Scarlet Rays Of Beauty
"These trials, Beauty vs. Talent is the model world."
Alisa Lynn Hight
!WARNING! Some of the items in this fanfic state that the Poke'mon world is real and Poke'mon inhabitants do exist. Do not get silly ideas into your heads because than parents WILL SUE ME. Also I am aware that some of my parts are shorter or longer than others but that's just because that was the end of a period of time at school or home or my work. I am glad we had this little talk. Thanx, gymgurlerika.
Chapter 1: How It All Started
*****The truth*****
It was a optimistic summer day. There was a class going on a filed trip p to a lake, or shall I say a camping trip. 5 girls were walking out on the sight of that lake. The gentle ripples in the skin of the water were rushing now more often as people catapulted into the waters edge while others skipped stones. Well anyway back to the 5 girls. There was a shabby looking one, a long mahogany haired one, two twins, and a red haired one. They were sauntering towards a small trail that led to the end of the lake where there was a petite ebony sign quoting, "Stay Out Private Property". Suddenly a 6th girl materialized out of no where and hollered at the Mahogany haired girl, "Rosie! C'mon lets go play". Rosie turned to the others "I gotta go se Natasha so you guys wait". Rosie dashed off with Natasha and began to play in the water, "Dawn" voiced the shabby looking one to the red head, " There's something I have to tell you." They set off down the path to find the perfect place to say the message that had been concealed so long. A dwarfish boy and his friend (who by the way was blonde) were pitching rocks down a side of a ridge. "You guys", said the twins to the two pals, "are so weird". They only looked at us and laughed harder than before. I have to hand it to us, we aren't exactly normal. We passed them and went up to a boulder, clambered up it, and sat down. "Dawn" said Kristin, "Poke'mon are real".
*****The Dream*****
Swirls pass through the bulky, grey sky. The setting was a small shelter that could be mistaken as a dump. The wind picked up and blew endlessly and cried a loud howl that made the hairs on the back of my head shiver and stand on end. Then the sky began to bawl and let massive lucid tears fall to the ground. Lightning bolts struck out of the sky as if it was angry at someone or something. A creature, Scarlet colored, was crouching at a doorstep. "Leave this place you piece of crap. When I took you in I thought you were worth something. No, You're a worthless piece of crud. Get out!!". Those words, as if c lose but yet so distant, Kept on whirling through my mind. But nothing came as much of a surprise than what happened next. A foot from the owner of the voice kicked at the creature. The aim was true. The creature on the doorstep let out a screeching wail that pierced my brain. I awoke with a start. My head was churning with the thoughts. I got up as to run to the creature but smacked into a oversized cabinet of precious mahogany wood. "CRAP!" I said. I looked at the cabinet, to the floor, And then to my PJ's and realized it was only a dream, or shall I say, A nightmare. The effects of that nightmare on me were to much to think about that night, but I couldn't just forget it. I got up out of my bed and heard Amy snooziling away. I was so jealous I almost wacked her with a pillow but thought better of it. I stepped down of our chair. It squeaked. I looked around panicked, But found Amy still sleeping. I snuck out of the room and heard the familiar sounds of Mom breathing sleepily in her pillow and Dad's Booming snores. I crept into the kitchen and got a glass and some chocolate milk. I was used to getting up in the dark for chocolate milk, for I had had the same dream more times than this but I had never had the finishing touches of it for I never hit the cabinet before. I finished drinking and sleepily turned to the clock. 2:22 it read. Crap. 3 hours and 24 minutes before mom's alarm will go off and we'll have to get up for school. I slunk into bed not even caring if Mom OR Dad OR Amy woke up, I just wanted to sleep peacefully. And so I did. But was it a dream?
******Scarlet******
"Rise and shine sleeping beauties". Mom came in and turned on our light. "Mom!!!!!", I groaned, "It's bad enough you have to wake us up at this hour but PLEASE don't use your stupid remarks like "Sleeping beauties" and "sleepy heads" PLEASE I beg you". "O.K." said mom quietly and left the room. It was the start of another day. I got up out of my bed, slouched to the closet, and got dressed. I had just got into the bathroom and started putting on my make-up when mom said in her bright and cheerful tone, "Amy and Alisa! I'm going out the door!!!!". I nearly ate my lip gloss stick. Amy spat out her coco puffs. "WHAT!!!!!" we said in unison. I fumbled all my make up into a bag and poured myself a small bowl of coco puffs leaving a trail of it out on the floor and rushed to get my
back-pak. I made it out the door just in time as mom started up the engine of the car. Amy was in the car glued to her gameboy , As usual. I had just settled down to take a ride when I saw something gallop towards the end of the street. It was holding something in its mouth that looked oddly like a piece of cardboard stuck to a stick by a really messy tape job. But as fast as it appeared I blinked and it was gone. I tried to rid it from my mind witch wasn't to hard because at that exact moment I heard a loud screeching of a cat. So did the rest of the crew in the car. We looked up to see Jazzy ,Our cat, clung to the car roof. " Did you guys leave the front seat window open again?" said mom unlatching Jazzy from her roof. Oops. "I guess we did."
