I think that school should start later because the kids with pay attention And not be as tired, he would have more time to get ready in the morning, and the teachers Wouldn’t be as stressed in the morning. 

First of all, everyone will pay more attention in the classes when they get to school because it won’t be as early and they will be more awake. They will be able to Focus on their work and not be distracted by their tiredness.

Next everyone will have more time to get ready in the morning.

Girls will have more time to pick out their outfits, And do their hair and makeup and guys will have more time to sleep in. Not only will we feel more awake but we also feel better about ourselves.

Lastly, not only the students will be happy but the teachers will be happier because they will not only get to sleep in and get more time to get their classroom ready in the morning.  Happy kids make happy teachers.

In conclusion,  starting school later is going to lead to a lot of happier people at school, everyone will be more awake and our teachers are going to be happier teachers. 

My cousins, sister, and I where making a horror film at my grandparents about a crazy little girl and two middle age kids named Mathew and Joseph. The crazy little girl  trap kids in her house but some kids pay the price of death. Mathew and Joseph was going trick or treating they heard the the branches cracking the leaves floating through the air. In a split second it went black Joseph didn’t know where he was then he was calling Mathew and the little girl came out she said “he’s Died”, with a laugh.  

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So this is Friday night, and this is the night before my first show where I am supposed to be doing a costume class where you and the horse dress up we were a fairy unicorn duo then 4 corners then around the world music goes then you flip around in the saddle then I am in a in barrel racing and pole bending. 

The location of the show is always Columbia Riding Club I will be attending this show with my new horse Cookie her show name is High Hopes Cookies and Cream that is what they call if you win a ribbon. This is really stressful because when we bought her she had limited show experience. That kinda stressed me out because I didn’t know what to expect so at this time it is just preparing for the show packing the trailer, filling hay bags filling water containers, making sure she is well groomed, giving her lots of kisses and treats, getting my crap together, filling the trailer with shavings, polishing the saddle, bridal,and holter, and whatever else I think of, and literally preparing myself for being stressed out, and over all embarrassed of the fact that I don’t know how she is going to act. So the people at the barn and I were talking about maybe giving her a tiny tiny amount of a calming medicine just to give a little bit of calmness.

The one lady said that,” You would never know how she will react until you take her pure.”

So I decided that I would take her with no sedative. So it is 3:30 in the morning that I wake up to get my stuff together. So it is about 4 and we load the coolers and all the food chairs and stuff into the truck because the show is all day, which takes about an hour because I remember some other stuff I forgot like brading, garter straps, my ribbons that go in my hair, saddle polish,saddle conditioner, the little sponge things that are really fun to play with. And then we head to the barn and then with the pace my dad drives it is about 4:30.

So I get there look at my sister then we start talking and probably fighting on how we will divide stuff. We aren’t running around like chickens without heads cut off she obsessed over things like how he rolled the night before, or how he has poop stains all over him that we need to get off and then I cry because Cookie is white and every time she goes out to her pasture and rolls so at this point I am like in tears because she is light brown. It is starting to stress me out on all the stuff I need to pack. Things like spare halter ,clips to hang hay bags, clips to clip the trailer ok enough about all the stuff I have to pack to even feel semi- prepared.

So its like 6 now yes that is how long it takes me. So now it is the time where my sister’s thoroughbred Rio decided he doesn’t want to get on the trailer so it is a battle it is like Godzilla fighting an ant and like this is a like 900lb animal against my dad who is like maybe 200lb.This is the point where I just say god bless whoever is on the other end of that lead rope. We want his experience to be positive so we involve grain so he knows it is safe. So my sister would be in the trailer my dad would be guiding the horse and I would be at the back to close the gate and tap his butt like he is safe 

“Come he boy get some grain come on so close,” she pleaded to her reluctant beast, again.

“Come on boy so close come on YESS!” 

“Ok 4 tries not bad he is pretty calm today I like it.”

