... a snake." I got up off the couch and when I looked at him he really started looking like a snake. I got scared and ran back in the bedroom. I sat on the floor with Amanda for a while, and then Jesse came slithering in. I got all freaked out, but then he was eventually able to convince me that he wasn't ... cords, and feeling the little fuzzy things shake, while we laid there in silence. I remember for a while I felt like we were all one person. Then Kryssy sat up really fast, "Christie, come with me. I have to take you somewhere." We jumped off the bed and I followed her out to the fron...

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... spot off the coast; I was in the boat with my brother, Carroll, Peter Mel and the Internet technician. When a couple of the guys screaming at the captain "Killers," dude look I sat straight up from my seat in the den and ran up to the deck to see these waves breaking as high as a four-story building, and roaring like a 747 on ... boat with my friends all aboard. Could they all be dead? All of a sudden I didn't want to open the box, I was too scared, I couldn't bring myself to open it. I just sat their next to my unopened box, with my spear in hand and the crashing waves behind me crying...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the phone. my dad looked at me, his face was beat red, for the first time i saw tears streaming down his face. i asked him what was the matter. i remember he sat me down on the bed and told me papa went to heaven that day. i started to cry and scream into the phone askin my nana where my papa was and ... about living in walpole. I missed my friends and most of all i missed going to colleen's house every day after school. After the first week ok school ar fisher, my dad sat me down and asked how i liked it in walpole. I told him that i liked the house and that the people were nice but th...

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... my ten-year high school reunion and I will then be collecting on a bet I made with a friend a few years back in high school. In my Honors Accounting 2 class in high school I sat next to this boy named Matthew Mankus and we got into an argument one day and he swore to me he would be more successful then I. Currently he attends a very ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School