Another Cinderella Story: Tell Me, Tell Me

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Head rocking back and forth, legs in the air making a scissor like resemblance as they moved back and forth to the beat of the music. The lyrics running in and out as they pass through on the CD that was inserted into my (CD player at home). I could imagine her dance moves in my head as the words ran through. “Tell me, Tell me, Tell me, Something I don 't know, Something I don 't know, Something I don 't know” I sang along like I was facing millions of people at a concert and as if I were her, Selena Gomez. Since the very first time I watched “Another Cinderella story” i 've loved everything about her since. I bought like all of her CD’s from “Kiss and Tell” to “Club Remixes” and basically anything i could find for $10.00 or less at K-Mart. I never really realized how distinct K-Marts were until i never saw one other than the one in Leavenworth, Kansas which is the city i lived in. I …show more content…
Alicia noticed we weren 't coming to daycare or making it to school she started to try and help. Alicia tracked us down and brought us to meet Michelle. Michelle and her had been planning for a week or so to find ways to help and came to the idea that we could move in with Michelle. The house she owned with her, her husband, and five kids had four bedrooms upstairs and a whole basement downstairs that wasn 't being used. There was a bedroom down in the basement and a living room area as well. My sister and I got the bedroom and my mother and baby sister got the living room. The original deal was to stay only a month or even two to get a job, car, and another apartment or house. The deal was settled. Mom would get and job, have it for a week or so and then lose it. Michelle was very lenient on letting us stay longer. After awhile we all grew very close. Michelle and mom became best friends, all of us kids became also very close, indeed like siblings. Michelles husband went off to Cuba for the army and Michelle let us stay even longer so she wasn 't

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