Pants (11/14)

    BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! BEEP! The sound of the alarm woke Parem up as he was sound asleep. But he wasn't upset, because he couldn't wait to wake up. He felt so alive, so refreshed, so....open. I swear he got out of bed like he was spongebob or something. He had a great smile on his face when he pulled the covers back. He hopped in his slippers and skipped to the bathroom, I mean he was really happy. Like he won the lottery or something. Wonder why he is so happy, well probably because he went shopping on Friday, well yesterday, and he had bought a brand new fresh pair of Adidas soccer pants. He was wanted a pair of those for a long time, well ever since they came out. He had just earned enough money to get them yesterday. And he said he couldn't wait to show them off today. So. he came out of the bathroom freshened up, and he pulls out his roshee's to go with them, and his Nike shirt. He pulls out the box his pants were laid in, and slowly pulls off the top to bask in their glory, but he pulls the top off only to find no pants.
    He is furious, at first he stopped and stared in disbelieve and he thought about what could have happened. He thought OK, maybe he left it laying somewhere when he tried them on last night. Parem searched the whole condo, and did not find it. Even in the stupidest places like under the mat/rug, and in the couch. He was enraged when he didn't find them, he looked in the box three times just to make sure.
    Then suddenly he heard a noise outside........Like a lord laugh, but it wasn't a normal laugh, it was an evil laugh. Like an Austin Powers laugh, but this peculiar laugh was familiar to him. "What is that, sounds like Mia's twisted little laugh" Parem said, while looking out the window. He searches and searches high and low, and behold look who it it. Mia, Parem's crazy in love, stalker, psycho ex-girlfriend. And even worst.....She's holding up his pants. Parem jets down the stairs to demand for his pants back, but by the time he gets down there, she disappears. Parem quickly looks around, an see's her running off. He jets after her, but appeared to be too late, she had already dumped the pants off to some stranger. "Why!....Why!....What the hell Mia", He exclaimed."You know why". She also exclaimed, and disappeared into the shadows. Parem, frustrated and just fed up, stomps back home, knowing that he won't ever see those pants again. That night he decided to just wear some joggers with his roshee's to a party. And at the party he was astonished. He had saw someone wearing a pair of Adidas pants. But they looked very similar to his. It had the price tag still on them like his. And to finish it off there was his initials right there on the back of them. He runs over to the guy tackles him, forces the pants off him and walks out of the party. Takes a cab home, sits on his couch, and watches Family Guy with a bag of Cheetos. So much for feeling refreshed

Week to Live (10/31)

    Ring! Ring! Ring! Ring! John slowly gets up to answer, but it goes straight to voice mail. "John It's me, Jade, your soon to be ex-girlfriend", John still getting out of bed, looked concerned as he listened. She continued, "You were supposed to meet me at Dos Perros last night, it was our second anniversary John. I'm tired of you never keeping your word, and this was the last straw, were through, Goodbye John." He quickly tries to pick up the phone and catch her. "Wait Jade I'm here, I'm sorry OK, I got caught up at work, I had to work overt time. You know how bad I've been working on this promotion come on please Jade....Jade?!" He realizes she hung up already, and drops the phone. Angrily, he storms out of the house. He gets in his car, but it wouldn't start. Even more angry, he jumps out of the car and begins to walk, as he walks he hears a dog barking from his neighbors yard. The same dog that barks everyday. Fed up, John turned and barked back at the dog, and let out a big "Shut Up, you little mut, before i feed you to my Asian friend." In the middle of it, he collapsed to the floor, passed out.
    He woke up the next day in a hospital. "John? John can you hear me?" said Dr. Lee. "Yes, I can hear you doc, what happened to me." "Well, John, it's clear you've been going through a lot of stress lately, because no one just out of the blue yells at a dog John, well that's what I heard from your neighbors." "Yes sir, I have," John said." "Well that may be a problem John, your blood pressure was sky high, I bet when you left the house," said Dr. Lee." "Yes sir," John replied. "Well that scream at the dog was just icing on the cake John, it blasted your pressure through the roof causing you to pass out John, I'm sorry but telling by the tests I ran, you have a tumor on the right lobe of your brain, a quite severe one, and I estimated that you have one week to live John, I am so very sorry." John crushed by the news he receives, Dr. Lee sits on the bed with John, "Listen, find your best lady, make thing right with her, get her a dog, women like animals, and buy her a bouquet of her favor flowers, they absolutely love that,........grab life by the horns John." Dr. Lee walks away, John catches him at the door, "Wait, Mr. Lee, how did you know.""You were talking in your sleep, she's all you talked about", Dr. Lee said, and they both chuckled. "Make things right", Dr. Lee said.
    John left the hospital with a new out look on life and all he had wronged. He quit his job to please himself, but now it was time to win back his beloved Jade. He went to her apartment and caught the door right when she was going to slam it in his face. He explained how much he loved her, and how much he wanted her forgiveness for how he treated her. "John, you don't listen to me when I pore my heart out to you, or any other time", Jade exclaimed. "Jade, remember when we first met, and we were talking, and you said how you would fall in love with a man that would get down on one knee and give you your favorite bouquet of tulips." John said. "Yes", she said calmly. John got down on one knee and said "Would you fall deeper in love with me", as he pulls out a bouquet of tulips. She cry's, and hugs him. "I"m sorry Jade." Then he walks away. Went missing til' his final days. Everyone lay mourn.
 