For the rest of the ride to school we got the "how-many times-have-I-told-you-not-to-leave-the-front-seat-window-open-lecture" again. We got into Mom's
pre-kindergarten classroom and took down the chairs anxious to get to our own class. When at last all the chairs were down and up against the table we kissed our mom Good-Bye and marched out the door. The first thing I saw was Katlin Wolf, kind of a loner in our school. As usual, Only Linda's, Our teacher, door was open wide. I turned to the right to see Lew Chapmen on his classroom ramp. "Sup!!" I called to him. He took his eyes off the playground and turned my direction. Then he smiled shyly back and waved. That meant that Dawn Chapmen, One of my Best friends was here unless she was sick. " Is Dawn here?" I asked. "Yes" he answered back. "Thanx with an x!" I called before I slid off my mom's ramp. "Sup!" said a soothing voice from my right. I knew this voice so well I could identify it without even looking at his face. "Sean!" I ran over to him. We walked to the classroom together talking about stuffins and junk you know, stuff. When we got in I looked around and felt at home again. Ahead of me were three tables all the same dark chestnut with many occupants by them doing homework or stuff while sitting on blue plastic chairs (that might I add are the most annoying chairs I know). In the back was Linda's desk. To my left was another table but it had 4 computers which one was occupied by Linda and another by Dylan Davis, A very smartalecky boy in our class. Sean went over to Dylan and started talking to him about more stuff. I went over to my table in the back and took down my chair. Just as I had sat down in came another one of my best buds accompanied by Amy, Kristin Rodriguez. "Kristin! Yeah you're here!". We sat down at her spot and began talking about our favorite subject, Poke'mon. We were jabble-gabbling away when in came one of my other friends. "Dawn. Where were you?". I went over to her and hugged her. "I was buying my lunch ticket", she said. " You two should get married". Dylan was glowing and laughing with his bud, Dorian Askew, who had just walked in on time to see me and Dawn hug. At this both Sean and I jumped up and began to move towards him. He retreated. " If you have a death wish, I suggest you say it now before you die". I said through my gritted teeth. "Yeah!" Sean had come closer to Dylan and putting his hand that was not in a tightly clenched fist on my shoulder. Linda sensed trouble and said hastily, "BREAK IT UP!". That ended that fight. "Now", she continued, "It is time to get your A.R. stuff (Accelerated Reader ;-} ) on your table and come to circle. So the people who were here got out their books and A.R. account folders and sat in a big circle. Linda went over to one of the computers and opened up the attendance program.
"Adam"
"Here"
"Alizah"
"what oh, here"
"Brandon---- no Brandon?"
"Brittany"
"Here"
"Dawn"
"Here"
"Analisa"
"Here"
"Alisa"
"Here"
"Amy"
"Present"
"Allie"
"Here"
"Dorian"
"Here"
"Dylan"
"Here"
"Sean"
"Re-Elected"
"Kristin"
"What? "
"Dylan"
"Here"
"Gracie"
"Here"
"Joss—No Joss?"
There was a soft hush of cheers.
"Julie"
"Here"
"Skye"
"Here"
"Steven"
"Sup"
"Tristan"
"Here"
"Wendi"
"Here"
"Weston"
"Here"
"And Rosie"
"Here, well sort of".
Linda got up from her seat and sat down in the circle. "So", she said, "Alisa wants to share". I suddenly removed myself from the chat with my friends about a party at Kristin's house and started my story.
The Horse And The Stranger
"O.K. so I was riding with my mom in the car on her way to a hair appointment at Blondies the hair place and I saw a horse and a boy sitting on the side of a street. There were kids like surrounding the boy and his horse". As I said this at least 6 people put up their hands. "Ask questions later" said Linda in her tone of voice that meant settle down. "So anyway", I continued, " I asked mom if I could go see the horse and um.. She said O.K. so I went over to the horse. All the kids had gone so Amy and I went over to the boy. As we went over to him he got up quickly and bowed. As he did this he said, " I am glad to see you Erika, Sabrina". This surprised us and we stepped back the horse however was behind us. We turned around and began to pet it. As I turned back around the boy was gone." The class exchanged some puzzled looks and then turned back to me. "But in his place was a note. I read it to myself." I took out a crumpled piece of paper the size of a medium sized sticker and read it aloud:
"Dear Erika,
I am glad to have
met you in this life.
But I will not see
you for a long period
of time. Please
take this horse
(Ponyta) with
you as a gift.
Thank you,
Lt. Surge.
Lots of people didn't know what the heck I was talking about, but Rosie and Dawn gasped. Kristin nearly fainted. But after all the fainting and confusion practically everybody raised hands. But soon the raise-your-hand concept was forgotten:
"Do you know who the boy was?"
"What did you call the horse?"
"What did the boy look like?"
"Was he cute?"
"What color is the horse"
"What does the note look like"
"What kind of handwriting does he have?"
"Did you check for the fingerprints on the paper?"
"Were you scared?"
Linda now looked like she was going to explode with anger. "5........4.......3.........2........1......". Everyone shut up. " Now I think its time for check-in. She picked up her name stick bucket which was full of popsicle sticks with our names on them. "Steven". He took in a breath and said, "I'm fine and I want it to go......... that way". He pointed to the left which meant it was Weston's turn.
"I'm coo"
"Same" said Brandon.
"I'm Hyper" said Wendi.
"Same" Said Julie.
"Same" said Analisa.
"Um... I am, like, Tired because my brother woke me up last night" said Gracie.
"I am SOOOOOO hyped" I said.
"Same" said Rosie.
"Same" said Amy.
