apartment was nothing like Miguel’s it was way nicer but he was used to it because he has been there so many times. As soon as they put there stuff inside they went out and started playing catch in Nomar’s yard they played until. Mrs.Gomez Nomar’s mom said “its time to go to the game”
They both said “O.K.” they kept there mitts on because the Gomez seats where so close to the field they caught foul balls all the time. Then they got in the car and drove to the stadium
At the game Miguel and Nomar both wolfed down two hot dogs each and then put there full attention on the game. In the first inning the first two batters struck out then Paul Fooler came up to bat the first pitch he swung at and hit it foul right to where Miguel was sitting he stood up and the next thing he knew he was looking at the ball in his glove
After the game Miguel was happy for two reasons 1 Because he caught a foul ball and 2 because the A’s won the game. It was getting late as they drove home because the game went into extra innings. As soon as they got home both boys went straight to the TV. They turned the channel to ESPN and Sports Center was on and Nomar hit the record button and the Top 10 Plays came on. The number one play was Miguel’s catch he couldn’t believe it. Then he said “ good thing you recorded it”
Then Nomar replied “I got skills” Then they both laughed about that. They kept on watching Sports Center until they fell asleep on the couch and chair.
Then they arose with the sun in there eyes and the smell of pancakes and waffles. When they went into the kitchen they noticed it was 10:31
Then they quickly started eating after they where down. They started putting on their baseball stuff. As soon as they had the stuff on Mr.Gomez drove them to the field when they stepped out of the car Mr.Gomez said “play well I will be here when the game starts.
They then both said back “O.K” and they both jogged onto the field. Batting practice and infield both flew by. Then the game was a bout to start.
In the bottom of the sixth the game was still tied, but the All-Stars have the bases juiced with Miguel up to bat. He did he’s batting routine. Then the pitch came it was right down the middle after he hit it he imagined a PA announcer saying “he hit it well its carrying its gone homerun.” The All-Stars still had playoff hopes. As he rounded the bases he saw his team at home plate waiting for him once he stepped on home plate his team started giving him high fives and patting him on the back. Once the celebration was over their coach said “you guys played really well.”
Then they all headed off to their parents Miguel’s dad loved baseball he never made it to the majors but he made it to triple A. When Miguel got to his dad he said “lets go get that ball”
Then he said “lets” they went and got the ball. When they got it they could see the mark from where he hit it. It looked like somebody had put eye black on it. After the went home Miguel took a shower and went to bed because he had another game tomorrow.
When he woke up he remembered that his dad would have to drive his taxi. So he went into the kitchen and made himself a bowl of cereal. He turned on the TV in the kitchen and turned the channel to ESPN Sports Center was on and again the Top 10 plays came on. The number one play was his homerun Stew Cotton then said “this is the same kid who was on the number one play yesterday.”
Miguel couldn’t believe it. He then hit the record button so his dad could see his play. He kept on watching Sport Center until his dad got home.
His dad got home a couple hours after his highlight. As soon as his dad got home he said “your brother Nacho is coming to your game to day”
Miguel wasn’t fond of the idea because Nacho is on the single A team for the Dodgers and he knew that he would be watching his every move. So trying to act happy he said “cool”
His dad then said “now go get your stuff on” he went to go put on his stuff worried. After he had it all on his dad took him to the game.
Once he got there his team started BP and infield practice. After that the All-Stars took the field first since the where the home team. In the Third inning a ball was hit to Miguel and deep. He started to go back the ball still flying his hat blew off he could feel his dreadlocks on his back now. He got to the wall leaped up reached his glove over the fence and caught it. The game remained tied.
It was the sixth bottom the game still tied with two outs bases loaded. Miguel was up to bat. He was just hoping to make contact in front of his brother. The pitch came it wasn’t the best pitch in the world but he swung he hit it in to center field it dropped and the winning run came across to win the game. He knew that both his dad an Nacho where proud of him. There where going to the playoffs. Everybody on his team went to go tackle him at first base. After everybody was off him he went up to Nacho and said “good hit huh”
He replied “way that was a good hit bro.” Then they went back to there apartment to see if he made The 10 Plays on Sports Center again.

