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.

Future Durham

Durham, also known as the City of Bull. Was once small, fragile, poor, Now one of the richest, biggest, strongest city. What was once Durham, is now a part 2 of Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, and any other cities I can't think of right now. Nevermind scratch that, let's go bigger, I'm talkin' Dubai, I'm talkin' Tokyo, I'm talkin' Paris, You name it. Durham is bigger then big. It's like you have a friend shorter than you in High School, leave for summer, and come back next year bumping their heads on the door seal big. I mean everything has changed, buildings are bigger, and more high tech, hover cars have developed better than ever. The U.S. is back at the top of the Forbes richest country list because of Durham. China wish they were Durham right now. The president wants to move the capital from Washington D.C. to Durham. Everybody wants to be here, I'm lucky I was able to get here early. I got so many offers from people trying to buy out my apartment, yes I did say apartment. People usually buy houses right? Wrong, these apartments are so good, I just saw Johnny Depp move in last week. It's so great, they have escalators in the homes. No more satan stairs. The food is amazing, and easily made. Just take a pack of food modulator, pour it on a plate, and add water. There's a nice hot plate of anything you want. Lasagna, spaghetti, Pizza, all types of Italian food, your welcome Mario & Luigi. Me personally I enjoy the Lasagna, cheesy, very cheesy. I always video me eating that or Ice Cream and send it to my cousin who's lactose, ha it's funny every time. I know that's mean but honestly I don't care, this the 22 Century baby!, deal with it. Ok back to business, the rooms, the walls are equipped with full HD visualization modes. Which means with the remote, I can pick a place and I can be there. Well at least visualize it. It will project across every wall, as if you were there, floors too. And the TV's have built in PS4 or Xbox One, and the games are digital not disk. Everything is digital now. Movies, CD's, games, all digital. Ipod's aren't Ipod's anymore, they're called Irod's now, because they wrap around you head like a headset, no more headphones. I don't like them, the person who made it could call them Isuck's for all I care, but moving on. The lights are clap On/Off, no change there. Oww, and we no longer have to walk around our houses, with a complimentary hover chair. Aww man, me and my colleagues use them all the time. Yes, I'm in college, yeah I look very young don't I. Well I'm like 10 years old. Yeah, school are getting this good, the ages just get younger and younger. But I attend Harvard University. Yep, I might as well, because it's right down the street. Yeah were that good the #1 college in the nation moved here. I swear if we go to war, this is the first place they would bomb. funny, because we can just pull out the force field so were good. So we just sit there and watch them. Were so used to it, where it kinda looks like the planes are pooping on us then explodes. Second place would probably be Wichita haha. Well yeah that's Durham in probably 100 years, so get ready. I know I am. 

Me

   Well I was born in a small town called Durham, in North Carolina. Me and my family move around a lot, we had probably moved about seven times, seven different homes my whole lifetime. To some that's a lot, to others that's small. Not that my mom works, it's just that trouble always seems to follow us. And being that my mom doesn't work, I'm always curious on how she gets money. She says it's not my place to worry about that, but I think it is. My father left out of the house, when i was 3. So that makes me the man of the house. So that's why I want a job, so that I can support my family. We have been limited so much because my mother didn't have enough, because she had to pay bills. I want that to change. But I just need help being able to handle the responsibility of having a job, and mixing it with school. I want to finish High School, but my goal isn't to finish, it's to excel. I wanted to finish high school with honors. Even valedictorian, in my mind that's a really bold expectation, but that's what t expect from myself. My whole life ever since kindergarten I've excelled, Student of the Month, A Honor Roll, various Character Awards, National Awards and all. I feel as though I'm bound for success only, and when I go to college I expect the same there, nothing but the best. Harvard, Princeton, Stanford. Nothing but the best. All because when I was young, I received lectures from every adult I knew, principles, teachers, my family, because they all saw potential in me. One day I even got a lecture from Will Smith!!, well it wasn't to just me, but I was apart of the crowd. Ever since then he was my role model, and strived for greatness. So, where do I see myself in twenty years? Sipping lemonade in a chair, behind a table full of people who work for me. I have great potential, and I plan to let it thrive. However, I wasn't always a brainiac, charming, kind guy. Also when I was younger, there was period where I was searching for myself, a period where I wanted to fit in, so I did what everyone else did. And at the time, they were bullying this one girl because she used to pick her nose and eat the buggers. I know what we did wasn't right. i understand you treat others the way you want to be treated. Treat others with respect no matter what disgusting habits they may have. I guess during that period I was just stuck under peer pressure. I felt good about it, because I finally felt like I was apart of a group, because I was bullied just like she was. And it wasn't until the girl's best friend stepped up and told me what I was doing was mean and just wrong, and not in a nice way. That's what opened my eyes. That's why to this day I get super mad when I see someone getting bullied. That's just a really bad thing to me now. There was one incident where these big kids took this smaller kids' ball from him, and when he tried to get it back, they played monkey in the middle with him. I walked over there to help...I grabbed the ball in mid-air, and gave it to the little kid. He ran off with it, but then I turn around to find a 17-year-old fist coming straight towards my face. After that I was hesitant to step up against bullying. But really I should have seen it coming, because in my old neighborhoods....don't try and be a hero, because you will end up in a hospital, guaranteed. I had to learn the hard way. Recently with those same guys, I was juggling my soccer ball alone in the park....Those guys snuck up on me and almost burned half my face off. Using some can of hair spray, and a lighter. This is why I vowed to do well in school, so I can finally leave these neighborhoods. And help other less fortunate leave too. Life isn't as hard as your mind makes it up to be, you have to think more often, you have to meditate. Stop and breath, and just think about things, and you will learn everything isn't that bad, it could always be worse then it is. Life is what you want it to be, if you want it to be sad and heart-breaking, you will focus on only the negatives, so that your soul will become sad and depressing. If you want to live a life of happiness, Joy, and success, you will push through the hard time, stay moving forward, and don't let things get you down. The more you think, the more wisdom you gain on various things. People say I'm very intelligent, I say thanks but I know that already....not being snobby or anything, but I don't need people to tell me about myself.