So after we get Rio loaded we put Cookie’s shipping boots on to protects her legs because Rio tends to kick so she was trained to walk right on the trailer so that is a battle avoided. Then my trainer got there my trainer’s name is Bree she is legit the best to work with like she lets you do what is comfortable and is a great person. She is going  with us because I don’t how she was gonna act the we were driving there we got there unloaded walked around she was a little bit of a handful. We did lunging and she started bolting and we tried again and she bolted and then she was calm, and then we had to legit paint her to look like a unicorn so we could win the class because dhe was a unicorn  I was put in was the mythical class, we got a little spooked in the middle of the class and did a little crow hoppity and stepped back and then got herself together. She went on with herself, and then we placed second and I was mad because second is the fist to loose but no expectation because it is her first show I was a bit embarrassed. I should have prepared her more like doing a show before this so at this point I was a little worried because she was very skittish and unsure. We warmed up she was a crackhead just like me, so my trainer rode and she was crazy and I didn’t want to embarrass myself, so I scratched my classes I was crying because I wanted to do them.

So at this point my trainer and I were talking and she said,”when I was your age I was in 4h to and I loved showing, but my horse didnt and people pushed me so hard I cracked and I quit and my horse was tramatised, I don’t want the same fot you so do what is best for you and cookie,” 

My only fear was that I would never go to a show again I and my future involves showing so there for my future would be down the drain so then we went home and I came home with ribbons in all classes even if they were ninths. So now it is January 6 and i took her to a show and she did great so lots of pratice makes perfect and do what is best for you not what anyone else wants you to do.So this is Friday night, and this is the night before my first show where I am supposed to be doing a costume class where you and the horse dress up we were a fairy unicorn duo then 4 corners then around the world music goes then you flip around in the saddle then I am in a in barrel racing and pole bending. 

The location of the show is always Columbia Riding Club I will be attending this show with my new horse Cookie her show name is High Hopes Cookies and Cream that is what they call if you win a ribbon. This is really stressful because when we bought her she had limited show experience. That kinda stressed me out because I didn’t know what to expect so at this time it is just preparing for the show packing the trailer, filling hay bags filling water containers, making sure she is well groomed, giving her lots of kisses and treats, getting my crap together, filling the trailer with shavings, polishing the saddle, bridal,and holter, and whatever else I think of, and literally preparing myself for being stressed out, and over all embarrassed of the fact that I don’t know how she is going to act. So the people at the barn and I were talking about maybe giving her a tiny tiny amount of a calming medicine just to give a little bit of calmness.

The one lady said that,” You would never know how she will react until you take her pure.”

So I decided that I would take her with no sedative. So it is 3:30 in the morning that I wake up to get my stuff together. So it is about 4 and we load the coolers and all the food chairs and stuff into the truck because the show is all day, which takes about an hour because I remember some other stuff I forgot like brading, garter straps, my ribbons that go in my hair, saddle polish,saddle conditioner, the little sponge things that are really fun to play with. And then we head to the barn and then with the pace my dad drives it is about 4:30.

So I get there look at my sister then we start talking and probably fighting on how we will divide stuff. We aren’t running around like chickens without heads cut off she obsessed over things like how he rolled the night before, or how he has poop stains all over him that we need to get off and then I cry because Cookie is white and every time she goes out to her pasture and rolls so at this point I am like in tears because she is light brown. It is starting to stress me out on all the stuff I need to pack. Things like spare halter ,clips to hang hay bags, clips to clip the trailer ok enough about all the stuff I have to pack to even feel semi- prepared.

So its like 6 now yes that is how long it takes me. So now it is the time where my sister’s thoroughbred Rio decided he doesn’t want to get on the trailer so it is a battle it is like Godzilla fighting an ant and like this is a like 900lb animal against my dad who is like maybe 200lb.This is the point where I just say god bless whoever is on the other end of that lead rope. We want his experience to be positive so we involve grain so he knows it is safe. So my sister would be in the trailer my dad would be guiding the horse and I would be at the back to close the gate and tap his butt like he is safe 

“Come he boy get some grain come on so close,” she pleaded to her reluctant beast, again.

“Come on boy so close come on YESS!” 

“Ok 4 tries not bad he is pretty calm today I like it.”