"Stranded" by Matt

Stranded

by Matt

“See you tomorrow” said Cam. “Same to you” said Bob the bus driver. Cam shot of the bus and sprinted home. “I’m home” said Cam. “Guess what I got you” said Mom. “Is it my new video game” said Cam
“Yep you bet ya” said mom.
“Wow mom you are the best” said cam
“Do you want to know another great thing” said Mom.
“What” said Cam? “You’re flying to the desert to see your grandma. Said mom. WHAT!!!!!!! Cam screamed. He panicked and spa zing all at one time. Honey, settle down, it only takes 6 hours to get there from Alaska.” Said mom. “How can I settle down when I have to fly on a airplane. You’ve known sense I’ve been 5 that I’ve been afraid of heights and flying.” Said Cam. I was on my way to the airport and I was almost as white as a ghost and I was freaking out. When I got there I found out that I was taking privet that was completely unbreakable but lucky for me I had a beginner pilot. We were just about 5000 miles away and then the plane swooped down. “I asked the pilot what is going on” Cam said. “I don’t know” said the pilot. Then everything went blank. I woke up all dizzy. Then I realized I was on the ground, I walked over to the pilot seat, looked over and the pilot was dead! I had exactly no energy left from the plane crash. Then he thought if there was a survival pack. He walked over to the plane and fell to the rough ground and there it was the survival pack. “I have to get over there” said Cam. He crawled over to the survival pack and crawled back to the campsite. He opened it and it was perfect and it had knifes, food, matches and a ligher. Then he lost his eye sight and retched into the bag and felt this thing. He kept on feeling it and then Cam found out that it was a 22 rifle. Then Cam had a great idea, “I can use the knifes to make a spear so I don’t have to waste the bullets. That night he went to bed very happy so the next morning he walked over to a cactus and started to draw a face so he would not get lonely. With his knife he started drawing a face. Then this white stuff started to come out of it. He did a little more and some more stuff started to come out of it. Then Cam tasted it and it tasted like milk. Cam had another great idea “I can drink the milk so I don’t waste the pop and water!”. Then Cam heard this sound, he looked up into the sky but did not see anything. Cam said to him self “I must be hallucinating”. Then he heard this sound again and again. Cam said to him self “just forget about it.” Then he saw this twirling thing in the distance. It got bigger and bigger until Cam said “THAT’S A HELACOPTER!” Cam started to wave his and screaming repeatedly until he saw me completely. The helicopter guy came over Cam’s head and landed right next to Cam. He got out of the helicopter and said “Oh my god, you’re that kid that everybody thought you were dead”. Man, we should bring you in to se if you have any disease. Come on in the helicopter and we will get you home. So Cam hoped in the helicopter and flue home with a cherry red face and anxious to see his mom. He ran into the house and said “Mom, Mom I’m alive!” “Mom where are you?” “I’m right here!” said Mom. “Mom I’m alive, I survived the plane crash!” “I love you!” said Cam. “I love you too!” said Mom!

"Lords Hands" by Molly

Lords Hands
By: Molly

Chapter 1 Kacey’s View

I took a deep breath, “This won’t be too bad,” I thought to myself. I put on a pair of shorts and a tank top. I also grabbed my overcoat because I was still in Trout Lake City, Washington, in the middle of February. I sealed the last box and walked outside. I handed the box to Mama and she threw it in the old U-HAUL truck. I shuffled over to Aunt Lorene’s old, rusty pick-up truck. I hopped up in the back, my long legs swinging over side like little kids dancing all around.
“Kace, honey, are you all right?” Mama asked me.
“Yeah Mama,” I said with a stutter. “I was just thing about what Papa would do if we had to move with him,” I answered. Before I knew it, I was in Dallas, Texas.