"I am weird" said Dawn. "Interesting" said Linda. "Oh You just now noticed?" said Dylan. Dawn and I shot him a nasty look. "Dylan time out". Said Linda
"I am like very hyper and stuffins" said Kristin
After a long time in witch mostly Sean explained what he did on his weekend (no offense Sean) Linda said, "now it's time for A.R. go to your seats".
*****The Obscure book*****
I got up from my spot on the floor and went to my seat. "Oops I forgot my A.R. book I guess I'll have to choose from the rack". I went over to the rack and looked at the shelf. But the thing that cunfuzled me was that in the middle of the rack was a poke'mon book. "That's funny", I thought, "I've never seen this book before". So I picked it up and took it to my seat. I opened it up to see what it was. Suddenly I felt as though I was in a cold zephyr that twisted me around and around. Then I saw the creature, The red thing that was running down our road this morning. It was flashing past me wildly and then it stopped, right in front of me. It looked at me and said, "is she alive?". What? I thought. Then I came to. About half the class including my group of friends were sitting in front of me. "I think she is. She's still breathing".
"what should we do?"
"Should we call her mom at her room?"
"Nah Linda's getting Ann and getting her mom."
I got up and said, "Where's the creature ?". "Well", said Gracie, "If you're talking about Joss, he's absent." I looked around. I was back in the classroom. "That was freaky Alisa",said Kristin. "What happened" I said. "Well you first started doing this twitch thing with your eyes closed"said Weston, "we all thought it was funny and started laughing. Then Linda started to yell at you. She thought you were trying to get attention. And when you didn't react, She came over took one look at you and screamed. She ran out the door and went over to the office. Then you fell over and you woke up." I took a huge breath and got up from off the floor. My head throbbed with pain I had never experienced before. It felt as if someone had shot a bullet through my head. I screamed and collapsed again. The class looked fretted as if they thought I was going to pass out again. I tried to rise again, and this time I had succeeded. All of the sudden the door zipped open and in came four extremely paranoid people. It was Linda , A Blonde haired lady, a, mom, and finally a lady with greyish hair. "It's ok Linda, she came to" Said Amy. Linda let out a sigh of great relief and turned to mom and said, "Audrey she's fine". Mom stopped sobbing . "Mooooommmmm" I said a little sheepishly, "Your embarrassing me". Anne, The Blonde , came up to me and said ," You are sure you're O.K. because I brought Peggy with me". She pointed to the greyish haired lady who waved as if she was asking , "remember me?" as if I went into a coma just then. "Yes", I said reassuringly, "I am fine". "Well", said Linda, after the other visitors left," that's enough A.R. Lets all get our spelling homework and you may open your binders and begin to write the assignments down". There was a rustle of both chairs and paper and the classroom (Compared to A.R.) Was buzzing with chit chat and pencil scribbles. I got up and almost instantly Steven and I collided. "Why don't you watch where your going" I snapped at him. " Hey don't push my button girl", He grunted back. Then we both smiled back at each other. (As unusual as this might seem, Steven sits next to my friends and I sit next to his, So we both switch spots at every possible chance . And We collied every day . I LIKE SEAN NOT STEVEN .Get it, got it, GOOD) Steven's spot is next to Amy and Dorian. Across from Amy was Dawn. I got up to the line to get homework. Dorian was in front of me and Dawn was behind. Dorian spun around so quick suddenly My hair flew back. "Did you hear?' he asked. "About what?"
"About Joss?'
"Not that I want to know but no".
"Joss Broke his arm trying to impress Wendi"
"HA that'll teach him to flirt ".
I got my homework and sat down. I slipped the papers into my binder and began to talk with Dawn. "So when are we having the party?" I asked"tomorrow"said Dawn," kind of a end of the school year party". Just then Dorian sat down."what r u guys talkin' 'bout?". "Nothing" I said trying to think of a better cover of the party. We all wrote down the assignments and Linda announced that it was time for recess."Finally" I said, "That took FOREVER". My group and I went outside and began to walk around the field. I told my friends about the dream and the scarlet creature. "Alisa"said Kristin" I really hope you find out what that thing is". Abruptly a flash of silver light flew across the sky. Kristin pointed this out as it did several laps around a velvety cloud. We all looked up and heard it utter the word "Mew". Kristin and I both looked at each other. This was weird.
*****Math*****
A abrupt whistle echoed through the atmosphere twice. "Oh uh" I said "Time for math". We rushed to our classroom which was very difficult given the fact that every charter student was racing to their classroom. We stood in a line for what seemed like forever when finally our teacher materialized from the other end of the office."O.K." she said and pointed to the inside of the death hole classroom. I went to my desk, got my stuff out looking longingly at the door for any chance of fleeing, but reluctantly sat down at Amy's table. I was accompanied by Dorian, Amy, Dawn, and Natasha. Linda got up to the front of the class looking completely like she'd do anything but teach math (who wouldn't ) and began putting math equations up on the white board. We all grabbed our mini white boards and began to write down the answers. After about thirty questions (including 30x66) we all picked up our math books ( more reluctantly than before) and began to work in them. " I am SOOOOO glad that this is the last day of school",complained Dorian, "I don't know how much more math I can take!"
"Oh my god",I said, "Today is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!" I totally forgot that today was the last day of school. "Yeah Alisa ", he said in a some what :you're stupid" tone. I guess he was right, I wasn't really tuned into the word today ever since I saw the creature. "Well I'm smarter than you" I said to Dorian in a snooty voice. "Well I'm smarter than you times 2" he retorted.