So after we get Rio loaded we put Cookie’s shipping boots on to protects her legs because Rio tends to kick so she was trained to walk right on the trailer so that is a battle avoided. Then my trainer got there my trainer’s name is Bree she is legit the best to work with like she lets you do what is comfortable and is a great person. She is going  with us because I don’t how she was gonna act the we were driving there we got there unloaded walked around she was a little bit of a handful. We did lunging and she started bolting and we tried again and she bolted and then she was calm, and then we had to legit paint her to look like a unicorn so we could win the class because dhe was a unicorn  I was put in was the mythical class, we got a little spooked in the middle of the class and did a little crow hoppity and stepped back and then got herself together. She went on with herself, and then we placed second and I was mad because second is the fist to loose but no expectation because it is her first show I was a bit embarrassed. I should have prepared her more like doing a show before this so at this point I was a little worried because she was very skittish and unsure. We warmed up she was a crackhead just like me, so my trainer rode and she was crazy and I didn’t want to embarrass myself, so I scratched my classes I was crying because I wanted to do them.

So at this point my trainer and I were talking and she said,”when I was your age I was in 4h to and I loved showing, but my horse didnt and people pushed me so hard I cracked and I quit and my horse was tramatised, I don’t want the same fot you so do what is best for you and cookie,” 

My only fear was that I would never go to a show again I and my future involves showing so there for my future would be down the drain so then we went home and I came home with ribbons in all classes even if they were ninths. So now it is January 6 and i took her to a show and she did great so lots of pratice makes perfect and do what is best for you not what anyone else wants you to do.

Once upon a time on December 24, Saaketh was reading about space shuttles in his house. When… a mysterious creature knocked on the door, I said in a confusing way, “I wonder who could that be?” I opened the door and no one was there. “That’s funny.” said Saaketh,”I’m sure I heard someone.”

 Then, the knock came again this time Saaketh ran so fast that he forgot that the door was closed. The mysterious creature opened the door slightly and the mysterious creature put his foot up and Saaketh tripped and made himself fall into this chemical that makes you smaller. 

After 10 minutes, Saaketh woke up and he was smaller than an ant. “How did this happen?” After he concluded, Saaketh found out that it must be Amore and Atrau playing a trick on me.

Saaketh grabbed a pint of the chemical from his kitchen and rode an ant to Amore and Atrau’s house he got down and used a walking stick to ring their doorbell. When, Amore and Atrau answered the door Saaketh squirted them with the chemical which made Amore and Atrau shrunk down in size.

“Why did you throw that juice on us?” said Amore. “It’s not a juice.” spoken Saaketh “It’s a chemical which makes you smaller.” “Yeah, why did you still throw it on us?” said Atrau. “Well you have to admit it was pretty funny.” spoken Amore.  We all just laughed. 

Then Courtney came to the park and looked at us and said “How did you guys get smaller?” We said, that “it was the chemical.”

So we all went to Courtney’s house, when we got there we saw that her dad was making a spaceship. “ We’re going to space to celebrate Christmas.” acclaimed Courtney, “Wow” said everyone else. Meanwhile, Courtney’s mom put the tree and food in the spaceship. 

Courtney realized that it was time to go. “Can we come too?” said Amore “Sure just stay calm.” whispered Courtney. So Courtney hid us in a box and took us to the middle floor.

Soon, as the spaceship started to take off, we were all in the small box that Courtney put us in. Then, Atrau saw a potion that makes people in normal size “Guys I found a potion that can help us grow back in our regular size!” said Atrau in a hurry. 

He went outside and instead of getting the normal size potion he got the big sized potion. He brought the whole potion of it. Suddenly, it started to leak just when… Courtney was going to step in the little bits of potion. It turned her shoe so big like Godzilla “What the how did this happen?”  said courtney in a surprising fashion. We all went to the left side of the rocket ship Courtney tripped on her shoe and fell, her mass made the normal potion to fall on Me, Atrau, and Amore. It made us back to normal size. Everyone was safe besides Courtney her shoe was so colossal.

When Courtney’s parents got down from the spaceship, they were on the moon. We quickly snatched the potion and turned Courtney’s shoe back to normal. But when Courtney’s dad put up the Christmas tree it started to float “What the why is the tree floating?” “It’s because of  low gravity stupid!” said Courtney’s mom. 

Then… everything from the spaceship started to float “Wow so this is how low gravity works.” said Atrau. Just then, a meteor came across at the speed of 25,000 mph we were all in a panic. 