I walked into biology on my first day of school at Abe Lincoln Junior High. I handed my “new” slip to my teacher, Mr. Pylynn. I sat in the back row next to a boy named Jimmy. The teacher took attendance, he called, “A.C. Pylynn?” all the names that were called answered. Lastly, he called “Kacey Turpot?” I looked up and raised my hand. “Will please come to the front of the room and introduce yourself?” he asked tilting his head like a confused puppy.
“Um… yes sir,” I answered in a quiet, scared, whispery voice. I got up out of my chair and walked to the front of the room. “Well, I’m Kacey Turpot and I’m from Trout Lake City, Washington,” I hesitated for a moment. “Back home, I loved to swim and play fastpitch softball. We have chickens named Baby, Licky, Beyonce, Carmel and Houdini. I have a Shetland sheepdog named Bee who was lucky enough to come all the way here. And that’s about it!” I finished. I ran to my seat and slouched down. I seemed so nerdy, different. All the kids here know each other. What if somebody found out my secret? Then I’d never be the same again.
Class was terrible! I watched my feet as I walked to Connect Time. I could feel all of the eyes pelting me with stares. I walked even faster. I was officially the school’s newest play toy. I felt a thump as I tumbled too the floor. Almost everybody looked away to talk to their friends about what had just happened.
“Sorry,” said a voice. I looked up with a grimace on my face. I’d seen her before with Jimmy. “I’m… a… Alyssa McGarrny. And you are?” I got questioned.
“Oh… um… I’m Kacey Turpot. This might sound a little first grade, but do you want to be my best friend?” I stammered.
“Sure. I don’t have any friends here either,” I saw a welcoming smile come across that beautiful, airbrushed looking face. But in her eyes, I could see a look of distress. It seemed as something about me was wrong.
“Do you want to come over after school?” I wondered if we could only be school friends. Not the kind that go over to each others’ houses.
“Yeah, sure. That’d be great. Just wondering, you know for my mom, where do you live?” she was breathing heavily from the fall.
“Oh! 3746 St. Peters Blvd.” I said trying to remember.

“Mom, I’m home with a friend!” I yelled as we walked into my mansion of a house. “Her name is Alyssa!”
“Oh, wonderful Kace! Your Gram is home a bit early from the club, so we’re unpacking a bit more,” she yelled back too me. I walked down the long, steep hallway and paused for a moment,
“Do you want something to eat before we start unloading our backpacks?” I asked while picking up me iPhone 3G.
“Sure, sounds better then being tackled by four varsity football players everyday."
“Um… what’s your cell phone number, Lyssa? It’s okay if I call you Lyssa right?”
“Oh, yah, sure. My number is 612-377-4362. What plan are you? I’m Verizon.”
“Same! What phone do you have?”
“Dunno the name. It’s old and lame,” she exclaimed. We trotted downstairs to our basement kitchen. I watched as she looked in amazement at our house.
“K-Way! Where are my shoes?” asked my older sister Anaya walking into the room looking like the bride of Frankenstein. “I have a date with Stavros,” she stopped dead in her tracks when she saw Alyssa. “Who’s your new friend Ange?”
“Oh, this is Alyssa. Alyssa, this is Anaya, my 3rd oldest sister.” I said.

I felt a pain in my throat. A searing pain quickly drifted to an ache. I fell to the ground, my heart pumping. A whimper, no a yelp escaped from my mouth. “Kasey? Kace oh Hun are you okay?” a yell asked me.
When I awoke, I was in a hospital. “Shall we tell her?” mama asked the doctor.
“Tell me what?”
“You have colon cancer,” the doctor told me.
“I know that. So… what else.”
“You have years to live.” The doctor said. A scream leapt from my lips. What would I tell Lyssa? She’d probably figure out I’m hiding something.
“Why can’t I die now? It will make everything better,” I sobbed.
“No it won’t,” Mama scolded.

