Life without my sister is kind of hard I miss hearing her scream at me because I used something of hers or I annoyed one of her friends for fun.She never told my dad on me for example I spilled some expensive fish bait and my dad still doesnt know I never told on her either which is why neither of us usually got in trouble.

Honestly,im still not over her dying it was sad and happened to fast I learned to live my life and not mope all the time but I still miss her we loved each other no matter what.She would tell me stuff like “shut up no one cares”or “my friends are coming over dont be stupid” but i knew she was saying that just to look cool in front of her friends.

I remember one time when my dad told us to get a 2 liter bottle of coke or pepsi i dont remember that part but we just walked down to the convenience store down the street and got it.It’s really not that interesting of a story but it’s one that i remember a lot for some reason besides the coke or pepsi part.

It was a horrible accident she was driving and her car slipped on black ice it was tragic I didnt go to her funeral which i still regret all because I had a stupid test I said no to going.I regret it a lot but i paid my repects with a prayer but i feel so selfish.

The only thing left I have to say is why her because she was nice and helped out she never told on me she helped people.But I guess bad things happen to good people but a lot of people love her so were every she is I hope she knows a lot of people care including me.

By: Hayden N.

School. You either love it or hate it. You could be the popular kid that everyone knows, or the nerd that gets good grades, or just the chill kid. Whatever it is you could never think of what life would be like without school. Life without school has a lot more effects than a decrease in education. 

First things first, even without school that wouldn’t mean that there is no education just that there is no institution for teaching. People can still get educated by their parents but that would be worse than an actual school. It would be much more boring also and kids wouldn’t want to pay attention. You just have your siblings or nothing. Also, most parents aren’t as smart as they were in college.

Another bad effect is that without school we could be anywhere between the middle ages to right now. That means today we could still live in castles and see a rat then die a couple days later. Also, that means that most people would be treated like animals. If we had no school right now we would probably be back about 20 years or when the first iPhone was invented.

Without school wouldn’t just mean without education it would also mean without sports or school activities. Without school sports, kids and teenagers would be bigger than usual and not as fit. Also, sports in the world could be less or more popular. They could be less popular because not a lot of people could have played as a kid and they might not have been able to play travel because of their money. But at the same time there could be every second of the day to play sports.

There might be one benefit to no school though. Without school, if humans were too dumb to make money than there would be no money in the world. That means that people wouldn’t have to work as hard or be homeless. People would be well fed and not starved. And crime would go down a lot. Then there would be no way for organizations to start either so it would be useless.

Whether you love it or hate it. School has many benefits and we would not be in this world today if it wasn’t for school.

By: Anna H.

Baseball, it was a very popular sport in the late 1800s to the early 1900s. Everyone liked coming to games all around the country, for some people it was pretty much the only outing they had. But that was only until the Great Depression hit and no one could go to the games because they couldn’t afford it. The only thing that people did now was working to get money  just have enough food on the table.

To get more fans to come to the major league games they dropped the ticket prices so people could afford to come. Sadly that didn’t help the problem and people still didn’t come to the games. Another attempt to get fans to come to the games was to start an all star game. The game was predicted to have a lot of fans attend the game. The people predicted that it would attract about 49,000 fans and they were right. Another way that they tried to get people to go to the games is they started night games. If people had radios then they could listen to the games because they started radio broadcasting. For some fans of baseball, listening to the radio was the only option the had if the wanted to listen to a baseball game. Some owners said that if they broadcast the games on radio then it decrease the attendance at games But that wasn’t the case. It actually helped the attendance at the games because it is said that it increased interest in the sport. These were some facts about baseball in the Great Depression.

                                     Citations 

https://digitalcommons.iwu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1110&context=constructing. Accessed 29 Jan. 2020.

Chapter 1: The Devil is alive!

“Johny get in the car!!”

“I’m comin, I’m comin!”

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

“Holy -!”

“Johny ya got it?”

“Ya”

“Alright boys next stop Los Angeles”

This is 2012, or me in 2012. My name is Johnathan Sancez, Born June 26, 1984, Harisburg, PA. You are probably wonderin what this tiny little bit of dialogue was, this is me at my job which it’s kinda complicated to explain what I really do in my line of work. It’ll be better if start where my old life ended.

The year was 2008, 4 years before we moved to Los Angeles before we made it BIG. My life was pretty stable until this happened.

“Twenty three year old woman shot in York county,” read the newscaster. At that time I wasn’t paying any attention to the news because I didn’t care. Every night on the news people got hit, shot or robbed so I just didn’t all that much cause nothin suprised me anymore. The last time I was shocked by the news was 9/11. 

I felt my phone vibrate I pulled it out. My older Brother Scott was calling, so I picked up.

“Hey, wassup?” Johnny said.