George (11/14)

    "I will win, freshman year no wins, I will win, sophomore years no wins, I will win, junior year is my year to prevail" George said in the mirror to himself. Washing his face, then running down stairs. "George your gonna do great today" his mom said. He didn't hear her as he darted out the door, grabbing an orange on the way out. He saw the kids at the bus stop and thought about what he said."I will win, winners practice, winners train to be the best." So he decided to jog to school. Halfway there he felt doubtful about his decision. As the bus full of high school kids passes him. Kids screaming at him, throwing things at him, but he continues to jog. He turns the corner headed for the schools entrance, when a car drives up to him. It was his neighbor, "Hey George, listen I just wanted to say I hope you do well today at your uhhh....What is it you do again?""I run track Mr. Stan." George said shaking his head. "Oh yeah right, well I hope leave then in your dust" Mr. Stan said. "Yes sir", George said chuckling with a smile. Mr. Stan drives off, and George is entering his school, Blue Ridge High.
    Walking through the halls, he felt like everybody was looking at him. Doubting him, Most said he was just gonna lose again. "Hey loser, prepared to lose again." said one guy. "Don't worry he's comfortable in last place," said another. "Yeah he's comfortable at the bottom of the polls, what's it like down there," they continued. "What place did he come in the last race...... 21!" Everyone in the hall said, and then everyone began laughing at him. George just stood there, "OK OK keep it coming, Is that your best shot," he said. One guy said "No this is", and shot a spit ball at him. As soon as it hit George's neck everyone started laughing, and a group of guys started throwing paper at him. George turned to look, and saw it was his fellow track teammates. Then Principle James came out,"OK alright you've had your fun, now get to class, pick up your trash on the way too", she said. "Listen George, you got this, you have to win it for us, our school is depending on you, even though they aren't really showing it, OK", said Principle James."Yes Principle James, " George said. George tried to go on for the rest of the day, ignoring all the harsh things everyone around him says. He ignored the paper thrown at him, the Jokes and names thrown at him, and the hazing of his own teammates.
    It was time, 6 p.m. He sat in the locker room with his head phones on. Zoned out to his beats, nobody but him, sitting on the bench. The room is dark, and he sat under that one beam of light from the ceiling window. "I will win, I will win, I trained to hard for this, Junior year is my year, I will win, I will win, for Jackson I will win", he repeatedly said as he began to cry. Jackson, his brother, passed away from a fatal car crash, and from then on he was determined to win, for his brother. Suddenly, Coach came in the locker room." George what's are you doing, come on your meet is up next", said Coach. " OK Coach",George says standing up. "George you will win, I know Jackson's death was hard on all of us, but it's your time to shine now." coach says. hugging George and leading him to the track.
    "Alright next up, is the sprint, runners make your way to the starting point" the announcers said. "Go get him George", coach said. George walks over to the starting line. "Break a leg, literally" One of his teammates said. Coach smacks him in the back of the head. George got set at the finish line, nervously looking at his opponents. Then he saw his mother in the crowd, and immediately thought of his brother. "I will win" he thought in his mind, He closed his eyes and waited for the gun shot. "BOOM", it goes off and George takes off in the lead. Everyone is astonished, but begins to cheer for George as he comes around the track still holding the lead. Coming up on the second turn his opponent comes up behind him. It's neck and neck, everyone cheers harder and harder. Then everyone goes dead silent as George's opponent passes him and takes the win. George collapses in defeat.
    He began to cry. He felt like he let down everyone. Then his mom jumped up, "George! George! George!" she began to cheer. The everyone else joined in, and next thing you know the whole stadium was cheering for him. George looked up, his face lights up. He felt so accepted and loved. At that moment he didn't care if he won or not, because he felt like he had won something much better, he had won the love and support he had always wanted from his peers. That's all he could ask for. Coach walks up to him. "I bet Jackson is proud", he said with a smile. He and coach look around at the crowd, and the smile on George's face was impeccable.


