novel in a month.. well what i have typed!

CHAPTER 1 - THE CENTURIES TURN
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The wind was rushing all around us, our fingers had frozen into icicles and we couldn't feel our feet anymore. Maryann had been complaining for at least an hour “where are we it doesn’t take this long to get home!” We were walking home from school in the biggest snow storm of the year. None of our parents could pick us up and they told us all to go to Julie’s house because it is the closest to school. We would usually get to her house in about ten minutes, but all the street signs were covered in snow and the snow was so thick on the ground that we couldn't tell if we were on grass, street, or sidewalk. Nobody would admit that we had gotten lost even though we all knew that everyone knew. I was attempting to lead our group of five girls, Maryann, Julie, Abigail, Gingy, and Natalie. We had tried our cell phones about every five minutes but none of could get a signal, Gingy’s cell phone wouldn’t even turn on because it had frozen. Maryann was complaining again this time about because she was hungry and she wanted to talk to her boyfriend, Miguel. While Maryann was sobbing about her problems, Abigail guess had decided that she had, had enough and started yelling at Maryann. “What the hell is wrong with you? You are not the only one who is lost and cold in the middle of the fucking snow storm so if you do not mind shut up!” Maryann stopped in her tracks at the sound of Abi yelling at her, when the yelling was over Maryann simply said fine. But that is not all Maryann did, after she said fine she turned her back to all of us and walked off into the snow. That is when I snapped, “What the hell Abi? Go get her, if we get split up then we will never get home!” I couldn’t hold anything in anymore. I started screaming and flinging snow everywhere. Then the other girls flipped to, they all turned their backs to me, they didn’t walk away they just turned and wouldn’t talk to me when I tried to apologize. Because they wouldn’t talk to me I ran off to find Maryann. After five minutes of running I finally found her curled up on the dry ground under a weeping willow that looked a snow mound with all the snow over it. I told Maryann to stay there while I went to get the other girls. I had it set in my mind to get them under that tree and into some warmth weather they wanted to or not. When I got back to the four silent girls they still hadn’t moved, it looked like they had frozen in their places. I told the girls about the tree and the warm leaves and they followed me back. We were all back together as a group then, no one was talking to each other but at least no one was screaming.