“Hey” said Scott clamily. By the tone of his voice I could tell somethan was up.

“It’s Tracey,” said Scott. Tracey was my younger sister, she was the one in the family who was happy about mostly anything and was always there for us if we were upset or having a bad day.

“She was shot and killed today at 2:39 PM,” said Scott practically weeping. The first thing I asked was, do they know who did it?

“No? Is that seriously your first question?” said Scott.

“Does mom know?” Johnny asked.

“No”

The thing was I didn’t want to hear all this bad news… so I hung up on him mid sentence not hearing that last bit. I walked into the kitchen and dropped the phone down the sink and turned on the garbage disposal. For the next thirty minutes I sat on the couch staring at the floor. Knock knock knock went the front door. I walked over to the door, opening it to find my long time friend Tony. 

“Hey slick, it’s me,” he said.

“What the heck are you doin here?!” I said all surprised like.

“Come in, come in”. We both headed to the living room and sat on the couch. 

“So what’s new?” asked Tony.

“Not much…” I replied.

“Well here I’m back in town for a while and I was kinda bored so I’m taken you to the bar,” said Tony

“No, I don’t feel like it right now.”

“Come on, I have some friends I want you to meet”I sighed “ fiiiiiinnnne” The walk was about five minutes. It was a quiet night, a cold January day in Lancaster, the clock said it was 9:47 PM. On the walk I asked him why he came back to PA, He said he was just here to visit his childhood home, I could tell that was bull. As soon as he graduated from college he was outta here. 

When we got there the even the bar was quiet. Thats when tony yelled “Hey Jimmy!”. A man in sunglasses and a short beard turned around. He got up and walked over. 

“Jimmy this is John, and John this is Jimmy,” said Tony.

I shook his hand. Back then all I knew was this is a friend of Tony what I didn’t know was that this person would be the next 11 years of my life.

By: Alaina B.

Everyone has friends but what if we didn’t? Who would we talk to at lunch? Who would we listen to when they need help? What would we do with our lives? Friends are supportive and helpful. They can talk and listen when you need it. Without friends, our lives would be completely different. Everyone would be mad and hurt because they have nowhere to tell anyone their feelings. 

All sports teams would be terrible because no one would know anything about the other people, so there would be no teamwork. For volleyball, no one would communicate well and you wouldn’t even be happy if you win. For softball, we wouldn’t be able to pitch and catch because the catcher can’t convey to the pitcher what pitch to throw. You wouldn’t know the plays as well in football, and basketball would be a total disaster. We need friends because without them communication in sports would be horrible. 

The world will not be a fun place to live. Everyone would always be depressed and mad because no one would have a person to turn to in times of distress. A lot more people would need mental help. Our lives would be sad and confusing because no one would know what was going on in other peoples lives. People would be lonely. It would be like a world without color, everything dull.

In school, it would be quiet and everyone would actually get work done. Everyone would have 100% in every class. Nothing interesting would happen and it would be boring. People wouldn’t have anything to share in class and there would be nothing to write about. Stories wouldn’t get published, people wouldn’t collaborate well, and no one would have anything to learn. Our lives during school would be pointless and stupid.

Life without friends would be very difficult. We need to realize how much our friends impact our lives and be grateful for them. Today, go out and tell your friends how much they mean to you and show them that you can make a good difference in their lives. 

“Who are you…” called someone from the darkness 

“I am Leon Wolf from the Sun Tribe,” Leon stated.

“Ok and.” the voice said again, 

“I want to join the Shadow Tribe.” said Leon strongly. 

“Join us! Ha! First tell us something you never told anyone.” said the wolf. Soon after Leon hear howls and cries of other wolves in the darkness. 

“Fine, it all started when my youngest son was born… he- he was different I could tell by the way he looked at me-”

“Wait… Do you mean, Alex?” said the wolf 

“Um yes? How do you know his name?” questioned Leon 

“He is the talk of the woods! It’s stated that you clawed his eye out!” Cried the wolf. 

“Grr! YOU DON’T THINK I KNOW THAT!” yelled Leon

“No, now finish your story.” the wolf said calmly 

“Fine then. When Alex looked at me I could tell that he was different… So that night I went into his room to kill him… I raised my paw to slash open his neck when my wife jumped in front…” Leon stopped, stared into the dark and continued. 

“And I hit her instead… She died because of me!” Leon yelled. The wolf in the dark walked out slowly.

“What in StarTribes name Leon!?” yelled the wolf

“CHARLIE?!” Yelled Leon.

“Leon Wolf you’re forever banished into the woods and your son Apollo Wolf will be the new Alpha when he comes to age, but if he dies before he is able to be Alpha your younger son Alex Wolf will be the Alpha. Once Apollo Wolf or Alex Wolf has found their mate they will be sent out to kill you,” said the Head Wolf of the Guardian Council. 

