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I spotted him before he spotted me. His blonde hair and blue eyes shined bright in the darkness of the night. His Mariner’s jersey was bright white, I couldn’t take my eyes off him. I was like a moth to a flame. The haunted house had a line out front, mainly teenagers. The nerves started bubbling over and the voice in my head yapped furiously. My mom doesn’t know I’m here, I’m a liar, my dad will be so disappointed, I’m actually afraid of haunted houses, will Dakota even glad I’m here? I knew that lying was wrong, but right now being the perfect older sister, perfect daughter, perfect truthful human… was not my priority. “Aly, I am so glad you came!” Dakota said as he approached us. This made my nerves twist in a good way. We lined up and entered the haunted house. Ryan first, then Dakota, then me and then Maddie bringing up the back. My eyes were attempting to adjust to the lack of light and my ears were ringing with the screams of people who went before us. A tiny voice spoke to us, “Where is my mommy? Have you seen my mommy?” She asked through little sobs. We kept walking, she was at the end of a hall, sitting in a little chair, with her back to us. In a split second, she turned around and jumped at us. “Help me find my mommy!!!” She wailed. Her face was mangled, covered in blood and gore, the stands of her greasy hair stuck to her mutated grin. I opened my mouth to scream but nothing came out. As if on instinct, Dakota reached for my hand. My grip could have killed a small animal, but he didn’t seem to mind.

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I remember just sinking under water, I honestly thought I was going to die, I hit the floor, now I was laying on the pool floor I did not know whether I was dead I could not breath or speak I tried to scream out, but I had no oxygen, but I tried to open my eyes one last time, I looked up and saw blue water my eyes slightly burning, then a hand came out of nowhere I did not know whose hand, but I saw a hand, I tried to grab the hand and it tried to grab for mines; I grabbed her hand it was Violette’s hand.

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I was eating cabbage when I heard splashes of water in my Room, I walked in to see my siblings next to Globs Container. He was flopping for his life. He had no room to swim “it was not my fault” my siblings argued, and he was so fat I could not tell if he was a fish or a pufferfish.   siblings would get punished but no, instead they were punished with WORDS. When I started to put glob into the container, Glob sank 50% in the water and shifted all the way back up, I do not know how my siblings pulled that off because usually when Glob was full, he would never eat another petal from the can. I saw cuts on Globs fins and gills. But when I pulled him out, he was not moving like he was dead gone. Glob had been bleeding and soon the clear water as I know was red, Glob would be looking like one of those corpses you would see in the walking dead. And there I realized they killed an expensive pet fish, so later that night I warmed up his pillow with a bed heater and there I was in my comfortable cold pillow while he was having a rough night twisting and tossing on their soft warm pillows.

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It was finally lunchtime! My “halfway done” mark of the school day, a great relief of stress as I greatly loved eating my dad’s cooking, so I sat, and talked to my friend, in the middle of the conversation, one of my other best friends butted in, so all of us started talking about a very loved and common subject for kindergarteners. Power rangers. I was the nerdiest of the three although at the time I did not have glasses, or overly large frontal teeth. Anyways, moving back to the subject, we were all talking about Power Rangers, and I bragged about how I was farthest into the new season/show, Arthur, (my best friend who butted in) took this as a friendly yet competitive challenge, so he challenged me to a “Whoever wins is the brainiest of the group” smarts competition, and then it came to an opinion based question, which is the best and tastiest meat. Of course, I won, but at a cost, I said “NO, THE TASTIEST MEAT IS BACON!!!!! ARE YOU DUMBBB?!?!?!!”. At the time due to us being kindergarteners, this was very, very, very offensive, rude, and personal. Arthur was done putting up with my stupidity, he had finally said we should no longer be friends, we both cried because we loved hanging out and talking, roleplaying with Legos and Magnet tiles. We then started yelling and arguing with each other in tears. Until I mentioned the tiny arm he was born with and hid with a realistic plastic arm, that was when it turned personal, he nearly mentioned and embarrassed me about my crush on Jasmine, who was a Steelers fan and not a 49’s fan, in kindergarten, liking different teams was very bad and would ruin your school reputation, it’d be even worse if you were on different teams and liked someone else on a different team. He was angry and going to call this out, but not before a teacher came and sent us to the principal’s office, we talked it out and stayed best friends, it was a goofy thing you’d only see in cartoons, hating each other one second, then turning over a new leaf the next. Inside, I thought, “Are arguments I participate in really this petty or ridiculous? It’s about time my idiot self, had learned to just accept things the way they are sometimes”.