“What are we going to do” said Amare. Just then, Saaketh had an idea First, we will put confetti stand near the earth so the explosion looks cool, Second, inflate the Santa Claus blow-up, Finally, take the tree, candy canes, cookies, gingerbread house, ornaments, the star, and the milk. Blend it all up and we’re going to throw it at the meteor.

After we were done with the confetti stand and the inflated Santa Claus blow-up. We all blended everything, instead of throwing it on the meteor we all put in the Santa Claus blow-up but there was one little problem. The ornaments couldn’t blend and Courtney tried her best but suddenly she accidentally hit the self-destruct button and it started to count down from 15. We have bigger problems now.

“I think I hit the self-destruct button!” So our new plan was to throw the blender on the meteor. We all said “1 2 3” and threw the blender and hit the meteor it destroyed in spectacular flames. We all cheered in unison.

Then, it was time to go, when we got into the spaceship the engine was spluttering. We all didn’t know what to do, we looked at the description it said it runs on metamorphic rock. Luckily, I had my trusty bag of marbles and put the whole thing in the hole. We all set off happily once more.

When we returned to Earth we noticed the confetti stand was about to fall on the ground “Oh No! Cried Amare we all went to the side quickly and the confetti stand blew up and we were all safe. “I think we’re forgetting someone?” said Atrau. But we all said “No”

“Do you know how to get down?” said Courtney’s mom “No, figure it out yourself, your the smart one here.” said Courtney’s dad but there was no way down.

A match has two 45-minute halves and one 15 minute break period in between the two halves. Each team has a minimum of 11 players. Also (including 1 goalkeeper who is the only player allowed to handle the ball within the 18-yard box) “If a ball goes out of playoff an opponent in either of the sidelines then it is given as a throw-in. If it goes out of playoff an attacking player on the baseline then it is a goal kick. If it comes off a defending player it is a corner kick”. https://www.rulesofsport.com/sports/football.html 

  My neighborhood where I spend most of my free time either running getting ready for sports seasons, talking to my neighbors, or hanging out with my friends its my happy spot.

          To begin with, one reason I love my neighborhood its where I run its my place where I become better. I run 2 miles about every day I listen to music and push myself to become better. For soccer and basketball my neighborhood is my track where I train on my conditioning and overall tones my body. I see it every day and know the place like the back of my hand. 

          In Addition, my neighbors are so nice and helpful we all give up our time to help out and do something nice. If one of are families are going one vacation we will watch their house, take out there dogs, get their mail,or trash. My one neighbor now plays for the Steelers and that is pretty cool to be able to meet him he lives right behind me. We just have a great connection with are neighbors and it’s one reason I love my neighborhood. 

           Another reason is, I get to hang out with my friends and it’s a place where we can be loud and enjoy being outside. When my friends come over we run around and be loud we goof around and do stupid things and my neigbors really dont care. Me and my brother go out and do stupid things with my neighbors and its so great to live in my neighbothood.   

             In Conclusion, my neighborhood is great and I love it, it’s where I train for sports and become better, My neighbors are super nice and will do nice things for are family, and me and my friends and brother goof around and have fun. This is why my neighborhood is so great and I love it.

PART ONE

Josh Rivera lived in Maryville, Tennessee, and attended Maryville high school. He was the one everybody talked about. If they’re not talking about his thirty point game the night before, then they’re probably talking about the game winner that he hit last week. Four seconds left in the fourth quarter, give it to Josh. He was six feet at just fifteen years old, and he was already getting the attention of college scouts! Going into tenth grade, he was planning on attending the University of Memphis. Josh’s father played at Memphis, but wasn’t quite good enough to go professional. But Josh, he was ready.

It was second period, and Josh was heading to math when someone came running up behind him.

“Yo Josh!” yelled Josh’s best friend, Gibby Frankford.

“Hey, Wassup?” Responded Josh.

“You free on Saturday?”

“I think, why what’s happening?”

“Well, There’s this new skatepark that I’ve been dying to go to, but my mom won’t let me go.” Gibby explained.

“So now she just randomly allowed you to go?” Josh asked.

“Well…not technically.”