“WHAT! You can’t do- HEY!” yelled Dad 

“Yes, we can we are the Council let’s go”.

“Come on Alex almost there,” said Carson.

“Why can’t I see!” cried Alex. “Carson”?! 

“I’m right here Alex it’s ok,” said Carson “do you remember what happened”? 

“I think?” said Alex.

“Could you tell me what happened”? said Carson in a calm voice. 

“Um yeah… Dad went to hit Lucky but I jumped in and got hit instead then I blacked out and all I heard when I woke up was you trying to calm down Lucky.” said, Alex 

“Sounds about right, right Lucky, Patch?” said Carson questioningly. 

“Mhm, ready Alex?” said Lucky calmly.

“I will go and get Apollo then.” said, Patch.

“Ok let’s go, Alex”. said Lucky walking out of Carson’s den 

“Coming! Bye Carson.” said Alex with pain and excitement.

 “Don’t forget to come back at the 2nd moonrise so I can take off the cobwebs!” Carson called out to Alex and Lucky as they walked out, he knew that they had heard him when Lucky wagged her tail.

“D-Dad?” Alex called out into the pit of black.

“Come on Dad no time for games…” said Lucky 

“Dad is not here and he is never coming back.” said a voice slowly getting louder. 

“What do you mean…” said Lucky scarcely

 “I mean.” soon the figure came out of the dark and it was Apollo. 

“I got him banished into the woods forever… and I or Alex will be sent out to kill him…” said Apollo showing nothing. 

“W-what so your now the Alpha?!” said Lucky with confusion

“Yes, I am now the Alpha…” said Apollo with very little excitement.

“I will find him, oh I will find him, and… I will kill him!” 

Life with pets can have good and bad aspects to it. Living with one or multiple pets is fun and amazing to most people. They can be fun little creatures running around your house always ready to play. Dogs are normally more energetic and bigger to play with, but cats provide warmth and comfort to their owners. Having pets may also help you later in life with caring for your own child. To most people, they’ll consider their pets to be like one of their own children. So providing and taking good care of them will really help you know how to care for younger people. 

But just because pets can play with you and be a friend to you doesn’t mean that they are always good. Owning a pet cost time and money. First of all, just one little puppy can cost up to $1,500, and just because you bought them doesn’t mean that you don’t have to put more money into them. In order to survive, they have to have food and water just like any other living animal. Buying food can cost $100-$200 every year, and you still need water for them. Owning a pet doesn’t mean that you’re only losing money, you need to give them your time and attention too. Every pet needs a bathroom break multiple times during the day. You need to take time to take a dog outside, or pay money for a litter box for the cat. Also, depending on where you live and how you handle it, you might also need to pickup or clean your pets waste. Everyone makes mistakes, including pets, so they might have a little accident inside the house when they’re not supposed to. You need to take your time to get the necessary materials to clean it up.

As you can see, pets aren’t always good, but they’re not always bad either. They can provide company and comfort to you, but can also steal your time, money, and attention from you. Life with pets isn’t easy, but it’s always worth it in the end.

Everyone has gone to school at some point in their life and so you know what it is like to go to school, but most people don’t know what not going to school feels like. It’s like every day is Saturday and you can sleep in until whenever and you would be home alone because your parents would be at work. It’s not all like that if you didn’t have school most likely your sibling wouldn’t have school either. You would be bored out of your mind because you wouldn’t have anything to do. You would be dumber than a thumbtack because you would have no knowledge of math, reading or grammar. You would have no friends around to hang out with on Friday night, no one to pull allnighters and eat candy with because you would never meet someone new. 

You would spend all day with your siblings, your brothers your sisters and of course your pet(s). YOU would have to feed and give water to them and take them for a walk. And give your pet(s) baths and play with them. Also, many people would lose jobs because there are a lot of schools out there and colleges that would just disappear.  There would be no jobs because you have to go to school to get an education but without school, everyone would be homeless. We would have to live with our parents because no one would build houses. We would all have to become YouTubers to make money because the only other jobs would be trash collecting and working at the dollar tree. Those are the bad things about not having school.

It was this one time that I screwed everything up,

I couldn’t do anything about it.

I couldn’t stop thinking about tomorrow and the future

I am falling into pieces,

And I don’t know how to pick myself up from the ground. 

I feel like nothing can help me, 

and everyone keeps telling me there is hope 

“What is hope?”

I can never find it 

I try to be nice and sweet

I try to talk to others and help them 

But I can’t stop thinking of what happened

“I can’t do this alone, I need someone.”

It took me a long time until someone could help me

They helped me

They loved me

And they knew how I was feeling

I noticed that I never gave up

I always thought of that saying 

If you have hope many things can happen 

Not bad things, but good things 

Always have hop