Chapter 2
Lyssa’s View 5 years Later
I knocked on the cool, crisp, metal door. It swung open; Mrs. Turpot was holding sobbing Kacey in her arms. “What’s going on?” I asked taking Kacey’s and holding it tight.
“Will you come to the hospital with us, Lyssa? I’ll explain what’s wrong in the car,” answered Mrs. Turpot. I ran to the with Kacey; we hopped to the backseat. I glanced over at the beautiful Kacey.
“So what’s wrong?” I asked her.
“This will probably make you very disappointed, Alyssa. So I’ll get this over with,” she hesitated. “Well, Kacey has colon cancer,” I was shocked. That made me think, one of these days Kacey and I will be in different worlds.
Chapter 3
1 year can be long
The doctors say that Kacey has survived longer than any other teenage patient. Every night I cry thinking what if she passes away overnight? Then how will I ever have another friend? I woke up with a migraine. All my questions might come true. So I got up and drove to the hospital.
When I got there Mrs. Turpot was balling her eyes out. “Wuh, wuh… what’s wrong?” I stammered. From the look of it, Kacey was gone.
“She’s gone forever,” she sobbed. That’s about all I could pick-up because she was crying so hard.


“Now and forever, Cassandra Marie Leah Johanna Michael Turpot is in the Lord Jesus’s hands,” said the priest at Kacey’s funeral. Everybody cried. My Speech:
“Kacey was not only a friend to me, she was a sister. From the day I met her in 7th grade, to now the soul of Cassandra Marie Leah Johanna Michael Turpot, lives with me Alyssa Anna Jolie Katherine Baker McGarrny, for eternity.” I cried throughout my speech. While I was speaking, I was getting nasty looks from Kacey’s family. What did I say to make them mad at me?
“Alyssa Anna Jolie Katherine Baker McGarrny come with me please darling,” motioned Mrs. Turpot. “Think Cassandra will live with you huh? Well that’s not how it goes. I’ll snap your neck if you have another break like that. Who cares if go to jail? I don’t! My family will pay you to just get out of our lives.”
“She was my best friend. She lived with me for 3 months when you didn’t want her. She told me that you hated her. Why should she live with you?” I screamed. She threw me down to the ground. She pulled a whip out of her purse. WHIP! “Ouch! What was that for? You’re mean and… and you’re all messed up. Now I know why she hated you and now I do too. You jerk!” I yelled it and ran.
“Don’t you run away from me you demon. I’ll keep you from leaving,” she pressed a button and all the doors closed and locked. I don’t know how she did it but she did. I was crawling to get to the dog door. All of a sudden the Turpot’s metal cutting board came right to my fingers. “STOP!” she yelled. I turned over and saw a bowling pin and she was throwing it… at me. POW BOOM BOW!
Chapter 4
Waking Up
I woke up and asked “Where am I?” “You just woke up from a coma.”

"The Kidnapper" by Lewis

The Kidnapper

By Lewis



“I can’t believe I won that game” I said to Jake after we shook their sweaty hands. I went into the locker room with the rest of the team. “Hey John” said bill “We jus made it into the championship.” Then our coach walked in he looked like he won one million dollars. He said we passed the puck good and we had some great goals. Bill came over to me and said “can you come to McDonalds.”
As I got into the car I thought why he wanted me to go to McDonalds with him. When I met him there he ordered a big Mac and, so did I. when we got our food he found a table and we sat down.
“Did you know that a guy broke out of jail and now he’s probably coming to our community?” said bill. And the guy used to go to our elementary school. He’s probably going somewhere theirs a lot of people. He has already kidnapped five people.
It was the next day and time for the big game. I drove to the hockey game with my mom and dad. After they wished me luck they went to the stands and I went to the locker room. In the locker room every body was deadly sigh lent. And after every won was dressed nobody moved.



In the first minuet of the game I scored! But then I saw it a kid being put in a bag. I hollered to catch him but he got away. I got into my car still with my skates on and drove off. Then a police car saw him and he also came into the race to and he finally turned into a hotel but then he came out with his hands up.