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We finally left the house property and started walking. We were chatting a lot and started running to get to my house faster. It got dark after a couple of minutes and now all the streetlights were on. It lit up the entire road and we could see every car parked on the road. Several cars passed by us, and we didn't really think much about it except this one car. A grey car pulled up to the driveway and got out. We thought it was normal, but I had a gut feeling that something was going to happen. The random person popped open his trunk and took a sharp looking item like a knife and started walking towards us. I got scared and started running and my friends also starting to run after me since they were scared too. “Guys, who is THAT?..” I asked “I don't know. Bro, he looked like a kidnapper.” “For real.” We kept talking while running as he was still coming, and it scared me a lot. After a while, we finally get to my house scared about what just happened. I was panicking and trying to breathe. “What was going on just a second ago?!?” I ask in a loud voice, “I don’t know. That random dude looked scary. He even started walking towards us like what the heck.” Jayden says. At this point, I regret ever walking in the dark. There was a dude coming at us when we least expect it and no ones outside to save us. We all start looking at each other with silence until we all started to laugh. After we stopped laughing, all 3 of us turned on our phones and walked to my room. We got on my bed and started playing ROBLOX. The game distracted us so much that we just forgot about the entire thing and started laughing because we were bad at playing a game. When we were playing, we heard a knock at the door. We all went silent and got scared. “Um, what the hell was that?” I ask, “What If it’s just your mom?” Grey says. “Oh.” I respond. We all walk with each other to go to the door and peak through it. “Thank god its just my mom.” I open the door and my mom walks in, “What took you so long??” My mom asked. “I was scared.” I replied, “Okay.” My mom says. Me and my friends go back to my room and then started playing ROBLOX again and we drifted off and forgot everything.

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Another boring day in the library. I work on my homework. It took about 2 hours to finish, and my hand was hurting. After I finished my homework, I thought I could get a book to read. “Hmm.... What should I read.” I thought to myself. I walked into a random section, and it was the Harry Potter section. I saw all 7 of the harry potters lined up on the shelf. It is rare to have all 7 harry potters lined up on the shelf, usually, people would take them if it were there. I wanted to read it, but I saw how big one of the books was and thought to myself “Am I even going to finish this, I only got a month to read it.” I saw one of the librarians and asked her “Hi, I am wondering should I read this book. Would you recommend it?” “Of course and look like you are pretty lucky today to have all 7 harry potters.” She said with a smile but looked creepy. “Uh sure, I’ll read it.” I said and walked back to the harry potter section. I got the first book and checked it out. “You got harry potter. an exciting book!” The check out person said. “Uh yes. Really exiting book” I said then I left.

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I decided to speak up and be brave for myself because I did not want it to end like that for me. Also, I need to be brave for myself, so I said, “please leave us alone because we did not do anything to you” and I was hoping so much that he would leave us alone. After few days I kept thinking why I said that why did not fight or do something better. So, afterwards he replied “ok” I felt the best moment of my life because that happened, and I started thinking of life again and the fact that I helped myself out and I was not injured.

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A week later, we had gone back to the beach and met up with the kids from before. Together we set up the volleyball net and more and more people started to gather. And by the end of the day there were a lot of people. This day was so much fun for everybody. My sister thought it was a bad decision to buy this. But we had so much fun this night it was worth it, and we use it more and more in the future.

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When the ride was over, we all got food because we were hungry, I got a burger and fries like everyone else did. After we ate, we did zombie paint ball for some reason I shot myself with one of the paint ball guns It hurt a lot It at the same time they were playing loud music and the microphone that they were using was much louder and I thought that I was going to go death. I hit most of the targets because my aim was very bad at the time. When it was time to leave, we played a game of tag before we left all older kids targeted me because they thought I was slow, but little did they know I was faster than most of them the shock on their faces when found out that I was actually fast and was even fast them some of them. When they found out that I was faster than them that made me think are they slowing down for me or am I faster than them? One of the older kids said to my older cousin “How is your cousin fast I thought you said that he was slower than us?!?!” My older cousin responded with “ I don’t know "The game was easy for me because I was fast when we left, I tagged one of my older cousins then ran to my car as fast as I could and got away because I locked it the moment I got into the car.