"I'm smarter than you times 3"
"I'm smarter than you times 4"
At this point the whole class was looking at us......... including Linda. " I suggest you two get started on your math times 5" Even I laughed. But by the critical look on Linda's face everybody just shut up. She meant business. But Dorians' and my spat wasn't over. He began to scribble away on his white board. Than seconds later he lifted it up to show me the words "I'm smarter than you times 100". Suddenly we were both scribbling away on our white boards. We wrote words like "I'm smarter than you times 1,000, 100,000, 10,000,000, And it even got up to (by Dorian) 10,000,000,000,000,001 (that's ten zillion and one just to let you know) (;}). By this time I thought of a saying that would make him stop. I wrote down overemphasizing the white board pen, "I know what you did last night", I flipped it over and revealed it to Dorian. He got his face all screwed up and then began to write on his board. He than flipped his board over to reveal these words, "I know what you ate last Tuesday". I couldn't help it, I laughed. " Alisa, go sit at this table" she said madly and pointed to the table with Allie and Chelsea sitting at it. "Who cares?" I thought. "Number 1, Allie and Chelsea our my friends, plus it was worth it". Now Dorian was in hysterics because I had to move. "Dorian", Linda said pointing to another table with the only occupant, Joss, "Go sit here". Now it was my turn to beam. I sat down and got situated at my new table. "O.K. what's the first question................................ 3459 divided by 6. I took advantage of my uncovered calculator and worked out the problem. After all, it didn't say no calculators on the paper. The little numbers appeared on the screen reading 576.3 so I put that down on my paper. Suddenly an unidentified object came flying through the air and landed on my head. It was a note. "Alisa would you like to share that with the class?" said Linda in a amused tone. I glanced around the room and quickly got up in front of the class. Dorian, who was laughing, stopped abruptly and had this nervous twitch thing goin' on.
I unwrinkled the paper and read it nervously aloud"Alisa-" I said,"how's the view way over there, ha ha . Dorian." I laughed out loud with class. But I stopped at the look on Dorians face. It was the look of embarrassment and sadness mixed in one. I couldn't help it, I felt truly sorry for him. I wasn't the only one either. All of my friends who were in this math class had a look of sympathy on their faces. We were probably the only ones who felt sorry for him because we get laughed at every day and this was new for Dorian. Then he looked up at me, so I turned around so that he wouldn't see my face. "Dorian", said Linda, "go sit outside". Dorian sulkily went outside. I sat back down at my seat. There was a face pressed against the window, but I didn't look at it because I knew Dorian would be looking at me with hatred. So I got back to my math problems. And like all my friends, I did it silently
"O.K.", said Linda with a sigh of relief, "Math times over". There was a roaring cheer from the students of Linda's class and soon students were pouring out on to the playground, the field and the black top. I was walking towards the field. I suddenly had a weird perception someone was following me. I turned around sharply. But there was no one there. At least that was my first impression. But as I began to walk again someone behind me said, "Hey Alisa". "What" I said. I knew who this was now. It was Iden. Iden is a very squat kid who in had dyed his hair a blonde color. "Do you know where your sister is". This is a funny question I thought "She's on the playground with Dawn". "Thanks". He called back. But peace and quiet did not prevail. "Alisa"
"What!" I said in a rather annoyed voice.
Allie, who had been the one speaking, almost immediately cowered back words as if I was going to strike at her. "Oh sorry". I said quickly. "Alisa", she repeated, "I was wondering would you"-
"would I like to go to the Pastie shop with you"
She quickly nodded her head. "Well you're in luck", I said, "cause' that's just where I'm going'". So we both began to walk to the Pastie shop. The shop was right across our schools field. Some kids went there to get lunch (namely me and some popular kids). Allie and I began to race to see who was the fastest. I won, but just by a hair. I opened the door for Allie and we both walked inside. The Pastie shop is a medium sized shop. It has a couple of tables and chairs and a bunch of Irish banners hanging up on the walls. There was a large refrigerator filled with many drinks and other things like brownies and turnovers. There was also a basket full of chips of all sorts. Sitting next to the counter were three jars of candy. 1 jar had small candies that were 5 cents each, a medium sized jar that held medium sized candy in it that were 10 cents each, and the last one had bigger candy that was 25 cents each. Sitting up on the counter was a big plastic container with beef jerky inside. I went over to the refrigerator and pulled out a sprite can. I next got in line while pulling out several pieces of bubble gum from the 5 cent jar. 'What would you like?" said the lady at the counter. "I would like a-" "let me guess", said the lady, "chicken"."you know me very well don't you?" We both laughed. The lady behind the counter went to the fridge (behind the counter) and got out a pastie. She stuck it in the oven and it began to cook. She came back to the counter and began to add up the total of my items. "GOSH", she said, "you must like bubble gum". I guess she had a point. I counted to see how many I had. 20 pieces."2.50" she said. I pulled out a 5 from my pocket. She gave me back the change and I left a tip. Soon I was sprinting back towards my friends on the celadon field. Amy was sitting by a tree bobbing her head back and forth. She then began to sing the following melody:
HYPERRRRRRRRRRRR
Hyper in the morning
Hyper in the evening
Hyper at super time
When hyper's in your spirit
you can be hyper anytime.
Then she broke into hysterical laughter. "Amy", I announced, "What in the whole world could you possibly be doing?".