 
 

Time Period (10/31)

"James, James wake up....James wake up", Clay said, tapping his face. James slowly wakes up, only to find himself tied up, and his legs cemented in a block of ice. He panicked immediately. "James, no use, stop moving it isn't worth your energy, besides this is for your own good, for you to thrive in this new century", Clay said. James was so frightened, but he calmed down enough to observe his surroundings. He glared at his legs, and began to notice he couldn't fee them. He grew more and more scared, as he looked around the lab. Different chemicals, and wild monkeys, and a man wearing a white lab coat, flicking a needle. He then inquired that this wasn't just a lab, but a testing lab. And that man in the coat is going to to inject him with something. But what? James is now worried about how to escape, He scans the lab again, and Luckily he spots a surgery razor on the table beside him. He slowly tried to urge his arm out of the tied strap. "Come on", he says under his breath. "Alright 1,2,3", he jerks it his arm and the strap loosens."Alright 1,2,3", he jerks it again."Ok last one, 1,2,--",he stops immediately and lays back down. The man turned and looked for a second, and while he turned James was able to see his name tag. "CLAY", it read. Then he turned back around and waited for the meds to finish spinning. James began nugging again. "1,2,3", he jerks his arm one final time and he gets his arm free, and slowly reached for the razor. He grabbed it and attempted to cut the other arm free. But stopped immediately and looked over at clay, as he heard him say "Are you ready for paradise". James didn't reply, he just began to cut again. Clay continued with his speech. "Are you ready for a world you have never seen before" he said while filling the vile up. James started to cut faster, and loosened the second strap. Clay finished the shot and walked over to James, "Get ready for perfection", He exclaimed as was beginning to inject him with the shot. James quickly took the razor hidden in his left hand, and sliced clay across the cheek, broke out of the second strap and fell to the floor. As soon as he hit the ground the ice broke. And James was astonished he could feel his legs. And James ran off through the halls. "Wait, I haven't given you the second dose" clay said. James looked back at clay in the hallway, and his face wasn't scratched up or bloody. As if he had healed in a matter of five seconds. James ran al the way to the parking lot, and out of the parking tunnel to the side walk of downtown. And what he saw was to him, something you only see in movies. Huge sky scraper that had streams of light running down them, hover cars. Everyone walked by him, and stared strangely. James stopped one of them."Where am I", James asked him. "Downtown L.A", he replied. James gasps, "What Year?....". "3000", he said. End