"Roommates" by Jack R.

Roommates

By Jack R.

One morning Pedro and I quickly started off to school. Afterwards when we were in are seats Pedro realized that he still had his straw from last week with the rapper still on it. So when a kid with suspenders on came in Pedro wildly ripped of the rapper and broke it up into pieces and shoved one bye one into his mouth and hit the kid all over the back of his head. After class the teacher found out that Pedro shot the spit balls so during detention his teacher fell asleep so everyone sneaked out of detention. Then when their were at their neighbors party their dog popped out and started jumping on me so I tried moving around ,but he kept on following me after a while the dog finally stopped. When we left as soon as we got in the apartment heard something fall so I went to the kitchen to see what all the commotion then right when I walked in their was a dog!! so I asked Pedro why their was a dog so he told me that he got him for free since the neighbor was sick of having him so I said that we’d keep him. (1:00 IN THE MORNING)
Pedro what are you doing?
Ohh I was just claming down the dog, said Pedro
Why he’s not barking?
I know I’m just making sure, said Pedro
Ok, but how long have you been up doing this?
Umm well from 9:00pm to 10:00am, said Pedro.
(NEXT FRIDAY AT SCHOOL) after school he thought that maybe the teacher fell asleep and never realized that he sneaked out of class. But then the next day he realized that the teacher just faking it so all the same people and Pedro they had to have an extra hour! After I asked him why he was their for two hours he told me that he had to make up for the last detention. Hey you know the dog
Yeah, said Pedro
Well do you think we could name him, I said
Sure I got what about Dorito, said Pedro
Uumm hmm ok I guess, I said
What do you mean you guess?
Just his name is Dorito end of discussion, I said
(THE NEXT MORNING) aghh get him out of here now!!
What omg so he ripped all that, said Pedro
YEAH!!!!NOW GET HIM OUT OF HERE! , I said
No he didn’t mean to, Pedro said
Ok but if he straiten up he goes, I said
(YEARS LATER AFTER COLLAGE) Aren’t you glad we didn’t get rid of him? , Pedro said
Yah If we did I would have felt terrible that I did that, I said
Well at least that’s over, said Pedro
Yeah, I said

"Above Them All" by Grace

Above Them All
By Grace S.

“No mom I don’t want to, not again”, Ana cried furious.
“I know you don’t want to, but we have to plus you will make more friends and I found the perfect job. “ Her mother said calmly “it is, a very good job,” her father chimed
“Fine I’ll move but I don’t want to.”

The next day Ana was at the new school in Madison Wisconsin, it was a long move from Sacramento California to be she was now, drenched with snow, freezing Madison Wisconsin. Now there family had to live in a tiny apartment that only had two bed rooms so krissy (her sister) and Ana had to share a room.

“Class, we have a new student, she’s from California, why don’t you come and introduce you’re self.” a sweet lady’s voice said
‘’ OK,” Ana replied weakly she tried to stand up but it felt like she was glued to her seat... finally she managed to stand up and walk to the front of the room “hi,” she said uncomfortably “I’m Ana,” suddenly she herd a gasp from the back of the room as she ran back to her desk she got completely PINK and she thought obviously that Ashly the girl that gasped at her was an ignorant selfish un polite brat.
Just before the bell rang for lunch one of Ashly’s friends came up to her and said that she better stay out of there way then she went back to her table and they started whispering
“She is so lucky! She is sooooooo perfect she has brown hair and such cute glasses!!!” Ashly said “we should have a sleep over,” Hanna almost shouted
“here’s the plan were going to ask our parents tonight and I’ll call if they say YES,”

“Bring bring,”
“Hello?” Ana asked
“Hi it’s Ashly from school I was just wondering if you could sleepover tomorrow night.
That night she was so exited for the sleep over her could hardly sleep.