"These trials, Beauty vs. Talent is the model world."
Alisa Lynn Hight
!WARNING! Some of the items in this fanfic state that the Poke'mon world is real and Poke'mon inhabitants do exist. Do not get silly ideas into your heads because than parents WILL SUE ME. Also I am aware that some of my parts are shorter or longer than others but that's just because that was the end of a period of time at school or home or my work. I am glad we had this little talk. Thanx, gymgurlerika.
Chapter 1: How It All Started
*****The truth*****
It was a optimistic summer day. There was a class going on a filed trip p to a lake, or shall I say a camping trip. 5 girls were walking out on the sight of that lake. The gentle ripples in the skin of the water were rushing now more often as people catapulted into the waters edge while others skipped stones. Well anyway back to the 5 girls. There was a shabby looking one, a long mahogany haired one, two twins, and a red haired one. They were sauntering towards a small trail that led to the end of the lake where there was a petite ebony sign quoting, "Stay Out Private Property". Suddenly a 6th girl materialized out of no where and hollered at the Mahogany haired girl, "Rosie! C'mon lets go play". Rosie turned to the others "I gotta go se Natasha so you guys wait". Rosie dashed off with Natasha and began to play in the water, "Dawn" voiced the shabby looking one to the red head, " There's something I have to tell you." They set off down the path to find the perfect place to say the message that had been concealed so long. A dwarfish boy and his friend (who by the way was blonde) were pitching rocks down a side of a ridge. "You guys", said the twins to the two pals, "are so weird". They only looked at us and laughed harder than before. I have to hand it to us, we aren't exactly normal. We passed them and went up to a boulder, clambered up it, and sat down. "Dawn" said Kristin, "Poke'mon are real".
*****The Dream*****
Swirls pass through the bulky, grey sky. The setting was a small shelter that could be mistaken as a dump. The wind picked up and blew endlessly and cried a loud howl that made the hairs on the back of my head shiver and stand on end. Then the sky began to bawl and let massive lucid tears fall to the ground. Lightning bolts struck out of the sky as if it was angry at someone or something. A creature, Scarlet colored, was crouching at a doorstep. "Leave this place you piece of crap. When I took you in I thought you were worth something. No, You're a worthless piece of crud. Get out!!". Those words, as if c lose but yet so distant, Kept on whirling through my mind. But nothing came as much of a surprise than what happened next. A foot from the owner of the voice kicked at the creature. The aim was true. The creature on the doorstep let out a screeching wail that pierced my brain. I awoke with a start. My head was churning with the thoughts. I got up as to run to the creature but smacked into a oversized cabinet of precious mahogany wood. "CRAP!" I said. I looked at the cabinet, to the floor, And then to my PJ's and realized it was only a dream, or shall I say, A nightmare. The effects of that nightmare on me were to much to think about that night, but I couldn't just forget it. I got up out of my bed and heard Amy snooziling away. I was so jealous I almost wacked her with a pillow but thought better of it. I stepped down of our chair. It squeaked. I looked around panicked, But found Amy still sleeping. I snuck out of the room and heard the familiar sounds of Mom breathing sleepily in her pillow and Dad's Booming snores. I crept into the kitchen and got a glass and some chocolate milk. I was used to getting up in the dark for chocolate milk, for I had had the same dream more times than this but I had never had the finishing touches of it for I never hit the cabinet before. I finished drinking and sleepily turned to the clock. 2:22 it read. Crap. 3 hours and 24 minutes before mom's alarm will go off and we'll have to get up for school. I slunk into bed not even caring if Mom OR Dad OR Amy woke up, I just wanted to sleep peacefully. And so I did. But was it a dream?
******Scarlet******
"Rise and shine sleeping beauties". Mom came in and turned on our light. "Mom!!!!!", I groaned, "It's bad enough you have to wake us up at this hour but PLEASE don't use your stupid remarks like "Sleeping beauties" and "sleepy heads" PLEASE I beg you". "O.K." said mom quietly and left the room. It was the start of another day. I got up out of my bed, slouched to the closet, and got dressed. I had just got into the bathroom and started putting on my make-up when mom said in her bright and cheerful tone, "Amy and Alisa! I'm going out the door!!!!". I nearly ate my lip gloss stick. Amy spat out her coco puffs. "WHAT!!!!!" we said in unison. I fumbled all my make up into a bag and poured myself a small bowl of coco puffs leaving a trail of it out on the floor and rushed to get my
back-pak. I made it out the door just in time as mom started up the engine of the car. Amy was in the car glued to her gameboy , As usual. I had just settled down to take a ride when I saw something gallop towards the end of the street. It was holding something in its mouth that looked oddly like a piece of cardboard stuck to a stick by a really messy tape job. But as fast as it appeared I blinked and it was gone. I tried to rid it from my mind witch wasn't to hard because at that exact moment I heard a loud screeching of a cat. So did the rest of the crew in the car. We looked up to see Jazzy ,Our cat, clung to the car roof. " Did you guys leave the front seat window open again?" said mom unlatching Jazzy from her roof. Oops. "I guess we did."
