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I never felt so much hatred in my entire life. I hated the baby because she took my part of the family. Poor, poor me. I was tired and hungry.
" Mom," I asked sweetly, "May I have something to eat? Can Dad go get some fish for dinner? Please?"
"Go get your own food, Hope. We can't," Mom said. She was just sitting on the couch, reading a book. My father was snoozing away. I decided that I was going to get my own food anyway. I got my food and got home. I whistled pleasently. I ate my fish and got up and went to my room.
"Go get us food, Hope." Daddy said.
"Go get your own food." I answered. "No love." I said under my breath.I went to my room and scowled. I curled up under my warm sheets and frowned. I silently fell asleep unhappy.
THE END

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I was still mad at the baby. Why did Holly the princess come into the world? Why? It didn't seem fair for my family to love her more. Didn't they have enough love to go around? I couldn't stand it. I had to do something about Holly. There was nothing to it. Operation Sell The Baby. Easy, peasy. Just as I was about to sell  Holly, Mom came outside as someone was talking to me about keeping the baby.
"Really?" I said, "That would be amazing,"
"What's amazing?" my mom asked happily.
"This young dolphin said I could have this baby." the old dolphin said. "I am so excited."
"Hope," Mom said sternly. "Go to your room," I stomped off unhappy.

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As I got a rough sack, I hummed a happy tune. I was going to kill the baby! Hooray! I was going to be super happy. "NO MORE BABY!!!" I chanted. My mom came in as I was chanting that.
"What in the world?" she asked. "No more baby?"
"I don't like that baby." I said. "You can't make me. She has ruined my entire life. In my time that we have the baby, I have gotten NO attention." I cried. Then something crazy happened. My mother cried.

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I  kept my anger to myself and didn't tell my mother. Why should I? They didn't care. That was a fact. Or, at least to me it was. Probably it wasn't a fact in real life. I was pretty mad. My blue head was turning red with anger. All I did was write it all in my diary. Hey! I forgot! You are my diary. Silly me! So I swam back to my room. I am a dolphin you know. All I knew was I couldn't trust my dolphin parents. I never could.

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"What?" I asked. "You want me to take care of the calf?" I asked coldly. "No way," I said. "You can, but I can't" I was really mad. Maybe just maybe I could go with my parents.
"My Princess, please take care of the baby while we are gone. Please." Daddy said.
"No," I answered. "I am not taking care of the baby. You are being rude and I will not." My voice was cracking, and my head hurt.
"Dear," my mother said, "Do you feel alright?" I nodded nicely and it looked like I was fine. I was smiling and  my head was shining.
"Do I have to take care of the baby?"
"Yes," Mom said. I supposed I could, for a while.

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"Sure, Mom." I answered.
'' Thank you," Mom said. Her smile shone as bright as the sun. I took her fin and said, "I love you Mom." I smiled as spoke. I took the baby in my fins and rocked her back and fourth. Then the calf burst into giggly laughter. I stayed right where I was and looked at the baby, shocked. Then, I laughed so hard that I cried. The baby laughed as well. I stopped laughing and smiled at the baby.
"Bye!" Mom and Dad called loudly.
"Bye!" I shouted back. "Oops," I whispered, looking at the baby. But instead, she just laughed. I giggled as I said, "We should name you Holly,"

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" I Mom cried. "Please come." I was sobbing a whole bunch, my nose was red and I was lying on the floor.
"Yes," my mother said. Now both my parents were looking at me, worried. "What is it?" she asked.
I sniffled then said, "I want to be loved too."
"Hope, you are loved." my father said.
"I am not loved any more." I said sadly. "You love the baby more." I said in my sad voice.
"We don't love Holly more than you." Daddy said.
"Who is Holly?"
"Your baby sister." Dad said.
"Thank you for telling us your feelings, Hope." My mother said. "We love you too." But I knew they didn't.

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Julie looked at me and Mr. Honda and then turned back to the charging shark. They were a long distance apart but Julie did not move. She looked so scared to know she was going to be shark meat.
"Julie," I whispered quietly, "Are you going to move?" She looked at me then moved back to Elena. Elena was really close. Mr. Honda got in the way of the attack  but the shark found a way to get to Julie. Her big head bumped Mr. Honda out of the way and used her sharp white teeth to snatch Julie's fin." Aaaaa" screamed Julie. Then...... she fell to the bottom of the school, dead. Blood was everywhere. I screamed. What just happened?