“By mom by dad,” Ana said as she walked in to Ashly’s house. It was almost dark when they started to get ready for bed and set up the tent. “so were sleeping in a tent?” she asked confused “yeah, we always do,” Ashly said surprised.

That night Lina woke up to a crying sound and found it was Ana so she woke up and asked her what was the matter just loud enough for the others to hear her. “its nothing really” Ana said.
“Are you sure?” Lina asked
“Yes” she replied
“Really?” asked Ashly
“No!!!” she cried
“well, my parents were riding in a taxi and they were in a car crash and the taxi driver was fine but my parents were killed” “do you know where you are going to live. ” Ashly said. “My awesome grandma I think. But that doesn’t make a difference I miss them already” she cried. As they where trying to get her to go to sleep there mom came down and asked them what the matter was and Lina explained the whole thing to there mom.
The next morning Ana woke up with pancakes on the end of her sleeping bag. All of a sudden her friends popped up and yelled “surprise” they all new how bad it felt to be like this because there father passed away a year ago.
“Thanks for driving me to my grandma’s house and for helping me get my room ready I already feel better.”
That night something amazing happen she saw 2 white figures they were her parents they were ghosts they came back to her. That morning she told her grandma about them, and her grandma told her it was because they were so attached to her.

"The Trip" by Erik

The Trip



As Josh got home from baseball, he rushed to where his mom was sitting in the living room. He told his mom his great news. “I got two homeruns in the game and we won six to four!”
“Well, I have even more good news for you,” she said with a smile, “We’re going on a trip!” They were going to go on a trip for summer break to Puerto Rico.
Joshes hands got so sweaty. He didn’t want to go on the trip. He new the plane ride would be bad because he is scared of plane rides. He said to his mom “that will be fun” even though he was going to be scared of the plane ride.




When he woke up for days later he said to him self “NO! We are going on the trip today.”
When they got to the airport Alex Joshes brother pretty much had to drag him in. he kept asking why do we have to go on this trip. His mom had the same answer for him every time you will have fun once we get there. Josh still didn’t think he would have that much fun.
When they got to the gate they handed the man the tickets.
They got to there seats and they were right over the wing.
About ten min. later the plane started to move out of the gate and Josh started to get so scared.
When they got to the runway the plane started getting faster and faster until they got so fast they started to takeoff.
After they were in the air for about two hours he looked down and saw they were almost there and that’s when he herd the pilot say prepare for crash landing.
On the way down Josh and Alex were crying like crazy.
When they hit the water luckily nobody in there family got hurt.
When they got in the life bouts they saw that they were really close to Puerto Rico so a helicopter couldn’t come out so they started pedaling there.
When they got to the beach, the pilot told them that the plane fell because the left engine went out.
When they got to the hotel they were staying for five days and then they had to go home in a plane.

"The Dangerous Storm" by Emily

The Dangerous Storm
By: Emily
1967 a girl named Anna Martin who lived in Florida was watching the news and at the bottom she saw a severe warning alert. Chills ran down her spine as she saw the word hurricane. Anna went see if she could go home. Her friends mom agreed and said to sprint home. When Anna got home there was no one in sight. “Mom, Dad.” She screamed. No one had answered. She yelled again, but no one answered again. The only thing she heard was her heart pounding with fear. Anna screamed with terror in her voice. She looked for a safe place to hide. She could not find a single place without a window. In the corner she saw some thing. With goose bumps she walked over creeping carefully around the corner. “Ah!” she yelled. Then she realized it was only her beloved dog, Bailey.