Baby Boy

   Coming into the world through my mothers womb doctors think I'm strange because I don't cry. My mother says he is not strange, he is not weird, he is unique, and someday he's going to achieve greatness. I lay observant of the room, in this doctors hands. I look and see nothing but my mother, and a big head above me, and a few nurses. I was so cold, the doctor draped me with a blanket, and handed me to my mother. I winked at him, as a thank you, but he had already looked away. I look up at my mother, and there was an instant love connection right away. Then I look around again, in search of my father, he was not there. Maybe he was in the bathroom or something, yeah that's probably it. I close my eyes again. Then I open them again only to see this strange structure, what my mother called "Our Home". Days, months go by and she does nothing but torture me. She feeds me this god awful food, I think she calls it Gerber, something like that. I always do things to get revenge on her. When she tries to feed me, I simply throw it on the floor, Ha ha clean it up. Then she tries to put this fluffy wrap thing around my butt, I'm not sure what it is. I overheard her talking and I think it's called a Dee-I-per....A Diaper yes that's it. To be honest, I prefer nude, I mean it's just me and her, and it brings me a since of freedom. But she won't allow it, so I called on revenge once again. So when she laid me down to receive another wrapy thingy, and she opened it, I pissed in her face. Whoopsies, got some in your mouth sorry mom(No i'm not). And another dreadful thing she does to me, she puts me in this rectangular cage, with pillows, a blanket, and a big chandelier that spins above me. Just awful right?, so I thought of another plan. I can just cry every hour of the night to wake her up, Yeah that's a great plan. I cried, and cried, until it was morning, and we had to start all over again. But yet I still look around to see if my father came out of the bathroom yet.

   Years go by and here comes my second birthday. Did you know you can move your legs one in front of the other and you can move, with out your mom carrying you. Amazing right?, wow I am learning so much. Now I'm invincible, soon i'll be able to talk. One day my mom took me to this big house, she said it was something called Kindergarten. I hated my life ever since i walked through those doors, Ha ha just kidding(No I'm not). All I heard was "Billy hit me", "Sally took my toy", "Jax pooped in my lunch", I just sat in the corner thinking "Ughh I'm stuck with these idiots for 180 days, kill me now". But while I was here I learned how to talk a little better, and read. Then I finally realized my brain has finally began to function. Now it's time to hit the gas and go. I flew by elementary school like a 5 feet marathon. But now I'm starting to think my father has a really really bad case of diarrhea. I feel sorry for the toilet

   Then came Middle School, the children weren't as stupid here, pretty descent minded kids here. But they are big, and the girls are prettier than a sunset on a beach, but as thick as a anorexic on a diet, And on top of that, I felt changes in my body. Felt everything growing including my mind. Then came high school, and it's even bigger challenge. Bullies, again girls, work, a lot of it, It's just pressure on top of pressure. How to handle it, I'm not sure. Then one day I came home from school to think about all of it, Then I see a framed picture that brought back all I had remembered. Brought back the question I've always wanted to say is.....Where is my father? My mother comes down and gives me a disappointing look, then gives me a comforting hug. "All is well, even without him". In the hospital, she was alone......she faced the fear of birth alone, nobody there to hold her hand, through this renaissance. The rebirth of her own life, being that fraternity changes a women's whole outlook on life, because you now have the power over someones life, you are responsible for another human being. She had to face that by herself. But I will still say the food was terrible, and the crib was a little much, and i would rather run around naked then were that uncomfortable diaper that leaves rashes on my butt, But I appreciate she cared enough to stick around and do those things for me. Unlike someone else I know......scratch that, someone else I don't know, He's lucky enough I still remember his name. I'm a precious baby boy, who will grow up and be a better man then he was. This is my life, this is the truth. End.