CHAPTER 2 – A HORRIBLE TRUTH
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It was ten pm the next time we checked our phones, Gingy’s had thawed out by now but when ice melts it turns into water so then her phone wouldn’t work because it was soaking wet. We all found this very funny; except for Gingy she thought it was very aggravating to have a broken cell phone. We decided to stay under the tree over night and hope that the storm will have ended by the next morning. It was hard to fall asleep on the ground though, even though it wasn’t snowy it was still hard and cold. The best thing we could do to warm ourselves up was to get covered in the dried leaves from the tree, it did not work very well. After a night of rolling and shaking we woke up and to our great surprise the snow had stopped falling. Everything was still covered and it was impossible to read street signs but none of us cared because we knew that with the storm over we would be able to get home eventually. Natalie and Julie, the two tallest girls in our group, had figured it out that if one of them got on the others shoulders then they could reach the street signs and could clean them off. After they got one clean we knew exactly where we were. We were on Mulberry St. the long deserted road that leads back to our houses. We were right on track, we just had to walk straight about half a mile and then we would be greeted with blankets and hugs from Julie’s parents. Right when we read the sign and our frozen brains registered where we were we all ran down the long road and then we saw it. It was Julie’s street, or so we thought. All the houses were wrecked; it looked like a tornado had gone down her street. We ran to the ruble as if it were someone we had never seen before, minus the happy. When we got to the remains of Julies three story Victorian house we all began to cry, it was the most horrible thing any of us had ever seen. All that was left from her house was the main floor and a little bit of the walls. Every house on the street looked this way. We stepped through what would have been the doorway but was now just a vast opening and started looking around. All we found was ruined furniture and wood, everything of importance had been washed away with the snow. After about ten more minutes of searching and sobbing Natalie found a safe under a few boards of wood that Julie claimed she had never seen before. Abi, who was incredible at breaking locks, gave it a look and tried to get in but she didn’t make any progress. The safe was extremely heavy and not one of alone could even make it budge, but together we rolled it over onto its back. On the bottom writing with paint we found what we assumed had to be the combination to get in. The combination was Julie’s birth date 10:22:92 so we thought it belonged to her parents. “It must have fallen from their bedroom, “I am not allowed to go in there unless one of them is already there.” Julie said with another frozen tear on her cheek. Abi came back over to the safe and tried to combination, it worked and the latch opened. We were all shocked to see the safe open when we had all thought it would have been frozen. When it opened we found three envelopes; the first one had one thousand dollars, the second had a letter to Julie, and the third had Julie’s parents will. Julie took the letter out of the envelope and read it allowed so everyone could hear.
“Julie, when you find this hopefully the storm will be over. As you can see everyone’s homes have been destroyed during this disaster, and nobody is sure of what to do. With fear of entering into the horrid storm your father and I have decided to try and stay here. We hope to survive this or at least that you will survive. Your father and I have left you a few things you will need if we do not make it, they are in safe with this letter. We left you a great deal of money, and our final will and testament. If you find this then I want you to go to the address at the bottom of he letter, it is your Aunt and Uncle, you never met them but they have agreed to take if needed. Also if we are not here then we are either in the basement waiting for you or have not survived this endeavor. We love with all our hearts and will greatly miss you if we do not see you again.
Love, Mother and Father”
After Julie read the letter she ran off. We all had thought she was going to leave but instead she went to where the door to the basement would have been and yelled down it “Mom, Dad! I’m here! Come out!” Then Julie just stood there for about ten minutes, when nothing happened Julie just jumped onto the snowy floor of her basement. Most of the stairs had been ripped out of the stair way from the storm. When Julie got her footing and was standing again she began walking around the small room hoping to see her parents hiding behind a box waiting for her. As Julie was walking around the basement we all just watched her from the main floor of the house. Then it happened, Julie had walked into something buried under the snow. When she felt the object she fell on her knees and frantically started throwing all the snow to the side. What Julie found scared her into sobs of frozen tears. Julie had found her parents, cold, hard, and dead. Julie uncovered both of her parents completely and hugged them. Julie’s parents were frozen hugging each other and covered in blood. They had a look of shock and fear in their eyes, we all felt like Julie had just lost the most important thing in her life and none of could say anything. We all just on the main floor watching Julie hug and attempt to clean off her parents.

Novel in a Month Update.

If you have read my previous blogs you would know that i had said i was doing a novel in a month project for school. You would also know that it was about a girl and her mom gets cancer. However you would not know that i have decided to change my novel, you do not know this because i am just now posting it. The reason i am not continuing my previous novel is just because i hit a brick wall and did not know where to go with it. Hopefully with my new novel it will get finished and i will not have any troubles, so far it is going very smoothly. i cannot tell you the plot because i am just writing it as a go, what i can tell you is that i am starting out as it being about a group of girls who get stuck the biggest snow storm of the century and have to sleep under a tree because they have no idea where they are going and they were to cold to move. When the girls finally get back to their friends house the next day they are horrified to see that all the house in the neighborhood are destroyed due to the storm. When they go to Julie's house where they were supposed to go the previous day they find a note that will change their lives forever. To find out more you will have to read my incomplete novel. I will post it a separate blog and as i write more i will add it on. Thank you for reading this little update about novel in a month and i hop you like my novel!!

The end to a life in America! :(

It is a sad day when a true American teen has her life cut off with no warning at all! Today that happened to me.