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. I was only in 2nd grade and never would have imagined getting a pet, especially a dog. Now I was not a cat person nor a dog person, but I could never have imagined getting a dog. But there are many shocking surprises, but today there was such a shocking surprise that I was flabbergasted. My parents and sister have been out of the home making me home alone for the day. I did not suspect anything would happen today as I was playing on my computer and then the doorbell rang. I came up to open it. I thought it was mail or something, but when I opened it, I was greeted by my mom and sister. They were carrying something strange that I could not see what exactly it was. But it has black fur along with white fur. But then the eyes stared at me and the sudden realization hit me it was a dog. This was unexpected as we were currently moving out to another location so getting a dog while such a big event is happening was something I could not have guessed in a million years.

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I froze. I saw My brother with widened eyes and shaky, trembling hands. I had to step forward to get a closer look, there was blood gushing out of Princeton’s hands and onto the apples, soaking them with my brother’s gore. I gagged, unused to seeing blood at such a young age. my brother fixed his gaze up to me. His eyes wide as all that shock disappeared in his body, replacing it with pain. He shrieked, sobbing and weeping as I ran to my mom “Princeton is dying! - Princeton is dying!!” my mind thought as I felt tears well up in my eyes, though I always hated my brother. I didn’t want him to die. I was met with my mom already sprinting to the kitchen, I watched her swoop by without a word. A few very short minutes passed as I saw her running to the bathroom with my brother still absolutely bawling his eyes out, I couldn’t blame him, Afterall his finger was nearly off his hand. I crept to the bathroom as I saw the rushing water hitting and turning crimson, my mom turned to me, her eyes wild “GO GET BANDAGES!” she screamed with such force it could blow me away... without a word I ran to her room and threw open the drawer filled with health supplies as I returned to the bathroom, handing my mom the med kit as she opened it quickly. “well- is Princeton going to live?” I stammered, my words scrambling.

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The first knock was soft and quiet, gentle even but after that it just got louder and louder. “Do you know who that is.” I asked my mom she answered with the smallest shake of her head. I did not know such a small movement could make me feel so scared. Then we heard the talking that made me freak out. It took so much restraint to not scream because they are crazy talking to themselves like that. They started to try to look inside the top of the door through the glass. We hopped to the back of the couch so they couldn't see us. “So now what do we do?” I ask my mom “We are going to run to the master bedroom.” I nod too scared to speak. The dogs are unfazed, Raffles is looking at us like we are crazy, and Moose is still sleeping. We ran to the bedroom it felt like it was a million miles away. I thought we would not make it in time.

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“We finally graduated elementary school” my friend Austin said! I thought I was going to be so sad or even cry during graduation. But I never did! I told my friend Austin we should get back inside and play chess or other board games. So, we ran back to the board games room to play chess. We played chess. “I don’t want to go home!” I said to my friend. The teacher said it was time for the last big game on the field. The PE teacher told us the field is ready, and we can play capture the flag in the big game. I thought it would be fun, but we got that one positive and strong and fast friend, so we basically lost capture the flag. After that we played the ultimate football, and we won! Well, our parents said we had to go home because it was almost time for school to end and my parents had work. So, we walked home, and I played Fortnite when I got home, and it was fun. Then we had a great summer break.

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It was one of those days where I thought nothing would go wrong, that it would be perfect. This was something I thought every single day as a 6-year-old, but after this day, I would never think that ever again. My mom smiled at me and pointed towards the ice cream truck. "Want to get ice cream?” She asked “Of course!” I enthusiastically replied. The world opened as we neared the ice cream truck, I saw people, kids, and parents, all bunched up to get ice cream. I thought it felt and looked like a fantasy! My mom held my hand as we made our way through the line, my eyes glowed as I looked up to see the menu. The truck towered over me like a mountain. Soon, it was me and my mom's turn to order. “What ice cream would you like to order, dear?” the lady who worked there asked. My mom looked at me, waiting for a reply. I thought for a good moment, staring at the menu, scrambling for the perfect flavor and finally said: “Vanilla please!” The lady began working on my ice cream. I couldn’t help but gasp a bit as she sunk the ice cream scooper into the ice cream, it looked like magic! When she brought the scooper back up, a giant scoop of ice cream was standing there. She sunk the ice cream scooper back in and added the new, smaller scoop to the larger scoop. She put it onto a cone that could barely hold the scoop. The scoop looked as big as my 6-year-old head. I felt determined to finish, put something felt off, I started picturing bad scenarios but brushed them aside because everything was perfect, and I knew it.