For the rest of the ride to school we got the "how-many times-have-I-told-you-not-to-leave-the-front-seat-window-open-lecture" again. We got into Mom's
pre-kindergarten classroom and took down the chairs anxious to get to our own class. When at last all the chairs were down and up against the table we kissed our mom Good-Bye and marched out the door. The first thing I saw was Katlin Wolf, kind of a loner in our school. As usual, Only Linda's, Our teacher, door was open wide. I turned to the right to see Lew Chapmen on his classroom ramp. "Sup!!" I called to him. He took his eyes off the playground and turned my direction. Then he smiled shyly back and waved. That meant that Dawn Chapmen, One of my Best friends was here unless she was sick. " Is Dawn here?" I asked. "Yes" he answered back. "Thanx with an x!" I called before I slid off my mom's ramp. "Sup!" said a soothing voice from my right. I knew this voice so well I could identify it without even looking at his face. "Sean!" I ran over to him. We walked to the classroom together talking about stuffins and junk you know, stuff. When we got in I looked around and felt at home again. Ahead of me were three tables all the same dark chestnut with many occupants by them doing homework or stuff while sitting on blue plastic chairs (that might I add are the most annoying chairs I know). In the back was Linda's desk. To my left was another table but it had 4 computers which one was occupied by Linda and another by Dylan Davis, A very smartalecky boy in our class. Sean went over to Dylan and started talking to him about more stuff. I went over to my table in the back and took down my chair. Just as I had sat down in came another one of my best buds accompanied by Amy, Kristin Rodriguez. "Kristin! Yeah you're here!". We sat down at her spot and began talking about our favorite subject, Poke'mon. We were jabble-gabbling away when in came one of my other friends. "Dawn. Where were you?". I went over to her and hugged her. "I was buying my lunch ticket", she said. " You two should get married". Dylan was glowing and laughing with his bud, Dorian Askew, who had just walked in on time to see me and Dawn hug. At this both Sean and I jumped up and began to move towards him. He retreated. " If you have a death wish, I suggest you say it now before you die". I said through my gritted teeth. "Yeah!" Sean had come closer to Dylan and putting his hand that was not in a tightly clenched fist on my shoulder. Linda sensed trouble and said hastily, "BREAK IT UP!". That ended that fight. "Now", she continued, "It is time to get your A.R. stuff (Accelerated Reader ;-} ) on your table and come to circle. So the people who were here got out their books and A.R. account folders and sat in a big circle. Linda went over to one of the computers and opened up the attendance program.
"Adam"
"Here"
"Alizah"
"what oh, here"
"Brandon---- no Brandon?"
"Brittany"
"Here"
"Dawn"
"Here"
"Analisa"
"Here"
"Alisa"
"Here"
"Amy"
"Present"
"Allie"
"Here"
"Dorian"
"Here"
"Dylan"
"Here"
"Sean"
"Re-Elected"
"Kristin"
"What? "
"Dylan"
"Here"
"Gracie"
"Here"
"Joss—No Joss?"
There was a soft hush of cheers.
"Julie"
"Here"
"Skye"
"Here"
"Steven"
"Sup"
"Tristan"
"Here"
"Wendi"
"Here"
"Weston"
"Here"
"And Rosie"
"Here, well sort of".
Linda got up from her seat and sat down in the circle. "So", she said, "Alisa wants to share". I suddenly removed myself from the chat with my friends about a party at Kristin's house and started my story.
The Horse And The Stranger
"O.K. so I was riding with my mom in the car on her way to a hair appointment at Blondies the hair place and I saw a horse and a boy sitting on the side of a street. There were kids like surrounding the boy and his horse". As I said this at least 6 people put up their hands. "Ask questions later" said Linda in her tone of voice that meant settle down. "So anyway", I continued, " I asked mom if I could go see the horse and um.. She said O.K. so I went over to the horse. All the kids had gone so Amy and I went over to the boy. As we went over to him he got up quickly and bowed. As he did this he said, " I am glad to see you Erika, Sabrina". This surprised us and we stepped back the horse however was behind us. We turned around and began to pet it. As I turned back around the boy was gone." The class exchanged some puzzled looks and then turned back to me. "But in his place was a note. I read it to myself." I took out a crumpled piece of paper the size of a medium sized sticker and read it aloud:
"Dear Erika,
I am glad to have
met you in this life.
But I will not see
you for a long period
of time. Please
take this horse
(Ponyta) with
you as a gift.
Thank you,
Lt. Surge.
Lots of people didn't know what the heck I was talking about, but Rosie and Dawn gasped. Kristin nearly fainted. But after all the fainting and confusion practically everybody raised hands. But soon the raise-your-hand concept was forgotten:
"Do you know who the boy was?"
"What did you call the horse?"
"What did the boy look like?"
"Was he cute?"
"What color is the horse"
"What does the note look like"
"What kind of handwriting does he have?"
"Did you check for the fingerprints on the paper?"
"Were you scared?"
Linda now looked like she was going to explode with anger. "5........4.......3.........2........1......". Everyone shut up. " Now I think its time for check-in. She picked up her name stick bucket which was full of popsicle sticks with our names on them. "Steven". He took in a breath and said, "I'm fine and I want it to go......... that way". He pointed to the left which meant it was Weston's turn.
"I'm coo"
"Same" said Brandon.
"I'm Hyper" said Wendi.
"Same" Said Julie.
"Same" said Analisa.
"Um... I am, like, Tired because my brother woke me up last night" said Gracie.
"I am SOOOOOO hyped" I said.
"Same" said Rosie.
"Same" said Amy.