The time was 2:45 and i was sitting in history class the topic of electives was brought up. Mr. Wilson (my advanced world studies teacher) was telling us about the two elective choices for the following quarter (which starts on Wednesday) he said that the teachers would be him and Mr. Hall (one of the English teaches). Mr. Hall will be teaching a class all about art; how to sculpt drawing styles and what not. Mr. Wilson will be teaching a class about Asia (my one and only true love), the class will involve how to write in Asian letters, the culture, and anima, we will also watch movies and do whatever else the students want. Now because my life was not horrid enough i find out that i cannot do either of them!! The reason is because all through my life i have really struggled with algebra, and then starting my freshman year of high school i was in pre-algebra (again) now the teacher i had (Mr. McMullen) was insanely AWESOME i mastered everything and passed with an A and was given the math award at the end of the year! But my following year of high school i would have only been in algebra 1 when i should be in geometry, so the dean of students allowed me to do both. It turns out that by doing both one of them then counts for my elective, so i do not get to take one, grr. Which means to my sad and horrible dismay i will not be able to take the class on Asia. Not being able to take this class EXTREMELY upsets me, for about the past five years i have LOVED the Asian culture and styles with a deep and burning passion. So when i found out that i can;t take the class i literally started to cry (in the hallway right after last period on the shoulder of my loving friend Brie), after my tears had been shed i told everyone i knew that "sorry,i will miss you but i am moving to Asia first thing in the morning!", i also ran into the outside wall of our brick school several times in dismay and then curled up in a ball on the ground next to the flag pole while K'yana tried to make me happy and get me off the ground.

So now this is where i am sitting at the computer venting my immense amount of sadness toward the subject in the form of blog. Thank you for reading and i hope that your day was better than mine!

Just a little break down.

As you know i am a sophomore in The Charles School (TCS). TCS is a charter school meant for first generation college teens. I will be attending TCS for four more years (counting this year). The reason I will be here for a total of five years (counting last year) is because it is an accelerated program, so the student attend high school classes for two years, our third year is then a mixture of high school and college classes, and finally our last two years are just college classes. With TCS the students will graduate with a high school diploma, and a associates degree from Ohio Dominican University. TCS does not got by the regular pass your classes then you pass the grade system, TCS is trying to prepare us for college so at the end of each quarter we are assessed for a gateway. When we get assessed for a gateway our Dean of students (Mr. McMullen, math teacher and Dean) will look through our records and talk with us to see if we have had any suspensions or detentions, check if we are passing all of our classes, and a few other things depending on what they have us do with our advisory groups. Now if a students is not passing all classes, or has had a suspension then they can NOT pass the gateway. Some people may see gateways as confusing or not the right choice for high school students, but in my opinion the gateways are great, they make sure the students are doing everything they need to be doing and the gateways keep the students on the right track. That is pretty much what my school is, thanks for reading! <3>

Novel in a month!!

So I signed up to this novel in a month project with one of the English teachers at my school, and at the beginning we had to sign a contract saying that if we do not finish our set amount of words then we will be ridiculed and mocked my family and fellow students. My word goal for the month of November, which is all the time we have to complete it is 7,000 words. I wanted a challenge and thought that this would be a good goal to set because it will force my mind to think of things that will go along in a story together. This will be longer than ANYTHING I have ever written before but with much perseverance and praying I believe I can finish it!

My story for the project is about a mid-teen girl (i have not picked a certain age because it has not been relevant) named Melodia, whose mother was just diagnose with cancer. Melodia starts having a lot of problems at this time because she feels that if her mother dies there will be no reason for her to live as well. However Melodia realizes after some tome of following her wrong path that she wants to be happy again and be able to spend her mother last days on Earth (if her mother happens to die like she thinks) loving her and caring for her. So Melodia finds a psychologist and without telling her mother about the doctor starts and continues to see her on a regular basis. Melodia is just about to break free of her troubles when BAM! she sees what she had been emptying her sick messed up thoughts onto, then like magic Melodia finds herself right back where she started, alone, sad, and wanting to break free again.