Anna turned on the TV to see when the hurricane would be coming. The news said the storm would hit in 1 week. Anna froze with fear. 7 days past and Anna was thinking about the storm. It was a very silent night for Anna. She kept thinking about the storm and was getting goose bumps. She hugged Bailey closer. The next morning the wind seemed to be getting stronger, lightning and thunder came out of no where. Anna started screaming. “Its here I am going to dye!” The rain poured down more violently now. Anna was freezing, terrified and hungry. Then she freaked out when she saw a palm tree fall flat on the ground. “Ok Bailey at least we know I am an excellent swimmer which makes me strong so we can survive.” Anna said “Oh never mind Bailey we are going to dye and Bailey I will always love you.” She bawled. “Woof.” answered Bailey. Then Anna tripped on something and saw it was a handle on the ground. She opened it and saw it was an underground place and had no windows. She quickly got in and Bailey jumped in with her. Anna closed the door and prayed that she would be alright. Then she found a light and turned it on. “Wow, there’s food and blankets and everything we need!” Anna said happily. A little bit later she got so tired she fell asleep. In the morning she did not hear any rain, thunder and lightning. She carefully got out and saw her whole house was ruined. “Well Bailey, at least we survived the storm.” Anna said.

Anna and Bailey walked onto the beach. “What is that spot in the distance?” Anna questioned. They walked slowly and carefully to see what it was. When they finally came closer, they realized it was only a person. “Hello!” Anna called. He or she did not answer. Anna ran to catch up.
“Hi.” Anna said again.
“Whatever.” The boy said.
“Did you survive the storm too?” asked Anna.
“Obviously” he said annoyed.
“Why are you acting so grumpy?” Anna asked.
“I don’t like girls.” He answered.
“Well, can I at least know your name?” Anna asked.
“Alex” he said.
“How can I be a girl you do want to know?” She questioned.
“Take the quiz.” Alex said.
“Ok” Anna answered.
“First question, do you like pink?” Alex asked.
“No way” Anna answered.
“Next question, would you call yourself a girly girl?” Alex asked.
“Of course I wouldn’t!” Anna said.
“Next question, do you like dresses, skirts, and strapless shirts?” He asked.
“Not in a hundred years!” Anna yelled.
“Ok last question, are you a tomboy?” Alex asked curiously.
“Yes!” Anna answered.
“Well, you did answer all of the questions like I wanted you too.” Alex said.
“So will you travel and maybe be my friend?” Anna asked.
“I guess I will travel with you and I will think about being your friend.” Alex answered.
“That’s fine with me so let’s go find some food.” Anna said.

They where walking along and they spotted a bush with lots of berries. They took some and went to sit down. Anna had totally forgotten about the place she stayed in for the hurricane.
“I am so sleepy.” Anna said closing her eyes.
“Same here.” added Alex.
“Alex!”? Anna screamed.
“What?” he asked nervously.
“I just remembered that the place I stayed to be safe in the hurricane and it had everything we need.” Anna said excitedly.
“Then let’s go there.” Alex pleaded. Alex and Anna headed back to the underground place where Anna had stayed in.
“Wow, this place is amazing.” Alex said
“How is it amazing, when it’s dirty and has cobwebs with dead spiders still in them?” Anna asked.
“Well, I like dirty, scary places.” Alex said.
“So you probably don’t want to clean it.” Anna said sadly.
“I guess I can, if you really want too.” Alex said.
“Thanks!” Anna said throwing her arms around him.

