I Got You

Between third and fifth grade, my family and I moved from my childhood home, which my parents had owned together, to a duplex and then to an apartment. According to my mother, we moved because she needed a fresh start with her new husband. The last move placed me in a different school. I had been at my previous school, Heber Hunt, since kindergarten. At Heber Hunt, I had friends, I knew the teachers, and I felt comfortable. My classmates didn’t often focus on clothes or the stuff we had; we just…

address of the cabin, and I went for a drive with a shotgun in the backseat of my Tahoe. Is it the right thing to do? Maybe not. Am I going to scare the living shit out of some kids? Yes I am. “Xavier, what if she shows up with Damon, you know how bad this can look.” I hear a teenage girls’ voice say as two kids walked up to the porch. I guess Xavier cant keep his pants on. I started recording everything, how he pushed her up against the wall and started kissing her. I was going to show this to…

the phone when there were suspicions of Minnijean going to Central High School. I walked over to the phone in the kitchen. A deep voice, a man’s voice came on. “If anyone in your family comes to that school, I’ll come to your house myself, and shoot all of you“, I ended the call, and stood there for a couple minutes, stunned by what just happened. And ran to mom and dad’s room. “Um, m-mom. We got a phone call “, I stuttered. “I’ll be there in one second honey.“ she didn’t understand. She…

I Need You Now “I Need You Now,” by Lady Antebellum, was featured in the 2012 film Zero Dark Thirty, and it was used in television series such as Hellcats and The Glades. The song tells a realistic story about a man and a woman who loved each other, but their pride kept them apart. In the beginning, the woman sings about all of the "Picture perfect memories scattered all around the floor" (line 1,2). All of the perfect things they've done together, came to an end. She missed him, and now she's…

“Screw you, Abellona!” My mama shouted, scolding her with an anger so primal, so intense, that I had never seen anything like it ever come out of her before. It had frightened me and yet made me proud. I looked down at my mama’s feet where Midnight now stood, her back arched, fangs drawn and letting out a seething rear aimed squarely at Abellona. Not far from her was another cat as equally angered and ready for a rumble. Off to my right, Tucker and Owen still struggled with subduing…

true life-savers. If we had them separated, we wouldn’t be able to get as many mutants. It’s best if you don’t think about it,” Nikolai shrugged at Scarlett’s confused face. “Why do the Vulkans care about our schools existing?” Ryan asked. Nikolai sighed. “See? Now this is why the majority of the fledglings start out in a smaller school. That way they can learn about all of this crap and I can save my breath,” Nikolai mumbled agitated. “The Vulkans want to take over the world,” Charlie…

what the results turned out to be, it was positive Bay was their daughter, but she figured out something that their parents kept a secret from her. She found out that her twin sister that “died at birth” was still alive. Bay was hurt that she never got a chance to meet her but also furious at her mom and dad. Bay stormed out of the office and ran, and ran until she was far away from everything. She had to think about things, so she had to get far away. While she was taking a break from…

Oh no! I overslept! I jumped out of bed and began to run around getting ready for school. Not again, I thought as I looked around for my backpack. My nap last night messed up my sleep schedule. I was so excited last night that I had trouble getting to sleep at bedtime. Oh yea! I remember now, it’s Winter break, no school today… Oh no! I overslept! I got dressed and ran down stairs. Mom was in the living room playing with Albert. Albert loved to read books. I say read when I really mean look at…

At 15 years old, I didn’t have any interest in boys. Throughout my childhood I would go to sleepovers with other girls from my class, and while they’d giggle at the pictures of the male models in Teen Vogue and gossip about the latest boys that they’d been smitten with, I would sit on the side and absolutely infuriate them during games of Truth or Dare. The question was always the same. “Come on Delaney, you’ve gotta tell us! Who do you like?” Naturally, answer was always the same too. I’d…

it and you might have thought that it was. A booster seat was buckled haphazardly in the back next to an abandoned McDonald’s bag that held a single decaying fry, which clung to its short fast-food life with all the desperation of students on their last day of summer. I could relate. When I got in, my friend apologized for the “old weed” smell - her older brother had taken the car earlier in the week. I shrugged. She had a car, I didn’t. I wasn’t going to be picky. The front seat that I…