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I climbed in and I was terrified when the roller coaster started it was slow and mellow. Then we were in a cave with super creepy animatronics. There were red birds, yellow frogs, and green bears. Then there was the first tiny drop. It got me all wet, I was soaked, and I was freaking out. There were weird scary looking animals from every side it as so scary. I screamed “help” , to my dad my dad was holding me as I kicked my legs to the seat in front of me to stabilize my shaky state there was a sharp right turn and then another then the. It was all too near the roller coaster was tipping then finally we were cutting through the air at 100 miles an hour. Water was soaking me as I found the underlying cause of the drop.

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Once the announcements were over, we got into our teams and began strategizing. Some people would wait under the hoop for any balls that were shot and would catch them to go to the other side and knock their ships and cannons down. Others would throw balls to the other side, some would guard pins/cannons, and some would give balls to the attackers. I want to catch as many balls as possible and attack the other team, I thought, thinking this strategy would help us win the game. “Do you know what to do?” One of our classmates said. “Of course we do!” Some of us responded. We evenly distributed the colorful foam balls to both sides. When the game started, we went to our positions, grabbed balls, and played according to our plan. As the game went on, the gym was scattered with balls across the squeaky floor. Minute by minute, the score would become closer and closer as the game got more intense. We can do this! I encouraged myself. As pins and cannons were being knocked down, the time was ticking down. Kids scoring points, shooting hoops, the scores increased rapidly as the game neared the end.

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It was a bright, sunny, and warm beginning of July, and we were packed for our trip to China. originally thought to myself that hour flight to taking a vacation was going to be boring and not fun.  My dad drove my mom, me, my sister, and my brother to the airport. After a 20-minute drive we were at SeaTac airport. We unloaded our stuff and said bye to my dad. When we were done checking we sat down, bought food to eat, and waited about a few hours to board our plane. After those few hours passed, we hopped onto our plane. We found our seats right away when we were walking on the plane. In I sat on it thought to myself how uncomfortable the seats were when i sat on it. “This is the worst flight Ive been on”, i said to my sister. “The view out here is so cool,” said my sister who had the best seat, the window seat. I also thought how cool it was being on the plane. After a 11-hour flight to Incheon, south Korea which was our first stop and another 3-hour flight to Guangzhou, China later we made it. ‘’finally,’, said my sister who looked very tired and messy. My brother was also tired and didn't have a whole lot of energy. I thought to myself how weird it was to not be in Seattle because I have lived there for almost 10 years. Just then my uncle came to pick us up from the airport. “Hi, how are you doing “, said my mom to my uncle. “I'm doing good,” said my uncle. Even though we didn't have a whole lot of energy,as we can. My siblings and i ran all the way to our uncle's car as quickly as we can. uncle 's car was big, black, and was a minivan. After an hour drive, we made it to our hotel. My siblings and I dashed all the way out of the car as quickly as we can. We made it to our hotel room and my uncle unlocked it. It was shiny, nice, and cleaned very well. We all unpacked our things and decided about who's room is whose. After we were done deciding we went to each of our rooms. I wish i had my own room, but me and my sister and i were sharing one. The room was small, had one bed, and was a bit dusty.

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finally it was dinner time but first I have to do one more thing… INCENSE! My grand parents lit red sticks on fire and put it in front of a god that was sitting there behind the god was some Chinese sentences, the god was on a high platform he was smiling (he has been for decades), in front of the god our dinner was there along with red envelopes, special money specifically for doing incense and red cups with alcohol lined up and a thing that appeared to be a watering can but made for refilling the red cups then it was time to start first my cousin went then my mom then my sister and now me I grabbed the red envelope’s and the special money and bowed a few times I after that I put then down an walked over to the red cups grabbed one and poured it on the floor and refilled each one, then the rest of my family members did it except my cousin.

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“He’s so chill” I said to my mom, while I was rubbing his little head, in my head I thought to myself he’s so Cute, I can't wait for him to wake up so I can hold him safely without waking him up and making him cry, and plus it will be way cuter if he was awake while I was holding him anyways. When I entered the restaurant, I was scanning the whole restaurant trying to find at least 1 person I knew until I saw my aunt   from all the way across the restaurant. I ran over to her and the little 8-year-old me exploded with cuteness. I saw my cousin. This was only my second time seeing him, so I was a bit shy and nervous my shoes made a loud squeak as I stopped myself from crashing in my aunt. I held his hand, and his little hands were wrapped around my finger, at that point I had a cuteness overload. I sat down at the table to eat, when my family arrived the food was already there, so we ate. I finished in 30 minutes while everyone was still eating. I looked over at my cousin and saw him drinking milk, I came up to him and asked if I could feed him. Yes, I could so I did that. After that he slept again. I was on my phone for about 20 minutes and my sister showed me this 2 player minigame app on her iPad so we did that for around 15 minutes. I beat her 17-3.