Anna and Alex began cleaning.
“So which sides do you and Bailey want? The right or left?” Alex asked.
“I think the right side, just because the left side has food and Bailey might get into It.” answered Anna.
2 Hours Later
Anna and Alex finished the room. It actually looked sparkling.
“We did a pretty good job.” Anna said.
“Yah, I guess.” Alex said regretting what he did.
“So what do you want for dinner?” Alex asked.
“Maybe we could have peanut butter on bread and if we can get a fire going we could have noodles?” Anna suggested. 30min had past and they where about to give up trying to make a fire.
“Come on Alex, let’s not give up yet?” Anna said.
“Ok, but I am only trying a few more times.” Alex said. Finally after a two more tries, they finally made a blazing fire. The next day was a bright and sunny day. Anna and Alex played fetch with Bailey and played in the water.
“Hay, Anna do you want to make ice cream?” Alex asked.
“That’s a great idea.” answered Anna. They went back home and got some supplies like: cream, sugar and of course ice to make it ICE cream. They looked every square in. to find a churner but could not find one. Then all of a sudden Bailey started to bark. And of course Bailey was right by the churner.
“Silly dog.” said Anna.
“Or smart dog I would say.” Alex said laughing.
“Anna I wanted to ask you something?” Alex said.
“What?” Anna asked.
“I was wondering if you wanted to be my best friend because now we have known each other for 2 months.” Alex asked.
“I was waiting for you to ask that, and of course I will be you best friend!” Anna said happily.
“Best friends!” They said together.
4 months later
It had been a long 4 months, and Anna, Alex and Bailey where running out of food.
“My stomachs growling and I’m dizzy.” Anna complained.
“I would have to agree.” Alex said.
“Want to go on the beach?” Alex asked.
“Sure.” Anna replied. In the distance they saw something in the sky that was moving fast and much bigger tan a bird.
“Alex, I think that’s a helicopter!” Anna yelled.
“It’s probably a bird and anyways if you saw a helicopter it would only be in your dreams.” Alex said.
“Look in the sky!” Anna said getting mad.
“Oh my goodness, it really is a helicopter!” Alex screamed with joy.
“Help, over here!” They yelled. The helicopter landed with a loud thud on the ground.
“Hello children.” The man said.
“Hi.” answered Anna and Alex.
“I am looking for lost children?” he said.
“Well, we are lost children, so can you take us to our parents?” Anna asked.
“Well, I am ordered to take home a 12 year old girl named Anna Martin and her dog Bailey.” The man said.
“Oh my goodness that’s me!” Anna yelled happily.
“Are you ordered to take anyone by the name of Alex McCarthy?” Alex asked worried.
“Sorry, I don’t have an Alex on my list.” The man replied.
“Alex, where do you stay when storms come?” Anna asked.
“Well, my parents drive to Iowa.” Alex answered.
“Wow, parents drive to Iowa too.” Anna said joyfully.
“Where in Iowa do you stay?” Alex asked.
“My parents usually like to go to Des Moines.” Anna replied.
“Shoot, I stay in Ames.” Alex said sadly.
“Are you dumb? Ames is right by Des Moines.” Anna said.
“Hurry!” they said together.
“Um, guys only me and one other person is allowed on the helicopter.” The man said.
“Maybe we could find a way to fit.” Alex suggested.
“You can look, but it’s really small.” The man said. Anna and Alex quickly ran over to see inside. The first idea was for Anna to sit on Alex and Bailey on Anna. They decided that was to disgusting. The next idea was…
“Alex, maybe Bailey could go under the seat and I could squeeze in the corner!” Anna said in delight.
“Yeah, let’s go ask the guy.” Alex yelled cheerfully.
“We found a way!” They yelled.
“Let’s see it.” The man said. After the man had seen the idea he actually thought it was a good idea after all.
“That is actually a pretty good idea.” The man said.
“Great so we can do it?” Anna asked.
“Sure.” The man said.
“This is great!” yelled Alex.
“Ok, is everyone buckled?”
“Yes.” They said.
“Then we are on our way.” The man said.
2 hours later
“We are here!” said the man.
“Hay, before we leave what’s your name?” asked Anna.
“Bob.” He replied.
“Ok, what is your guy’s numbers?” Bob asked.
“926-109-3024.” Anna replied.
“926-974-0432.” Alex answered also. 30min later Alex and Anna’s parents came.
“Mom, Dad!!” Anna screamed with joy.
“Mom, Dad!” Alex screamed cheerfully.
“Now that we are all back safe and sound do you guys want to have a party?” Anna’s mom asked.
“Sure.” They answered.
“Mom this is my best friend Alex. Can he come to the party too?” Anna asked.
“Sure.” Her mom answered.
“It’s great to be home!” Anna said.
“It sure is.” Alex agreed.

The end