THE END

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I went flying into my classroom on Monday. I dashed to Mr. Honda. I quietly whispered  something  to him. He gasped in amazement. Clearly, he did not seem to upset like other teachers would. He smiled as walked away. I grinned and  turned away and went back to work.
"Today we are learning how to write letters." he explained. "We will be writing letters to someone in the class and if you get a letter give it to me." I wrote a letter to Mr. Honda telling him about the calf. This is what it said,
Dear Mr. Honda,
I have a new calf! I was so excited to have one, I almost could not breath when I heard about it!
Love,
Hope Dolphin

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As I bolted into class, I said, " You'll never guess!" My cheeks were rosy and I was excited. Nobody seemed interested except Julie. " What is it?" she asked  happily. I made my way to the front of the classroom. " My mother gave birth to a calf! A girl calf!" My cheeks flushed with happiness as I spoke. " Great!" my teacher, Mr. Honda spoke cheerfully. Elena, who also just had baby sister, groaned.
"I hate baby calves."  she said, unpleasently.

" Yo, Elena," Mr. Honda said, " Come here." Elena knew she was in trouble , so she came. Then she burst out. "Haha!" She shouted with her big bloody mouth. "You stinkers  thought that I was dolphin! For I am Enock the horrible shark's little horrid sister. You will all die! Hahahahah!" Elena shook her big scaly head. She charged for Julie and then.....

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I ran angrily out of the house to go tell Julie, my best friend. I spilled out the story as I came close to her house. Julie was just as angry as I was. She cried with me. I told her everything about my new calf. I told her about the calf taking my spot in my family.
" I am so sorry." she told me.
" I know you are." I sobbed. We  suddenly heard a terribly loud shreik come from my house. I groaned.
"The baby,"  I said, rolling my eyes.Julie looked at me and whistled really loudly. It peirced my poor ear drums and nobody seemed to care. "Stop it!" I said. Then more polite and quiet I said, "Please?"
"OK," she said.  "I am sorry," Julie whispered.

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I stomped out of the room and plopped back down on my bed. I picked up my book , but could not concentrate . I was to angry!! I sat straight and promised myself,  you will never like this baby ever. It's summer. I thought, I should happy. Sadly, I'm not. I unhappily  went back to work and read. Mom was so mean to not tell me  about the calf. Tears swelled up in my eyes. Uncomfortably, I lay in my bed, crying. My father came in and hugged me . I turned away. I was angry and nobody cared. Day after day, nobody talked to me. I didn't think anybody knew my feelings or if I wanted them to.

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I excitedly swam back to my room and wrote it down in my diary. In the silence of the room, I danced and listened to my favorite song. I swam gorgeously in my pink  walled room. The way I learned how to dance was swimming up as you were twirling. "Hope," Mom came in carrying the baby. "Please come watch the baby while your father and I are gone." I stopped swimming. I stared at my mother like she was crazy, then I said.....

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I dashed out of the house and swam  to go tell my best friend, Julie. I was close to her house when l shouted, " Julie! Guess what! I have a baby sister!" Julie opened her door and swam over to me.
"What?!"  she asked. "Really?"
I laughed and sang my favorite song. Julie sang too. She knew I was happy. I laughed and did our secret hand shake.
"Hey," she said, "Let me do it too." So that time we did it together. Was I going to tell Mr. Honda or tellthe whole class?

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I squealed in delight. " Is it a girl?" I asked.
"Yes"  Mama  whispered.  Yay!! I had  a new calf sister! I was so so excited! In the mist of my happiness ,the baby cried. I laughed silly. This was going to fun. I was going to write it all in my new blog I was making.
" Mom," I asked quietly, " Can I use the computer?" I made my blog and took tons of pictures of the little dolphin.I was as happy as the sun shinning bright.  Should I tell or keep quiet?

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"I don't want a baby sister !" I cried. "You never told me!"  Tears of anger rolled down my cheeks. "She's so ugly! I won't take care of her! She  won't be my sister!" My parents looked at me in dismay. I bolted out of the room. I stormed to the computer without asking. I was too angry to ask. I could barely speak. I wrote it all  down, on Young Dolphin Top Secret. Not that it was any secret. I didn't know whether to go back and read or go tell.

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Once there was a young, spunky dolphin, named Hope. That's me. You should know some things about my kind. Baby dolphins are called calves. Females are called cows. Males are called bulls. Plus, I am nine years old. I was in my room, at home, I was just minding my own business, when suddenly, I heard an unfamiliar voice scream.I was shocked.Nobody from our town except my family and I were in my house. The scream was from my parents room.
I swam out the room I was in and into my parent's room. Right there in front of my eyes I saw a calf. A CALF!!
"Meet your new baby sister, Holly." my mother said. I didn't know what to think. I was so surprised that I didn't know what to do or say. So I just stared. I didn't know whether I was happy or not.

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Holly

Julie

Enock- SHARK!!!

Kristen- Hope's mother

Christapher-Hope's father

Mr. Honda- Hope's teacher

Elena- shark

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Hope

9 years

4 feet

spunky

brave

funny

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1975

the ocean

summer