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