My Bride 9/5

Today is the day. Today is the day I finally marry my queen. Today is the day that I've thought about my whole life. She looks so gorgeous in the dress. We had some bumps in the road, and almost crashed but we made it through. Mom and dad not approving of her was hard, but look at there faces now haha. I mean everything here is gorgeous, shiny chandelier, the angel painting, everything is great. This is my big day !!, I can't believe I'm about to do this. I'm about to marry Mariah Carey, my high school crush!, this is just a dream come true. This is a prayer, come to life. (Breaths heavily). OK Ok, calm down. (Hand sweats) Breath breath, I love this woman, she loves me (Hopefully), everything will be fine. But still you know after marriage comes the honey moon, and things are gonna go by fast, like 0-100 real quick, and we might forget the condom. Oh look, what do you know, a baby. But I don't think I'm ready to be a father right now. I don't know if I'm ready for all of this. She gets closer to the stage) OK! suck it up, I gotta do this, I can't back out now. (She walks up the stairs with a bouquet in her hands), OK let's do this. (the preacher begins the ceremony). I love her so much, her beautiful brown eyes, and smile that could light a up a room. I thought as a tear rolled down my face.But as we are going through the service, I could feel her father's eyes burning a whole in the back of my head. I guess he's kind of upset, well because he doesn't like me. But who's father really is ok with giving their daughter away. I mean i know I probably should have asked for permission first, but i would have married her either way so ha. (He looked back and smirked at her father). (She nudges him, to signal him to pay attention). (The preacher gives the two a weird look). I know I'm going to hear about this when we get home. "Don't play with my dad like that James, that's why we can't ever stop by on Thanksgiving or Christmas". I know that's what she's going to say but whatever, she knows I'm kidding. (He looks over at one of his brothers, and he was mouthing words to him), "Don't bang her too hard, haha". (He looked at him sternly, and turned and looked at his wife, she was chuckling, and then she mouthed back). "I don't mind", and he high fives her. The whole crowd and the preacher are confused on what's happening. Finally he says "You may now kiss, the bride". (They kiss) Yesss, happiest Day of my life, tonight will probably be the happiest night too. (He picks her up, and they walk out the church doors).

Tree 9/12

Vast land, glistening of the sun across the lake, countless flocks of birds, and the one majestic Eagle. My view of the world is so much better than humans. All humans see is dollar signs plastered everywhere. Loud horns of traffic, music blasting from stereo's, bustling trains, and screaming school buses. While I lay in sweet serenity, silence is the best state of being to have. Silence is what I live for. The loudest thing I've had around was the sound of rain hitting my leaves, music to my listening holes. Also known as the squirrels nest. But just sitting, well standing, in a huge crowd of others just like me who also have the same mind set is just marvelous. I've been around every last one of these guys for many years. We all just stand, and wait for action. Trust me, we have had plenty of it too. Other than beautiful waterfalls, baby bird births, snakes devouring mice, you know the nature scenes you see on TV. We've seen many other things as well. Humans driving up here around 11 pm and park over by the cliff to my left, and we sit and watch the city lights. Every time at every interval a  twilight is being made in this area. Funny story , Edward actually brought bella up to the top of me, and sat right on top of my branch, gotta love it. There was another scene where Jacob and his pack devoured that dread head vampire right below us. We were cheering him on. But all you humans can here is bustling of the leaves as the wind blows. But everyone thinks of me as boring, lifeless, and stagnant, but others, the ones who actually use their brains, think of me as life, love, peace. I am all of that and more. I mean I supply every human with the breath of life, also known as oxygen. Without me they would be nothing. Everyday they come here and destroy my brethren like we have no value, and turns us into petty things that they can play with. Not only should they accept us for life sustaining reasons, but also personally. Where do you see those big hearts with things like T & C Forever <3 in it, on trees right. A sign of love and affection for one another, they shared that experience with my friend, and forever dwell on that memory. I watch them come under his branch every other day, and I could feel their love, even though I have no heart. Then one day those big beasts with claws came and knocked him down, and I dreaded the humans ever since. It is not right, me and my kind have been here for millions of years. Ever since day one of earth. I've seen war, and I've seen peace. Quite frequent I'd prefer to stay in my normal serenity. Vast land, glistening of the sun across the lake, a beautiful site that may vanish soon, if we don't preserve me. I have stood through the test of times before humans were thought of, and they want to destroy me and burn my ancestors in the forest, shame on them. I make all things and I am in all things. My branches which is the sole of me holds to life and nature as if my very being depended on it. I am strength and I am the beginning of all things.