“What do you mean, not technically.”

“She said that maybe some other day I’d be allowed to go, and today is some other day. So I’m planning to go when she is out with her friends and I’m home alone, which is tonight. But I don’t want to go alone.”

“Will she be mad if she finds out that you went?”

“She’s not going to find out.” Gibby assured.

“Whatever, I’ll go. What time are you going?” Josh asked.

“Soon after school, I’ll text you and let you know.”

“You know I have practice at 3 right?”

“Ah shoot, I forgot about that. It’s only until 5 right? She’s not going to be home until 6:30 or 7 so we can go after your practice, even if we can’t stay as long as I wanted to.”

“That will work, see you then.” Josh settled.

That day after school, Josh headed over to practice. Him and his team were preparing for the state championship. Josh had an outstanding season, impressing scouts from all over the country. If they won this game, Josh would have a good chance at big colleges including Kentucky, Virginia, Miami, and possibly his dream college, Memphis. Once practice was over, he got a text from Gibby telling him to meet him at his house. So Josh ran home, took a quick shower, got changed, grabbed his skateboard, and made his way over to Gibby’s house.

“Sup.” Josh said.

“Hey Josh! You ready to have the best time of your life?” Gibby asked anxiously. Josh laughed.

“Sure.” He said.

The boys rode their skateboards to the skatepark eagerly, and once they got there, they started skating right away. Every move and trick you could imagine was happening. Josh rode up on a ramp, flipped his board at the top, and rode back down again. 

About 1 hour into skating, Josh thought he would try a new trick. He rode up a ramp, made a quick turn at the top while flipping his board, landed it and rode back down. He tried this a couple times and was nailing it. The boys were about to leave, but Josh wanted to end off on a nice trick, so Gibby joined him. He thought he would do his new trick that he had tried, so he could keep practicing and become great at it. Josh pushed off and flew up the ramp, he made a quick turn and almost instantly flipped his board. He landed it and rode down the ramp when he looked up and saw Gibby skating towards him with speed that couldn’t be stopped. Josh panicked but didn’t have time to react. With the snap of a finger, Josh tried falling off his board to avoid contact with Gibby but couldn’t pull his leg out of the way. Gibby rode over Josh’s left leg while Josh was trying to jump up to get out of the way. Snap! Josh’s leg snapped in half, the bone pointing a direction that it was not supposed to be pointing. He lay there in shock, trying not to look at the possibly career ending injury. 

PART TWO

“Oh, Gibby!” Gibby’s mom screamed. “I told you plenty of times not to go, and you disobeyed! I am very, very disappointed in you son.”

“I’m sor-” 

“Nope, I don’t want to hear it! Sorry isn’t going to cut it. Do you even realize what you’ve done? The star of the team, you’re best friend! You drug him into this mess just so he can snap his leg. His career could be over! All he wanted to do was to get into Memphis so he could follow his dream, and walk in his father’s footsteps. That dream is cru-”
“Mom!” Gibby yelled at the top of his lungs before she could finish her sentence. Gibby’s mom stared at him for a couple of seconds. “Sorry, I didn’t mean to yell,” Gibby continued, “I know what I did, and that I should’ve never done it. All I wanted to do was to have some fun skating, I never planned for this to happen.”

“Well, Josh is in the hospital, and there’s nothing you can do to change that.” Gibby’s mother concluded.

Gibby decided to hop on his bike, and go see how Josh was doing. He flew, and I mean flew. He was a cheetah chasing his prey, speeding around corners, ignoring every voice that told him to slow down. Once he arrived, he parked his bike, and ran inside.

“Hello young man.” The lady at the desk said.

“Josh Rivera? Room number? I need hi-” Gibby blurted out.

“Slow down please,” The lady asked.

Gibby took a deep breath.

“Good, now try again.”The lady advised.

“I’m here to see Josh Rivera.” Gibby said.

“Oh! You must be Gibby!”

“Yep, that’s me.”

“Josh has been asking for you. He’s in room 59.” The lady informed Gibby.

“Thanks!” Gibby raced to room 59. Once he got to the door, he knocked quietly and slowly made his way inside.

“Uh, hey Josh, how’s it going?” Gibby asked sheepishly.

