Sprite: A Short Story

My friends would tease me for spending the whole summer with Sadie Johnson, “The cookoo of Connecticut,” they called her. But I’m so very glad I did. She taught me then, to not care what other people thought. I learned that I could be friends with someone generations apart from my own. My visits became less frequent when school started.

I slept in this morning since it was Saturday and since I didn’t have to leave to go to the mall with my mom until around 10. Once I woke up, I turned on my TV and started watching The Arrow, one of my favorite shows. It was almost 9:30, so I decided to start getting ready. As I astonishingly watched the show, I picked out my outfit for the day. I chose a pair of leggings, a Texas Longhorns shirt, and my checkered Vans and laid the clothes on my bed and let the shoes drop to the floor.

Every year we went to my real grandma's house so nothing was going to change this year. I thought everything out and my mom and I would go to my grandma’s house on Christmas eve stay there till Christmas day then leave that night. That way I could be back the next day. This Christmas eve the procrastination was strong and I saved all my wrapping for that day so we did all the wrapping and proceed to go to grandmas house. Long car ride puts me to sleep so I fell asleep on the way up

I woke up and traditionally watched the parade with my family. We cooked all day, and then the rest of our extended family came over. My one-year-old cousin, Emerson, was there and she kept my occupied. I could not resist her cuteness. I ate way too much food and was in a food coma the rest of the night.

I love going to my cousin’s house in Thanksgiving. First, we get together. I get dropped off to my aunt’s house one night before. Me and my cousin’s play and watch movies that are not related to Thanksgiving. We always get lazy and eat junk food.

My mom tells me it was because good people get to go to heaven early, but then why did he have to suffer the way he did. The first step for me was me to stop having random breakdowns. When I say random breakdowns, I mean someone would say or do something to cause me to think a little too much and cry. If someone were to talk about their dad or ask me about mine, I would weep. At times I could be sitting and thinking then my thoughts took a turn for the worst and next thing I knew I was sobbing.

No Pill for Loneliness It was one hot summer day in 1998. I remember the year clearly because it was one year after mother left me for Paris. She was pursuing her career abroad and was only returning briefly to visit me and my grandparents for one week. I moved back to our own home to stay with her. During the day, she would ask me about my new school, do laundry and cook, just like old times; I would answer with simple sentences like “it’s OK” or “I’ve made friends” and help her with the chores.

I’m not saying his life was perfect, but in many peoples point of view, including myself it seems like he was privileged. Now obviously people see things differently. Maybe in his point of view he just feels the need to abandon everything and he didn’t like his life. In Chris Ingram Remove The Bus essay about Into The Wild he states “For him to sever contact with his family and loved ones and die of simple starvation is just terribly sad and selfish (Online Source).” I completely agree with Chris Ingram. I feel this way because it’s immoral to leave family behind and I think it is just plain stupid that he just went to the forest and lived by

Baby CoCo Meets Mikes' Friends The sun is rising over the gently rolling countryside of Charles Dobbins’ Dairy Farm. Charles and Emily Dobbin’s freckled face son, Mikie is about to be awakened. The grey kitten is just waking up in his warm kitten bed. Stretching and yawning, Baby CoCo looks for Mikie. He sees tousled yellow hair sticking out from under a blue blanket.

He must realise what he has done and forgive his closest friends. He needs to right his wrongs with his family and finally, Tom needs to understand what he has done to Tara and rebuild the same connection they had long ago. Sometimes in life, our friends can notice the mistakes we have made, before we do. Tom’s friends are always there when he needs help but Tom is too stubborn to notice. When Francesca went to pick Tom up from the hospital after he fell off a bar stool, he was too angry about his life to thank her for her kind gesture.

Eventually, I learned that I love spending time with them. Four times a week I bathe them, play with them, take them to the park, make food for them, and put them to bed. After taking care of Maxi and Milo for over a year, I learned how to solve conflicts, be a positive role model, take responsibility, and be an active listener. March 15th 2014: This was my second time working backstage during a high school production. However, this was only my first time working as Stage Manager.

A quiet kitchen, full of fresh fruits and vegetables, all sitting around together. This is what Water-melone saw as a young girl carried him into his new home and plopped him down on the counter. Every day, Water-melone did the same thing; had breakfast with his friends in the morning and visited with them all day until everyone was tucked away into their cabinets at night. Then one day, Water-melone noticed that some of his friends were missing. George Grape hadn’t shown up to breakfast that morning, and Sally Strawberry wasn’t anywhere to be seen.