"I am weird" said Dawn. "Interesting" said Linda. "Oh You just now noticed?" said Dylan. Dawn and I shot him a nasty look. "Dylan time out". Said Linda
"I am like very hyper and stuffins" said Kristin
After a long time in witch mostly Sean explained what he did on his weekend (no offense Sean) Linda said, "now it's time for A.R. go to your seats".
*****The Obscure book*****
I got up from my spot on the floor and went to my seat. "Oops I forgot my A.R. book I guess I'll have to choose from the rack". I went over to the rack and looked at the shelf. But the thing that cunfuzled me was that in the middle of the rack was a poke'mon book. "That's funny", I thought, "I've never seen this book before". So I picked it up and took it to my seat. I opened it up to see what it was. Suddenly I felt as though I was in a cold zephyr that twisted me around and around. Then I saw the creature, The red thing that was running down our road this morning. It was flashing past me wildly and then it stopped, right in front of me. It looked at me and said, "is she alive?". What? I thought. Then I came to. About half the class including my group of friends were sitting in front of me. "I think she is. She's still breathing".
"what should we do?"
"Should we call her mom at her room?"
"Nah Linda's getting Ann and getting her mom."
I got up and said, "Where's the creature ?". "Well", said Gracie, "If you're talking about Joss, he's absent." I looked around. I was back in the classroom. "That was freaky Alisa",said Kristin. "What happened" I said. "Well you first started doing this twitch thing with your eyes closed"said Weston, "we all thought it was funny and started laughing. Then Linda started to yell at you. She thought you were trying to get attention. And when you didn't react, She came over took one look at you and screamed. She ran out the door and went over to the office. Then you fell over and you woke up." I took a huge breath and got up from off the floor. My head throbbed with pain I had never experienced before. It felt as if someone had shot a bullet through my head. I screamed and collapsed again. The class looked fretted as if they thought I was going to pass out again. I tried to rise again, and this time I had succeeded. All of the sudden the door zipped open and in came four extremely paranoid people. It was Linda , A Blonde haired lady, a, mom, and finally a lady with greyish hair. "It's ok Linda, she came to" Said Amy. Linda let out a sigh of great relief and turned to mom and said, "Audrey she's fine". Mom stopped sobbing . "Mooooommmmm" I said a little sheepishly, "Your embarrassing me". Anne, The Blonde , came up to me and said ," You are sure you're O.K. because I brought Peggy with me". She pointed to the greyish haired lady who waved as if she was asking , "remember me?" as if I went into a coma just then. "Yes", I said reassuringly, "I am fine". "Well", said Linda, after the other visitors left," that's enough A.R. Lets all get our spelling homework and you may open your binders and begin to write the assignments down". There was a rustle of both chairs and paper and the classroom (Compared to A.R.) Was buzzing with chit chat and pencil scribbles. I got up and almost instantly Steven and I collided. "Why don't you watch where your going" I snapped at him. " Hey don't push my button girl", He grunted back. Then we both smiled back at each other. (As unusual as this might seem, Steven sits next to my friends and I sit next to his, So we both switch spots at every possible chance . And We collied every day . I LIKE SEAN NOT STEVEN .Get it, got it, GOOD) Steven's spot is next to Amy and Dorian. Across from Amy was Dawn. I got up to the line to get homework. Dorian was in front of me and Dawn was behind. Dorian spun around so quick suddenly My hair flew back. "Did you hear?' he asked. "About what?"
"About Joss?'
"Not that I want to know but no".
"Joss Broke his arm trying to impress Wendi"
"HA that'll teach him to flirt ".
I got my homework and sat down. I slipped the papers into my binder and began to talk with Dawn. "So when are we having the party?" I asked"tomorrow"said Dawn," kind of a end of the school year party". Just then Dorian sat down."what r u guys talkin' 'bout?". "Nothing" I said trying to think of a better cover of the party. We all wrote down the assignments and Linda announced that it was time for recess."Finally" I said, "That took FOREVER". My group and I went outside and began to walk around the field. I told my friends about the dream and the scarlet creature. "Alisa"said Kristin" I really hope you find out what that thing is". Abruptly a flash of silver light flew across the sky. Kristin pointed this out as it did several laps around a velvety cloud. We all looked up and heard it utter the word "Mew". Kristin and I both looked at each other. This was weird.
*****Math*****
A abrupt whistle echoed through the atmosphere twice. "Oh uh" I said "Time for math". We rushed to our classroom which was very difficult given the fact that every charter student was racing to their classroom. We stood in a line for what seemed like forever when finally our teacher materialized from the other end of the office."O.K." she said and pointed to the inside of the death hole classroom. I went to my desk, got my stuff out looking longingly at the door for any chance of fleeing, but reluctantly sat down at Amy's table. I was accompanied by Dorian, Amy, Dawn, and Natasha. Linda got up to the front of the class looking completely like she'd do anything but teach math (who wouldn't ) and began putting math equations up on the white board. We all grabbed our mini white boards and began to write down the answers. After about thirty questions (including 30x66) we all picked up our math books ( more reluctantly than before) and began to work in them. " I am SOOOOO glad that this is the last day of school",complained Dorian, "I don't know how much more math I can take!"
"Oh my god",I said, "Today is the LAST DAY OF SCHOOL!" I totally forgot that today was the last day of school. "Yeah Alisa ", he said in a some what :you're stupid" tone. I guess he was right, I wasn't really tuned into the word today ever since I saw the creature. "Well I'm smarter than you" I said to Dorian in a snooty voice. "Well I'm smarter than you times 2" he retorted.