“Oh! Hey Gibby! I’m so glad you came.” Josh responded cheerfully.

“You shouldn’t be, I’m the one who got you in this situation. I’m so sorry, like, truly really sorry.”

“No! Don’t be at all sorry. Not even a little bit. It wasn’t your fault, I’m the one who agreed to go.”

“But, but you’re basketball career. Memphis, what are you going to do?”

“Don’t worry about that. Actually, the doctors told me that they’ve seen way worse. I mean, this isn’t going to help my career at all. But I doubt it will negatively affect it.” Josh assured.

“Well that’s good.” 

 Gibby was very glad that Josh still had a positive attitude, and that he didn’t despise him for what happened. Gibby stayed for a while, and the boys talked and watched sports on the mini television by Josh’s bed.

“Gibby?” Josh asked quietly.

“Yeah, Josh?”

“I actually don’t know what’s going to happen to my career. How much will this injury affect it?”
“I’m not sure Josh. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.”

“Yeah I gues-”

Josh’s thought was silenced by a knock at the door.

“Come in!” Josh yelled.

“Hey Josh. How’s it going?”

An older man with a scruffy gray beard walked in the door. He was tall, maybe a little over six feet. Josh couldn’t see him right away, but when the man stepped into the light he realized…the head coach of Memphis basketball was standing right in front of him.

 Part Three

“Coach Hardaway! I’m a huge fan! What? What are you doing here?” Josh blurted out.

“Hey kid, I’ve seen your dad play, and once I heard about your injury I had to come see you.”

“Wow, you’re really Coach Hardaway, thanks for coming.”

Josh and Coach Hardaway talked for a while. They talked about life, the injury, and of course, basketball. Penny told Josh how he watched his dad, and loved the way he played. He also explained how once he heard about Josh, he went to almost every game that he played.

“You were at my games? Like, you watched me play? And you thought I was good?” Josh exclaimed. Coach Hardaway laughed.

“Yeah! You are a phenomenal player!” Coach Hardaway said.

“Are you serious? Wow, I’m so honored. Thanks Coach!”

“No problem kid. In fact, you’re so good, I’m inviting you to come down to the college next summer, that is, if you’d want to.”

“What!” Josh yelled, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to yell. I mean how couldn’t I yell if the coach of Memphis basketball invited to go to their college? This is amazing! I’m so…” his voice trailed off. “My leg, what about my leg?”

“We’re praying for a quick recovery, which I think will happen. I guess we’ll just have to let it take its course.” Coach Hardaway said.

“Yeah…I guess so.”

Word eventually got around about Josh, and the whole basketball team became furious. They were about to play in the state championship, and it was the first time in school history that they’ve ever come close to it. But the only way to come out on top…was with Josh, who was sitting in a hospital bed and not leaving for another couple of months.

“What are we going to do?” One of Josh’s teammates asked.

“We can’t do anything without him.” Someone else added.

“Calm down, losing Josh isn’t the end of the world. We played as a team the whole year, and just because Josh can’t play doesn’t mean that has to change. Focus and get Josh off your mind and you guys will be fine.”

A week later, it was here. The Maryville Red Rebels were facing the Whitehaven Tigers, the defending state champs. Nobody was prepared to play the best high school basketball team in Tennessee, especially without their star player. The Whitehaven Tigers have had one of the best basketball programs in Tennessee for many years, and are very familiar with the state championship. Both teams were warming up, and Josh was laying in the hospital watching the game from his bed. Josh was just as worried as the rest of the team. How are they going to beat the best team in the state without the player that carried them to this spot? It almost seems impossible, but miracles can happen.

The clock read ten minutes until gametime. Both teams went into their locker rooms to discuss their gameplans. “Listen guys, we’ve made it this far and we’re not going down without a fight. I want you guys to go out there and just relax, play like you’ve played the whole season. Now go out there and give it your all!”

“ Mom why can’t I go home with you and dad!” I whined pathetically.

 “ Bella, your dad and I have had this anniversary trip planned for months. You know this! You can’t go,” mom said.

