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I held my breath, I heard the sound of hair being chopped off and smelled the stinky perfume in the building. “Hello, may I help you?” a worker said to me surprisingly enthusiastic. “Yes, I made an appointment here for a haircut,” I said sounding dead and emotionless as I talked. “Oh ok, Name?” The worker said sounding a bit disappointed by my emotionless approach. ...
The same four walls. The same roof that covers them. The same creaky hardwood floors, so thin they could break. The same cuffs on the benches that their parents had broken out of so many years ago, leaving them wondering what they did to deserve this.The room is frozen and small. The same small room isolates two kids in the dark, as there is no light switch in sight. And if there were a little switch to light a spark in the bulbs over them, they could escape this tiny room and blend into the regular human population. The...
When you aren’t real, you tend to be more secretive around people, even when they think you’re real. The biggest question I ask myself is: am I real or fake? Mason made me, sometimes I forget. And sometimes, I don’t even want to know. Mason just named me 13. I don’t know how to read, write, eat, or drink. I know how to speak. My language, it’s set to English. Sometimes it can be a pain. Sometimes it can be very useful. “13, I have some very exciting news for you!” Mason said. Normally when he’s excited about somethi...
Title: CrushedAuthor: Monica Author’s Note: Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by to read this. This story to me, I tried to make it seem as unique as possible. While making this story I was sorta on a time crunch, but I pulled through and managed to pull it off. Hope you enjoy it!I am prayiah Ru, I have flaming red hair, blue sapphire eyes and sharp pale skin. No one can mistake seeing me, but most of the time I beg people to stop staring at ...
“Isn’t that beautiful? Isn’t this place beautiful?” Daneille says in awe. “You could say that, but it’s just a sunrise…” I say trying to sound bored, but that sunrise was extraordinarily beautiful, even through the hotel’s window. “I have a question...Who am I? Who are we?” I ask? “You should know who you are Ivory...Like you know I'm Daneille,” Daneille says quirky and curious why I asked. “Yeah but...that’s our names not who we are…” I say again....
“Cara and Dan were the best couple in their high school,” Dill says as he starts the next chapter. “Dan? I’m not sure if you’ll agree to this but...I am going to do soccer tryouts…” Cara says with a shrill voice. Cara doesn’t know if Dan would like this because Cara is the most exuberant girl in school. “Is that why you were acting differently? Ya know. It’s fine…” Dan says, unsure of his...
"This was supposed to be the happiest day of their lives," Dill starts the story."Two friends Akiva and Katie where the bests of friends. they did everything together, but their lives were gonna take a sharp turn.""I'm so excited for soccer tryouts, TOMORROW!" Akiva says in her purest grin. Akiva has the best soccer skills in their school! She is one of those athletic people that actually like what they're doing."Don't get to excited Akiva, you might not make it," Katie says grimly. Al...
Malitta "Hey Eli wanna watch a Movie with me?" I say in my chill voice. Eli is my best friend we did EVERYTHING together but since junior high started she started acting different. I don't know what happened. She's now into boyfriends, Parties and even DYED her hair!!! "What Movie do you wanna watch?" Eli said staring into my soul. she looked like I was gonna say something childish lik...
"It doesn't count if you're Already planning your defeat," Sarah says to me shyly, after I told her that Julia is one of the contestants for THE CONTEST OF ALL. "Julia is only doing this to me because of YOU!!!! Why do you just explode every single detail of everything I worked for!! you know this is MY DREAM and that I could just barley make it on. Now that JUULLIIAA'S joining I have NO CHANCE at alllll!!! That's all YOUR FAULT!!!!" I screamed at her with all my might and anger. If she didn't just tell my ex friend, MY DREAM would be MIN...
“Carlos, what are you doing? Come here,” Our mom beckons to him. Carlos is my older brother... let’s just say we are very different people. “Your teacher called and said you broke the rules and when you were told to come back to school you refused.” Mom looks like she would explode Carlos never listens to her and does it anyway, but I don’t get how he always gets away with it. “Mom, Dan dared me to do it and said he wou...
A bell rattled calling all their men to kill me, their trader and murderer but I didn't kill on purpose I was forced, and I’m now running for my life. The only way out is the woods. But this isn’t any other type of woods. It has zombies that come out of the ground, trolls that can crush me with one finger and Wolfs that rule the night. I have no other choice. It’s die now or die later. I ran in knowing that they would stop chasing me here. I need to survive this forest, I need to find the stone of doom to break it. I heard that it is foun...
I really don't know how this works... well hello! I'm Monica D!
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