"I'm smarter than you times 3"
"I'm smarter than you times 4"
At this point the whole class was looking at us......... including Linda. " I suggest you two get started on your math times 5" Even I laughed. But by the critical look on Linda's face everybody just shut up. She meant business. But Dorians' and my spat wasn't over. He began to scribble away on his white board. Than seconds later he lifted it up to show me the words "I'm smarter than you times 100". Suddenly we were both scribbling away on our white boards. We wrote words like "I'm smarter than you times 1,000, 100,000, 10,000,000, And it even got up to (by Dorian) 10,000,000,000,000,001 (that's ten zillion and one just to let you know) (;}). By this time I thought of a saying that would make him stop. I wrote down overemphasizing the white board pen, "I know what you did last night", I flipped it over and revealed it to Dorian. He got his face all screwed up and then began to write on his board. He than flipped his board over to reveal these words, "I know what you ate last Tuesday". I couldn't help it, I laughed. " Alisa, go sit at this table" she said madly and pointed to the table with Allie and Chelsea sitting at it. "Who cares?" I thought. "Number 1, Allie and Chelsea our my friends, plus it was worth it". Now Dorian was in hysterics because I had to move. "Dorian", Linda said pointing to another table with the only occupant, Joss, "Go sit here". Now it was my turn to beam. I sat down and got situated at my new table. "O.K. what's the first question................................ 3459 divided by 6. I took advantage of my uncovered calculator and worked out the problem. After all, it didn't say no calculators on the paper. The little numbers appeared on the screen reading 576.3 so I put that down on my paper. Suddenly an unidentified object came flying through the air and landed on my head. It was a note. "Alisa would you like to share that with the class?" said Linda in a amused tone. I glanced around the room and quickly got up in front of the class. Dorian, who was laughing, stopped abruptly and had this nervous twitch thing goin' on.
I unwrinkled the paper and read it nervously aloud"Alisa-" I said,"how's the view way over there, ha ha . Dorian." I laughed out loud with class. But I stopped at the look on Dorians face. It was the look of embarrassment and sadness mixed in one. I couldn't help it, I felt truly sorry for him. I wasn't the only one either. All of my friends who were in this math class had a look of sympathy on their faces. We were probably the only ones who felt sorry for him because we get laughed at every day and this was new for Dorian. Then he looked up at me, so I turned around so that he wouldn't see my face. "Dorian", said Linda, "go sit outside". Dorian sulkily went outside. I sat back down at my seat. There was a face pressed against the window, but I didn't look at it because I knew Dorian would be looking at me with hatred. So I got back to my math problems. And like all my friends, I did it silently
"O.K.", said Linda with a sigh of relief, "Math times over". There was a roaring cheer from the students of Linda's class and soon students were pouring out on to the playground, the field and the black top. I was walking towards the field. I suddenly had a weird perception someone was following me. I turned around sharply. But there was no one there. At least that was my first impression. But as I began to walk again someone behind me said, "Hey Alisa". "What" I said. I knew who this was now. It was Iden. Iden is a very squat kid who in had dyed his hair a blonde color. "Do you know where your sister is". This is a funny question I thought "She's on the playground with Dawn". "Thanks". He called back. But peace and quiet did not prevail. "Alisa"
"What!" I said in a rather annoyed voice.
Allie, who had been the one speaking, almost immediately cowered back words as if I was going to strike at her. "Oh sorry". I said quickly. "Alisa", she repeated, "I was wondering would you"-
"would I like to go to the Pastie shop with you"
She quickly nodded her head. "Well you're in luck", I said, "cause' that's just where I'm going'". So we both began to walk to the Pastie shop. The shop was right across our schools field. Some kids went there to get lunch (namely me and some popular kids). Allie and I began to race to see who was the fastest. I won, but just by a hair. I opened the door for Allie and we both walked inside. The Pastie shop is a medium sized shop. It has a couple of tables and chairs and a bunch of Irish banners hanging up on the walls. There was a large refrigerator filled with many drinks and other things like brownies and turnovers. There was also a basket full of chips of all sorts. Sitting next to the counter were three jars of candy. 1 jar had small candies that were 5 cents each, a medium sized jar that held medium sized candy in it that were 10 cents each, and the last one had bigger candy that was 25 cents each. Sitting up on the counter was a big plastic container with beef jerky inside. I went over to the refrigerator and pulled out a sprite can. I next got in line while pulling out several pieces of bubble gum from the 5 cent jar. 'What would you like?" said the lady at the counter. "I would like a-" "let me guess", said the lady, "chicken"."you know me very well don't you?" We both laughed. The lady behind the counter went to the fridge (behind the counter) and got out a pastie. She stuck it in the oven and it began to cook. She came back to the counter and began to add up the total of my items. "GOSH", she said, "you must like bubble gum". I guess she had a point. I counted to see how many I had. 20 pieces."2.50" she said. I pulled out a 5 from my pocket. She gave me back the change and I left a tip. Soon I was sprinting back towards my friends on the celadon field. Amy was sitting by a tree bobbing her head back and forth. She then began to sing the following melody:
HYPERRRRRRRRRRRR
Hyper in the morning
Hyper in the evening
Hyper at super time
When hyper's in your spirit
you can be hyper anytime.
Then she broke into hysterical laughter. "Amy", I announced, "What in the whole world could you possibly be doing?".