 I had a good reason to not want to go, I wasn’t going to spend the whole summer with my weird aunt at her weird house in the middle of nowhere. Mom and Dad didn’t give in. I was stuck staying at my weird aunt’s house. I wasn’t looking forward to this. My summer did seem a little brighter though when my parents let me bring my best friend Leah along to stay with me. Summer at my aunt’s house seemed to be a little better if Leah was with me. 

We arrived at my Aunt’s house. We soon realized there was nothing to do. The only thing for entertainment was the West Wood Zoo. Kids go there to mess around and hang out even though the zoo has been abandoned for years. People aren’t supposed to go there, but the local kids do it anyway. Leah and I decided to check it out. 

The walk there was long and hard. We had to climb up what seemed like mountains, big rocks, and go past some mini waterfalls. We also saw some abandoned coal mines. “ We made it!” I said triumphantly trying to catch my breath. 

“ Ok, I have to admit this is pretty cool,” Leah said impressed. The zoo was really amazing. It still had all the exhibits, but without the animals. It was a big place. I figured this would give us days of entertainment instead of sitting around all day doing absolutely nothing. 

“ Where should we start? We should cover every exhibit one by one. Oh hey, look there’s the lion exhibit! Let’s check that out first,” I said.  It was pretty erie and the sun wasn’t helping with disappearing behind the thick dark clouds.

 ” Hey Bella what’s with the rock wall,” Leah questioned.       “ Hmm… don’t know, looks like there’s a door, but a bunch of rocks are blocking it!”, I said shocked. Leah turned to look and said, “ Wait let me see, hey you’re right.  Where’s the knob? It looks like it should be right here. I guess it fell off.”  

I saw something on the ground.  “ This has to be it,” I said as I picked up a rusted knob. “ It’s not like it’s going to do anything. We have to take the rocks off until we reach the door, I said. We were really curious and started moving the rocks away from the door. “ Woah these are heavier than I expected,” I said as I struggled to put it down. 

“ I can kind of see,” Leah said peering through the small hole through the doorway. “ Watch out.” I said shoving Leah out of the way so she wouldn’t be crushed by the rocks falling. “ Hey Bella you did it, that last rock you took off must have been enough for the whole thing to collapse now we can go through!” 

I started walking through the doorway first. Next thing I knew, the floor gave way. I was falling down and landed hard.  “Are you okay,” Leah said worriedly. “ Hey Leah help me out!” I shouted. “ How am I supposed to do that. I don’t have anything to get you out. How far down did you fall?” Leah asked. “I’m okay, just a little shaken up. I don’t think I fell far.  You have a flashlight on your phone for a reason.” I joked. “Why don’t you use it, but be careful where you step. That’s how I fell. “ “ Woah this is so cool!” Leah said. “ What is it? Will it help me get out of here? What did you find,” I said desperately trying to get her to tell me what she found. “ Ok so it might help you get out but I am definitely keeping this.” Leah said. “Just get me out of here,” I yelled. “ Alright I’m coming hold on,” Leah said. 

 When I saw what she had, I was immediately jealous. She had found a grappling hook. “ Where did you find that,” I said as soon as I got out from under the floor. “ Over there,” she said as she pointed to a dusty corner of the room. “ Is there anything else there.” I don’t know, why don’t you look around,” Leah said. 

All I found was some dust,  the occasional spider, cobwebs, and some more dust. “ There’s nothing here, “ I said disappointed. “ I’m not ready to go back to your aunt’s house yet. Come on let’s go see if there is anything where you fell,” Leah said.  “ Fine, wait can I use your grappling hook?” I asked. “ Ugh fine, “ she handed it to me reluctantly. 

As I turned on my flashlight I looked around there was a lot of broken pottery shards that scattered the dirt floor. Then I spotted something else. It was a surprisingly big opening in the wall. It looked like a  tunnel on the other side of the room. “ Come on Leah let’s go.” Instead of coming to me she just stood in place. “ Are you scared?” I asked. “ What no way,” she said. “ Then come on, let’s go,” I said excitedly.  

We started walking. There were a series of tunnels and passageways that lead to nothing. “ Well that was a disappointment.” I said angrily. All of a sudden I heard “ ROAR! “ Run there’s a lion!” Leah said already turning around. “ What where?” I said confused. Then I saw it! “ That lion looks hungry!” I said hastily fleeing away.” “ Let’s get out of here!” 