Storm

Bright sunny day in Memphis, as billy goes out looking for his father. I told him he's out back in the shed. Billy runs out to ask his father if he could go to Annabelle's house. "No, I'm sorry billy but we gotta prepare for the upcoming storm, now go lockdown your room windows with this here wood", said his father. Angry with his father, billy runs off to his room. Two hours later, and the sky begins to darken, billy decides he's going to go to annabelle's house anyway. He packs what he thinks he will need, which was a raincoat, boats, and an emergency whistle my uncle gave to him 2 weeks ago. He then walked out to the shed, and told my uncle that I needed him for something. So he walked into the house looking for me. Meanwhile, billy grabbed his bike from the shed, and rode off to annabelle's house. Just shortly down the road. So, when my uncle found me, I told him I didn't need him, so he walked back out to the shed. Only to find the shed door open and one of the bike's missing. He calls out for billy, but gets no reply. Then the sound that shook my uncle, and made my heart skip a beat. BOOM!!, the hard roar of the thunder, from the dark clouds that circle above them. Meanwhile, billy pulled into annabelle's driveway, but he was freaked out by what he had saw. Annabelle's house was locked down, with boards covering every window. Out of the corner of billy's eye he see's annabelle and her mom packing things into their storage under the house. He goes over and asks annabelle if she wanted to play now. But her mother steps in, "No I'm sorry billy, but were preparing for the storm now, why aren't you at home~", she was interrupted by the sound of the thunder. After that there was nothing but silence, then suddenly they felt a hard breeze through the air. Then they looked down to see the leaves splattering everywhere. "Billy you need to go home NOW!!, GO RUN!!", she exclaimed. "C'mon annabelle ", she nudges annabelle into the storage under the house, then closes and locks the door. Billy so frightened, he forgets his bike and runs up the street as fast as he can, but his little legs weren't fast enough. The wind starts to blow harder and harder, the trees start to wave back and forth. He begins to cry as what seemed like hail, but heavy rain plowed down with such intensity. Bang after bang the thunder roars, and lightning bright enough to leave you stunned. He finally reaches his house to find all the windows sealed and locked besides his room. "Dad!! Andrew!! Help!", he stands there waiting for a reply, in fear he may not get one.Then suddenly he hears a faint voice calling him. alast, it was his father yelling from the second floor room window. "Hold on son, I'm coming!!" he begins to climb out of the window. While I try to pry the front doors open. Then out of nowhere billy hears another loud BOOM! of thunder. He is so frightened that immediately he ran into the shed an shut the door, "Billy!! come out of there!" his father said, but his voice was drained by the sound of the rain thrashing the ground, and booming thunder. While I'm still attempting to pry the front door open. Suddenly, a lightning bolt came down and struck a tree, and then the tree started to tip, just about to fall. And from the looks of it, the tree was tipping right above the shed. His eyes grew wide, and with no hesitation he hops off the roof, landing on the mud substance below. At least those were his intentions. Instead he landed on his feet, on the paved section of the drive way. A sharp pain traveled through his legs, but he is driven by the will to save his son. With his injured legs, he urgently tries to walk over to the shed knowing the dangers of his son. Billy sits petrified of what is happening. His father unable to walk, begins to crawl to the shed, but he had been to late. The lightning struck once again, knocking over the tree.....and destroying the shed. I finally pry the door open only to find the shed destroyed, and my uncle lying down with his face frozen. Face of disbelief, despair, and pure sadness, because from where he lay he could see the hand of his beloved 6 year-old son poking out from the debris. We cry, his son, and a boy I loved as a brother, is no more.