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The car door swung open revealing a woman who was pretty tall, her hair looked like beach waves with bleached ends and a cheerful expression on her face, then my aunt Helen came out and they both walked up to where most of the family was at. The women spotted me then ran straight towards me. “Oh my god! Grace is that you?!” She pulled me in a tight hug, I swear I almost thought I could not breathe from how tight it was. “Uh...who are you?” I tried to try sounding polite, but I felt like I was acting so rude. “I'm your cousin Sammi remember?” Sammi asked, “uhhhh... no.” I admitted. “Well...that's okay! You’ve grown so much! I remember when you were a little baby!!!” she said with so much energy I swear I saw her as an excited dog wagging its tail. “Cool?” I was so puzzled I could not say anything to the point my mind was completely blank. She let go of me suddenly, “I'm going to go chat with the grownups I'll be back.” Sammi said then started greeting my parents and the rest of the family, I turned to Helen “what was that.” I questioned Helen. She simply shrugged and took a seat nearby me. “So... how are you liking Sammi so far?” Helen asked, trying to strike up a conversation. “Eh... I have no idea how I should be feeling about this...” I replied. “She’s been dying to visit you y’know.” Helen said, “Oh, never knew that.” I spoke.

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And the unthinkable happened I spirant my ankle running to my spot. I was crying because of how much my ankle hurt, so the coach made Felix help me get to the nurse. I thought I would never get hurt in my life but on the way there my leg was hurting climbing up the stairs, I was thinking I would get surgery. When we were close to the nurse's office, I asked Felix "what will happen to me”. Finally, we made it to the nurse I hoped on the bed there sitting, so Felix went back to PE. And I stayed. I was so scared when the nurse came out, I was wondering what would happen, I looked out the window and saw lots of wind. I was so surprised when the nurse said “are you ok where does it hurt” after that happened. She went to her room and sometime later came out with an ace wrap, and she said, “wrap it around the part if your leg that hurts.”

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The next day my sister went upstairs to check on me, considering I have been in my room for a straight day that is a clever idea, but I did not talk to her when she asked how I was, I just turned around    to face away from Her  because I was still mad, and I had every right to be angry at Her for what she did to me and mom, we were both mad, I still remember how she treated me and my mom in the past. Once she walked out the room, I felt like I was free, but then she came back with a new frame 2 hours later and I snatched it from her hand, and I glared up at her and I shouted “leave me alone, stop trying to win me over I'm still mad your literally unbelievable!” I pushed her out the room and slammed the door but then I felt a pant of guilt hit My chest but I didn't care, she hurt me and now she needs to feel the way She made Me feel and once I  came out of my room to see what was happening there were police lights glaring at me thru the window and my heart dropped and I ran to the living room and I saw my mom crying as a police man was looking down at her talking to her and I felt a tear drop hit the floor, all I could hear was the police sirens and my heart pounding in my chest

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Once I laid myself down, I almost at once fell through and fell around 20 to 30 feet on hard concrete. Surprisingly, it didn't hurt at all but probably because I was in shock. The window part I fell through somehow fell on top of me, that stopped mt from getting up. I know this because I tried to move it. I have no idea how they came so fast but after like three seconds the garage door slowly opened and there stood my sisters, dad, and mom. They at once rushed me to the hospital to see if anything happened. My memory gets fuzzy at this point, but I remember getting an X-Ray in a biiiig room and getting a shot. Let's just say a lesson was learned.

ALSO WHY DID THIS HAPPEN WHEN I WAS FOUR???

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I ran down stairs. And then I saw a game it looked fun. Almost too fun because all of them are smiling, and enjoying the game. So I asked how do I play? So then they ask me "why do you want to play?" I said it looks fun right and then boom one of them won some money. So then my stupid 7 year old brain thought it was a job, so I quickly asked them "how do i play!!!!" They taught me and then there the the intense game started my hands were sweating the cards got wet. From all the sweat i betted all my candy my stupid little mind I thought I will win all and then, I lost it i was very mad so mad that i hit the table and every thing fell off as I threw stuff on the table and then I sneak in all the candy into my pocket I ran off yelling bye suckers and ate all of the candy I learned not to gamble!