Then we heard some creaking and cracking. “ This place sounds like it is going to collapse any second! ” Leah shouted. We ran to the doorway. Leah got there first and she yanked me out. We slammed the door. We didn’t want to take a chance of the lion getting out.  Leah suggested we pile a bunch of rocks in front of the door for extra security. We hurriedly piled on the rocks. 

“Whew! I’m tired and hungry after all that excitement, but I’m not ready to go back yet,” I said wanting to find a treasure of my own. “ I guess we should go back to your aunt’s house, “ Leah said walking away. “ Hey wait a second we never found anything for me back there. Leah you come back here this instant and help me look for something like another grappling hook!” “ No way besides I found it, she said.”  “Fine! I’ll stay here and find something good. You just wait, ” I said annoyed. “Yeah good luck with that. I’m tired! ” Leah said sarcastically, while turning around and walking back to my aunt’s house.

Olivia T. is a great person, she listens to me when I have something that I can’t keep inside of me and she is always there so I can ramble to her. She is the only person who I can tell my secrets to and she will keep them. I always just want to tell people things and hope that they can keep the secrets that I want them to keep but for some reason, they don’t keep them and they just spread them around and then drama starts. I know that I can trust Olivia T because when I tell her things she doesn’t tell anyone and I am grateful for that. She listens to me even when I just keep going on and on and on about one thing and that is what I like about her. 

She is always there for me even when I am annoying. I know that sometimes I have too much on my mind and then things get out of control, and then when I get to a class with Olivia I know that I can just let anything go. I feel like with my other friends they wouldn’t stop and listen, but Olivia does. I feel like it just comes natural to her and she is just a person who can stop and listen. She is also a great friend and she is very supportive.

On the last time on Reggie the shredder, regggie was chilling at home when a puppy shows up at the door they take the puppy in till regggie found a poster on a telephone pole about the dog so he called them up told he/she that he had her dog and that she can come and pick him up so they met up gave her the dog and in reward, he got money to get the scooter.

An hour later a smile from ear to ear and a package in hand admiring the box with chest out proud of what he has down he couldn’t wait in the car it was like a puppy that was winning but couldn’t pet them he was begging his mom to open it but she no you must wait regggie. Regggie doesn’t like to wait but it didn’t matter because he had to wait for the right one he stares hard when he was in the store to find the right one he picked a black with sliver because of that was rad and made sure the box wasn’t damaged or opened it was an agonizing trip home regggie clawing at the box waiting for home he said it felt like it was an hour car ride even though it was only 20 minutes away when he got home the car wasn’t even at a stop before regggie was already jumping out of a car and running into the house scot n hand runs for the scissors he rips the box away like a shredder he opens it in all its glory it sits folded up the black and silver gleamed at him his mouth wide open all he can say is that’s sick he unfolds the scooter and runs out the door loud and proud he can already see himself shredding rails and tail whips but he realized something he has never ridden a scooter before but he said it’s worth a shot brother he hoped on push off annnnnd……crashed……. Bruh what the heck scooter lay next to him regggie has ridden a bike a lot the summer before but it was nothing like riding a scooter he got back up he picked up the scooter’s deck sung around wham right in the shine regggie dropped he got a small tear in his eye but said he’s a man and got back up and grab the scooter carefully making sure that the deck would not hit him puts the scooter down gets back on this time he takes off cost for a sec and a pushes for more speed and it’s going well when a patch of stones and coming toward fast he slams on the brake locking up the wheel and smoking to a stop he goes around and keeps shredding well at least trying and he thinks he keeps hearing a song playing but it goes away when he turns it stops and rides it none stop from when he got it the sun was setting regggie tired ‘’ man after that hard day of shredding I am head out and hit the hay’’ he rode home and slept. He woke up happier then happy put on his favorite clothes with an American flag on it and some shorts but he can smell the flavor of bacon and egg waiting for him his mom at the table sipping on some hot coffee waiting for someone to say a word but they sit their regggie thinking about how he could be better until he mom handed him a brand new helmet and he smiled and thanked her they talked for a little and regggie stood up and walk out to his scooter waiting it like it was going to move but picked it up an rode off